01Provider and Scope
The provider of the services is Julian Bruder Einzelunternehmen, trading as Aura Historia, Hardenbergstraße 80, 04275 Leipzig, Germany ("Aura Historia", "we", "us").
These Terms apply to:
- the use of our website,
- free and paid digital features,
- user accounts and subscription-based SaaS services,
- supplementary partner, API, or shop features where we provide them,
unless separate terms are expressly agreed for individual services.
Mandatory statutory rights, in particular mandatory consumer-protection rights, remain unaffected.
02User Account and Permitted Use
Certain features require the creation of a user account.
You are obliged to:
- provide accurate and complete information during registration,
- keep your login credentials confidential,
- not make your account available to unauthorized third parties,
- inform us without undue delay if you suspect misuse.
Paid contracts may only be concluded by persons with full legal capacity or with the required consent of their legal representatives.
We may suspend a user account or temporarily restrict individual features where there is an objective reason to do so, in particular in the event of security incidents, suspected misuse, legal violations, or unresolved payment disruptions.
03Description of Services
Aura Historia operates a digital research, discovery, and analysis platform for historical and antiquarian content.
Our services may include in particular:
- search, filtering, and analysis functions,
- watchlists, notifications, and saved search filters,
- geographic search and location features, such as distances and radius search,
- free or paid digital access,
- AI-assisted or editorially prepared information,
- partner, shop, or API features where offered.
The specific scope of features depends on the current service description, the selected plan, the technical state of the platform, and any applicable legal or regulatory requirements.
We do not owe any specific economic success, any specific market availability of individual content or items, or the complete, correct, or up-to-date reflection of external data sources at all times.
Distances, locations, and regional assignments are based on information from users and providers and on geodata services. Distances are straight-line approximations, not travel routes. This information does not confirm an address or the location of an object, nor its deliverability, collection, or shipping. Geographic data come from Amazon Location Service and its data providers; the required source and copyright notices are available on the Amazon Location Service attribution page.
04Free Features and Subscriptions
Some of our services may be available free of charge. Other features, usage limits, or add-on services may only be used within the scope of paid plans or subscriptions.
Where we offer paid plans, the scope of services, restrictions, billing intervals, and any usage quotas result from the respective offer shown during checkout or from supplementary service descriptions on the platform.
05Contract Formation, Paid Services, and Payment Processing
A contract for a free user account is formed upon completion of the registration process and activation of the account.
A contract for paid digital services is formed when you complete the order process in a binding manner and we activate access, confirm the order, or otherwise make the paid service available.
As the direct seller, Aura Historia is responsible for:
- the conclusion of contracts for paid digital services,
- invoicing including legally due taxes,
- performance of the contractual obligations owed to the user,
- handling statutory consumer rights.
Payment processing is carried out via Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe, Limited, Dublin, Ireland). Depending on payment-law and data-protection-law requirements, Stripe may be involved partly as an independent controller and partly as a service provider. Full payment card data are not stored by Aura Historia.
Before you complete a paid order, the essential contractual information will be shown to you, in particular the price, scope of services, billing interval, and, where applicable, automatic renewal.
06Prices, Billing, Renewal, Cancellation, and Refunds
The prices, plan features, and billing intervals displayed to you at the time of ordering apply.
Unless otherwise stated in checkout or in the offer, the following applies to subscriptions:
- The subscription starts when the paid service is activated.
- The subscription runs for the selected billing interval.
- It renews automatically for further periods of the same length unless cancelled in time before the end of the current interval.
Cancellation may be declared via the account or billing management made available by us, in particular through a Stripe customer portal or a comparable cancellation method designated by us.
After effective cancellation, access to already paid services generally remains available until the end of the current billing period unless there is a right to extraordinary suspension or termination for good cause.
If a payment fails, we may, after appropriate review and, where applicable, reminder, restrict access to paid features until outstanding amounts have been settled.
Unless mandatory law requires otherwise or we expressly promise otherwise, fees that are already due or already paid will not be refunded on a pro rata basis after cancellation.
07Right of Withdrawal for Consumers
Consumers generally have a statutory right of withdrawal for distance contracts concluded for consideration.
7.1Withdrawal Instructions
Right of withdrawal
You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the date of conclusion of the contract.
To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us:
Julian Bruder Einzelunternehmen / Aura Historia
Hardenbergstraße 80
04275 Leipzig
Germany
Email: contact@aura-historia.com
by means of a clear statement (for example by email or letter) of your decision to withdraw from this contract.
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
7.2Effects of Withdrawal
If you withdraw from this contract, we will reimburse to you all payments received from you, including any delivery costs (to the extent any such costs were incurred at all), without undue delay and no later than fourteen days from the day on which we receive notice of your withdrawal.
For this reimbursement, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction unless expressly agreed otherwise with you. In no event will you be charged any fees because of this reimbursement.
If you requested that the services begin during the withdrawal period, you must pay us an appropriate amount corresponding to the proportion of the services already provided up to the time at which you inform us of the exercise of the right of withdrawal in comparison with the total scope of the services provided for in the contract.
Your right of withdrawal may expire early in the case of services if we have fully performed the service and only began performance after you gave your express consent and at the same time confirmed your knowledge that you lose your right of withdrawal upon full performance of the contract.
7.3Model Withdrawal Form
If you wish to withdraw from the contract, you may use and return the following form:
To Julian Bruder Einzelunternehmen / Aura Historia, Hardenbergstraße 80, 04275 Leipzig, Germany, email: contact@aura-historia.com
I / We () hereby withdraw from the contract concluded by me / us () for the purchase of the following digital services () / the provision of the following service ()
Ordered on () / received on ()
Name of consumer(s)
Address of consumer(s)
Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper)
Date
(*) Delete as appropriate.
08Statutory Rights for Digital Services and Updates
For consumers, the statutory provisions on digital products and digital services, in particular Sections 327 et seq. German Civil Code (BGB), apply in addition. Statutory rights regarding defects, lack of conformity, update obligations, or remedies remain unaffected.
Where legally required, we provide updates necessary for the conformity, security, and functionality of the digital service.
09No Contract for Displayed Antiques or Third-Party Goods
Aura Historia generally does not broker or conclude any sales contract for antiques, collectibles, or other goods displayed on the platform.
Offers, descriptions, images, prices, and availability may originate in whole or in part from external sources. Any contract for the purchase of such items is concluded exclusively with the respective third-party provider identified for the item.
10Acceptable Use and API Access
You may use the platform only in accordance with applicable law and these Terms.
In particular, the following are prohibited:
- circumventing technical protection measures,
- abusing accounts, interfaces, or access credentials,
- unlawful extraction, bulk querying, or reuse of content,
- using the platform to distribute unlawful, insulting, discriminatory, or extremist content,
- actions that impair the security, integrity, or availability of the platform.
If we make an API, developer interface, export function, webhooks, or a comparable machine-readable access path available, you may use it only to the extent expressly permitted by us. In particular, documentation, authentication requirements, usage caps, and rate limits apply. Abusive bulk querying, resale, competitive monitoring, circumvention of security mechanisms, or uses that may impair the platform or third-party systems are prohibited.
Where supplementary terms of use, technical guidelines, or security requirements apply to partner or API features, these must also be observed.
Where partners, merchants, integration providers, or other business customers are technically able to generate access tokens, API keys, invitation links, or comparable credentials ("Access Tokens"), the following applies unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing:
- Access Tokens may be generated, issued, shared, and used only for the authorized integration, customer relationship, project, scope, and purpose.
- The partner is responsible for all activity under Access Tokens generated from its account or environment, including activity by employees, contractors, customers, end users, systems, or other third parties to whom the partner makes them available.
- Access Tokens must be kept confidential and protected against unauthorized access, disclosure, publication, extraction, and misuse. They must not be embedded in public client-side code, public repositories, screenshots, support tickets, logs, or other places accessible to unauthorized persons.
- Access Tokens may not be sold, sublicensed, transferred, pooled, or used to create competing, unlawful, harmful, or security-relevant services without our prior written consent.
- The partner must ensure that persons and systems using Access Tokens comply with these Terms, applicable law, data-protection requirements, and any additional partner, API, or security documentation.
- The partner must notify us without undue delay of any suspected loss, disclosure, compromise, or misuse and must cooperate in investigation, mitigation, rotation, and revocation.
- We may monitor token usage for security, compliance, billing, abuse prevention, and service stability, and may expire, rotate, restrict, suspend, or revoke Access Tokens where objectively justified, including where required to protect Aura Historia, users, partners, data subjects, third-party systems, or the platform.
The technical ability to generate or use Access Tokens does not grant broader usage rights, guarantee any particular availability, or create an agency, reseller, partnership, or similar relationship unless we expressly confirm this in writing.
To the extent legally permissible, business customers and partners shall indemnify us against third-party claims, damages, regulatory measures, and reasonable legal defense costs arising from their culpable breach of these token obligations or from unlawful use of Access Tokens by persons or systems to whom they made Access Tokens available.
If partners add locations for their business, the exact geographic point as well as the country and region of active locations may be displayed publicly and used for radius searches and to associate listings. There is no setting that excludes active locations from this publication; partners can retire a location instead. The full address entered, supporting evidence, and management details are not displayed publicly. A location on file does not establish inventory or a shipping or collection point.
We may throttle, suspend, or revoke API access or comparable features for reasons of security, stability, legal compliance, or abuse prevention.
11Newsletter and Marketing Communications
You will receive marketing emails only if you choose to subscribe. Subscribing is separate from creating or using an account; signing in to Aura Historia does not by itself mean that you have agreed to receive marketing emails. You may unsubscribe at any time using the link in an email or withdraw your consent.
There is no entitlement to receive any particular marketing communication.
12External Content, AI, and Sensitive Historical Depictions
The platform also processes content from publicly accessible third-party sources and may use automated and AI-assisted procedures for that purpose.
Despite careful development and review, we do not warrant that external content or AI-assisted classifications will always be complete, accurate, lawful, or up to date.
Where content from sensitive historical contexts is displayed or evaluated, this is done exclusively for documentary, scientific, archival, educational, or other legitimate purposes. Technical safeguards, warnings, or consent-based access restrictions remain reserved.
13Rights in the Platform and Content
All rights in the platform, its structure, software, database logic, design, and content created by us remain with us or our licensors.
Unless mandatory law permits otherwise, content from the platform may not be reproduced, distributed, made publicly available, systematically extracted, or commercially exploited without prior permission.
14Availability, Maintenance, Changes, and Updates
We aim for high availability of the platform but do not owe uninterrupted or error-free provision.
Maintenance windows, security-related interruptions, technical improvements, changes in external data sources, or legal requirements may make adjustments, restrictions, or temporary outages necessary.
We may change features, content, and technical processes provided that this does not unreasonably undermine the contractual purpose and that mandatory statutory rights – in particular consumer rights – remain unaffected.
15Liability
We are liable without limitation:
- in cases of intent or gross negligence,
- for injury to life, body, or health,
- under the German Product Liability Act,
- to the extent an expressly assumed guarantee is affected.
In the event of a slightly negligent breach of essential contractual obligations, our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. Essential contractual obligations are those whose fulfilment is necessary for the proper performance of the contract and on whose observance you may regularly rely.
Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded.
Subject to mandatory statutory liability, we assume no liability for the substantive accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or legality of data from public or external sources or for AI-assisted evaluations.
Mandatory statutory rights, in particular under consumer protection law, remain unaffected.
16Term, Termination, and Account Deletion
You may delete your user account at any time yourself or request termination by email at contact@aura-historia.com.
We may terminate the user relationship for good cause with immediate effect or suspend accounts, especially in the event of serious or repeated breaches of these Terms, security interests, legal violations, or misuse.
Payment claims already arisen, statutory retention obligations, and claims arising from breaches of duty remain unaffected by termination.
17Changes to These Terms
We may amend these Terms with future effect where there is a valid reason, in particular changes in the law, the services offered, the billing model, or technical security requirements.
We will inform you of material changes in an appropriate manner. Where your express consent is legally required, we will obtain it separately.
18Consumer Dispute Resolution
Information pursuant to Section 36 VSBG: We are currently neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
19Governing Law and Jurisdiction
The laws of the Federal Republic of Germany apply, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods, unless mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of habitual residence provide otherwise.
If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law, a special fund under public law, or you do not have a general place of jurisdiction in Germany, Leipzig, Germany shall – to the extent legally permissible – be the exclusive place of jurisdiction.
Status: 12 October 2026