Terms of use

As of: 8 November 2026

This translation is for information. Only the German version is binding.

These terms apply to the use of GRCA-Planeth at grca.planeth.de. The operator is Thorsten Planeth; the address is in the imprint. Below I write as the operator in the first person.

GRCA-Planeth started as a private project. For some rules I explain under Why what moves me. These explanations are not part of the terms.

A private project

GRCA-Planeth is a private project of mine and has nothing to do with my employer. Please do not contact me about this project in a professional capacity. If I express an opinion here, it is my private opinion or assessment.

The purpose is the exchange between auditors, not a service for your employer.

Why: I want to use synergies in interpreting external requirements, and a privately run platform is a simple way to do so. I can only serve one, and that is my employer. As long as we work together and realise synergies, no one will object.

No trade or business secrets

Do not enter any trade or business secrets here. I do not provide any trade or business secrets of my employer either.

Why: No one is helped if secrets turn up here: whoever enters them gets into trouble, and whoever reads them may not knowingly use them.

Access

1. You get an account through an invitation or a registration. What you may see and edit is set by your access: free access, an individual subscription or a company subscription of your company. I grant access; for a company subscription, its manager does.
2. I grant paid subscriptions only to entrepreneurs within the meaning of section 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB).
3. I may block free access if I see no contribution from you within a year.
4. I may block any access if you breach these terms.

Why: I want to encourage collaboration and be able to save resources when there is no activity. I apply this with a sense of proportion: for someone who has helped a lot to build something here, one account more or less makes no difference.

Content without warranty

The content, in particular texts of laws and standards, translations, mappings, assessments and results of HASI, is provided without warranty as to correctness, completeness and currency. It is not legal advice and does not replace your own review. Only the officially published versions are binding, for example in the Official Journal of the European Union or the German Federal Law Gazette.

Availability

There is no right to GRCA-Planeth being available at all times. I may change the platform, remove content and discontinue operation. I announce material restrictions of a paid subscription reasonably in advance.

Liability

1. I am liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damage resulting from injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act.
2. For free access I am not liable beyond that.
3. For a paid subscription I am liable for slight negligence only if I breach an essential contractual obligation. That is an obligation whose fulfilment makes use possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment you may regularly rely. Liability is then limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. Otherwise liability for slight negligence is excluded.
4. These rules also apply to persons acting for me.

Why: I do my best to protect the server and to prepare the content carefully. Because GRCA-Planeth is run privately, however, I do not want to answer for more than the law requires.

Your data

Which data GRCA-Planeth processes, for how long and for what purpose is set out in the privacy policy.

You can delete your account yourself, under Preferences → Security. Your personal data and your personal area are deleted. Contributions to shared projects remain under a neutral name, see Your contributions.

Content of the sources

The content of the sources, such as laws and standards, is partly protected by copyright. The source is stated in each case. Whoever uses the content is responsible for respecting the rights of the right holders.

Your contributions

If you enter content or provide it to me for publication, the following applies:

1. You ensure that it is free of third-party rights or that you are allowed to use it, and you respect the copyright and source references of third parties.
2. I am not the author but the operator of the platform. I store who entered what.
3. You grant me a non-exclusive, unlimited in space and time, free of charge and irrevocable right to use, edit and make your contributions publicly available on the platform and in its exports. This includes the right to allow other users the same use. Your own rights in your contributions remain unaffected.
4. The right of use continues if your access is blocked or you delete your account.
5. If a contribution infringes third-party rights and you are responsible for this, you indemnify me against claims of third parties, including the reasonable costs of legal defence.

Why: I cannot extract a contribution from the whole later on. When we work together, the first person creates a contribution, the second adapts it and the third links it. I might be able to attribute each addition to a person, but what would happen if I had to remove them? This way the content stays usable for everyone.

HASI

HASI sends the content you work with directly from your browser to the AI provider that you set up yourself. The provider processes it under its own terms. You are responsible for being allowed to send the content there. A local model keeps it within your network.

Law and jurisdiction

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this applies only insofar as you are not deprived of the protection of mandatory provisions of the country in which you live. If you are a merchant, the place of jurisdiction is Lüneburg.

Why I ask so much

I provide the platform and the idea and am paying in advance for now:

• Running the platform costs money.
• Developing it myself takes time.
• The external requirements have to be prepared before they are online.

Yes, but you could cash in on the content we have worked hard to create? Yes and no: should I ever want to cash in, the platform would be dead. No one would supply content any more, and no one wants outdated content. Besides, you can retrieve the content at any time. What matters most to me is collaboration and the exchange of expertise.

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