Terms of Service

JoS QUANTUM Intelligence and its add-on modules, for businesses. The German version is legally binding: Allgemeine Geschäftsbedingungen (Deutsch).

Version 1.2 · 29 September 2026

1. Scope and parties

  1. These Terms of Service govern all contracts for JoS QUANTUM Intelligence (the “Platform”) and its add-on modules between JoS QUANTUM GmbH, Platz der Einheit 2, c/o TechQuartier, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany, registered with the Local Court (Amtsgericht) Frankfurt am Main under HRB 112027, VAT ID DE319453862, represented by its managing directors Markus C Braun and Niklas Hegemann, contact@jos-quantum.de (“we”, “us”) and the customer (“Customer”).
  2. We contract exclusively with businesses: entrepreneurs within the meaning of § 14 of the German Civil Code (BGB), legal persons under public law and special funds under public law. We do not contract with consumers. By registering, the Customer confirms that it acts in the exercise of its commercial or independent professional activity. We may ask for evidence of this and may refuse or cancel an order where it is not provided.
  3. The Customer’s own terms and conditions do not apply, even if we do not expressly object to them or perform without reservation. Individual agreements made in text form — for example a trial, a quotation or a framework agreement — take precedence over these terms.

2. Services

  1. The Platform gives the Customer online access to a curated dataset on the quantum computing field, compiled from public third-party sources — at present in particular vendor specifications, roadmap milestones, MERIQ use-case scorecards, an editorial change record and briefs, and investor-relations analysis — together with an e-mail update on changes to the dataset. The product pages at jos-quantum.de describe the Platform in general terms; they are not a description of guaranteed characteristics.
  2. Add-on modules. Where agreed, the Customer additionally receives access to the module Labs (the RISQ business-risk analysis and the Shor resource estimator) and/or the module Wallet exposure (the quantum-exposure check for Bitcoin and Ethereum addresses). Add-on modules require an active Platform subscription.
  3. The dataset changes. We decide at our discretion on the content, scope, structure, methodology, sources and update frequency of the dataset and of the modules. We may at any time add, change, correct, re-score, reclassify, restructure or remove individual data points, records, vendors, use cases, fields, evaluations and functions, including with retrospective effect, and without prior notice. There is no entitlement to any particular content, to the coverage of particular vendors, companies or use cases, to a particular update frequency or to the continued availability of particular data points or functions. The dataset is not a real-time feed.
  4. If we permanently discontinue the Platform as a whole, we will give at least three months’ notice in text form and refund prepaid fees for the period after the discontinuation pro rata.
  5. Free account. A free account gives limited access without charge. There is no entitlement to a free account or to its scope; we may change, restrict or end it at any time without notice.

3. Account and access

  1. Registration requires complete and accurate information, in particular the company name, invoicing details and a business e-mail address. The Customer keeps this information up to date.
  2. One subscription covers one named user. Sign-in takes place through single-use links sent to the account’s e-mail address. Access is personal and may not be shared or passed on. The Customer protects the account’s mailbox against unauthorised access, is responsible for all use made through its account, and informs us without delay of any suspected misuse.
  3. Additional users require additional subscriptions; team licences are available only by individual agreement. If access is used by more than one person, we may charge the fee for each additional user for the period of such use, in addition to our rights under section 8.

4. Conclusion of the contract

  1. The presentation of the Platform on our websites is not a binding offer. By completing the checkout at the end of the registration — the step in which the Customer enters its invoicing details and payment method and confirms the order — the Customer submits a binding offer to conclude a subscription contract.
  2. The contract is concluded when we accept the offer by an order confirmation sent by e-mail or by providing access. We may refuse an offer without giving reasons.
  3. Plans. The Platform is offered as (a) an annual subscription with a term of twelve months, paid annually in advance, (b) where offered at registration, a monthly subscription with a term of one month, paid monthly in advance, and (c) by individual agreement only, an annual subscription invoiced monthly with a term of twelve months. The plan chosen, its price and its term are stated before the order and in the order confirmation. Add-on modules are available with the annual plans only.
  4. Access is provided only after payment. Access to the paid Platform is activated once the first fee of the plan has been received; for a SEPA direct debit this usually takes several business days after the order.
  5. Add-on modules are booked on request; the contract for an add-on module is concluded when we confirm it in text form or activate the module.
  6. These terms are available in English and German. The German version is legally binding; the English version is a convenience translation. The current terms are available at any time at this address; the order data are contained in the order confirmation and the invoices.

5. Prices and payment

  1. The price for the Platform is the price stated on the registration page before the order and in the order confirmation. The price for an add-on module is the price agreed when it is booked. All prices are net prices and are subject to statutory VAT where applicable. For customers in other EU member states with a valid VAT identification number, the reverse-charge procedure applies; the Customer is responsible for the correctness of the VAT identification number it provides and bears any tax arising from incorrect information.
  2. Payment in advance. For the annual subscription, the fee for the first contract year (twelve months) falls due in full on conclusion of the contract, and the fee for each renewal year in full at its start. For the monthly subscription, the fee for each month falls due at its start. For an annual subscription invoiced monthly, the fees for the whole twelve-month term are owed, and each monthly instalment falls due at the start of the month it covers and is payable within 14 days of the invoice; if the Customer is more than 30 days in default with an instalment, the fees for the remainder of the term fall due at once. Add-on modules booked during a contract year are invoiced pro rata for the remainder of that year and are due immediately. Payment is made by credit card or SEPA direct debit — for invoiced plans also by bank transfer — through our payment service provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., Dublin. Invoices are provided electronically.
  3. Fees paid are not refunded, in particular not in the event of ordinary termination, non-use, interruptions or changes to the dataset, except as provided in sections 2 (4) and 6.
  4. If a payment fails or is reversed, we may suspend access until the outstanding amount has been paid in full; the obligation to pay continues during the suspension. The Customer bears the costs of a returned direct debit for which it is responsible. The statutory provisions on default apply (§§ 286, 288 BGB).
  5. The Customer may set off only claims that are undisputed or have been finally established by a court, and may exercise a right of retention only on the basis of such claims.
  6. We may change prices with effect from the start of a renewal period, with notice in text form of at least six weeks before that date (for the monthly subscription: at least two weeks). In that case the Customer may terminate the contract with effect from the end of the current period.

6. Right of withdrawal (voluntary)

  1. Although no statutory right of withdrawal applies to contracts with businesses, we voluntarily grant the Customer the right to withdraw from the Platform subscription within 14 days of the conclusion of the contract without giving reasons. The right applies only to the first conclusion of a subscription, not to renewals or add-on modules.
  2. The withdrawal must be declared in text form, for example by e-mail to contact@jos-quantum.de. Timely dispatch is sufficient.
  3. On withdrawal the contract ends and access ends immediately. We refund the fee paid within 14 days, less a pro-rata amount for the period from the activation of access until the withdrawal, using the original payment method. The obligations under section 8 continue to apply to content already accessed.
  4. Granting this voluntary right does not make the Customer a consumer and does not create any other consumer rights.

7. Term and termination

  1. The annual subscription and the annual subscription invoiced monthly have a minimum term of twelve months from the conclusion of the contract; ordinary termination before its end is excluded. They renew automatically for a further twelve months at a time unless either party terminates with at least one month’s notice before the end of the minimum term or of the current renewal year.
  2. The monthly subscription has a term of one month and renews automatically by one month at a time. Either party may terminate it with effect from the end of any month; notice must be received before the start of the following month.
  3. Unless agreed otherwise, add-on modules run for the same periods as the Platform subscription and end at the latest when the Platform subscription ends; a termination of the subscription also terminates the add-on modules.
  4. The right of either party to terminate for good cause remains unaffected. Good cause for us exists in particular if the Customer is in default with a payment for more than 30 days, breaches section 8, or provides false information about itself. If we terminate for good cause, fees already paid are not refunded.
  5. Notice of termination must be given in text form; an e-mail to contact@jos-quantum.de is sufficient.

8. Rights of use

  1. For the term of the contract we grant the Customer a simple (non-exclusive), non-transferable and non-sublicensable right to use the Platform and its content for its own internal business purposes through the named user.
  2. Permitted in particular: using the content in internal analyses and decision documents, including presentations to the Customer’s own management bodies, and quoting individual figures and statements with the source “JoS QUANTUM Intelligence” and the as-of date shown.
  3. Not permitted in particular: systematically extracting or copying substantial parts of the dataset, or repeatedly extracting insubstantial parts; automated access (scraping, bots, crawlers) other than through the user interface; passing on, publishing, selling or otherwise making content available to third parties; using the content to train or evaluate machine-learning models or to build or improve a competing product; and sharing access. Our rights as the maker of a database (§§ 87a ff. German Copyright Act) remain unaffected.
  4. In the event of a breach or a well-founded suspicion of a breach we may block access immediately and terminate for good cause under section 7. For each culpable breach of paragraph 3 the Customer owes a contractual penalty to be determined by us at our reasonable discretion and, in the event of a dispute, reviewed by the competent court; further claims remain unaffected and the penalty is credited against them.

9. Content: no warranty, no advice

  1. The content is compiled from public third-party sources, which may themselves be incomplete, incorrect or outdated, and contains projections, estimates and evaluations of our own. The content is provided as is. We give no warranty and assume no guarantee that the content is correct, complete, current, consistent or suitable for a particular purpose, that projections or estimates will materialise, or that data points will remain unchanged; data points may be corrected or changed with retrospective effect (section 2 (3)).
  2. The content is information, not investment, legal, tax or technical advice, and not a recommendation to buy or sell financial instruments or to take any other decision. The Customer checks the content, in particular against the cited primary sources, before relying on it, and takes decisions based on it in its own responsibility.
  3. Links to third-party sources are provided for reference; we are not responsible for their content or availability.

10. Availability, interruptions and defects

  1. We give no commitment on availability, response times or performance. The Platform may be unavailable or restricted in whole or in part, in particular for maintenance, updates and security measures, because of faults at hosting, network or payment providers or other third parties, because of attacks, and in cases of force majeure. Such interruptions do not entitle the Customer to a refund, a reduction of the fee or damages, subject to paragraph 3 and section 11.
  2. We may suspend access in whole or in part without notice where this is necessary to protect the Platform, other customers or third parties, to comply with legal requirements or an official order, or in the event of a suspected breach of these terms.
  3. Insignificant impairments of usability are not defects. The Customer reports defects without delay in text form with a description that allows them to be reproduced. The Customer may reduce the fee because of a significant defect only if its claim to a reduction is undisputed or has been finally established by a court; the Customer’s right to reclaim overpaid fees remains unaffected.
  4. Strict liability for defects that already existed when the contract was concluded (§ 536a (1), first alternative, BGB) is excluded. The Customer may terminate because access has not been granted (§ 543 (2) no. 1 BGB) only after we have failed to remedy the matter within a reasonable period set by the Customer.

11. Liability

  1. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for fraudulently concealed defects, for injury to life, body or health, under the Product Liability Act, and to the extent we have expressly given a guarantee.
  2. In cases of slight negligence we are liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation — an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose fulfilment the Customer regularly relies — and limited to the damage typical for the contract and foreseeable when it was concluded. Liability for indirect damage, consequential damage, loss of profit, lost savings and damage resulting from decisions taken on the basis of the content is excluded in these cases.
  3. In the cases of paragraph 2, our liability per contract year is in any event limited to the fees paid by the Customer for that contract year.
  4. Our liability for the loss of data is limited to the effort that would have been required to restore it had the Customer backed it up regularly and in line with the risk.
  5. Otherwise our liability is excluded, irrespective of its legal basis. The above limitations also apply in favour of our legal representatives, employees and agents.
  6. Claims for damages against us, other than those under paragraph 1, become time-barred one year after the Customer learns of the circumstances giving rise to the claim, and at the latest two years after they arise.

12. Data protection

  1. We process personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection law. Details are given in the privacy notice at jos-quantum.de/intelligence/#privacy and in the site-wide privacy notice.
  2. Payment data are processed by Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. as an independent controller; card and bank details do not reach us.

13. Changes to these terms

  1. We may amend these terms with effect for the future where there is a valid reason, in particular changes in the law or in case law, changes to the Platform or its functions, changes to our service providers, or to close gaps in the terms. We notify the Customer of changes in text form at least six weeks before they take effect.
  2. If the Customer does not object in text form within four weeks of receiving the notice, the changes are deemed accepted; we point this out specifically in the notice. If the Customer objects, the contract continues on the previous terms; we may then terminate it with effect from the date on which the changes would have taken effect, and refund prepaid fees for the period after that date pro rata.
  3. Price changes are made only under section 5 (6).

14. Final provisions

  1. German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods and the conflict-of-laws rules.
  2. If the Customer is a merchant, a legal person under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with the contract is Frankfurt am Main. We may also sue the Customer at its general place of jurisdiction.
  3. The Customer may assign rights under the contract only with our consent; § 354a of the German Commercial Code remains unaffected. We may transfer the contract to an affiliated company or to a successor of the business; the Customer may then terminate for good cause.
  4. Should any provision of these terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is not affected. The statutory provisions apply in place of the invalid provision.