Partnership Program — Terms & Conditions
Version 1.0 · Effective 22 July 2026 · The operator of The Pending is identified in the Imprint.
1. Scope; business customers only
These terms govern paid advertising placements ("Partnerships") on The Pending platform, booked by companies ("Partners"). The program is available exclusively to entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 BGB. By booking, the Partner confirms it is acting in a commercial or self-employed professional capacity; consumer withdrawal rights do not apply.
2. The placement
A Partnership places one clearly labeled "Partner" card on the platform's opportunities page and, where introduced, on additional labeled surfaces of comparable prominence. At most one partner card renders per page view. Distribution is matched only against interests platform members have declared themselves, or shown untargeted; behavioral profiles are never used. The card links to the Partner's external website through a tracked redirect carrying UTM and the Partner's affiliate parameters.
3. Purchase options and prices
(a) Subscription: recurring 4-week billing period, processed via Stripe, renewing automatically until cancelled. (b) Pioneer tickets: a single upfront payment for a continuous 6-month run (5.5× the then-current 4-week price) or 12-month run (10×). (c) Individual bookings by separate agreement. All prices are net of applicable VAT.
4. Price changes and price lock
We may adjust the 4-week ticket price at any time. Adjustments apply only to new subscriptions, to subscriptions restarted after an interruption, and to new pioneer tickets. A continuously active subscription keeps its agreed price for as long as it remains active without interruption. Partners are notified of price changes by email and in the partner dashboard. Cancelling and re-subscribing means the then-current price applies.
5. Creative approval and content standards
Every ad creative (logo, headline, text, target URL) and every change to it requires our prior approval before publication; payment alone does not entitle publication. Creatives must be lawful, truthful, and relevant to a professional creative audience; misleading claims and adult, political, or discriminatory content are not permitted. We may reject or remove creatives at reasonable discretion. The Partner warrants it holds all rights to submitted material and indemnifies us against third-party claims arising from it.
6. Term and cancellation
Subscriptions may be cancelled by the Partner at any time to the end of the current 4-week period. We may cancel a subscription to the end of the current paid period, and may suspend or terminate a Partnership immediately for cause (in particular content violations, legal risk, non-payment, or abuse). If we terminate a pioneer ticket without cause, unused full weeks are refunded pro rata; on termination for cause there is no refund. Pioneer tickets are otherwise non-refundable.
7. Reporting; no performance guarantee
We report deduplicated impressions and clicks as aggregates only; user identities are never shared. Clicks can be independently verified by the Partner via the UTM parameters in its own analytics. We do not guarantee any minimum number of impressions, clicks, or conversions, nor specific page positions; audience size varies, and surfaces may be redesigned or replaced with surfaces of comparable prominence.
8. Availability
We operate the platform with reasonable commercial diligence but do not warrant uninterrupted availability. In case of a substantial outage, the run time of the affected Partnership is extended by the outage duration; this is the sole remedy for unavailability.
9. Payment
Payments are processed by Stripe. If a subscription payment fails and is not remedied within 7 days, the placement is paused until payment is received.
10. Data protection
Ad measurement is first-party: we store no IP addresses and no city-level location in advertising records and share only aggregate figures with Partners. Details are set out in our Privacy Policy.
11. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent, gross negligence, and injury to life, body, or health. For slight negligence we are liable only for breach of essential contractual duties (cardinal duties), limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this contract type. Any further liability is excluded.
12. Changes to these terms; final provisions
We may amend these terms with reasonable notice to Partners; continued use of the program after the notice period constitutes acceptance. German law applies excluding the CISG; place of jurisdiction is the operator's registered seat. Should individual provisions be invalid, the remainder stays unaffected. The English wording is provided for convenience; mandatory provisions of German law prevail.