Terms of Service

As of: 13 November 2026

1. Scope
2. Services of the Provider
3. Changes to the Services
4. Conclusion of the Contract
5. Right of Withdrawal
6. Obligations of the Customer
7. Remuneration and Terms of Payment
8. Contract Term and Termination
9. Liability
10. Changes to the Terms
11. Applicable Law
12. Alternative Dispute Resolution

1) Scope

1.1 These General Terms and Conditions (hereinafter "Terms") of Ian Klemm (hereinafter "Provider") apply to all contracts that a consumer or business (hereinafter "Customer") concludes with the Provider with regard to the services presented by the Provider on its website. The inclusion of the Customer's own terms and conditions is hereby rejected, unless otherwise agreed.

1.2 A consumer within the meaning of these Terms is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that can predominantly be attributed neither to their commercial nor to their self-employed professional activity.

1.3 A business (Unternehmer) within the meaning of these Terms is a natural or legal person or a partnership with legal capacity that, when entering into a legal transaction, acts in the exercise of its commercial or self-employed professional activity.

2) Services of the Provider

2.1 The Provider provides services for making content accessible via the internet. For this purpose, it makes system resources on a virtual server available to the Customer. The Customer can store content on this server up to a certain volume. The exact scope is set out in the Provider's service description.

2.2 The server can be reached from the internet via the IP addresses assigned to it. The Provider's services in the transmission of data are limited solely to the data communication between the transfer point, operated by the Provider, of its own data communication network to the internet and the server provided for the Customer. The Provider cannot influence data traffic outside its own communication network. Successful forwarding of information from or to the computer requesting the content is therefore not owed to that extent.

2.3 The Provider's online service is offered subject to availability. 100 percent availability cannot be achieved technically and can therefore not be guaranteed to the Customer by the Provider. The Provider does, however, endeavour to keep the service available as constantly as possible. In particular, maintenance, security or capacity concerns, as well as events beyond the Provider's control (disruptions of public communication networks, power failures, etc.), can lead to disruptions or to the temporary shutdown of the service.

2.4 The Provider provides the aforementioned services with an overall availability of 99.95%.

Availability is calculated on the basis of the time within the contract period that falls in the respective calendar month, less maintenance times. The Provider will carry out maintenance work at times of low usage wherever possible.

2.5 The Provider does not owe a backup of the Customer's content unless otherwise agreed in the service description. The Customer is responsible for backing up its content. For this purpose, it can create snapshots in the customer area. Snapshots are deleted together with the server when the server is reinstalled or deleted.

2.6 The Provider is entitled to adapt the hardware and software used to provide the services to the current state of the art. If such an adaptation gives rise to additional requirements for the content stored by the Customer on the server in order to ensure the provision of the Provider's services, the Provider will notify the Customer of these additional requirements in good time. In this case, the Customer must inform the Provider no later than four weeks before the changeover date whether it will adapt its content to the additional requirements in time for the changeover, that is, no later than three working days (Werktage) before the changeover date. If the Customer refuses to adapt its content or fails to state its position to the Provider within the aforementioned period, the Provider may terminate the contractual relationship with effect from the changeover date.

3) Changes to the Services

3.1 The Provider reserves the right to change the services offered or to offer different services,

• insofar as it is obliged to do so due to a change in the legal situation;
• insofar as it thereby complies with a court judgment or an official decision against it;
• insofar as the respective change is necessary to close existing security vulnerabilities;
• if the change is merely advantageous for the Customer; or
• if the change is of a purely technical or procedural nature without material effects for the Customer.

3.2 Changes with merely insignificant influence on the Provider's services do not constitute changes to the services within the meaning of this clause. This applies in particular to changes of a purely graphical nature and to the mere rearrangement of functions.

3.3 Vis-à-vis consumers, changes that go beyond maintaining conformity with the contract are made without additional costs and with clear and comprehensible information. Where the ability to access or use the service is impaired more than insignificantly, the Provider informs, a reasonable time before the change and on a durable medium, about the change's characteristics, its timing and the rights under § 327r BGB. The right to terminate the contract free of charge provided for there, including its statutory legal consequences, remains unaffected. This also applies to changes under clauses 2.6, 3.1 and 3.2.

4) Conclusion of the Contract

4.1 The services described on the Provider's website do not constitute binding offers on the part of the Provider, but serve to enable the Customer to submit a binding offer.

4.2 The Customer can submit the offer via the online order form provided on the Provider's website. In doing so, after entering their personal data, the Customer submits a legally binding offer to conclude a contract for the selected services by clicking the button that completes the ordering process.

4.3 The Provider can accept the Customer's offer within five days

• by sending the Customer a written order confirmation or an order confirmation in text form (fax or email), in which case receipt of the order confirmation by the Customer is decisive, or
• by requesting the Customer to pay after the Customer has placed its order.

If several of the aforementioned alternatives apply, the contract is concluded at the time at which one of the aforementioned alternatives first occurs. The period for accepting the offer begins on the day after the Customer sends the offer and ends at the end of the fifth day following the sending of the offer. If the Provider does not accept the Customer's offer within the aforementioned period, this is deemed a rejection of the offer, with the consequence that the Customer is no longer bound by its declaration of intent.

4.4 The Provider stores the order data, which the Customer can access free of charge via its password-protected user account in the customer area. The Provider does not store a complete contract text including the Terms applicable at the time the contract was concluded. The Terms as published at any given time can be saved and printed at https://v6node.com/terms/.

4.5 Before bindingly submitting the order via the Provider's online order form, the Customer can identify possible input errors by carefully reading the information displayed on the screen. An effective technical means of better recognising input errors can be the browser's zoom function, which enlarges the display on the screen. Within the electronic ordering process, the Customer can correct its entries using the usual keyboard and mouse functions until it clicks the button that completes the ordering process.

4.6 Only the English language is available for the conclusion of the contract. A German version of these terms is available at /terms/de/; in case of differences, this English version prevails.

4.7 Order processing and contact usually take place by email and automated order processing. The Customer must ensure that the email address it provides for order processing is correct, so that the emails sent by the Provider can be received at this address. In particular, when using SPAM filters, the Customer must ensure that all emails sent by the Provider or by third parties commissioned by the Provider with order processing can be delivered.

5) Right of Withdrawal

Consumers are, in principle, entitled to a right of withdrawal (Widerrufsrecht). Further information on the right of withdrawal is set out in the Provider's Withdrawal Policy.

6) Obligations of the Customer

6.1 The content stored by the Customer in the storage space intended for it may be protected by copyright and data protection law. The Customer grants the Provider the right to make the content it has stored on the server accessible upon requests via the internet, in particular to reproduce and transmit it for this purpose, and to reproduce it for the purpose of data backup. The Customer checks on its own responsibility whether its use of personal data complies with data protection requirements.

6.2 The Customer undertakes not to store any content in the storage space provided that violates applicable law or infringes the rights of third parties. The Customer further ensures that programs, scripts or the like installed by it do not endanger the operation of the server or of the Provider's communication network or the security and integrity of other data stored on the Provider's servers.

6.3 The Customer indemnifies the Provider against all claims that third parties assert against the Provider for infringement of their rights on account of content stored by the Customer on the server. In this respect, the Customer bears the costs of the necessary legal defence, including all court and attorney fees in a reasonable amount. This does not apply if the Customer is not responsible for the infringement. In the event of a claim by third parties, the Customer is obliged to provide the Provider without undue delay, truthfully and completely with all information that is necessary for examining the claims and for a defence.

6.4 In either of the following cases, an imminent or actual breach of the above obligations, or the assertion against the Provider of third-party claims arising from content stored on the server that are not obviously unfounded, the Provider is entitled, also taking into account the Customer's legitimate interests, to temporarily suspend that content's connection to the internet, in whole or in part, with immediate effect. The Provider will inform the Customer of this measure without undue delay.

6.5 If programs, scripts or the like installed by the Customer endanger or impair the operation of the server or of the Provider's communication network or the security and integrity of other data stored on the Provider's servers, the Provider may deactivate or uninstall these programs, scripts, etc. If the elimination of the danger or impairment so requires, the Provider is also entitled to interrupt the connection of the content stored on the server to the internet. The Provider will inform the Customer of this measure without undue delay.

6.6 The Customer receives or chooses access credentials for access to the customer area and to the server. The Customer must keep them secret and change them without undue delay if misuse is suspected. It may pass them on only to persons whom it has authorised to access.

7) Remuneration and Terms of Payment

7.1 Unless otherwise stated in the Provider's service description, the prices stated are total prices that include the statutory VAT.

7.2 The payment options and payment terms are communicated to the Customer on the Provider's website.

7.3 The remuneration is payable in advance for the respective billing period. Payments are processed via the payment service provider Stripe. The available payment methods are displayed during the ordering process. At the beginning of each further billing period, Stripe collects the remuneration via the payment method stored by the Customer. If the initial payment is made with iDEAL or Bancontact, subsequent payments are collected by SEPA direct debit on the basis of the SEPA direct debit mandate granted during the ordering process.

7.4 - Credit card payment via Stripe
If the payment method credit card via Stripe is selected, the invoice amount is due immediately upon conclusion of the contract. Payments are processed via the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter: "Stripe"). Stripe reserves the right to carry out a credit check and to refuse this payment method if the credit check is negative.

7.5 - For payment by SEPA direct debit via Stripe, including subsequent payments under clause 7.3, payments are processed via the payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., 1 Grand Canal Street Lower, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin, Ireland (hereinafter: "Stripe"). In this case, Stripe collects the invoice amount from the Customer's bank account on behalf of the Provider after a SEPA direct debit mandate has been granted, but not before the period for the advance notice has expired. Advance notice ("pre-notification") is any communication (e.g. invoice, policy, contract) to the Customer announcing a debit by SEPA direct debit. If the direct debit is not honoured due to insufficient funds in the account or because incorrect bank details were provided, or if the Customer objects to the debit although it is not entitled to do so, the Customer must bear the fees charged by the respective credit institution for the return debit if the Customer is responsible for this. The Provider reserves the right to carry out a credit check when the SEPA direct debit payment method is selected and to refuse this payment method if the credit check is negative.

8) Contract Term and Termination

8.1 The contract is concluded for an indefinite period. The remuneration is charged in advance for the billing period selected when ordering (one month or one year). As long as the contract has not ended, each billing period is followed by another of the same length.

8.2 The Customer can terminate the contract at any time without observing a notice period, in particular by deleting the server in the customer area. The service ends immediately upon termination. The Provider does not refund the remuneration pro rata for a billing period that has already begun. By way of derogation, the Provider refunds to a consumer whose annual billing period has been renewed under clause 8.1, upon that consumer's termination, the pro rata remuneration for the time that lies more than one month after receipt of the notice of termination. The exclusion of pro rata refunds applies only to termination under this clause. Statutory refund claims, in particular in the event of withdrawal (Widerruf), price reduction (Minderung) or termination of the contract due to failure to provide, defectiveness or modification of the digital product, remain unaffected.

8.3 The Provider can terminate the contract with one month's notice. The Provider refunds pro rata any remuneration the Customer has already paid for the time after the end of the contract.

8.4 The right to termination for good cause (außerordentliche Kündigung aus wichtigem Grund) remains unaffected. Good cause exists if the terminating party cannot reasonably be expected to continue the contractual relationship until the agreed end or until the expiry of a period of notice for termination, taking into account all circumstances of the individual case and weighing the interests of both parties.

8.5 Notice of termination can be given in writing, in text form (e.g. by email) or in the Provider's customer area.

8.6 If the Customer deletes a server or a storage volume, the Provider deletes the content stored on it and in associated snapshots without undue delay. Separately booked storage volumes are separate contracts. They are unaffected by the termination or deletion of a server, continue to be charged and must be deleted separately. If the Provider terminates for default in payment under clause 8.7, it stops the server and deletes the content no earlier than two days after the Customer has received the notice of termination and the notice of deletion. Statutory obligations to provide data and to keep it available for retrieval, and those under clauses 8.8 to 8.10, take precedence over this deletion period. If the contract ends in any other way, the Provider deletes the content no earlier than 30 days after the end of the contract, unless the Customer requests earlier deletion. Statutory claims to the provision of the Customer's content, in particular under § 327p(3) BGB, remain unaffected.

8.7 A failed payment and the technical termination of the Stripe subscription do not end the contract. If a payment fails, the Provider makes several attempts via Stripe to collect the remuneration due. Termination for default in payment is governed by the statutory requirements, in particular any applicable provisions of tenancy law (Mietrecht); any required formal warnings (Abmahnungen) or payment deadlines remain unaffected. The Provider declares termination expressly by email; it takes effect upon receipt by the Customer. In the event of default in payment, the Provider may withhold services under the affected contract only to the extent that it has a statutory right to refuse performance. A complete suspension on account of comparatively minor arrears is excluded.

8.8 Switching to another provider (Art. 25 Regulation (EU) 2023/2854): The Customer can give notice at any time that it is switching to another provider or to its own infrastructure. At the end of the switching notice period, it can inform the Provider to which destination provider, stating the necessary details, or to which own infrastructure it wishes to switch, or whether it instead wishes its data to be deleted. Earlier notification is possible. The transitional period begins no later than two months after receipt of the notice of switching. The switch takes place without undue delay, at the latest within 30 calendar days from the start of the transitional period. The Customer can extend this period once by a period that it considers more appropriate for its purposes.

8.9 The following can be exported: the contents of the disks of the Customer's servers and storage volumes, the snapshots it has created, and the configuration data stored in the customer area (in particular IP addresses, SSH keys and DNS records). Excluded are data about the internal operation of the Provider's infrastructure (configuration of the host systems and of the network, operating logs), insofar as their disclosure would endanger the Provider's trade secrets. The Provider makes the data available via the running server or as a disk image. It supports the Customer and third parties authorised by the Customer appropriately in the switch and provides all information relevant to the exit strategy. During the transitional period, it continues to provide the contractual services with due care to maintain continuity of operations, provides clear information about known risks to continuity and ensures a high level of security during the switch and the retrieval period. The Provider does not charge separate fees for the switch.

8.10 In the case of a switch under clause 8.8, clauses 8.8 to 8.10 take precedence over clauses 8.2, 8.3 and 8.6. The notice of switching does not end the contract. The Customer's right to end the contract earlier by a separate declaration under clause 8.2 or on the basis of statutory provisions remains unaffected. The mere notice of switching is not such a declaration. The affected contract ends upon successful completion of the switch; the Provider informs the Customer of the termination. After a successful switch, the Provider keeps the data available for retrieval for 30 calendar days or an agreed longer period and then deletes it completely. If the Customer chooses deletion instead of a switch, the contract ends upon expiry of the switching notice period of two months, and the Provider then deletes the data completely. In this case, too, the Provider informs the Customer of the termination of the contract.

9) Liability

9.1 The Provider is liable for all contractual, quasi-contractual and statutory claims, including claims in tort, for damages and reimbursement of expenses as follows:

9.1.1 The Provider is liable without limitation, on whatever legal grounds,

• in the event of intent or gross negligence,
• in the event of intentional or negligent injury to life, body or health,
• on the basis of a promise of guarantee, unless otherwise provided in this respect,
• on the basis of mandatory liability, such as under the Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz).

9.1.2 If the Provider negligently breaches an essential contractual obligation, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract, unless liability is unlimited under the preceding clause. Essential contractual obligations are obligations that the contract imposes on the Provider according to its content in order to achieve the purpose of the contract, whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place, and on whose observance the Customer may regularly rely.

9.1.3 Otherwise, any liability of the Provider is excluded.

9.1.4 The above liability provisions also apply with regard to the Provider's liability for its vicarious agents and legal representatives.

10) Changes to the Terms

10.1 If the Customer acts as a business, the Provider reserves the right to amend these Terms at any time without giving reasons, unless this is unreasonable for the Customer. The Provider will notify the Customer of amendments to the Terms in good time in text form. If the Customer does not object to the validity of the new Terms within four weeks of the notification, the amended Terms are deemed accepted by the Customer. In the notification, the Provider will inform the Customer of its right to object and of the significance of the objection period. If the Customer objects to the amendments within the aforementioned period, the contractual relationship continues on the original terms.

10.2 The Provider further reserves the right to amend these Terms

• insofar as it is obliged to do so due to a change in the legal situation;
• insofar as it thereby complies with a court judgment or an official decision against it;
• insofar as it introduces additional, entirely new services, service offerings or service elements that require a service description in the Terms, unless the existing usage relationship is thereby adversely changed;
• if the change is merely advantageous for the Customer; or
• if the change is purely technical or procedural, unless it has material effects for the Customer.

10.3 The Customer's right of termination remains unaffected by this.

11) Applicable Law

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies to all legal relationships between the parties. For consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive them of the protection afforded by mandatory provisions of the law of the state in which they have their habitual residence.

12) Alternative Dispute Resolution

The Provider is neither obliged nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer dispute resolution body (Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle).