General Terms and Conditions

This version supersedes the version of "20 September 2026" and all earlier versions. It reflects the scope of services as it stands after the student area and the subscription functions were switched on with effect from 1 September 2026 and after the suggestion functions for companies were extended by a required level and an importance. The text contains no reservations, placeholders or editorial notes.

How to read the statutory citations in this text

German statutory provisions are cited in German and untranslated, in the form the German courts and authorities use — for example § 356 Abs. 6 Nr. 2 BGB. § denotes the section, Abs. the sub-section (Absatz), S. the sentence (Satz), Nr. the number and lit. the letter. A citation is not translated because the translated name of a provision does not identify it. The statutes referred to are:

• BGB — Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, the German Civil Code.
• HGB — Handelsgesetzbuch, the German Commercial Code.
• UWG — Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb, the German Act against Unfair Competition.
• EGBGB — Einführungsgesetz zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuche, the Introductory Act to the German Civil Code.
• DDG — Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz, the German Digital Services Act.
• SGB III — Sozialgesetzbuch Drittes Buch, Book III of the German Social Code (employment promotion).
• VSBG — Verbraucherstreitbeilegungsgesetz, the German Act on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Consumer Matters.
• GmbHG — Gesetz betreffend die Gesellschaften mit beschränkter Haftung, the German Limited Liability Companies Act.
• PrKG — Preisklauselgesetz, the German Price Clause Act.
• TDDDG — Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz, the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act.
• AO — Abgabenordnung, the German Fiscal Code.

References of the form "§ 14.2" without a statute name are references to a clause of these General Terms and Conditions.

European legislation is cited by its full title on first use and thereafter by its short name: Regulation (EU) 2016/679 ("GDPR"), Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 ("DSA"), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 ("AI Act") and Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 ("P2B Regulation").

Preamble — structure and how to read these Terms

These General Terms and Conditions (the "Terms") govern the use of the Internities platform by two groups of users with different legal status: students act as consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB, companies as traders within the meaning of § 14 BGB. Because the same clause may be void as against a consumer and valid as against a trader — the prohibitions of §§ 308 and 309 BGB do not apply directly as against traders under § 310 Abs. 1 S. 1 BGB, but continue to have effect there through § 307 BGB pursuant to § 310 Abs. 1 S. 2 BGB — the provisions are separated by addressee:

• Part A (§§ 1 to 24) applies to all users.
• Part B (§§ 25 to 31) applies in addition and exclusively to students as consumers.
• Part C (§§ 32 to 43) applies in addition and exclusively to companies as traders.
• Part D (§§ 44 to 48) contains the final provisions for all users.

Where a provision of Part A and a provision of Part B or Part C conflict, the provision of the special part prevails. Part B applies exclusively to students and Part C exclusively to companies; a provision of Part C is never applied as against students, and vice versa.

The headings serve orientation only and do not limit the regulatory content of the respective provision.

Part A — Common provisions for all users

§ 1 Provider, contactability, scope, subject matter of the contract

1.1 These Terms govern the use of the "Internities" platform, consisting of the website internities.com and the application app.internities.com together with all functions provided through them (collectively, the "Platform"). The subject matter of the Platform is bringing students and companies together for internships and the software-supported comparison between the requirements of an advertised internship position and the information provided by a student.

1.2 The provider and the users' contracting party is Internities GmbH, Hansastraße 42, 20144 Hamburg, registered with the commercial register of the Local Court (Amtsgericht) of Hamburg under HRB 197434, VAT identification number DE460791180, represented by the managing director Gwendolin Lüders and the managing directors Alexander Krink and Boris Albert ("Internities"). The company was entered in the commercial register as a limited liability company (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) on 25 August 2026; it previously operated under the business name "Internities UG (haftungsbeschränkt)". The legal entity and the register number have remained unchanged; contracts already concluded continue in force unchanged.

1.3 Internities can be reached electronically at hello@internities.de and by post at the address stated in § 1.2. The particulars of the points of contact under the DSA are set out in § 19.

1.4 The Platform is addressed to two groups of users:

• Students are natural persons who are enrolled at a higher education institution and who use the Platform for the purposes of their own education. They act as consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB.
• Companies are legal persons, partnerships with legal capacity and natural persons who use the Platform in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity in order to fill internship places. They act as traders within the meaning of § 14 BGB.

1.5 Diverging, conflicting or supplementary general terms and conditions of a company become part of the contract only if and only to the extent that Internities has expressly consented to their application in text form. This requirement of consent applies even where Internities renders performance without reservation in the knowledge of diverging terms. This provision does not apply as against students.

1.6 The Internities Ambassador Program is not the subject of these Terms. Participation is governed exclusively by the Terms of Participation for the Internities Ambassador Program in version v1.1 of 1 September 2026, which the participant accepts separately. These Terms govern the general use relationship; the Terms of Participation govern the participation relationship only. For the matters governed there — in particular remuneration, settlement, competition and termination of participation — the Terms of Participation prevail; in all other respects these Terms apply. A later version of the Terms of Participation becomes effective only if the participant accepts it separately. Participation does not require a student account and does not change the participant's legal status under § 1.4; where a student also participates in the Ambassador Program, their consumer status in the use relationship under these Terms remains unaffected.

§ 2 Definitions

2.1 "Account" means the personal, password-protected access of a natural person to the Platform.

2.2 "Company account" means the area of the Platform allocated to a company, to which one or more accounts of natural persons are assigned as members.

2.3 "Internship position" means an internship offer created and published on the Platform by a company.

2.4 "External offer" means an internship offer taken from publicly accessible sources by Internities, editorially prepared and published by Internities, which is not allocated to any company account. § 8 governs it separately.

2.5 "Application" means the declaration submitted through the Platform by a student that they wish to be considered for an internship position.

2.6 "Match band" means the three-step, unquantified indication of the calculated correspondence between a student's information and the requirements of an internship position, with the steps "strong", "promising" and "possible"; it is shown in the application as "fit". For the three areas skills, interests and work environment (§ 9.2), one word of the same steps or "no information" may additionally be shown for each ("area word"); an area word is not a numerical value and does not order any list.

2.7 "Slot" means the place for one internship position of a company kept active at the same time.

2.8 "Text form" means text form within the meaning of § 126b BGB. Where these Terms require text form, an email to or from hello@internities.de is in particular sufficient; the written form under § 126 BGB is not required. Statutory form requirements remain unaffected.

2.9 "Durable medium" means a medium within the meaning of § 126b S. 2 BGB which enables the recipient to keep a declaration addressed to them personally in such a way that it remains accessible to them for a period adequate for its purpose, and which is suitable for reproducing the declaration unchanged.

§ 3 Incorporation, conclusion of contract, contract text, text form

3.1 On conclusion of the contract Internities expressly draws the user's attention to these Terms and makes them accessible to the user in a reasonable manner before the user submits their contractual declaration; they can be taken note of and may be stored in reproducible form (§ 305 Abs. 2 Nr. 1 und Nr. 2 BGB). The use contract is concluded when the user accepts these Terms in the registration process by a separate act that is not pre-selected, and completes the registration. In no registration route does acceptance take place without such an act by the user.

3.2 For every acceptance Internities stores the version identifier, the time and the complete wording of the version accepted. Internities makes the version accepted by the user available for retrieval in the user's account and transmits it to the user in text form on request to hello@internities.de.

3.3 For contracts concluded by electronic means Internities maintains the arrangements required by § 312i Abs. 1 S. 1 BGB: the user can identify and correct input errors before submitting their contractual declaration; the contract terms are retrievable on conclusion of the contract and can be stored in reproducible form (Art. 246c EGBGB). Internities confirms receipt of the user's contractual declaration to the user without undue delay by electronic means; this applies to the contract for consideration and to the contract free of charge alike.

3.4 Where a user concludes a contract for consideration through the Platform, that contract is concluded only after the user has been shown, clearly and prominently and immediately before placing the order, the essential characteristics of the service, the total price including all taxes and further price components, the contract term and the conditions of termination, and after the user has placed the order by means of a button expressly labelled as entailing an obligation to pay (§ 312j Abs. 2 und Abs. 3 BGB). Internities then transmits to the user a confirmation of the contract on a durable medium.

3.5 As against students, Internities also transmits a confirmation of the contract on a durable medium where the contract is free of charge in the sense of a payment of money; § 26 sets out the details.

§ 4 Amendment of these Terms; fresh incorporation; conflict rule

4.1 Principle. Subject to § 43 (amendment of individual provisions as against companies with a current subscription), Internities does not amend these Terms unilaterally. An amended version becomes effective as against an existing user only if the user actively accepts it; acceptance takes place in the same form as the first acceptance (§ 3.1). Silence or mere continued use does not constitute consent.

4.2 Information about material changes. Internities actively informs every affected user of every material change to these Terms, by message to the email address held in the account and by a notice the next time the application is opened (Art. 14 Abs. 2 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 — the Digital Services Act, "DSA"). The information states the subject matter of the change, the time it takes effect and the place where the new version can be retrieved in full. It is given irrespective of whether the amended version requires fresh acceptance under § 4.1. As against companies with a current subscription, the period under § 43 applies in addition.

4.3 Continuation where the new version is not accepted. Where a user does not accept the new version, the version last accepted by that user continues to apply to them until the contractual relationship is ended under § 23, § 24, § 31 or § 36.

4.4 Conflict rule. § 4 and § 43 govern different processes and are mutually exclusive:

• § 4 applies to the incorporation of an entirely new body of terms, or one recast in substance, as against all users. Active acceptance under § 4.1 is always required for this.
• § 43 applies exclusively to amendments of individual provisions within a current contractual relationship for consideration with a company.
• Amendments affecting the core of the principal contractual obligations — the scope of services owed and the consideration — are made exclusively under § 4.1 and never under § 43. § 38 alone governs the adjustment of the consideration to price developments.
• Where § 4 and § 43 could both apply to the same process, § 4 prevails.

4.5 No deemed consent as against consumers. Consent to amendments of these Terms is in no case deemed to have been given by students. As against companies with a current subscription, § 43 applies exclusively with the limitations set out there; outside the scope of § 43, consent is not deemed to have been given by them either.

4.6 Privacy policy. The privacy policy is information pursuant to Art. 13 and Art. 14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — the General Data Protection Regulation, "GDPR" — and does not become part of this contract. Its continued development is therefore not an amendment of these Terms, and it does not give rise to any obligations of the user beyond these Terms. Internities informs users separately of material changes to the privacy policy in accordance with the first half-sentence of § 4.2.

§ 5 Registration, account, access credentials

5.1 Use of the Platform requires an account. An account may be created only by natural persons with unlimited legal capacity and only for themselves; it is not transferable. Only persons who have reached the age of 18 may register. The Platform is addressed exclusively to persons of full age; it is not offered to minors.

5.2 The user provides truthful and complete information on registration and in the account, and updates it without undue delay when it changes.

5.3 The user keeps their access credentials secret and protects them against access by third parties. The user informs Internities without undue delay as soon as they have any indication that a third party is using their account without authorisation. The user is liable for acts carried out through their account only to the extent that they are responsible for the use.

5.4 For students, activation additionally requires proof of student status; § 14 applies to this. § 32 applies to companies.

5.5 Suspension and removal are governed exclusively by § 16 and § 17; extraordinary termination is governed by § 24.

§ 6 Subject matter of the Platform; delimitation of the role of Internities

6.1 Internities provides a digital platform on which

• students can create a profile, store documents, state their subject-matter interests and their preferences as to working environment, view internship offers and apply for internship positions of companies holding a company account,
• companies can advertise internship positions, define the requirements for a position through structured questionnaires, review the applications received by them and contact applicants,
• both sides can communicate through an in-platform message channel and arrange interview appointments after both have given their release, and
• Internities additionally displays external offers pursuant to § 8.

The scope of the individual modules and the conditions of their use follow from § 7, § 33 and § 34.

6.2 What Internities owes and what it does not. Internities owes the provision of the functions described in these Terms. Internities expressly does not owe:

• the conclusion of an internship contract or any other contract between a student and a company,
• the filling of an internship position, the receipt of applications, or any particular number or quality of applications or offers,
• an invitation to an interview, a response from a company or any particular processing time on the part of a company,
• any particular number of matches or any particular match band,
• the review of the substantive accuracy or completeness of the information posted by students and companies themselves, unless § 14, § 16 or § 17 expressly provides otherwise.

Matching results, match bands and indications are aids to orientation; they are not a warranty of any characteristic and not an assessment of the person. The user's statutory rights, in particular the rights under §§ 327 ff. BGB, remain unaffected.

6.3 Delimitation of the role of Internities. Internities is not an employer, is not a party to the internship contract and is not involved in its formation; Internities does not act as the representative of either side and makes no declarations on behalf of either side, unless § 7.7 expressly provides otherwise. Internship contracts are concluded exclusively between the student and the company. In detail:

• Students pay Internities no consideration for the use of the Platform (§ 27).
• Internities receives no success-based remuneration from either side; the companies' consideration is a term-based subscription which is independent of any hiring (§ 35).
• Internities does not conduct any active candidate search for companies and does not maintain a pool of applicants searchable by companies. A company gains access to applicant data only once a student applies of their own accord for one of that company's internship positions, and sees only the applications received by it.
• Internities makes no recommendation in favour of or against any particular person and takes no selection decision. The selection decision is always taken by the company.

6.4 Skills classification. For the comparison of skills the Platform uses the European Commission's ESCO classification, version 1.2.1. Internities indicates this in the application at the relevant points using the wording prescribed by the European Commission. Where Internities uses an edited or adapted version of the classification, this is marked as such.

§ 7 Modules, conditions of use and process in detail

7.1 Profile and documents (students). Students may store profile data and documents, in particular a CV, a higher education or school transcript, certificates, letters of recommendation and cover letters, in PDF, JPEG and PNG format up to a size of 10 MB per file. Within the free basic scope, a maximum of four documents may be stored at the same time, of which at most one CV and at most one transcript. Different limits may apply to accounts for consideration; the limits applicable to the individual student are displayed in their account. Where a limit is reached, an existing document must be deleted before a further one can be stored; the application displays the number of occupied and free places. Since an application under § 7.2 requires a CV and a transcript, two places are available for the remaining categories within the free basic scope. Uploaded files are automatically scanned for malware before any further use; until a scan result without objection is available, the file remains blocked.

7.2 Conditions for an application (students). An application for an internship position is possible as soon as the following five items are complete:

• a fully completed profile,
• an uploaded CV,
• an uploaded transcript; a higher education transcript or a school transcript is sufficient for this,
• at least one entry on subject-matter interests, and
• at least one entry on the preferred working environment.

The transcript referred to in the third bullet is called "Notenblatt" in the application and "Notenauszug" in the privacy policy; the same document is meant. Where only a school transcript is available, the condition is met; the application is, however, marked for the company with a note that no higher education transcript is available, so that the company can take this into account in its selection. There are no further conditions for submitting an application. The application points out missing information.

7.3 Submission and withdrawal of an application. The student alone decides whether and for which internship position they apply. With the application, the company that published the position gains access to the profile information released for the application and to the information as to which types of documents are stored. The company does not receive the documents themselves; their handover is governed exclusively by § 7.8. The student may withdraw an application for as long as no decision has been taken on it.

7.4 Contact release and message channel. A message channel is opened only after both sides have declared a contact release. A student's email address and other direct contact details are disclosed to a company only after the student has expressly consented to a contact request from that company. The consent rests on a separate, express declaration of consent; the student may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future, and withdrawal is as easy as giving consent (Art. 7 Abs. 3 S. 1 und S. 4 GDPR). Withdrawal ends the message channel.

7.5 Messages and attachments. Messages and file attachments may be exchanged within an opened message channel. Attachments are automatically scanned for malware before delivery; attachments identified as harmful are not delivered. § 11 applies accordingly to content in the message channel. After a connection has finally ended, the conversation and its attachments are deleted after 180 days; content that is the subject of a notice under § 18 may be retained for longer for evidentiary purposes.

7.6 Arranging appointments. Companies and students can arrange interview appointments through the Platform. Video conference links are supplied by the company; Internities operates no video service of its own and is not responsible for third-party links.

7.7 Application status and rejection. The company maintains the status of an application on the Platform. The company alone decides on the rejection of an application. Internities sends the rejection notice in the name of the advertising company; the company is identified in the notice as the author of the decision. The notice contains no reasons; the student can see in their account the time at which the rejection was issued. Internities may defer the transmission of a rejection notice by up to fifteen minutes so that the company can reverse a decision triggered by mistake. Internities and the company are joint controllers for the sending of the rejection notice; § 40 sets out the details. Claims of the student against the company, in particular claims for information or damages, lie exclusively against the company; Internities is neither the addressee of such claims nor a representative in this respect. There is no entitlement to a response from the company within any particular period; Internities does not monitor companies' application-handling behaviour and does not owe the enforcement of responses.

7.8 Handover after a hiring. Where a company and a student confirm to the same effect that an internship relationship has come about, the student can select individually which of their data and documents are handed over to that company. The handover takes place only upon the student's separate consent, to be given individually for each data package; without that selection no handover takes place. The consent may be withdrawn until the handover.

7.9 § 10 applies to the amendment and discontinuation of modules.

§ 8 External internship offers posted by Internities

8.1 Alongside the internship positions of companies holding a company account, Internities displays external offers. Internities takes these offers from publicly accessible sources of the advertising companies themselves, in two ways: by a natural person taking them from those companies' career pages, and by the automatic retrieval of the official job feeds of the applicant tracking systems used by those companies. Internities prepares the offers and publishes them on the Platform. Before publication, a natural person checks whether the mandatory particulars are complete; Internities does not check whether each individual particular is substantively correct. External offers are marked as such in the application and are kept in a separate list.

8.2 Own content. External offers are Internities' own content. Internities is responsible for their preparation and their presentation under the general law; the liability privilege for third-party information provided by users does not apply to them. Internities does not reproduce the advertising company's statements as its own undertaking and does not act as if instructed by that company. Information in external offers may have changed in the meantime at the advertising company; the company's statement on its own page is always authoritative for the application.

8.3 There is no contractual relationship and no mandate between Internities and the company named in an external offer. The company named has no company account, no access to applicant data and no access to Platform functions. Internities charges no consideration to either side for external offers.

8.4 An application for an external offer is not possible through the Platform. The Platform forwards the student to the application procedure of the advertising company; the advertising company alone is responsible for that procedure and for the conditions applying there. Internities logs the forwarding; the privacy policy contains the details. The functions of the Platform — in particular contact release, message channel, arranging appointments, status tracking and handover — are not available for external offers.

8.5 Every company named in an external offer may object to the publication at any time without formality and demand the removal of the offer, of its name, of its logo or of images used. The objection may be declared without any formality — by email to hello@internities.de, by telephone on +49 40 2263 29990, or by post to the address given in § 1.2 — and requires no reasons. Internities removes the content concerned without undue delay upon receipt of the objection. Internities likewise removes an external offer without undue delay if it becomes aware that the offer no longer exists or is unlawful.

8.6 § 18 applies to external offers as it does to all other content on the Platform.

§ 9 Order in which internship offers are displayed

9.1 Two lists, three sort orders. Internship offers are displayed to students in two separate lists: the internship positions of companies holding a company account, and the external offers under § 8. The lists are ordered by different rules. Three sort orders are available for the list of internship positions: "match" as the default, "newest" and "nearest". The "newest" sort order orders by the time of publication, the most recently published position first. The "nearest" sort order is a grading by place indication — first positions at the place stated by the student, then location-independent positions, then the remainder; it calculates no geographical distance. The "match" sort order orders the page of the result list currently loaded by match band; within the same band, the order by time of publication is retained. It does not order the entire stock of all internship positions. The same three sort orders are also available for the list of external offers; there, the "match" sort order produces the ranking described in § 9.6 and not an ordering by match band. Both lists can additionally be searched and filtered by the attributes offered in the application.

9.2 Main parameters of the "match" sort order. The order in the "match" sort order rests on the comparison of the student's information with the requirements the company has laid down for the position in question. Four axes are compared:

• the subject-matter correspondence of skills with the requirements of the position,
• the correspondence of subject-matter interests,
• the correspondence of preferences as to working environment, and
• the academic information.

Axes for which no information is available do not enter the calculation with the value zero but drop out of it; a missing entry therefore does not operate as a poor rating. In addition, the company may mark individual requirements as desirable; meeting such requirements increases the match by a supplement limited in amount.

9.3 Determination of the weighting by the company. The advertising company itself determines the weighting of the four axes for each position. For this it distributes a total of ten weighting points, at least zero and at most five per axis, whereby at least three axes must carry a weight greater than zero. The axis of subject-matter skills cannot be set to zero; it always carries at least one weighting point. Where the company does not carry out its own weighting, the default applies: four points on skills and two points each on interests, working environment and academic information.

9.4 Reasons for the relative weighting. The relative weighting rests on the following reasons:

• The axis of subject-matter skills carries the greatest weight in the default and cannot be deselected, because subject-matter fit most strongly determines the educational success of an internship and because otherwise a position could be filled on the basis of interests and preferences alone.
• The three remaining axes are weighted equally in the default because there is no robust ranking between interests, working environment and academic information.
• That the company can itself determine the weighting within these limits rests on the fact that the requirements of internship places differ greatly.
• That a missing entry drops out of the calculation instead of being rated as zero rests on the fact that an incomplete profile would otherwise be systematically rated worse than a complete one with low correspondence.

9.5 Presentation as a match band and area words; no numerical value. For an internship position, students are shown a match band — "strong", "promising" or "possible" — and, on the page of the position, for the areas skills, interests and work environment one area word each of the same steps; where no information exists for an area, "no information" is shown. The academic axis (§ 9.2) is not shown separately; it enters only into the match band. The area words do not affect the order under § 9.1. § 9.6 applies to external offers. No numerical value is displayed to students, neither overall nor per area. The length of the bar displayed is a fixed property of the respective band and does not reproduce any value beyond it. The data subject's rights to information and to a copy under Art. 15 Abs. 1 und Abs. 3 GDPR remain unaffected; on request Internities informs the student of the values underlying their assessment and of the version of the rules applied.

9.6 Main parameters of the list of external offers. The list of external offers is put into a ranking on the server side. Four criteria enter that ranking with different weights: the correspondence of subject-matter fields of interest with the highest weight, then the industry of the advertising company, then, with equal weight, the student's prior experience as a measure of subject-matter proximity and the field of study. Nine further items — place of work, work authorisation, availability, type of position, stage of study, enrolment status, languages, type of internship and grade requirement — are shown to the student merely as a checklist and do not enter the ranking. Where an expressly set requirement as to place of work, work authorisation or availability is not met, the offer concerned is displayed with lower priority than comparable offers without such a divergence. Where insufficient comparable information is available for an external offer, no match word is displayed for it; the application points this out.

9.7 No influence of payments on the order. The level of the plan chosen by a company has no influence on the order in which its internship offers are displayed to students. The plan determines only the number of slots kept active at the same time (§ 34). There is no way to influence the order for consideration or in any other manner, and none is offered.

9.8 Distinction from the order of applications. The order in which internship offers are displayed must be distinguished from the order in which the applications received by a company are displayed to it. § 33.2, § 40 and § 41 of these Terms and the privacy policy apply to the latter.

9.9 Accessibility, further development and recalibration. Internities additionally keeps the information in this § 9 directly accessible from the display of the result list. Internities may further develop and recalibrate the parameters described above, their weighting and the threshold values of the band steps. Internities notifies all affected users in text form of any change that influences the order other than insignificantly, at least six weeks before it takes effect; the notification describes the changed parameters. The adaptation of this § 9 to the changed parameters is governed by § 4 and § 43.

§ 10 Amendment, further development and discontinuation of functions

10.1 Internities is entitled to adapt, further develop or discontinue the contractually owed features and modules (§§ 6 to 9) where this is necessary because of

• a change in statutory or regulatory requirements,
• mandatory requirements of IT or data security, or
• the further development or replacement of the underlying software or of a third-party service used, provided that the previous solution is no longer operated or no longer maintained,

and where the change is reasonable for the user having regard to the interests of Internities. The core benefit typical of the contract is preserved. This enumeration is exhaustive. There is no right of amendment on other grounds; in particular, a change that merely appears advantageous to the user or that affects them only insignificantly does not of itself justify an amendment.

10.2 Internities informs the user in text form at least six weeks before it takes effect of any change under § 10.1 that affects the scope of services typical of the contract other than insignificantly. The notification states the change, its reason and the time it takes effect.

10.3 Where a change under § 10.1 substantially alters the scope of services typical of the contract to the user's detriment, the user may terminate the contract extraordinarily with effect from the time the change takes effect, by giving notice up to that time. Internities points out this right in the notification under § 10.2. Where a company terminates on this ground, Internities refunds consideration already paid pro rata for the unused period.

10.4 A change of the service providers used by Internities — in particular of the providers named in § 13.3 — is not a change of services under § 10.1 but concerns the manner in which the services are rendered. Internities notifies users of such a change and updates the privacy policy; a change which alters the scope of services under §§ 6 to 9 is additionally to be treated under § 10.1 to § 10.3.

10.5 For the supply of digital products to students, § 327r BGB applies in addition: changes going beyond what is necessary to maintain conformity with the contract are permissible only where there is a valid reason, without additional cost to the student and after prior information. The student's rights under § 327r Abs. 3 und Abs. 4 BGB remain unaffected.

10.6 The amendment of these Terms themselves is governed exclusively by § 4 and § 43.

§ 11 Users' obligations; impermissible content and use

11.1 Users may use the Platform only within the framework of the statutory provisions and these Terms. The following are prohibited:

• untrue statements about one's own person, about affiliation to a higher education institution, about the company or about an internship offer, and the feigning of identity, authorisation, qualification or institutional affiliation;
• the creation of an account under a false identity, for another person, or the transfer of one's own account to another person;
• the submission of false, misleading, manipulated or forged documents, in particular forged certificates of enrolment, transcripts or other evidence of qualifications;
• unlawful, insulting, defamatory, youth-endangering, incitement-to-hatred, discriminatory, pornographic or otherwise legally impermissible content;
• the posting of internship offers that infringe the German General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG), in particular offers that, without permissible reason, are linked to a characteristic under § 1 AGG;
• content that infringes third-party rights, in particular copyright, trade mark, personality and data protection rights;
• the use of the Platform for advertising that does not serve the filling of an internship place or one's own application, and unsolicited bulk mailings;
• the automated extraction of content and the collection of other users' data, as well as security investigations of any kind, without Internities' prior consent in text form; it is not prohibited to notify Internities of a vulnerability identified without active intrusion; Internities does not pursue such a notification;
• the circumvention of security or access control mechanisms, the introduction of malware, and any use that impairs the integrity, availability or security of the Platform;
• any attempt to manipulate, disrupt or reverse-engineer the matching, verification or recommendation systems;
• the use of applicant data for purposes other than filling the position to which the application relates, and its disclosure to third parties.

11.2 The enumeration in § 11.1 is exhaustive. Conduct that does not fall under any of the cases listed there is not prohibited by § 11.1; statutory prohibitions and the general contractual duties of consideration (§ 241 Abs. 2 BGB) remain unaffected.

11.3 The legal consequences of a breach are governed by § 16, § 17 and § 24.

§ 12 User content, grant of rights, indemnification

12.1 The user remains the holder of the rights in the content they post on the Platform or create there ("user content"). For students this includes in particular profile information, free text and uploaded documents; for companies in particular company information, descriptions of internship positions, logos and header images. The user is responsible for being entitled to post the content and for the accuracy of their statements.

12.2 The user grants Internities a non-exclusive, royalty-free and territorially unrestricted right in their user content to store it, reproduce it, edit it in the course of formatting and preparation, and make it accessible to those users for whom the content is intended according to the functions of the Platform, to the extent necessary for the provision of the Platform, for matching, for security and for moderation. The right is limited to that purpose.

12.3 The right under § 12.2 ends on termination of the contractual relationship, unless further use is necessary to comply with a statutory retention obligation, to assert, exercise or defend legal claims, or to fulfil an obligation towards a third party. For content transmitted to a company in the course of an application, the right continues to the extent that the company may retain it under data protection law.

12.4 Internities does not transfer the right under § 12.2 to third parties and grants no sub-licences. The engagement of processors under Art. 28 GDPR remains unaffected; which processors are engaged and for what purpose is set out in the privacy policy. Where the business of Internities passes by universal succession or by transfer to a legal successor, the right under § 12.2 passes to that successor to the same extent; the user is informed of this in advance in text form under § 45.3.

12.5 The user warrants that they hold the rights necessary for the grant under § 12.2 and that the user content infringes no third-party rights. Where a document posted contains information about third parties or was written by a third person — in particular a letter of recommendation — the user warrants that they are entitled to submit and store it.

12.6 Where a claim is made against Internities on account of an infringement of third-party rights by user content, the user reimburses Internities for the expenses necessary for its legal defence and indemnifies Internities against justified third-party claims. This obligation exists only to the extent that the user is responsible for the infringement. Internities informs the user of the claim without undue delay, gives them the opportunity to comment and does not acknowledge an asserted claim without their consent. Further statutory claims remain unaffected.

12.7 Internities claims no copyright of its own in the user content. Internities holds the statutory rights in the collection and linkage of data built up by Internities; the user's right in their own content remains unaffected by this.

12.8 Internities is entitled to review, moderate, block or remove content; the procedure is governed exclusively by § 16, § 17 and § 19.

§ 13 Algorithmic and AI-supported functions; responsibility for AI outputs

13.1 Internities uses algorithmic and AI-supported functions at the following points of the Platform:

• the verification of the certificate of enrolment under § 14,
• the text recognition and structured evaluation of uploaded documents in order to pre-fill the profile,
• the mapping of students' information and of the requirements of internship positions to entries of the ESCO classification and, for a requirement so mapped, the proposal of a required level and of an importance,
• the evaluation of the uploaded transcript for the facts shown in it, in particular honours, course loads and engagement, as inputs to the academic metric,
• the translation and the assessment of the requirements of an internship position laid down by a company,
• the pre-filling of the questionnaire of an internship position from a job description inserted by the company,
• the generation and shortening of job descriptions and of summarising section texts for companies,
• the generation of suggestions for fields of interest of an internship position,
• the preparation of external offers under § 8, and
• the calculation of the match band and of the order under § 9.

These functions are supportive and indicative; they do not constitute a binding assessment of a person. This also applies to a level the Platform shows a student for a proposed skill as a labelled proposal: it becomes the student's own statement only upon the student's confirmation and is, as such, self-reported and unverified. The same applies to a required level and an importance the Platform shows a company for a proposed requirement, labelled and pre-selected: they become the company's own determination under § 41.3 only upon confirmation by a person of the company.

13.2 Internities marks AI-supported interactions and machine-generated outputs in the application as such.

13.3 Service providers used. In order to render the model-supported functions under § 13.1, Internities uses service providers that process the content transmitted on Internities' behalf. At the time these Terms enter into force, the service providers directly engaged for this are Anthropic PBC and Mistral AI SAS (text analysis and text generation) and Google Cloud EMEA Limited (optical character recognition); further service providers may be added as sub-processors of these or other service providers. The calculation of the match band and of the order under § 9, by contrast, takes place exclusively on Internities' systems according to fixed rules; no content is transmitted to a service provider for this purpose. Internities does not make user content available to these service providers for the purpose of training their models. Which service providers are used in detail, in which country they process — where this has been ascertained and is stated there — which categories of data are affected and on what basis a transfer to a third country takes place follow from the list of recipients in the privacy policy, which Internities maintains on an ongoing basis; Internities notifies a change under § 10.4.

13.4 Responsibility for AI-generated content. Responsibility is allocated as follows:

• Suggestions the Platform makes to a company for an internship position — in particular the pre-filling of the questionnaire, job descriptions, shortenings, suggestions for fields of interest and, for a proposed requirement, a required level and an importance — are drafts. They are not published automatically. A proposed level and a proposed importance are shown labelled as a proposal and pre-selected; the company may remove or change any proposal beforehand and adopts the remaining list in one step with its express confirmation that it has reviewed the proposals. Publication requires a person of the company to have reviewed and released the draft. By releasing it, the company adopts the content as its own and is responsible for it as for content it wrote itself.
• Suggestions the Platform makes to a student for their profile — skills, a level proposed for each, and a draft description in the student's own words taken from their document — are likewise drafts and take effect only when the student adopts them; the student may remove or change individual suggestions first, change a level before adopting it and change or delete a description, and adopts the remaining list in one step with their express confirmation that all details originate from themselves; a separate decision is recorded for each suggestion and the draft description is adopted. By adopting them, the student makes the content their own as a self-reported, unverified statement.
• Summarising texts and preparations that Internities publishes itself — in particular for external offers under § 8 — are Internities' responsibility.

13.5 Machine-generated texts and evaluations are, for want of a personal intellectual creation, generally not works protected by copyright. Internities claims no copyright in them and grants none in them. Rights in a version creatively reworked by a human being, and protection under unfair competition law against the direct appropriation of another's work product, remain unaffected.

13.6 § 40 and § 41 apply in addition to the matching system.

13.7 Two systems, two roles. Internities itself developed and itself operates the suitability-ranking and matching system referred to in the last bullet of § 13.1; the role attaching to it under the AI Act follows from § 41.1. By contrast, Internities did not develop the language and recognition models named in § 13.3; the providers of those systems are the service providers named there, and Internities deploys them. Internities carries out the marking under § 13.2 irrespective of whether and to what extent it is legally obliged to do so.

§ 14 Automated verification of the certificate of enrolment

14.1 Access to the student platform requires proof of a current enrolment. This proof may be furnished in three ways:

• by an email address of a higher education institution which Internities has added to a list of recognised university domains; in this case no document is examined and no AI system is used;
• by uploading a certificate of enrolment, where the email address does not come from a recognised university domain; § 14.2 to § 14.7 apply to this route. The certificate is read out by machine and then examined by an AI system as to whether it evidences a current enrolment at a higher education institution and whether the information on the person matches the information given in the registration process;
• by an examination carried out by a natural person, which the data subject may request at hello@internities.de.

The list of recognised university domains contains no personal data of students. Internities adds a higher education institution to the list on request; there is no entitlement to be added.

14.2 The result of the examination is expressed as a score. If the certificate reaches the threshold value laid down, access is granted; if it does not, the application for access is refused. This decision is taken exclusively by automated means; a human being is not involved in it in the regular course. It is a decision based solely on automated processing within the meaning of Art. 22 Abs. 1 GDPR which significantly affects the data subject; Internities bases it on Art. 22 Abs. 2 lit. c GDPR: the data subject expressly consents, before the examination begins, to the automated examination of their document. That consent is freely given because access to the Platform does not depend on it; the other two routes under § 14.1 are open independently of it and are named in the submission process itself (§ 14.3).

14.3 Where the proof is furnished by way of a document, the processing of that document by the AI system is indispensable for that route; Internities expressly points this out in the submission process before the confirmation is declared, and at the same time names the possibility of requesting, already before uploading, an examination by a natural person at hello@internities.de (third bullet of § 14.1). That possibility exists alongside and independently of the right to request a review of a decision already taken (§ 14.6). Access to the Platform as such does not depend on it: the other two routes under § 14.1 are open.

The confirmation required in the submission process relates to the processing of the uploaded document by the AI system for the purpose of examining the enrolment status against the criteria in § 14.4. It may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future; § 22.2 applies.

A certificate of enrolment may contain information belonging to the special categories of personal data within the meaning of Art. 9 Abs. 1 GDPR which is not required for the examination under § 14.4. Internities points out in the submission process that such information may be redacted before uploading, and does not use it for the examination. Because Internities does not automatically remove such information before transmission, Internities obtains the data subject's express consent under Art. 9 Abs. 2 lit. a GDPR before the examination begins; that consent names the special categories expressly and is at the same time the basis under Art. 22 Abs. 4 GDPR for the decision under § 14.2 to be permitted to rest on a text that may contain such information. It may be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future. Without it, the proof cannot be examined by way of the document route; the other two routes under § 14.1 remain open unchanged. The details follow from the privacy policy.

14.4 Criteria of the examination. The following enter the assessment: the legibility and completeness of the document, the presence of the information typical of a certificate of enrolment — in particular name, higher education institution and period of enrolment —, the correspondence of that information with the information given in the registration process, and the identifiability of the issuing university body. The following do not enter the assessment: field of study, grades, origin, nationality and age.

14.5 Information on refusal. Where an application is refused, Internities informs the data subject of this without undue delay in text form. The information contains

• the statement that the decision was taken exclusively by automated means,
• the criteria of the examination under § 14.4 that were decisive, in comprehensible form, and the significance of the decision,
• the notice that the data subject may request the intervention of a natural person, express their own point of view and contest the decision, and
• the body responsible for this together with its contact address.

14.6 Right to human review. The data subject may request a review by a natural person without formality, in particular by message to hello@internities.de; that address is also named in the information under § 14.5. Internities then examines the case individually through a natural person who may set aside or confirm the automated decision, and communicates the result without undue delay in text form, as a rule within five working days and in any event within the period laid down in Art. 12 Abs. 3 GDPR. The data subject may submit proof in another form. No charge is made for the review. The rights under Art. 22 Abs. 3 GDPR are not restricted by these Terms.

14.7 After a refusal, a fresh submission through the registration form is not possible. Anyone wishing to submit a new or more legible certificate should contact hello@internities.de; the matter is then dealt with by a natural person under § 14.6. Internities points this out in the information under § 14.5.

14.8 The examination under this § 14 concerns a condition of access and not an item of content; it is not a content moderation measure within the meaning of § 16.

§ 15 Availability, maintenance, liability

15.1 Availability. Internities provides the Platform on a continuing basis but does not owe uninterrupted usability. The measure of availability is the reachability of the application app.internities.com over a calendar month. The following do not enter the measurement: periods of scheduled maintenance under § 15.2 and periods of unavailability for which Internities is not responsible, in particular disruptions at upstream suppliers, disruptions of the internet and events of force majeure.

As against students, this applies only in so far as it does not fall below the objective requirements for a digital product (§ 327e Abs. 3 BGB); no derogation from those requirements is agreed by this provision (§ 327h BGB).

15.2 Internities announces scheduled maintenance work that significantly impairs use, where possible at least 48 hours in advance in the application or by email, and schedules it where possible at times of low use.

15.3 Scope of liability. Internities is liable without limitation

• for damage arising from injury to life, body or health resulting from a breach of duty by Internities, its legal representatives or its vicarious agents, including in cases of simple negligence,
• for other damage based on intent or gross negligence of Internities, its legal representatives or its vicarious agents,
• in so far as Internities has assumed a guarantee or fraudulently concealed a defect, and
• under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).

15.4 In the case of a simply negligent breach of a material contractual obligation, Internities' liability is limited in amount to the damage foreseeable at the time of conclusion of the contract and typical of the contract. Material contractual obligations are those obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance the contracting party may regularly rely. In all other respects liability for simple negligence is excluded.

15.5 Within the scope of liability under § 15.4, liability for the loss of data is limited to the effort that would have been necessary for its restoration had the contracting party backed up its data at reasonable intervals and in a manner appropriate to the risk.

15.6 Precedence of the liability provisions. § 15.3 to § 15.5 set out the liability regime of this contract exhaustively. There is no further limitation of liability; in particular, no other provision of these Terms takes precedence over § 15.3 to § 15.5 or restricts them. § 15.9 (limitation of actions) remains unaffected; it is not a limitation of liability within the meaning of the second sentence but a rule on the limitation period.

15.7 Third-party contributions. Internities does not owe any review of the content posted by users as to its substantive accuracy. For content and acts of users, for the content of the internship positions posted by companies, for the profile information and documents posted by students, and for contract negotiations, commitments, rejections, remuneration and legal infringements by companies or students, Internities is liable only in accordance with § 15.3 to § 15.5; there is no liability without fault of its own in this respect. § 8.2 applies to external offers; Internities' own responsibility governed there remains unaffected by sentences 1 and 2. The statutory rules on responsibility remain unaffected.

15.8 These Terms do not alter the allocation of the burden of proof to the user's detriment.

15.9 For claims for damages and for reimbursement of expenses against Internities that do not fall under § 15.3, a limitation period of twelve months from the statutory commencement of limitation applies as against companies. For all other claims and as against students, the statutory limitation periods apply.

§ 16 Content moderation: tools, grounds, procedure

16.1 Content moderation tools used. Internities uses exclusively the following tools for the moderation of content (Art. 14 Abs. 1 S. 2 DSA):

• the removal of a published internship position or of an external offer from the public view by returning it to archived status;
• the suspension of an account or of a company account;
• an automated pre-check of the titles of internship positions for non-discriminatory wording, which refuses to accept a title that is not neutrally worded.

16.2 Human and automated decision. Decisions on the measures under the first and second bullets of § 16.1 are taken in every individual case by a natural person with special authorisation; no automated decision-making takes place in this respect. The pre-check under the third bullet of § 16.1 runs by automated means; it rests on a word list, makes no substantive assessment of the position advertised and merely prevents the objected-to title from being accepted. Where publication is refused on this ground, the publishing person immediately receives the ground, the objected-to passage and a wording suggestion, together with the notice that they may have the decision reviewed by a natural person under § 19.1.

16.3 Not content moderation measures: the order in which internship offers and applications are displayed (§ 9, § 33.2), the verification of the certificate of enrolment under § 14, and the technical completeness checks that precede a publication. Those checks establish only whether all the information required for a publication is present; they assess neither the lawfulness of an item of content nor its compatibility with these Terms.

16.4 Grounds for a measure. Internities may take a measure under § 16.1 where

• the content concerned is unlawful or there is a sufficiently substantiated suspicion of its unlawfulness,
• the content concerned or the user's conduct infringes § 11.1,
• the user repeatedly infringes these Terms after having been notified of a like infringement,
• the user's statements about their person, their affiliation to a higher education institution or their company prove to be incorrect,
• a company fails to pay consideration due despite a reminder and the setting of a reasonable period,
• an official or judicial order requires it,
• the measure is necessary to avert a significant danger to the security or availability of the Platform, to other users or to third parties, or
• there is conduct which corresponds in kind and gravity to one of the foregoing cases.

No other grounds justify a measure under § 16.1. A sufficiently substantiated suspicion exists where specific, identifiable facts suggest the unlawfulness or the infringement; a mere allegation without a factual core is not sufficient.

16.5 Proportionality. Every measure must be proportionate; among several suitable measures Internities chooses the one least burdensome to the user. The interests of the user concerned, in particular the loss of pending applications and existing contacts, are to be taken into account.

16.6 Prior hearing. Before taking a measure, Internities informs the user concerned of the intended measure and its essential grounds and gives them the opportunity to comment within a reasonable period. Where prior information would frustrate the purpose of the measure, or where the measure cannot be postponed because it is necessary to avert a significant danger to other users, to third parties or to the Platform, Internities may first order it provisionally and provide the information without undue delay thereafter.

16.7 Restoration. Where a measure proves to be unfounded, Internities lifts it without undue delay and restores access and content so far as possible.

16.8 The right to extraordinary termination for good cause (§ 24) remains unaffected.

§ 17 Statement of reasons for content moderation measures

17.1 Internities notifies the user concerned of every measure under § 16.1 in text form, at the latest when it takes effect, and gives reasons for it (Art. 17 DSA). The statement of reasons contains

• the indication of which of the measures named in § 16.1 was taken, together with the territorial and temporal scope of the measure; no demotion of the visibility of content takes place,
• the facts and circumstances on the basis of which the decision was taken, including the indication of whether the decision goes back to a notice under § 18 or to an investigation of Internities' own,
• the indication of whether automated means were used in taking the decision, including the indication of whether the decision was taken in respect of content detected or identified by automated means,
• in the case of a decision on grounds of unlawfulness, the legal basis and the reasons why the content is unlawful on that basis,
• in the case of a decision on grounds of an infringement of these Terms, the specific provision relied on and the reasons why the content or the conduct infringes it, and
• the notice of the possibility of having the decision reviewed under § 19.1, and of recourse to the courts.

17.2 § 17.1 also applies where a measure goes back to a notice under § 18. It does not apply in so far as a statutory provision prohibits the notification.

§ 18 Notification of illegal content

18.1 At internities.com/report-illegal-content Internities provides an electronic procedure by which any individual or entity — including without an account and without logging in — can notify content which they consider to be illegal (Art. 16 DSA). The notification form is reachable through the footer of the website, through the footer of the application and through the legal notice (Impressum).

18.2 The notice should contain:

• a sufficiently substantiated explanation of why the content is considered to be illegal,
• the precise indication of the electronic location of the content, in particular the exact address of the page,
• the name and the email address of the individual or entity submitting the notice; this particular is dispensed with for notices concerning content that involves an offence under Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU, and
• the statement that the individual or entity submitting the notice is convinced in good faith of the accuracy and completeness of their statements.

Notices may additionally be addressed to hello@internities.de.

18.3 Internities confirms receipt of a notice without undue delay, provided that an electronic contact particular has been given. Internities processes notices received and decides on them in a timely, diligent, non-arbitrary and objective manner (Art. 16 Abs. 6 DSA). Internities notifies the individual or entity submitting the notice of the decision without undue delay and informs them of the possibilities for redress.

The notification under the third sentence names the following possibilities for redress:

• the internal complaint under § 19.1 — it may be lodged within six months of receipt of the decision and is decided by a natural person who was not involved in the original decision;
• a complaint to the complaints office of the Coordination Office for Digital Services at the Federal Network Agency (Beschwerdestelle der Koordinierungsstelle für digitale Dienste bei der Bundesnetzagentur, § 20 DDG); the Federal Network Agency is the competent authority under Art. 49 Abs. 1 DSA (§ 12 Abs. 1 DDG);
• recourse to the ordinary courts.

Internities does not operate an internal complaint-handling system under Art. 20 DSA or an out-of-court dispute settlement procedure under Art. 21 DSA; both obligations are exempted under Art. 19 Abs. 1 DSA (§ 20.2). The internal complaint under § 19.1 is offered voluntarily and does not take the place of those procedures.

18.4 Where automated means are used for processing or for taking the decision, Internities states this in the notification under § 18.3. Such means are not currently used; every decision on a notice is taken by a natural person.

18.5 Where the notice leads to a measure, § 17 and § 19.1 apply to the statement of reasons and to the review.

§ 19 Internal complaint; points of contact; notification of a suspected criminal offence

19.1 Internal complaint procedure. Anyone affected by a measure under § 16.1, or who has submitted a notice under § 18, may have the decision reviewed. The following applies to that procedure:

• The addressee is the point of contact under § 19.3; the complaint is to be lodged in text form to hello@internities.de or through the support system in the logged-in area, and should state reasons.
• The complaint may be lodged within six months of receipt of the decision.
• Internities confirms receipt without undue delay and decides within 14 days of receipt; where a decision is not possible within that period, Internities notifies this, stating the reasons and the expected time of the decision.
• The decision is taken by a natural person who was not involved in the original decision; automated means are not used for this.
• The decision is communicated in text form and reasoned. Where the complaint is well founded, Internities lifts the measure without undue delay.

Recourse to the courts and out-of-court dispute settlement possibilities remain unaffected.

19.2 Point of contact for authorities (Art. 11 DSA). The single point of contact for authorities is Internities GmbH, Hansastraße 42, 20144 Hamburg, email hello@internities.de. Communication is possible in German and in English.

19.3 Point of contact for recipients of the service (Art. 12 DSA). The single point of contact for users is Internities GmbH, Hansastraße 42, 20144 Hamburg, email hello@internities.de. Users may make contact by email, through the support system in the logged-in area of the application, or by post. Communication is possible in German and in English; no exclusively automated tool is interposed, and communication is with natural persons.

19.4 The particulars under § 19.2 and § 19.3 are additionally published in the legal notice (Impressum) and in the footer of the website and of the application.

19.5 Notification of a suspected criminal offence (Art. 18 DSA). Where Internities becomes 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, is taking place or may take place, Internities informs the competent law enforcement or judicial authorities without undue delay and communicates all relevant information available. In the Federal Republic of Germany the central office for receiving such information is, pursuant to § 13 DDG, the Federal Criminal Police Office (Bundeskriminalamt).

§ 20 Size-related exemptions under the Digital Services Act

20.1 Internities currently meets the conditions of the exemption for micro and small enterprises under Art. 19 Abs. 1 UAbs. 1 DSA in conjunction with the thresholds of Art. 2(2) of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC (fewer than 50 employees and an annual turnover or annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 10 million). The calculation is based on Articles 2 to 6 of the Annex to that Recommendation; it includes holdings of 25 per cent or more as well as partner enterprises and linked enterprises, and it is documented. Internities keeps the status under continuous review.

20.2 The additional obligations for providers of online platforms under Art. 20 to Art. 28 DSA therefore do not currently apply — with the exception of Art. 24 Abs. 3 DSA, which Art. 19 Abs. 1 DSA expressly excludes from the exemption. Upon their request, Internities transmits to the Digital Services Coordinator of the place of establishment and to the European Commission, without undue delay, the information on the average monthly number of active recipients of the service in the Union, together with the explanations and substantiations requested in that regard; that information contains no personal data.

20.3 Internities is exempt from the obligation to publish a transparency report pursuant to Art. 15 Abs. 2 DSA.

20.4 Where the conditions of the exemption under § 20.1 cease to be met, Art. 20 to Art. 28 DSA apply after expiry of the period in Art. 19 Abs. 1 UAbs. 2 DSA, that is, twelve months after the loss of status under Art. 4(2) of the Annex to Recommendation 2003/361/EC. In that case Internities adapts these Terms under § 4.

20.5 Internities fulfils the obligations under Art. 11, 12, 14, 16, 17 and 18 DSA irrespective of the size exemption; they are reflected in § 4.2 and §§ 16 to 19 of these Terms. Internities does not operate an internal complaint-handling system under Art. 20 DSA; the internal complaint under § 19.1 is offered voluntarily and remains unaffected by this.

§ 21 Communication, notifications and advertising

21.1 Internities communicates with the user through the email address held in the account and through notifications in the application. The user ensures that they are reachable at the address held.

21.2 Internities distinguishes two kinds of email:

• Contractual and system messages, which are necessary for the performance of the contract or the fulfilment of statutory obligations, in particular confirmations, status notices on applications, security notices, invoices and notifications under § 4, § 10, § 17 and § 43. They cannot be unsubscribed from for as long as the contract exists. They contain no advertising.
• Advertising emails, by which Internities provides information about its own offers, new features and events. They are sent only where the user has expressly consented to them.

21.3 Consent to advertising emails may be withdrawn at any time without giving reasons, with effect for the future, in particular through the unsubscribe link contained in every advertising email or by message to hello@internities.de. The withdrawal covers all advertising emails, irrespective of their designation or occasion. After the withdrawal, Internities sends no further advertising emails to the address concerned.

21.4 Advertising emails are recognisable as such already in the header and in the subject line; the sender is unambiguously identified and is not concealed.

§ 22 Data protection

22.1 Internities processes personal data in accordance with the requirements of the GDPR and the supplementary German provisions. Details of purposes, legal bases, recipients, transfers to third countries, storage periods and data subject rights follow from the privacy policy, which is available at internities.com and in the application.

22.2 Where a user gives consent under data protection law, they may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawal is as easy as giving consent. The lawfulness of processing carried out up to the withdrawal remains unaffected.

22.3 § 40 applies in addition to the relationship between Internities and companies.

§ 23 Term and termination of the use contract free of charge

23.1 Termination by the user. The use contract free of charge runs for an indefinite period. The user may end it at any time without notice period and without giving reasons, by deleting the account in the application or by declaration in text form to hello@internities.de. Internities provides a simple electronic route for this in the account.

23.2 Termination by Internities as against students. Internities may terminate the use contract free of charge with a student in text form on 30 days' notice to the end of the month. The termination must state reasons; the statement of reasons names the specific facts or circumstances on which the decision is based.

23.3 Termination by Internities as against companies. Internities may end the use contract free of charge with a company, and the provision of individual functions free of charge to a company, only in text form on at least 30 days' notice to the end of a calendar month. The notification contains a statement of reasons naming the specific facts or circumstances on which the decision is based, including the content of any notice under § 18. The notice period and the duty to give reasons do not apply in so far as

• Internities is subject to a statutory or official obligation requiring immediate termination,
• there is an imperative ground under national law, or
• the company has repeatedly or seriously infringed § 11.1.

In those cases Internities gives reasons for the termination without undue delay after it takes effect. § 36 alone governs the termination of contracts for consideration.

23.4 Consequences of termination. On termination the user's right to access and use the Platform ends. A company's published internship positions are removed from the public view. The time and extent of deletion of the account and its content follow from the privacy policy and the applicable statutory retention obligations. Access to one's own data after the end of the contract is governed by § 31.2 for students and by § 39.5 for companies.

§ 24 Extraordinary termination for good cause

24.1 The right of both parties to extraordinary termination for good cause (§ 314 BGB) remains unaffected. Good cause exists for Internities in particular in the case of serious or repeated infringements of § 11.1, of fraud, of the submission of forged documents, of the feigning of an identity, or of other conduct that makes the continuation of the contractual relationship unreasonable for Internities.

24.2 In less serious cases, before an extraordinary termination Internities sets a reasonable period for remedy or issues a warning, unless the gravity of the infringement makes this unreasonable (§ 314 Abs. 2 BGB). The procedure under § 16.6 and § 17 applies accordingly.

Part B — Special provisions for students (consumers)

§ 25 Consumer status; mandatory consumer law

25.1 Students use the Platform as consumers within the meaning of § 13 BGB. The mandatory consumer protection provisions apply to them, in particular §§ 305 to 310 BGB including the prohibitions of §§ 308 and 309 BGB and the consumer particularities of § 310 Abs. 3 BGB.

25.2 No provision of these Terms restricts mandatory consumer rights. In so far as a provision of these Terms conflicts with a mandatory consumer right, the statute prevails.

25.3 Where a student also participates in the Ambassador Program, their consumer status in the use relationship under these Terms remains unaffected; § 1.6 does not change this.

§ 26 Access, conclusion of contract, contract confirmation

26.1 Access to the Platform is released in stages. Where the email address given in the access request comes from a higher education institution which Internities has added to the list of recognised university domains, the applicant is placed on a waiting list; Internities invites them to register as soon as the Platform is opened to students. Where it does not come from such an address, the applicant is not placed on the waiting list; following the request Internities informs them that they can prove their student status by way of the document route under § 14.1, and at the same time points out the possibility of requesting an examination by a natural person at hello@internities.de. In that case Internities also stores, together with the request, an expression of interest containing in particular the email address given, its university domain, the time of submission, the IP address and the browser identifier, in order to record the demand for adding that higher education institution to the list; this happens as a consequence of the request and not on the basis of a separate choice by the applicant. Purpose, legal basis, storage period and right to object follow from the privacy policy. There is no entitlement to admission at any particular time. Placement on the waiting list does not yet establish a use contract.

26.2 The use contract between Internities and the student is concluded when the student, after receiving the invitation, completes the registration, accepts these Terms under § 3.1 and Internities grants access. Where the certificate of enrolment is furnished by way of a document, § 14.2 to § 14.7 apply.

26.3 Internities makes available to the student, without undue delay after conclusion of the contract and at the latest before performance begins, a confirmation of the contract on a durable medium (§ 312f Abs. 2 BGB). The confirmation reproduces the content of the contract and contains the full text of these Terms, the withdrawal instruction under § 28 and the model withdrawal form.

§ 27 Data-financed contract; absence of charge; future services for consideration

27.1 Use of the Platform is free of charge for students within the basic scope, in the sense of a payment of money. Free of charge are in particular the profile, documents, matching, viewing of offers, applying, contact release, message channel, arranging appointments and the handover after a hiring; no consideration, advance payment or reimbursement of expenses is charged to or demanded from students for these functions. This does not affect accounts for consideration which a student still holds from an earlier version of these Terms (§ 30.1), or services for consideration under § 27.4.

27.2 The student does, however, provide Internities with personal data — in particular profile information, information on interests and working environment, and documents — which may go beyond what is necessary for the performance of the contract and for the fulfilment of Internities' legal obligations.

27.3 Pursuant to § 312 Abs. 1a S. 1 BGB, the provisions on consumer contracts in electronic commerce and on distance contracts (§§ 312 ff. BGB) and the provisions on contracts for digital products (§§ 327 ff. BGB) apply to this contract for the supply of digital products in exchange for the provision of personal data, in so far as they are applicable, according to their regulatory content, to a contract without a payment of money. Internities accordingly treats the use contract with students as a distance contract; the information obligations under Art. 246a EGBGB and the right of withdrawal under § 28 apply irrespective of the fact that no consideration is payable for the use.

27.4 Existing cases and reservation as to future services for consideration. Internities does not currently offer students any service for consideration. Accounts for consideration which a student still holds from an earlier version of these Terms continue as existing cases; § 30 applies to them. Internities reserves the right to offer services for consideration in future. Such an offer does not change an existing contract free of charge: there is no automatic conversion and no introduction of a charge by way of the amendment procedure under § 4. The student decides for themselves whether to take up a service for consideration and must order it actively and separately for that purpose. Where a service for consideration is offered, the following applies to it:

• The service for consideration is marked as such and offered in a separate ordering process. The contract for the service for consideration is concluded only if the student concludes it in that separate ordering process under § 3.4.
• Before ordering, the student is shown prominently the essential characteristics of the service, the contract term, the conditions of termination and the total price including value added tax and all further price components. In the case of a service with a term of several months, the total price for the entire term is always stated prominently alongside any monthly equivalent.
• The initial term is no more than twelve months. Where the contract is extended tacitly, it is extended only for an indefinite period and is thereafter terminable at any time on no more than one month's notice (§ 309 Nr. 9 BGB).
• The functions available free of charge under § 27.1 remain free of charge; a service for consideration is added to them and does not replace them. Anyone who does not order a service for consideration continues to use the Platform to the previous extent, unchanged.
• § 28 and § 29 apply to withdrawal; § 30 applies to termination.

27.5 The conclusion of a contract for consideration is not a condition for using the Platform and influences neither the order in which offers are displayed (§ 9) nor the calculation of the match.

§ 28 Withdrawal instruction

> Unofficial convenience translation. § 28.2 and § 28.6 reproduce the statutory model instruction on withdrawal and the statutory model withdrawal form (Annexes 1 and 2 to Art. 246a § 1 Abs. 2 S. 2 EGBGB). There is no official English text of those model texts. The English rendering below is provided for understanding only; for these two blocks the German text in AGB-2026-09-01-DE.md is authoritative, and a withdrawal declared in either language is effective. This does not affect § 47.

28.1 As a consumer, the student has a right of withdrawal under §§ 312g und 355 BGB, both for the contract free of charge under § 27.1 to § 27.3 and for every contract for consideration under § 27.4. The instruction below applies to both contracts; where the consequences of withdrawal differ, this is shown separately in § 28.3 and § 28.4. Which of the two sets of consequences applies to the contract actually concluded is displayed to the student in the relevant conclusion process. The withdrawal period does not begin before Internities has informed the student about their right of withdrawal in accordance with the statutory requirements (§ 356 Abs. 3 S. 1 BGB).

28.2 Right of withdrawal.

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The withdrawal period is fourteen days from the day of the conclusion of the contract.

To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us —

Internities GmbH, Hansastraße 42, 20144 Hamburg, email: hello@internities.de —

of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement, for example a letter sent by post or an email. You may use the attached model withdrawal form, but it is not obligatory.

You may also declare the withdrawal by means of the withdrawal function which we provide on our online user interface. The withdrawal function bears the label "Vertrag widerrufen" ("Withdraw from contract") and is permanently available, prominently placed and easily accessible throughout the withdrawal period; it is reachable without prior login. If you declare the withdrawal through that function, we will confirm receipt to you without undue delay on a durable medium, stating the content of your declaration and the date and time of receipt.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

28.3 Effects of withdrawal in the case of a contract without payment of a price.

For the use free of charge under § 27.1 you pay no consideration in money but provide us with personal data. In the event of withdrawal you therefore receive no refund of money; no such payment has been made. No compensation for value is demanded.

If you withdraw from this contract, the use contract ends and we cease the further use of the personal data you provided in the course of the performance of the contract, unless we remain permitted to use it on another legal ground (§ 327q BGB; Art. 6 and Art. 17 GDPR). Content other than personal data which you created or provided in the course of use may not be used by us after the withdrawal, save in the exceptional cases provided for by law; at your request we will make that content available to you free of charge and in a commonly used, machine-readable format (§ 327p Abs. 2 und Abs. 3 BGB applied accordingly).

Your rights as a data subject under the General Data Protection Regulation, in particular the right to erasure under Art. 17 GDPR and the right to data portability under Art. 20 GDPR, remain unaffected and are not restricted by this instruction.

28.4 Effects of withdrawal in the case of a contract for consideration.

If you withdraw from a contract for consideration, we must reimburse to you all payments we have received from you without undue delay and at the latest within fourteen days from the day on which we receive notification of your withdrawal from this contract. We will use the same means of payment as you used for the original transaction for that reimbursement, unless expressly agreed otherwise with you; in no event will you be charged any fees on account of that reimbursement.

If you have requested that the service should begin during the withdrawal period, you must pay us an amount which is in proportion to what has been provided until you have communicated to us your exercise of the right of withdrawal, in comparison with the full coverage of the contract. A claim to compensation for value exists only under the conditions of § 357a Abs. 2 BGB.

28.5 Early expiry of the right of withdrawal.

Internities does not currently offer students a membership for consideration (§ 27.4). If such a membership is offered, it is digital content not supplied on a tangible medium (§ 327 Abs. 2 S. 1 BGB); the paragraph below on digital content then applies to it exclusively. The same applies to accounts for consideration which a student still holds from an earlier version of these Terms (§ 30.1). The two paragraphs on digital services for consideration concern a different subject matter and do not apply to the membership.

For the use free of charge under § 27.1, your right of withdrawal does not expire by reason of your beginning to use the Platform. The use contract is concluded for an indefinite period and is not fully performed within the withdrawal period; the right of withdrawal therefore ends only on expiry of the period under § 28.2. Internities does not require any declaration from the student waiving their right of withdrawal.

Where Internities additionally offers a digital service for consideration (§ 327 Abs. 2 S. 2 BGB) with a term extending beyond the withdrawal period, then for that service, and only for it, an early expiry of your right of withdrawal is not possible: expiry under § 356 Abs. 5 Nr. 2 BGB presupposes the complete performance of the service, and with such a term that does not occur within the withdrawal period. Your right of withdrawal therefore continues throughout the withdrawal period under § 28.2 and ends on its expiry. For such contracts Internities requires neither consent to an early start nor an acknowledgement of early expiry, and does not rely on an early expiry.

Where Internities additionally offers a digital service for consideration (§ 327 Abs. 2 S. 2 BGB) which is fully performed within the withdrawal period, your right of withdrawal expires under § 356 Abs. 5 Nr. 2 BGB upon complete performance, provided that before performance began you expressly consented to our beginning performance before the expiry of the withdrawal period and acknowledged that your right of withdrawal expires upon complete performance of the contract by us.

For digital content not supplied on a tangible medium — and thus for the membership for consideration referred to in the first paragraph of this § 28.5 — your right of withdrawal expires under § 356 Abs. 6 Nr. 2 BGB where we have begun to perform the contract, you have expressly consented to our beginning performance before the expiry of the withdrawal period, you have acknowledged that by giving your consent you lose your right of withdrawal upon the beginning of performance, and we have provided you beforehand with a confirmation of the contract under § 312f BGB on a durable medium.

Binding undertaking. Internities does not rely, as against students, on an early expiry of the right of withdrawal under the preceding paragraph. Your right of withdrawal therefore continues, including for a membership for consideration, throughout the withdrawal period under § 28.2 and ends on its expiry. A declaration by which you consent to the early beginning of performance or acknowledge your awareness of the early expiry has no effect on your right of withdrawal; Internities does not require such a declaration and derives nothing from it. Internities can change this undertaking only for future contracts and only by way of § 4.

28.6 Model withdrawal form.

(Unofficial convenience translation of Annex 2 to Art. 246a § 1 Abs. 2 S. 2 EGBGB; the German wording in AGB-2026-09-01-DE.md § 28.6 is authoritative.)

If you wish to withdraw from the contract, please complete this form and send it back:

• To: Internities GmbH, Hansastraße 42, 20144 Hamburg, email: hello@internities.de
• I/We () hereby give notice that I/we () withdraw from my/our () contract for the supply of the following service ():
• Ordered on () / received on ():
• Name of consumer(s):
• Address of consumer(s):
• Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper):
• Date:
• (*) Delete as appropriate.

28.7 The right of withdrawal exists alongside the student's right to end the contract at any time under § 23.1.

§ 29 Electronic withdrawal function

29.1 Internities provides on the online user interface a withdrawal function by which the student can submit their declaration of withdrawal (§ 356a BGB). The button bears the clearly legible label "Vertrag widerrufen" ("Withdraw from contract").

29.2 The withdrawal function is permanently available, prominently placed and easily accessible throughout the withdrawal period. It can be reached without prior login.

29.3 The withdrawal function records, or has confirmed, the student's information as to their name, the designation of the contract to be withdrawn from and an electronic means of communication for the confirmation of receipt. The declaration is submitted by means of a separate button to be activated, bearing the label "Widerruf bestätigen" ("Confirm withdrawal").

29.4 Internities confirms receipt of the declaration of withdrawal without undue delay on a durable medium. The confirmation reproduces the content of the declaration and the date and time of receipt.

§ 30 Accounts for consideration; termination button

30.1 This § 30 applies to continuing obligations for consideration between Internities and a student. It applies both to accounts for consideration which a student still holds from an earlier version of these Terms and to services for consideration under § 27.4.

30.2 The student may terminate such a contractual relationship at any time without giving reasons, with effect from the earliest possible date. Internities provides for this purpose, on the online user interface, a termination button labelled "Verträge hier kündigen" ("Terminate contracts here"), which is permanently available as well as directly and easily accessible and which can be reached without prior login (§ 312k Abs. 2 BGB).

30.3 The button leads to a confirmation page on which the student can enter details of the type of termination, the contract concerned, the time of the ending and their identification. The declaration of termination is submitted by means of a confirmation button labelled "Jetzt kündigen" ("Terminate now").

30.4 Internities enables the student to store the declaration of termination together with the date and time of its submission (§ 312k Abs. 3 BGB). Internities confirms receipt of the declaration of termination immediately in text form on a durable medium, stating the content of the declaration, the date and time of receipt and the time at which the contractual relationship ends (§ 312k Abs. 4 BGB).

30.5 The student may instead declare the termination at any time without formality in text form to hello@internities.de. The possibility under § 30.2 is additional and does not restrict other routes of termination.

30.6 Consideration already paid is refunded pro rata for the period after the termination takes effect, in so far as the service is no longer rendered for that period.

30.7 § 23.1 applies to the termination of the use contract free of charge.

§ 31 Ending of the student contract; data export

31.1 When the contract ends, the student loses access to the Platform. Internities deletes the data belonging to the account in accordance with the privacy policy; statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.

31.2 The student may export the data they have provided at any time during the term of the contract and before its ending, in a commonly used, machine-readable format, using the function provided for this purpose. The output is also available following a request in text form to hello@internities.de. The rights under Art. 15 and Art. 20 GDPR remain unaffected.

31.3 The right of both sides to terminate for good cause remains unaffected; § 24 applies.

Part C — Special provisions for companies (traders)

§ 32 Scope; trader status; company account

32.1 This Part C applies to the use of the Platform by companies. It supplements Part A; where Part A and Part C conflict, Part C prevails. The prohibitions of §§ 308 and 309 BGB do not apply directly in this Part (§ 310 Abs. 1 S. 1 BGB).

32.2 Internities' offering to companies is addressed exclusively to traders within the meaning of § 14 BGB. By creating a company account, the person acting declares that they are authorised to represent the company and that the contract serves the commercial or independent professional activity of the company.

32.3 Before the company account is first used, the business name or full name, the legal form, the address and, where available, the VAT identification number must be stated. Where there is no VAT identification number, the German tax number must be stated instead, or a declaration that neither exists. The information is collected at the first sign-in after the email address has been confirmed; until it is complete, the company account cannot be used. Company accounts created before the entry into force of this version may continue to be used irrespective of this; for them the information is required only before the company first books a paid plan. Internities may verify the information and defer the activation of the company account until the matter is clarified.

32.4 Where it turns out that a company account was created by a consumer, Internities may terminate the contract extraordinarily. Consideration already paid is refunded pro rata for the unused period. The consumer's rights under mandatory consumer protection provisions remain unaffected; Part B is to be applied to them in that case.

32.5 Several natural persons may be assigned to a company account as members. The invitation, removal and change of authorisation of members is carried out by a member with administrative rights; the first invitation into a company account set up by Internities may be sent by Internities. The invited person accepts these terms themselves when joining and takes note of the privacy policy; the invitation sent to their email address takes the place of a separate confirmation of that address. The company determines which persons receive access and what authorisations they have, and ensures that persons who have left lose their access. Acts of a member within the company account are effective for and against the company.

§ 33 Services to companies; presentation of applications

33.1 Internities provides companies with the following functions:

• the creation and maintenance of a company profile including logo and header image, and the administration of members,
• the creation of internship positions by means of a structured questionnaire, the pre-filling of the questionnaire from an inserted job description, the generation and shortening of job descriptions and summarising texts, and suggestions for fields of interest; § 13 applies to all of these functions,
• the definition of the requirements of an internship position, including the mapping to entries of the ESCO classification and the weighting under § 9.3,
• the publication, duplication, archiving, closing to applications and deletion of internship positions,
• access to the applications received for an internship position, to the information released by the applicants and to their match band,
• the request for a contact release and, after it has been given, communication through a message channel with file attachments, and the arranging of interview appointments,
• the change of the processing status of an application, the rejection of one or more applications, and the receipt of documents under § 7.8,
• the administration of the plan, the retrieval of invoices and a support system.

33.2 Presentation of applications. The applications received for an internship position are presented to the company in two views. In the simple applicant list, the display is by time of receipt, the most recently received application first; no assessment takes place there. In the cohort view, those applications which meet the requirements marked as mandatory by the company are ordered by calculated suitability; applications which do not meet a mandatory requirement are presented in a separately designated section, stating the requirement not met. Applications for which a calculation is not yet available, and applications for which the calculation has technically failed, are presented in two further, separately designated sections; they carry no value, and no substitute value is formed for them. The absence of a value is no indication of lesser suitability. The calculation rests on the axes and weightings described in § 9.2 and § 9.3.

33.3 Students are shown the calculated suitability exclusively as a match band and, per area, as an area word (§ 2.6, § 9.5); the underlying numerical value is not displayed to them, neither overall nor per area. The last sentence of § 9.5 remains unaffected. The company may not publish the numerical value displayed to it or the ordering of the cohort view, may not use them for advertising purposes and may not pass them on to third parties. Statutory obligations to provide information, to inform and to hand over remain unaffected; this applies in particular to the information and the copy under Art. 15 Abs. 1 und Abs. 3 GDPR as against the data subject, and to information provided to authorities and courts. Where the company fulfils such an obligation, it informs Internities of this to the extent that it is legally permitted to do so.

33.4 There is no entitlement to any particular number or quality of applications; § 6.2 applies.

§ 34 Slots, entry phase free of charge, plans

34.1 Slots. The number of internship positions a company can keep active at the same time is limited. An active internship position occupies a slot. An internship position counts as occupying a slot where it has been created, has not been deleted, has not been archived and is open for applications.

34.2 Release of a slot. A slot becomes free again when the internship position is deleted, archived or closed to applications. The closing of an internship position to applications is final; a closed position cannot be reopened for applications. Applications already received remain viewable and can continue to be processed. Where the same position is to be advertised again, a new internship position must be created for that purpose, which occupies a slot; the application provides a duplication function for this. Internities points out the finality in the application before closing.

34.3 Entry phase free of charge. Internities grants new companies an entry phase free of charge. It begins with the first internship position the company publishes on or after 1 September 2026 and ends three months after that time; what counts is the time of publication, not the end of that day. Where the company publishes no internship position, the entry phase does not begin; creating a position and the activation of the company account do not set it running. Internship positions created before 1 September 2026 remain unaffected and are counted neither towards the entry phase nor towards the number under the second paragraph; for those pre-existing positions what matters is when they were created, not when they were published.

During the entry phase the company can publish a total of three internship positions. What counts is the number of positions published, not the number active at the same time: a position that is deleted, archived or closed to applications does release its slot again under § 34.2 but continues to count towards the three positions of the entry phase. A position created but not published is not counted. External offers posted by Internities itself under § 8 are not counted. Internities may set a different number in an individual case; the number applicable to the company, the number already used and the end of the entry phase are displayed in the company account. After the entry phase has expired or that number has been used up, the publication of further internship positions requires a plan for consideration; the company can still create and edit them.

34.4 Plans. Internities offers twelve subscription plans. The plan is determined by the number of slots kept active at the same time, from one to twelve: the company chooses how many internship positions it wishes to keep active at the same time; exactly one plan is allocated to that number. A requirement for more than twelve slots active at the same time is the subject of a separate offer outside the plans.

34.5 Conditions of publication. Internities may make the publication of an internship position conditional on the completeness of the company profile and the questionnaire. The application points out missing information. That check is a technical completeness check and not a content moderation measure (§ 16.3).

34.6 A plan confers no entitlement to any particular number of applications, to any particular visibility or to any particular order in the display (§ 9.7).

§ 35 Prices, value added tax, payment, invoicing

35.1 Net prices. All plan prices are net prices in euros per month and are exclusive of value added tax at the applicable statutory rate. Value added tax is shown separately in the ordering process and added. For a company established elsewhere in the Community with a valid VAT identification number, invoicing takes place without German value added tax, provided the statutory conditions are met.

35.2 Price range. The plans applicable at the time of conclusion of the contract, the number of slots associated with them and the prices are displayed to the company in the ordering process. The plan structure currently ranges from EUR 119 net per month for one slot to EUR 999 net per month for twelve slots.

35.3 Due date. The consideration falls due in advance for each billing period and is collected through the payment service provider under § 35.5. The billing period is the calendar month, calculated from the day of the conclusion of the contract, unless the plan provides otherwise.

35.4 Invoicing. Internities provides an invoice in electronic form for each billing period. The invoice is retrievable in the company account; in addition, Internities or the payment service provider transmits it to the email address stored by the company for billing. The company consents to electronic transmission; it may withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future in text form.

35.5 Payment service provider. The payment service provider is the Stripe group of companies. The ordering process, the determination of value added tax and the billing are handled through Stripe. The billing address and the VAT identification number come from the information under § 32.3: Internities stores them and transmits them to Stripe on every change. They are not collected again on the payment page operated by Stripe; only where no address is stored for the company is it requested there. A German tax number is not transmitted to Stripe. Means of payment, in particular card data, are collected directly by Stripe and do not touch Internities' systems. The specific contracting entity, the issuer of the invoice and the particulars of transfers to third countries follow from the privacy policy.

35.6 Default in payment. Where the company is in default with a payment due, §§ 286 und 288 BGB apply. Internities may temporarily restrict access to the functions for consideration and the publication of the internship positions, after prior notice in text form and after the fruitless expiry of a reasonable grace period of at least ten days; the notice states the amount outstanding and the consequences. § 17 and § 19.1 apply to the notification of, and the statement of reasons for, the restriction. The right to extraordinary termination (§ 24) remains unaffected.

§ 36 Term, extension, termination

36.1 The contract with a company is concluded for an indefinite period. The plan for consideration has a minimum term of one billing period and is extended by one further billing period in each case unless terminated in due time.

36.2 Termination by the company. The company may terminate the plan for consideration by ordinary notice at any time with effect from the end of the current billing period; there is no notice period. On receipt of the termination the automatic extension ends; the plan and the associated slots continue until the end of the current billing period, and consideration already paid for that period is not refunded. The company may end the contract in the relationship free of charge at any time without notice period. Termination is effected through the self-service route in the company account or in text form to hello@internities.de. Internities confirms receipt of the termination and the time of the ending without undue delay in text form. The company may revoke a termination of the plan for consideration in the company account up to the end of the current billing period; upon revocation the automatic extension under § 36.1 revives.

36.3 Termination by Internities. Internities may terminate the contract by ordinary notice of 30 days to the end of the respective billing period. The termination is effected in text form and contains a statement of reasons naming the specific facts or circumstances on which the decision is based, including the content of any notice under § 18. The notice period and the duty to give reasons do not apply under the conditions named in § 23.3; in those cases Internities gives reasons for the termination without undue delay after it takes effect.

36.4 Consequences of termination. On the ending of the contract, access to the functions for consideration ends. Internship positions of the company still open are closed to applications at the end of the contract and removed from the public view. § 39.5 applies to access to the company's data after the end of the contract.

36.5 The right to extraordinary termination for good cause (§ 24) remains unaffected for both sides; § 16.6 applies accordingly.

§ 37 Change of plan: upgrade, downgrade, effects on slots

37.1 Principle. The company may change its plan itself at any time in the company account. The change is made by the self-service route; a request to Internities is not required. Before the binding confirmation, Internities displays a preview of the amount payable and of the time it takes effect. That preview is valid for a limited time; after the period displayed has expired, the change must be initiated again.

37.2 Upgrade. An upgrade to a higher plan takes effect immediately. The difference between the previous and the new consideration is calculated pro rata for the remaining part of the current billing period and falls due immediately. The additional slots are available upon it taking effect.

37.3 Failed payment on an upgrade. Where the pro-rata difference cannot be collected, the upgrade is initially held in suspense. Internities calls on the company to pay. Where payment is not made within the period stated in that call, the upgrade does not take effect; the company remains on the previous plan, and any partial amount already collected is refunded. Internities notifies the company of this in text form.

37.4 Downgrade. A downgrade to a lower plan takes effect only at the end of the current billing period. There is no pro-rata refund for the current billing period; the consideration for the previous plan remains owed until the end of the billing period.

37.5 Condition of a downgrade. Internities points out the finality of closing to applications (§ 34.2), and the fact that there is no refund for the current billing period, before a downgrade is planned.

37.6 Effect of a planned downgrade on the slots. A downgrade can be planned only where the number of slots already occupied does not exceed the target number of the lower plan. Where it does exceed that number, the application rejects the planning and states how many internship positions must first be closed, archived or deleted; reference is made to § 34.2. Where a downgrade is planned, the slots already occupied remain unaffected until it takes effect; until then, however, the company can occupy further slots only up to the target number of the lower plan. The consideration for the previous plan remains owed under § 37.4 until the end of the current billing period. Where the company revokes the planned downgrade under § 37.7, the restriction under the third sentence ceases with immediate effect.

37.7 Revocation. The company may revoke a planned downgrade in the company account up to the time it takes effect.

37.8 Only one pending change. Only one plan change that has not yet taken effect may exist per company at any one time. Where the company initiates a further change, that change replaces the one previously planned; the change previously planned does not take effect.

37.9 Relationship to other provisions. § 37 leaves the term and termination provisions of § 36 unaffected; a change of plan does not extend the term and does not replace a termination, and a termination is not a change of plan. § 34.2 applies to the release of a slot.

§ 38 Price adjustment

38.1 Occasion and benchmark. Internities may adjust the consideration for current subscriptions once every twelve months in line with the development of the consumer price index for Germany published by the Federal Statistical Office (overall index, base year 2020 equals 100). The first adjustment is possible at the earliest twelve months after conclusion of the contract.

38.2 Base date and calculation. The base month is the calendar month in which the contract was concluded or — after an adjustment has already been made — the calendar month in which the last adjustment took effect. The reference month is the last calendar month for which an index figure is published at the time the notification under § 38.3 is dispatched. The new consideration is calculated by multiplying the previous consideration by the quotient of the index figure for the reference month and the index figure for the base month, and rounding commercially to whole cents.

38.3 Notification. Internities notifies an adjustment in text form at least six weeks before it takes effect. The notification states the base month, the reference month, the two index figures, the previous and the new consideration, and the time it takes effect.

38.4 Symmetry. Where the index falls compared with the base month, Internities is obliged to reduce the consideration using the same calculation. The reduction is effected by notification under § 38.3; Internities gives that notification unprompted and at the latest at the time at which an increase would have been possible. Where the notification is omitted, the company may demand the reduction; in that case it takes effect retroactively from the time at which it should have been notified.

An adjustment of the consideration under this § 38 does not in any case take effect without the notification under § 38.3.

38.5 Right of termination. Where an increase exceeds 5 per cent of the previous consideration, the company may terminate the contract extraordinarily with effect from the time the adjustment takes effect, by giving notice up to that time. Internities points out this right, and the termination address hello@internities.de, in the notification under § 38.3.

38.6 A change to the plan structure or to the allocation of slots to plans is not a price adjustment under § 38 but a change to the principal service; as against existing companies it is made exclusively under § 4.1.

§ 39 Data access and data use in the company relationship

39.1 Data Internities itself collects or generates. Within the contractual relationship Internities collects and generates in particular: master and account data of the company and its members; the position data and questionnaire answers posted by the company; the skills and role representations generated from them; the results of the comparison between internship positions and student profiles; usage, log and error data of operations; payment and billing data. That data serves the rendering of the contractual service, the security and stability of the Platform, billing, the fulfilment of statutory obligations, and error analysis and further development.

39.2 Data the company can access. During the term of the contract the company and its members can view in the company account, and output in a commonly used, machine-readable format:

• their own master, profile and billing data including the invoices,
• their own internship positions including all questionnaire answers, requirements and descriptions,
• the applications received by them including the profile information released by the students, the indication of which types of documents are stored, and the match band shown for an application, and, where a contact release has been given, the contact details; the documents themselves are not included (§ 7.3),
• the documents an applicant has released for handover under § 7.8,
• the content of the conversations conducted with a student, and the appointment data.

39.3 Aggregated data. Internities does not grant access to data aggregated from the use by other companies. Internities does not make comparison, market or benchmark data available to companies and does not use the company's data in order to offer internship positions of its own in competition with it.

39.4 Disclosure to third parties. Internities discloses data from the company account to third parties only in so far as this is necessary to render the contractual service or where there is a statutory obligation. The service providers used, the respective purpose, the place of processing and the basis of any transfer to a third country are listed by name in the list of recipients in the privacy policy. At the time these Terms enter into force these are Anthropic PBC, Mistral AI SAS, Google Cloud EMEA Limited, Stripe Payments Europe Limited and Stripe, Inc., Supabase Inc., Vercel Inc., Plus Five Five Inc., Cloudflare Inc., Upstash Inc., Ionx Solutions LLP, Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited and Functional Software Inc. The list of recipients in the privacy policy is authoritative and is kept current; where this enumeration diverges from it, the list of recipients prevails. No disclosure for third-party advertising purposes takes place. The company may object in text form to hello@internities.de to a disclosure that is not necessary to render the contractual service or to fulfil a statutory obligation; in that case Internities states which functions will as a result no longer be available.

39.5 Access after the end of the contract. After the end of the contract, Internities makes the data named in § 39.2 available to the company in text form on request to hello@internities.de. The time and extent of deletion of the data of the company account follow from the privacy policy and the applicable statutory retention obligations. Invoicing and accounting records are retained for the duration of the retention periods under commercial and tax law and are made available to the company in text form on request. Personal data of applicants is deleted in accordance with § 40.5.

39.6 Return and deletion of application documents. Documents which an applicant has provided to Internities for the purpose of being brought together with a company are returned by Internities after that activity has been completed, or deleted as soon as they are no longer needed for it; they are retained beyond that point only in so far as a statutory retention obligation exists or the documents are necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. The obligations to return and delete under § 298 Abs. 2 SGB III remain unaffected, in particular the obligation to return immediately after the placement activity has been completed under § 298 Abs. 2 S. 1 SGB III; they apply irrespective of whether a fee is charged for the activity.

§ 40 Allocation of data protection roles and obligations of the company

40.1 Principle of separate controllership. Internities is the controller within the meaning of Art. 4 Nr. 7 GDPR for the collection, storage, enrichment and provision of students' data on the Platform. The company is the controller for the processing it carries out in its own sphere of responsibility from the point at which it takes note of the data, in particular for its selection, documentation and communication processing. The legal basis for processing by the company is Art. 6 Abs. 1 UAbs. 1 lit. b GDPR. The company fulfils data subject rights in its own sphere itself. Internities is not the company's processor; Internities is not bound by instructions, determines the essential means of the processing itself and pursues its own purposes.

40.2 Joint controllership for two processing operations. For the following two — and only for these — processing operations, Internities and the company jointly determine the purposes and the means and are joint controllers within the meaning of Art. 26 Abs. 1 S. 1 GDPR:

• the calculated assessment, the cohort formation and the ranked display of applications on the basis of the requirements laid down by the company in the questionnaire, of the requirements marked as mandatory and of the weighting of the axes (§ 9.2, § 9.3 and § 33.2); Internities determines the procedure, the calculation rules and the presentation;
• the sending of the rejection notice in the name of the company (§ 7.7); the company takes the decision and triggers the sending, and Internities provides the procedure and the sending route.

The processing operations upstream and downstream of these remain separately controlled.

40.3 Allocation of obligations (Art. 26 Abs. 1 S. 2 GDPR). The following applies to the processing operations under § 40.2:

• Internities fulfils the information obligations under Art. 13 and Art. 14 GDPR as against the students and makes the essence of this arrangement available to them in the privacy policy (Art. 26 Abs. 2 S. 2 GDPR).
• Internities is the point of contact for the exercise of data subject rights under Art. 15 to Art. 22 GDPR. The company supports Internities without undue delay, at the latest within ten working days, and provides the information required in its own sphere.
• The obligations under Art. 32 GDPR are fulfilled by each party in its own sphere.
• Where a party becomes aware of a personal data breach affecting a processing operation under § 40.2, it informs the other party within 24 hours so that the period under Art. 33 Abs. 1 GDPR can be observed. For these processing operations, the notification to the supervisory authority under Art. 33 GDPR and the communication to the data subject under Art. 34 GDPR are made by Internities.
• Internities receives data subjects' requests for information, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection, answers them for its own sphere and forwards them without undue delay to the company in so far as they concern the company's sphere; Internities informs the data subject to whom the request has been forwarded.
• The technical execution of the cohort formation and of the sending of rejections lies with Internities; the substantive specifications — requirements, mandatory criteria, weightings — and the selection decision lie with the company.
• A data protection impact assessment under Art. 35 GDPR for these processing operations is carried out under Internities' lead; the company cooperates.
• The company fulfils the information obligations and the data subject rights for the processing operations it subsequently carries out in its own sphere of responsibility.

40.4 Point of contact and rights of data subjects. The point of contact within the meaning of Art. 26 Abs. 1 S. 3 GDPR is Internities, reachable at hello@internities.de. The data subject's right to exercise their rights under the GDPR as against each of the controllers (Art. 26 Abs. 3 GDPR) remains unaffected by this and is not restricted by these Terms.

40.5 Purpose limitation, prohibition of disclosure, deletion. The following applies to the company's separately controlled processing:

• The company may process the personal data of students obtained through the Platform exclusively for the purpose of filling the internship position to which the application relates, and for initiating the internship relationship.
• The following are prohibited in particular: use for advertising, newsletters or other direct approaches without the data subject's separate consent; inclusion in the company's own applicant pool or use for other positions without separate consent; use for assessment, comparison or profiling outside the filling procedure for the internship position in question; use of the displayed numerical value of the calculated suitability outside the Platform, with the exception of the fulfilment of statutory obligations to provide information (§ 33.3).
• The company does not disclose to third parties the personal data of students obtained through the Platform. Disclosure within its own company to persons involved in the filling procedure, and to the company's own processors under a contract pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR, is permissible. A transfer to a third country outside the European Economic Area requires its own basis under Chapter V GDPR, for which the company is responsible.
• The company binds the persons involved in the filling procedure to confidentiality and takes the technical and organisational measures required under Art. 32 GDPR.
• The company deletes the personal data of students obtained through the Platform as soon as it is no longer necessary for the filling procedure, and at the latest six months after that procedure has been concluded. Longer retention is permissible only in so far as it is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or the data subject has consented. Where an internship relationship comes about, further retention is governed by the provisions applicable to the employment relationship.
• Documents the company has received through the Platform from an applicant are returned or destroyed by it after the filling procedure has been concluded; further obligations to that effect under § 298 Abs. 2 SGB III remain unaffected.

40.6 Handover after a hiring. Data and documents released by a student under § 7.8 may be used by the company exclusively for the onboarding of the person hired. From the time of retrieval the company is solely responsible for that data. Where the student withdraws their consent, the company deletes the data handed over within 14 days, unless a statutory retention obligation prevents this.

40.7 Internal relationship. In the internal relationship, each party bears responsibility for the determinations it has made. Fines under Art. 83 GDPR are imposed on each controller individually and are not borne jointly and severally. The company indemnifies Internities against claims based on a use of the data obtained through the Platform by the company that is contrary to its purpose. That obligation exists only in so far as the company is responsible for the use contrary to purpose. § 12.6 S. 3 und S. 4 apply accordingly. Statutory liability towards data subjects under Art. 82 Abs. 4 GDPR remains unaffected; the apportionment in the internal relationship is governed by Art. 82 Abs. 5 GDPR.

40.8 Verification. Internities may verify compliance with the obligations under § 40.5 and § 40.6 once a year after prior announcement with reasonable notice; the company provides the information required for this.

40.9 Where the company infringes § 40.5 or § 40.6, Internities may proceed under § 16 and § 24.

§ 41 AI Act: roles and deployer obligations

41.1 Classification and roles. Internities' suitability-ranking and matching system is a high-risk AI system within the meaning of Art. 6 Abs. 2 in conjunction with Annex III No. 4(a) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (the "AI Act"); an internship is access to employment within the meaning of that provision. Internities is in that respect a provider within the meaning of Art. 3 Nr. 3 AI Act; the company using it is a deployer within the meaning of Art. 3 Nr. 4 AI Act.

41.2 Temporal application of the statutory obligations. The requirements for high-risk AI systems and the obligations of providers and deployers of such systems under Chapter III, Sections 1 to 3 of the AI Act apply to systems classified as high-risk under Annex III of the AI Act from 2 December 2027 (Art. 113 lit. c AI Act as amended by Regulation (EU) 2026/1744).

Obligations that apply earlier remain unaffected. These are in particular the AI literacy obligation under Art. 4 AI Act, which applies directly to the deployer, the transparency obligations under Art. 50 AI Act and the data subject's right to an explanation under Art. 86 AI Act. Internities points out that the application of certain further provisions of the AI Act to systems under Annex III is currently disputed; in case of doubt Internities construes its obligations against itself and acts on the earliest date that may be relevant.

Internities is preparing for the fulfilment of the obligations applying from 2 December 2027 and will inform the company in good time of the requirements applying from then.

41.3 Contractual obligations of the company from conclusion of the contract. Irrespective of § 41.2, the company undertakes, already upon conclusion of the contract,

• to use the calculated assessment and the ordering of applications solely as an aid, and to appraise independently and in full every application on which it decides,
• not to reject an application solely on the basis of the calculated suitability, the match band, the rank position or the assignment to a separately designated section displayed by the Platform,
• to entrust the oversight of the use of the system to persons who are professionally suited to it, and to inform those persons about the functioning and the limits of the system,
• to lay down the requirements of an internship position and the marking of mandatory requirements in such a way that they are objectively justified and are not linked, without permissible reason, to a characteristic under § 1 AGG,
• to inform applicants that they are subject to the use of a high-risk AI system in the processing of their application (Art. 26 Abs. 11 AI Act); the information is given at the latest with the company's first message to the data subject and names the company's point of contact for queries,
• to inform Internities without undue delay where it establishes that the use of the system gives rise to a risk to the health, safety or fundamental rights of persons, and to report every malfunction and every serious incident within the meaning of Art. 3 Nr. 49 AI Act, and
• to retain the logs under its control relating to the use of the system for at least six months.

41.4 Responsibility for the selection decision. Where the company takes a decision on an application which produces legal effects concerning the data subject or similarly significantly affects them, it is responsible for ensuring that that decision is not based solely on automated processing (Art. 22 GDPR). The company bears the data protection responsibility for the selection decision.

41.5 Information to applicants. The company informs the applicants concerned, under Art. 26 Abs. 11 AI Act, that they are subject to the use of a high-risk AI system. Internities makes available to the company the information necessary for this, and the particulars the company needs in order to respond to a request for an explanation under Art. 86 AI Act; at the company's request, Internities also answers such a request directly to the data subject. On the product side, Internities marks AI interactions and AI outputs under § 13.2; § 13.7 governs the allocation of roles between Internities and the providers of the language and recognition models used.

41.6 Instructions for use. Internities provides the company with instructions for use under Art. 13 AI Act in text form, at the latest by the time from which the obligations under § 41.2 apply. They describe the intended purpose, the performance characteristics and performance limits, the particulars of accuracy, the known risks and the human oversight measures provided for. From the time they are provided, the company uses the matching in accordance with those instructions for use (Art. 26 Abs. 1 AI Act). Until then the obligations set out in § 41.3 and § 41.4 apply to the company.

§ 42 Internal and external offers; no exclusivity

42.1 Two kinds of offer. Two kinds of internship offer are kept on the Platform: internship positions of companies holding a company account, and external offers which Internities has itself compiled from publicly accessible sources (§ 8).

42.2 Different treatment. The two kinds are treated differently, as follows:

• For internship positions there is a contractual relationship between Internities and the company; for external offers there is none.
• They are displayed to students in separate lists and are marked as such.
• Their order is determined by different parameters (§ 9.2 and § 9.6).
• Only internship positions can be applied for through the Platform and open up the functions of contact release, message channel, arranging appointments, status tracking and handover; external offers confer no access to applicant data and no access to Platform functions.
• No consideration is charged to either side for external offers; for internship positions the consideration under § 35 is charged after the entry phase has expired.

42.3 No further preferential treatment. No preferential treatment of Internities' own or affiliated offers over the internship positions of companies takes place beyond § 42.2.

42.4 No exclusivity. Companies are not prevented from offering the same internship offers through other channels, on other terms or on other conditions. Internities requires neither exclusivity nor price parity nor most-favoured treatment.

42.5 Additional distribution channels and partner programmes. Internities makes published internship positions visible exclusively within the application app.internities.com, and there only to logged-in students. There is no publicly accessible overview of individual internship positions; individual internship positions are not indexed by search engines. There are no further distribution channels; in particular, Internities does not place paid advertising for individual internship positions, does not pass them on to other job portals and does not make them available to any third party for further dissemination.

Internities operates one partner programme, the Internities Ambassador Program (§ 1.6). It concerns exclusively the acquisition of new companies for the Platform; individual internship positions are not marketed through the programme, and an ambassador's participation has no influence on the order in which offers are displayed (§ 9.7).

Where Internities takes up a further distribution channel or a further partner programme, makes internship positions publicly accessible or allows them to be indexed by search engines, Internities notifies the company of this in text form at least six weeks in advance.

§ 43 Amendment of individual provisions as against companies with a current subscription

43.1 Scope. § 43 applies exclusively to the amendment of individual provisions of these Terms within a current subscription contract with a company. § 4 applies exclusively to the incorporation of a new body of terms or one recast in substance; the conflict rule in § 4.4 prevails.

43.2 Occasions. Internities may amend individual provisions of these Terms with effect for the future if and to the extent that this is necessary because of

• a change in statutes or directly applicable Union law,
• a change in the case law of the highest courts or a binding official decision affecting the provision concerned,
• a mandatory requirement of IT or data security, or
• the discontinuation of a third-party service used to render the services, without an equivalent replacement.

This enumeration is exhaustive. An amendment on other grounds is made exclusively under § 4.1.

43.3 Excluded subject matter. Provisions on the scope of services owed, on the consideration and on the rights of termination cannot be amended under § 43. An amendment under § 43 must not shift the relationship between performance and counter-performance to the company's detriment.

43.4 Procedure. Internities notifies the intended amendment in text form at least six weeks before it is to take effect. The notification reproduces the amended provision verbatim, states the occasion under § 43.2, the time it takes effect and — prominently — the consequence of silence under § 43.5, as well as the objection address hello@internities.de.

43.5 Objection and deemed consent. Where the company does not object to the amendment in text form before it takes effect, the amendment is deemed to have been accepted. Where the company objects, the amendment does not become effective as against it; the previous version continues to apply.

43.6 Right of termination. In the case of a notification under § 43.4, the company may terminate the contract without notice period with effect from the time the amendment takes effect, irrespective of whether it has objected to the amendment. Where the company objects, Internities may likewise terminate the contract with effect from that time; § 36.3 S. 2 applies accordingly. The company may specify in the declaration of termination that the termination is to take effect as early as the expiry of the fifteenth day after receipt of the notification under § 43.4; consideration already paid is refunded pro rata for the unused period.

43.7 No deemed consent applies as against students; § 4 applies to them exclusively.

Part D — Final provisions

§ 44 Consumer dispute resolution

44.1 Internities is neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (§ 36 Abs. 1 Nr. 1 VSBG).

44.2 The possibility of bringing proceedings before the competent courts remains unaffected for both sides.

§ 45 Set-off, retention, assignment, legal succession

45.1 A company may set off against claims of Internities only with claims that are undisputed or have been finally determined by a court. A company has a right of retention only in respect of counterclaims arising from the same contractual relationship. As against students, the statutory provisions apply.

45.2 The user may transfer their rights and obligations under this contract to a third party only with Internities' prior consent in text form. Consent may not be refused without objective reason. Sentence 1 does not apply to the user's monetary claims against Internities; these are freely assignable. § 354a HGB remains unaffected.

45.3 Internities may transfer the rights and obligations under this contract to a legal successor who continues the business in whole or in part. Internities notifies this in text form at least 30 days in advance. In that case the user may terminate the contract, with effect from the time of the transfer, by giving notice up to the time the transfer takes effect.

§ 46 Choice of law, place of jurisdiction, form, severability

46.1 Choice of law. The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, to the exclusion of its conflict-of-laws rules and to the exclusion of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Where the user, as a consumer, has their habitual residence in another state, this choice of law applies only in so far as it does not deprive them of the protection afforded by those provisions which cannot be derogated from by agreement under the law of the state of their habitual residence (Art. 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 593/2008).

46.2 Place of jurisdiction. Where the user is a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with the contractual relationship is Hamburg (§ 38 Abs. 1 ZPO); Internities is also entitled to bring proceedings at the user's general place of jurisdiction. Statutory exclusive places of jurisdiction remain unaffected. No agreement on the place of jurisdiction applies as against consumers; for them the statutory places of jurisdiction remain applicable.

46.3 Precedence of individual agreements; form. Individual agreements expressly concluded between the parties take precedence over these Terms in every case (§ 305b BGB); this applies irrespective of their form. In all other respects, amendments and supplements to this contract require text form; this also applies to the waiver of this text-form requirement. Declarations by the user to Internities require at most text form, unless a statutory provision prescribes a stricter form; no contractual form requirement going beyond this is agreed.

46.4 Severability. Where a provision of these Terms is or becomes invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected. The statutory rules take the place of the invalid or unenforceable provision (§ 306 Abs. 2 BGB). A provision that proves to be invalid is not reduced to the content that would still be permissible.

§ 47 Language versions, contract language and language of communication

47.1 These Terms are provided in a German and an English version. Both versions bear the same date of entry into force, are published at the same time and are identical in content; Internities maintains them together and amends them only together.

47.2 The contract language is the language in which the Platform was presented to the user on registration and in which they accepted these Terms. For a user who concluded the contract in German, the German version is authoritative; for a user who concluded the contract in English, the English version is authoritative, unless § 47.3 provides otherwise.

47.3 Where the user is a trader, the German version is authoritative in the event of a substantive divergence between the versions; § 47.2 S. 2 gives way to that extent. As against consumers, § 47.2 applies without restriction.

47.4 Communication with Internities is possible in German and in English.

§ 48 Entry into force, replacement of the previous version, filing of versions

48.1 This version enters into force on 7 October 2026. It supersedes the version of "20 September 2026" and all earlier versions; the versions before 1 September 2026 were published by Internities UG (haftungsbeschränkt), which has operated under the business name Internities GmbH since 25 August 2026 (§ 1.2). The legal entity is unchanged; contracts concluded under the earlier versions continue in force and require no fresh consent on account of the change of business name.

48.2 For contracts concluded on or after the entry into force, this version applies exclusively.

48.3 To users whose contract was concluded before the entry into force, Internities submits this version for acceptance under § 4.1, pointing out the material differences. Until acceptance, the version last accepted by them continues to apply to those contracts (§ 4.3). The privacy policy is not part of these Terms and is not a contractual condition; it provides information about the processing that actually takes place. It therefore always applies in the version published at the relevant time, including as against users for whom, under sentence 2, an earlier version of these Terms still applies.

48.4 Internities files every version of these Terms with the date of its entry into force and keeps it available for retrieval. Every user can retrieve the version they accepted at any time (§ 3.2).

48.5 The provisions of these Terms apply unconditionally. There is no reservation under which individual provisions enter into force only upon the provision of a technical function.