Right of withdrawal for digital content (Credits and Credit subscription)
Version 2026-08-28-v2, as of August 28, 2026
This page explains what the consent collected before buying Credits or starting a Credit subscription is for. It does not replace the Terms and conditions or the legally required withdrawal instructions provided during checkout.
1. Your statutory right of withdrawal
As a consumer, purchases made on Geschichtenkünstler.de generally come with a fourteen-day right of withdrawal. The exact period, when it begins, and the consequences of withdrawing are set out in the withdrawal instructions shown to you before the payment-obligating step of the order.
2. What your consent does
Credits purchased individually and monthly Credits granted through a Credit subscription are digital content not supplied on a physical medium. The Credit subscription is not a flat rate and does not grant general chapter access. Under the German rule implementing the EU Consumer Rights Directive for such content, the right of withdrawal ends early, before the fourteen days are up, once the operator has begun performing the contract, provided the buyer has
- expressly agreed that the operator may begin providing the content before the withdrawal period ends, and
- confirmed knowing that this agreement means the right of withdrawal is lost once that provision begins.
Checking the corresponding box during checkout states exactly that: you want the Credits purchased individually or included in the subscription credited immediately after successful payment instead of waiting fourteen days, and you understand that your right of withdrawal ends once that provision begins. The purchase does not go through without the box checked.
3. What this does not affect
Statutory warranty rights, for example for a technical defect in what was provided, are not affected by this consent. Nor are the corrections for failed, recalled, or wrongly disputed payments described in the terms and conditions.
Note before going live: This text reflects the currently intended design and needs legal review for the actual operator before launch, in particular together with the withdrawal instructions configured in Stripe and the payment processor's own defaults.