Terms of use

Provider and contact

plat.plus is run by Platon Ivanov as a private person. The address is in the imprint.

Single point of contact for users and authorities (Art. 11 and 12 DSA): contact@plat.plus, in German or English. A person replies.

What plat.plus is

plat.plus is a platform for teaching: lecturers create courses, share material, set tasks and write to their participants. plat.plus is an independent project, not a university service. We aim for reliable operation but promise no particular availability.

Account

An account needs an email address. If you are under 18, you need the consent of your parents or other legal guardians. For a child under 7, the parents create the account in the child's name and accept these terms. Toward the lecturers of the courses you are a member of you use your real name. What fellow students see is up to you. Keep your sign-in details secret.

Lecturers and courses

Whoever creates a course runs it. Lecturers decide who joins and what is in the course, and are always shown by name in their courses.

Your content

plat.plus stores content on behalf of its users and does not review it before publication. Users are responsible for what they upload. You keep all rights to it and allow us only what operating the service needs: storing it, showing it to the people you meant it for, and backing it up.

Rights in plat.plus

You may use plat.plus for teaching and studying as it is offered. The software, design, texts and images of plat.plus are protected by copyright. It is therefore not allowed to:

• Copy, adapt or pass them on, in whole or in part, or use them for a service of your own.
• Reverse engineer or decompile the program code.
• Retrieve plat.plus automatically in large amounts or use it for text and data mining, including AI training. We reserve this use under § 44b of the German Copyright Act (UrhG). Exempt are the start page, help, FAQ and the legal pages, as far as we permit it there in machine-readable form.

Whatever the law mandatorily permits, for example under §§ 69d and 69e UrhG, of course remains permitted.

What is not allowed

• Illegal content, such as defamation, incitement to hatred, threats, calls to violence or child sexual abuse material.
• Other people's works without permission. Others' teaching material under § 60a UrhG only in courses with a course code or approval, at most 15 percent of a work and with its source.
• Other people's data without their consent, such as grade or participant lists from university systems, photos, recordings or health data.
• Malware, spam, advertising, and getting around access controls or storage limits.

Notices and moderation

Anyone can report illegal content, also without an account. The link is at the bottom of every page: Report content

We confirm receipt, a person reviews every notice, and we decide promptly. We make no automated decisions. Depending on the case we disable or remove content, restrict an account or, in serious cases, close it. Whoever is affected receives a statement of reasons (Art. 17 DSA) and can object by email. The courts remain open. Where life or safety is at risk we inform the authorities (Art. 18 DSA).

Files and storage

A file may be up to 100 MB. How much storage you have in total is shown under “My files”. Please keep anything you must keep, such as grades, somewhere else too. plat.plus isn't meant as an archive for exam records.

Privacy

We process personal data under our own responsibility, not on behalf of a university. Details: Privacy

Liability

We are liable without limit for intent and gross negligence and for injury to life, body and health. Otherwise we are liable only for breach of an essential obligation, and only for foreseeable damage.

If you connect an AI assistant to your account, you are responsible for what it reads and does with your account, and for using it within the rules of your university, school or employer. We are not responsible for the assistant or its provider. For breaches of our own obligations we are liable as described in the paragraph above.

Ending your account

You can delete your account yourself at any time, under Account → Privacy → “Delete account”. It is deleted for good after 14 days. Until then you can cancel. We may end your account, or plat.plus as a whole, with one month's notice, and at once for serious or repeated breaches of these terms.

Changes

We announce significant changes to these terms in advance in plat.plus and by email. If you disagree, you can end your account.

Applicable law

German law applies. If you are a consumer living in another country, you keep the protection of that country's mandatory rules.