Geschäftsbedingungen der DATEV eG (Stand 01.01.2025)
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- Contract
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- Applies to
- General terms for software and DATEV cloud solutions: Allgemeiner Teil (Ziffern 1-25), Besondere Bedingungen für Software und DATEV-Cloud-Lösungen (Ziffern 1-5) and Besondere Bedingungen Beratung, Projekte, Seminare und Dienstleistungen. Applies to DATEV eG members and to companies that are clients of members. Headed Stand 01.01.2025.
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- Customer must state the intended scope of use before starting
- Customer must answer usage requests and report licensing changes
- Concurrent-access limit caps the use right
- Named-person licences are limited to the persons named at the time
- Customer administers named persons itself
- Licensing and pricing variants come from order, price list and service description
- Clients may use DATEV services only for internal, non-commercial purposes
- EUR 10,000 contractual penalty for breaching the use and no-transfer rules
- Use in affiliated companies of a client needs DATEV consent
- Sharing firm licences with clients follows DATEV's case-specific licence rules
- Automated access and interfaces require DATEV's prior consent
- Joint use of a product with third parties needs prior consent
- Member use rights end with the membership; local software must be uninstalled
- Recurring prices rise by 3 percent each 1 January
- Price may exceed the 3 percent step if consumer prices rose more
- Resold third-party products follow the third party's consumer prices
- Extra price increases need two months' notice and give a one-month exit
- Invoices are due in 15 days and objections lapse after six weeks
- Customer notice is one month, DATEV notice twelve months
- Annual products end at year end, monthly products first after twelve months
- Access is blocked when a termination takes effect
- Service changes need two months' notice and give a one-month exit
- A client's contract ends one year after the mandate with the member ends
- Programs may not be translated or decompiled without written consent
- Customer is liable for infringements by third parties it gives access
- Cloud credentials may not be passed on and misuse can lead to blocking
- DATEV may use technical protection measures
- The service description at contract conclusion defines the scope
- Terms apply only to businesses and public-law bodies
- German law and Nuremberg jurisdiction apply
- Only the latest program version is covered by defect claims
- Export of software may need authorisation under German foreign-trade law