Terms of Service

Last updated: October 9, 2026

Agreement to our legal terms

Headpat Place ("Headpat") is operated by Dominic Stilma, Friedhofsweg 10, 49843 Uelsen, Germany ("we", "us", "our"). Headpat is part of Headpat Space (https://headpat.space) and is run by the same operator.

We operate the website https://headpat.place (the "Site"), the mobile application Headpat (the "App"), as well as any other related products and services that refer or link to these legal terms (the "Legal Terms") (collectively, the "Services").

We provide a free social platform: user profiles, a gallery, events, communities, messaging, optional location sharing and a map, and related features.

You can contact us by email at help@headpat.place, or by mail to Friedhofsweg 10, 49843 Uelsen, Germany.

These Legal Terms are a binding agreement between you and us about your use of the Services. You accept them when you create an account. If you do not agree with them, please do not use the Services.

Our Acceptable Use Policy is part of these Legal Terms. Use of the App is also covered by our End User License Agreement. Our Privacy Policy explains how we process personal data, and our Disclaimer applies to information on the Site.

We may change these Legal Terms when the Services or the law change, or to close gaps. We will tell you about a change by email or in the Services at least 30 days before it takes effect. If you do not agree with a change, you can delete your account before it takes effect. Changes that would materially alter the balance of this agreement to your disadvantage apply only if you accept them.

The Services are intended for adults. You must be at least 18 years of age to create an account or otherwise use the Services. If we become aware that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close it and delete the associated personal data.

We recommend that you save or print a copy of these Legal Terms for your records.

Our services
Intellectual property rights
User representations
User registration
Software
Prohibited activities
User generated contributions
Contribution license
Mobile application license
Signing in with other accounts
Third-party websites and content
Moderation, reports and complaints
Privacy policy
Copyright infringements
Term and termination
Modifications and interruptions
Governing law
Dispute resolution
Corrections
Disclaimer
Limitations of liability
Indemnification
User data
Electronic communications
Miscellaneous
Contact us

1. Our services

The Services are operated from Germany and are aimed at adults. If you access the Services from another country, you are responsible for complying with the laws that apply to you there.

2. Intellectual property rights

Our intellectual property

We are the owner or the licensee of all intellectual property rights in our Services, including all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics in the Services (collectively, the "Content"), as well as the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the "Marks").

Our Content and Marks are protected by copyright and trademark laws (and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws) and treaties around the world.

The Content and Marks are provided in or through the Services "AS IS" for your personal, non-commercial use only.

Your use of our Services

Subject to your compliance with these Legal Terms, including the "Prohibited activities" section below, we grant you a non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to:

access the Services; and
download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access,

solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

Except as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, no part of the Services and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

If you wish to make any use of the Services, Content, or Marks other than as set out in this section or elsewhere in our Legal Terms, please address your request to help@headpat.place. If we ever grant you the permission to post, reproduce, or publicly display any part of our Services or Content, you must identify us as the owners or licensors of the Services, Content, or Marks, and ensure that any copyright or proprietary notice appears or is visible on posting, reproducing, or displaying our Content.

We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Services, Content, and Marks.

Any breach of these intellectual property rights will constitute a material breach of our Legal Terms and your right to use our Services will terminate immediately.

Your submissions and contributions

Please review this section and the "Prohibited activities" section carefully prior to using our Services to understand the (a) rights you give us and (b) obligations you have when you post or upload any content through the Services.

Submissions: If you send us a question, comment, suggestion, idea, or other feedback about the Services ("Submissions"), we may use it to improve the Services without compensation to you.

Contributions: The Services may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality during which you may create, submit, post, display, transmit, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or through the Services, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, music, graphics, comments, reviews, rating suggestions, personal information, or other material ("Contributions"). Any Submission that is publicly posted shall also be treated as a Contribution.

You understand that Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and possibly through third-party websites.

When you post Contributions, you grant us a license: You keep all rights in your Contributions. To run the Services we need your permission to show them, which is set out in the "Contribution license" section below.

You are responsible for what you post or upload: By sending us Submissions and/or posting Contributions through any part of the Services, or making Contributions accessible through the Services by linking your account through the Services to any of your social networking accounts, you:

confirm that you have read and agree with our "Prohibited activities" section and our Acceptable Use Policy, and will not post, send, publish, upload, or transmit through the Services any Submission nor post any Contribution that is illegal, harassing, hateful, harmful, defamatory, bullying, abusive, discriminatory, threatening to any person or group, false, inaccurate, deceitful, or misleading;
confirm that any adult Contribution complies with the "Adult content" section of our Acceptable Use Policy - that you are 18 or over, that it is marked NSFW, and that it is none of the categories prohibited there;
confirm that your Contributions are created by you and are not generated, in whole or in substantial part, by a generative AI model or service, as set out in the "AI-generated content" section of our Acceptable Use Policy;
warrant that any such Submission and/or Contributions are original to you, or that you have the necessary rights and licenses to submit such Submissions and/or Contributions, and that you have full authority to grant us the above-mentioned rights in relation to your Submissions and/or Contributions; and
warrant and represent that your Submissions and/or Contributions do not constitute confidential information.

You are responsible for your Submissions and Contributions. What happens if a third party makes a claim against us because of them is set out in the "Indemnification" section.

We may remove your Content: We have no obligation to monitor Contributions. We may restrict or remove Contributions that are illegal or in breach of these Legal Terms, as set out in "Moderation, reports and complaints". We do not alter the content of your Contributions, other than marking them as NSFW or moving them to the right place.

Copyright infringement

3. User representations

By using the Services, you represent and warrant that: (1) all registration information you submit will be true, accurate, current, and complete; (2) you will maintain the accuracy of such information and promptly update such registration information as necessary; (3) you have the legal capacity and you agree to comply with these Legal Terms; (4) you are at least 18 years of age; (5) you will give a true date of birth wherever we ask for one; (6) you will not access the Services through automated or non-human means, whether through a bot, script, or otherwise; (7) you will not use the Services for any illegal or unauthorized purpose; and (8) your use of the Services will not violate any applicable law or regulation.

If you provide any information that is untrue, inaccurate, not current, or incomplete, we have the right to suspend or terminate your account and refuse any and all current or future use of the Services (or any portion thereof).

4. User registration

You may be required to register to use the Services. You agree to keep your password confidential and will be responsible for all use of your account and password. We reserve the right to remove, reclaim, or change a username you select if we determine, in our sole discretion, that such username is inappropriate, obscene, or otherwise objectionable.

5. Software

We may include software for use in connection with our Services. Use of the App is governed by the EULA. For any other software we grant you a non-exclusive, revocable, personal, and non-transferable license to use it solely in connection with our Services and in accordance with these Legal Terms. You may not reproduce or redistribute any software except in accordance with the EULA or these Legal Terms.

6. Prohibited activities

You may not access or use the Services for any purpose other than that for which we make the Services available. The Services may not be used in connection with any commercial endeavors except those that are specifically endorsed or approved by us.

As a user of the Services, you agree not to:

Systematically retrieve data or other content from the Services to create or compile, directly or indirectly, a collection, compilation, database, or directory without written permission from us.
Trick, defraud, or mislead us and other users, especially in any attempt to learn sensitive account information such as user passwords.
Circumvent, disable, or otherwise interfere with security-related features of the Services, including features that prevent or restrict the use or copying of any Content or enforce limitations on the use of the Services and/or the Content contained therein.
Disparage, tarnish, or otherwise harm, in our opinion, us and/or the Services.
Use any information obtained from the Services in order to harass, abuse, or harm another person.
Make improper use of our support services or submit false reports of abuse or misconduct.
Use the Services in a manner inconsistent with any applicable laws or regulations.
Engage in unauthorized framing of or linking to the Services.
Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) viruses, Trojan horses, or other material, including excessive use of capital letters and spamming (continuous posting of repetitive text), that interferes with any party's uninterrupted use and enjoyment of the Services or modifies, impairs, disrupts, alters, or interferes with the use, features, functions, operation, or maintenance of the Services.
Engage in any automated use of the system, such as using scripts to send comments or messages, or using any data mining, robots, or similar data gathering and extraction tools.
Delete the copyright or other proprietary rights notice from any Content.
Attempt to impersonate another user or person, or use the username of another user.
Upload or transmit (or attempt to upload or to transmit) any material that acts as a passive or active information collection or transmission mechanism, including without limitation clear graphics interchange formats ("gifs"), 1×1 pixels, web bugs, cookies, or other similar devices (sometimes referred to as "spyware" or "passive collection mechanisms" or "pcms").
Interfere with, disrupt, or create an undue burden on the Services or the networks or services connected to the Services.
Harass, annoy, intimidate, or threaten any of our employees or agents engaged in providing any portion of the Services to you.
Attempt to bypass any measures of the Services designed to prevent or restrict access to the Services, or any portion of the Services.
Copy or adapt the Services' software, including but not limited to Flash, PHP, HTML, JavaScript, or other code.
Except as permitted by applicable law, decipher, decompile, disassemble, or reverse engineer any of the software comprising or in any way making up a part of the Services.
Except as may be the result of standard search engine or internet browser usage, use, launch, develop, or distribute any automated system, including without limitation any spider, robot, cheat utility, scraper, or offline reader that accesses the Services, or use or launch any unauthorized script or other software.
Make any unauthorized use of the Services, including collecting usernames and/or email addresses of users by electronic or other means for the purpose of sending unsolicited email, or creating user accounts by automated means or under false pretenses.
Use the Services as part of any effort to compete with us, or otherwise use the Services and/or the Content for any revenue-generating endeavor or commercial enterprise.

7. User generated contributions

The Services may invite you to chat, contribute to, or participate in blogs, message boards, online forums, and other functionality, and may provide you with the opportunity to create, submit, post, display, transmit, perform, publish, distribute, or broadcast content and materials to us or on the Services, including but not limited to text, writings, video, audio, photographs, graphics, comments, suggestions, or personal information or other material (collectively, "Contributions"). Contributions may be viewable by other users of the Services and through third-party websites. As such, any Contributions you transmit may be treated as non-confidential and non-proprietary. When you create or make available any Contributions, you thereby represent and warrant that:

The creation, distribution, transmission, public display, or performance, and the accessing, downloading, or copying of your Contributions do not and will not infringe the proprietary rights, including but not limited to the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret, or moral rights of any third party.
You are the creator and owner of, or have the necessary licenses, rights, consents, releases, and permissions to use and to authorize us, the Services, and other users of the Services to use your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
Your Contributions are your own creative work and are not generated, in whole or in substantial part, by a generative AI model or service. The full rules are set out in the "AI-generated content" section of our Acceptable Use Policy, which forms part of these Legal Terms.
You have the written consent, release, and/or permission of each and every identifiable individual person in your Contributions to use the name or likeness of each and every such identifiable individual person to enable inclusion and use of your Contributions in any manner contemplated by the Services and these Legal Terms.
Your Contributions are not false, inaccurate, or misleading.
Your Contributions are not unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, pyramid schemes, chain letters, spam, mass mailings, or other forms of solicitation.
Your Contributions are not gratuitously violent, harassing, libelous, or slanderous.
Adult Contributions comply with the "Adult content" section of our Acceptable Use Policy: you are 18 or over, the Contribution is marked NSFW, and it is none of the categories prohibited there.
Your Contributions do not ridicule, mock, disparage, intimidate, or abuse anyone.
Your Contributions are not used to harass or threaten (in the legal sense of those terms) any other person, or to promote violence against a specific person or class of people.
Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law, regulation, or rule.
Your Contributions do not violate the privacy or publicity rights of any third party.
Your Contributions do not violate any applicable law concerning child pornography, or otherwise intended to protect the health or well-being of minors.
Your Contributions do not include any offensive comments that are connected to race, national origin, gender, sexual preference, or physical handicap.
Your Contributions do not otherwise violate, or link to material that violates, any provision of these Legal Terms, or any applicable law or regulation.

Any use of the Services in violation of the foregoing violates these Legal Terms and may result in, among other things, termination or suspension of your rights to use the Services.

8. Contribution license

You keep full ownership of your Contributions and of all rights in them. We do not claim ownership.

By posting a Contribution you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to host, store, copy, reformat, display and make it available as needed to operate the Services. This covers showing it to the audience you chose, creating thumbnails, previews and other technical copies, and showing it in feeds, search results and link previews for the Services.

We do not sell your Contributions, we do not license them to third parties for their own use, and we do not use them to train generative AI models.

The license ends when you delete the Contribution or your account. Copies in backups are removed in the normal backup cycle. Messages you sent to other users stay visible to them unless you delete those messages.

Your moral rights as the author, including the right to be named, remain unaffected.

9. Mobile application license

Use license

If you access the Services via the App, then we grant you a revocable, non-exclusive, non-transferable, limited right to install and use the App on wireless electronic devices owned or controlled by you, and to access and use the App on such devices strictly in accordance with the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms. You shall not: (1) except as permitted by applicable law, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, or decrypt the App; (2) make any modification, adaptation, improvement, enhancement, translation, or derivative work from the App; (3) violate any applicable laws, rules, or regulations in connection with your access or use of the App; (4) remove, alter, or obscure any proprietary notice (including any notice of copyright or trademark) posted by us or the licensors of the App; (5) use the App for any revenue-generating endeavor, commercial enterprise, or other purpose for which it is not designed or intended; (6) make the App available over a network or other environment permitting access or use by multiple devices or users at the same time; (7) use the App for creating a product, service, or software that is, directly or indirectly, competitive with or in any way a substitute for the App; (8) use the App to send automated queries to any website or to send any unsolicited commercial email; or (9) use any proprietary information or any of our interfaces or our other intellectual property in the design, development, manufacture, licensing, or distribution of any applications, accessories, or devices for use with the App.

Apple and Android devices

The following terms apply when you use the App obtained from either the Apple Store or Google Play (each an "App Distributor") to access the Services: (1) the license granted to you for our App is limited to a non-transferable license to use the application on a device that utilizes the Apple iOS or Android operating systems, as applicable, and in accordance with the usage rules set forth in the applicable App Distributor's terms of service; (2) we are responsible for providing any maintenance and support services with respect to the App as specified in the terms and conditions of this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms or as otherwise required under applicable law, and you acknowledge that each App Distributor has no obligation whatsoever to furnish any maintenance and support services with respect to the App; (3) in the event of any failure of the App to conform to any applicable warranty, you may notify the applicable App Distributor, and the App Distributor, in accordance with its terms and policies, may refund the purchase price, if any, paid for the App, and to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, the App Distributor will have no other warranty obligation whatsoever with respect to the App; (4) you represent and warrant that (i) you are not located in a country that is subject to a US government embargo, or that has been designated by the US government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) you are not listed on any US government list of prohibited or restricted parties; (5) you must comply with applicable third-party terms of agreement when using the App; and (6) you acknowledge and agree that the App Distributors are third-party beneficiaries of the terms and conditions in this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms, and that each App Distributor will have the right (and will be deemed to have accepted the right) to enforce the terms and conditions in this mobile application license contained in these Legal Terms against you as a third-party beneficiary thereof.

10. Signing in with other accounts

You can sign in with an account you have with a third-party provider, currently Google, Discord, GitHub, Apple, Twitch and Eurofurence. If you do, the provider tells us your account ID there, your email address, your name and, where available, your profile picture. We do not receive your password for that provider and we do not access your contacts or content there.

Your relationship with the provider is governed by your agreement with that provider. You can remove the connection in your account settings.

11. Third-party websites and content

The Services may contain (or you may be sent via the Site or App) links to other websites ("Third-Party Websites"), as well as articles, photographs, text, graphics, pictures, designs, music, sound, video, information, applications, software, and other content or items belonging to or originating from third parties ("Third-Party Content"). Such Third-Party Websites and Third-Party Content are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy, appropriateness, or completeness by us, and we are not responsible for any Third-Party Websites accessed through the Services or any Third-Party Content posted on, available through, or installed from the Services, including the content, accuracy, offensiveness, opinions, reliability, privacy practices, or other policies of or contained in the Third-Party Websites or the Third-Party Content.

Inclusion of, linking to, or permitting the use or installation of any Third-Party Websites or any Third-Party Content does not imply approval or endorsement thereof by us. If you decide to leave the Services and access the Third-Party Websites or to use or install any Third-Party Content, you do so at your own risk, and you should be aware these Legal Terms no longer govern. You should review the applicable terms and policies, including privacy and data gathering practices, of any website to which you navigate from the Services or relating to any applications you use or install from the Services.

You agree and acknowledge that we do not endorse the products or services offered on Third-Party Websites, and you shall hold us blameless from any harm caused by your purchase of such products or services. Additionally, you shall hold us blameless from any losses sustained by you or harm caused to you relating to or resulting in any way from any Third-Party Content or any contact with Third-Party Websites.

12. Moderation, reports and complaints

We do not review content before it is published. We act on reports and on what we notice ourselves. Moderation is done by people. We do not use automated systems to decide what is removed.

Reporting. Anyone can report content that they consider illegal or in breach of our Acceptable Use Policy, using the report function where it is offered or by email to help@headpat.place. Please say where the content is and why you are reporting it. We confirm receipt, review reports in a timely and careful manner, and tell you what we decided.

What we may do. Where content or behaviour is illegal or breaks these Legal Terms, we may mark content as NSFW, restrict or remove content, limit features, and suspend or close accounts. We choose the measure that fits the seriousness of the breach and take earlier breaches into account. We may also remove files that are excessive in size or burdensome to our systems.

Telling you why. If we restrict your content or account, we tell you what we did and why, unless we cannot reach you or the content is deceptive high-volume commercial content.

Complaints. If you disagree with a decision about your content or account, or with how we handled your report, write to help@headpat.place. A person will review the decision and reply. You can also turn to the courts.

Where we become aware of information giving rise to a suspicion that a criminal offence involving a threat to the life or safety of a person has taken place or is likely to take place, we inform the competent authorities.

13. Privacy policy

We care about data privacy and security. Our Privacy Policy explains what personal data we process and what rights you have. It is provided for your information and is not a contractual term.

The Services run on systems in Germany.

14. Copyright infringements

We respect the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe that any material available on or through the Services infringes upon any copyright you own or control, please immediately notify us using the contact information provided below (a "Notification"). A copy of your Notification will be sent to the person who posted or stored the material addressed in the Notification. Please be advised that pursuant to applicable law you may be held liable for damages if you make material misrepresentations in a Notification. Thus, if you are not sure that material located on or linked to by the Services infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.

15. Term and termination

These Legal Terms apply for as long as you have an account or use the Services.

You can end this agreement at any time by deleting your account in the account settings.

We may end this agreement with 30 days' notice. We may suspend or close your account without notice where there is good cause, in particular a serious or repeated breach of these Legal Terms, of our Acceptable Use Policy or of the law. We will tell you the reason, as described in "Moderation, reports and complaints".

If we closed your account for a breach, you may not create a new account without our permission.

Your statutory rights as a consumer under German and EU law remain unaffected.

16. Modifications and interruptions

We develop the Services continuously and may change, add or remove features. If we plan to discontinue the Services or remove a central feature, we will give reasonable advance notice where that is possible.

The Services are free of charge and we do not promise that they will be available at all times. Maintenance, technical problems or circumstances beyond our control can lead to interruptions.

17. Governing law

These Legal Terms are governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding its conflict of law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Where you are a consumer habitually resident in the European Union, this choice of law does not deprive you of the protection afforded by the mandatory provisions of the law of your country of residence.

18. Dispute resolution

If a dispute arises out of or relating to these Legal Terms, we ask that you first contact us at help@headpat.place so that we can try to resolve it informally. Most concerns can be settled this way.

We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Where you are a consumer, the courts of your country of residence remain available to you. In all other cases, the competent courts of the Federal Republic of Germany shall have jurisdiction.

19. Corrections

There may be information on the Services that contains typographical errors, inaccuracies, or omissions, including descriptions, availability, and various other information. We reserve the right to correct any errors, inaccuracies, or omissions and to change or update the information on the Services at any time, without prior notice.

20. Disclaimer

The Services are provided free of charge, as they are and as they are available. We do not promise that the Services are free of errors, or that content posted by users is accurate, complete or lawful. Content from users reflects the views of those users, not ours.

We are not responsible for third-party websites or services that are linked from the Services.

See also our separate Disclaimer. Our liability is set out in "Limitations of liability" below.

21. Limitations of liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and where we have given a guarantee.

In cases of slight negligence we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual obligation, meaning an obligation that makes the proper performance of this agreement possible in the first place and on which you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the damage that is typical for this kind of agreement and was foreseeable.

Any further liability is excluded. These rules also apply to the personal liability of our staff and agents.

22. Indemnification

If a third party makes a claim against us because content you posted or your use of the Services infringes its rights or breaks the law, and you are responsible for that breach, you will indemnify us against the claim. This includes the reasonable costs of our legal defence. We will tell you about such a claim without undue delay and give you the opportunity to respond.

23. User data

We make regular backups, but we do not promise that content can be restored in every case. Please keep your own copies of anything that is important to you. Our liability for loss of data is governed by "Limitations of liability" above.

24. Electronic communications

We communicate with you by email and through the Services. You agree that notices and other communications we send you this way satisfy any requirement that they be in writing, unless the law requires a stricter form.

25. Miscellaneous

These Legal Terms and the policies they refer to are the entire agreement between you and us about the Services. If we do not enforce a right or provision, that is not a waiver of it.

We may transfer our rights and obligations under these Legal Terms to another operator of the Services. We will tell you in advance, and you may end this agreement if you do not agree.

If a provision of these Legal Terms is or becomes invalid, the remaining provisions stay in effect.

26. Contact us

In order to resolve a complaint regarding the Services, or to receive further information regarding use of the Services, please contact us at:

Email: help@headpat.place
Legal: legal@headpat.place
Post: Dominic Stilma, Friedhofsweg 10, 49843 Uelsen, Germany