Terms of Service

These Terms of Service govern the contract between you and us for the use of Cine Power Planner. They become part of the contract when you create an account, take out a paid subscription or place an order in the accessories store and agree to them in the process. Merely visiting our website or using the application without an account does not count as agreement to these Terms.

By agreeing to these Terms, you represent that you have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement. If you are using the Service on behalf of an organization, you represent and warrant that you have the authority to bind that organization to these Terms.

Cine Power Planner is a local-first Progressive Web Application for film, video, and photography production planning. Features include gear list management, power and battery calculations, PDF tools, shoot calendars with weather integration, production dashboards, rental management, a device library, real-time collaboration and crew-networking tools, an accessories store, transactional email notifications, and optional cloud synchronization. For professional users, the application additionally provides business and accounting tools, including quotes and invoices, expense and receipt management, a cash book (Kassenbuch), bank-statement import and reconciliation (including an optional direct bank connection via FinTS), fixed-asset tracking, electronic signatures, and German tax reports and exports (EÜR, advance VAT return, DATEV, ELSTER). The application operates primarily offline with optional cloud sync.

The business, accounting, and tax features are tools to assist you with your own bookkeeping. They do not constitute tax, accounting, legal, or financial advice. You are responsible for the correctness and completeness of the records and filings you create, and you should have outputs reviewed by a qualified professional (e.g. a Steuerberater) before relying on them or submitting them to authorities.

The Service operates primarily offline with optional cloud sync. While we strive to maintain high availability, we do not guarantee uninterrupted access to cloud features. Scheduled maintenance windows will be communicated in advance where possible.

Cine Power Planner offers a freemium model with optional paid subscription plans.

The free tier includes core features such as project creation (limited quantity), device library access, and PDF export. Advanced features such as unlimited projects, cloud sync, collaboration, power calculator, and premium tools require a paid subscription.

Paid subscriptions are billed in advance on a monthly or annual basis. Subscriptions purchased on the web are billed through Stripe. Subscriptions purchased inside the iOS or macOS app are sold by Apple through In-App Purchase and charged to your Apple Account: they renew automatically unless you switch renewal off at least 24 hours before the current period ends, they can be managed or cancelled only in your Apple Account settings, and refunds for those purchases are handled by Apple under Apple's terms rather than by us. Prices are displayed in your local currency where available.

Term and renewal: The monthly subscription runs for one month and renews for a further month each time. The annual subscription runs for twelve months and renews for a further twelve months each time. It renews unless you cancel beforehand. You may cancel at any time; the cancellation stops the next renewal. The period already paid for runs to its end, and fees for it are not refunded pro rata.

You may cancel your subscription at any time: in Settings under Billing, or without signing in on the page “Cancel contracts here” (cine-power-planner.com/kuendigen), which is linked in the footer of our website. If you use that page, we confirm receipt at once and send an email to the address of your account; the cancellation is applied when you press the button in that email. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You retain access to paid features until the period expires. Subscriptions bought in the iOS or macOS app are cancelled in your Apple Account.

Apart from the statutory right of withdrawal described below, fees for a billing period that has already begun are not refunded; a cancellation takes effect at the end of that period. If you believe you are entitled to a refund under exceptional circumstances (e.g., a service outage lasting more than 72 hours), please contact support@cine-power-planner.com within 14 days of the billing event.

Price changes: A price increase for a running subscription takes effect only if you expressly agree to it. We tell you about a new price in text form (for example by email) at least six weeks before the date from which it is to apply, stating the new price and that date. A new price applies from the next billing period at the earliest, never to a period that has already been paid for. Silence or merely continuing to use the service is not agreement. Price reductions do not need your agreement.

If you do not agree to a price increase, your subscription continues at the previous price until the end of the period already paid for. We may then terminate it by ordinary notice and so let it end; the notice period in section 14 applies. Until that termination takes effect, the previous price stays in place. For subscriptions bought in the iOS or macOS app, the rules of Apple on price changes apply.

Right of Withdrawal (Widerrufsrecht): As a consumer, you have a 14-day right of withdrawal for a subscription bought on the web; the withdrawal instructions and the model withdrawal form follow below. Before you subscribe, we ask you to expressly request that your subscription starts immediately, before the withdrawal period ends, and to confirm that you know the consequences. If you withdraw after making that request, you owe us a pro-rata amount for the service provided up to the moment you tell us of your withdrawal (§ 357a (2) BGB). Your right of withdrawal ends early once we have provided the service in full (§ 356 (4) BGB). Subscriptions bought inside the iOS or macOS app are sold by Apple; see the billing paragraph above.

Accessories Store: In addition to subscriptions, we sell physical accessories in our integrated store. We make these products ourselves. Prices are final prices; as a small business under § 19 UStG we charge no VAT and show none; shipping costs are shown in the cart before you order. You place your binding order with the “Order with obligation to pay” button in the cart and then pay on the checkout page of our payment provider Stripe; the contract is concluded when the payment is completed there, and we confirm your order by email. The statutory warranty rights for defects apply. As a consumer you have a 14-day right of withdrawal for goods; the withdrawal instructions and the model withdrawal form follow below. Items made with your own text are excluded from it.

Delivery: We ship to Germany, to the other EU member states and to selected countries outside the EU. Delivery time from receipt of payment: Germany 3–5 working days, other EU countries 5–10 working days, countries outside the EU 10–20 working days. For deliveries to countries outside the EU, the destination country may charge customs duties, import VAT and fees; you bear these costs, and they are not part of our prices.

You must be at least 16 years old to create an account. By creating an account, you represent that you meet this age requirement.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities that occur under your account.

You agree to provide accurate and complete information when creating your account and to keep this information up to date.

You agree to notify us immediately at support@cine-power-planner.com if you become aware of any unauthorized use of your account or any other breach of security.

We may suspend or terminate accounts used in breach of these Terms as set out in section 14. We may terminate a free account that has not been used for more than 24 months by ordinary notice; we tell you by email at least three months in advance, so that you can sign in or export your data. We do not terminate accounts with a running paid subscription for inactivity.

By creating an account, you may receive transactional emails related to your use of the service. These include: account welcome emails, collaboration invitations, comment mention alerts, and subscription lifecycle notifications (confirmation, renewal reminders, renewal receipts, and cancellation confirmations).

You can opt out of non-essential email notifications at any time through the Settings page. Essential account-related communications (e.g., security alerts, password resets) cannot be opted out of while your account is active.

Emails are sent from our self-hosted SMTP server (noreply@cine-power-planner.com). We do not use third-party email marketing services.

You may use certain features of Cine Power Planner without creating an account. Fair-use limits on the free tier are enforced on your device only: the app keeps a project count in your browser storage and in one first-party cookie. Nothing about you or your device is sent to our servers for this purpose.

Anonymous users are limited to a maximum of 2 projects. To create additional projects, you must create an account and, depending on the feature, subscribe to a paid plan.

Cine Power Planner allows you to share projects with other registered users for collaborative editing.

When you share a project, all collaborators can view and edit the shared project data, including items, categories, contacts assigned to the project, and notes. You remain the owner of the shared project and can revoke access at any time.

You are responsible for ensuring that you have the right to share any content within collaborative projects. Do not share confidential third-party information without authorization.

We do not monitor or review the content of shared projects. However, we reserve the right to remove content or restrict access if we become aware of illegal content or activity.

You retain full ownership of all data you create and store in Cine Power Planner, including projects, templates, contacts, and gear lists.

Local Data: When using the application without cloud sync, all your data remains on your device. You are responsible for backing up this data.

Cloud Data: When using cloud synchronization, your data is stored on Supabase infrastructure. While we take reasonable measures to protect your data, we recommend maintaining local backups.

Data Portability: You may export all your data at any time in JSON format using the backup export feature in Settings. After account deletion, we delete your cloud-synced data from our active systems within 30 days. Deleted data can still be contained in encrypted backups for up to 4 years, until those backups rotate out. See our Privacy Policy for full details on data retention and deletion.

You are solely responsible for the content you create and the accuracy of the information you enter.

If you store personal data of third parties (for example clients, suppliers, or crew members) in the Service, you act as the data controller for that data. You are responsible for having a lawful basis to process it, for informing those individuals where required, and for the accuracy and lawful retention of the accounting and tax records you create. We process this data on your behalf as described in our Privacy Policy.

If you use the Service in the course of a business or profession, our Data Processing Agreement (Art. 28 GDPR) forms part of this contract. Read the Data Processing Agreement.

Bank Connection: If you connect a bank account in the Android app or the Mac app, the software on your device retrieves your account information directly from your bank, using the credentials you enter there. We do not receive your credentials or your account data and do not retrieve anything from your bank for you. Access is read-only — the software cannot initiate payments or transfers. You remain responsible for safeguarding your banking credentials and your device, and for complying with your bank's terms.

AI Agent Access: The Service offers an optional, subscription-gated Agent access feature that lets you connect a third-party AI agent (via the Model Context Protocol) to read and manage your data. You alone choose which AI agent and client software to connect, and you are responsible for the data you thereby expose to its provider, who is an independent third party outside our control. The agent acts under your account and within your existing permissions; you are responsible for the agent's actions as if they were your own, and for ensuring its use complies with these Terms and with any obligations you owe to the third parties whose data you process. Access requires an access key that you can revoke at any time in Settings, and is limited to data you are entitled to access. We are not responsible for how the AI provider you select processes your data once it is transmitted to that provider; please review its terms and privacy policy. See our Privacy Policy for the data-protection details.

The Cine Power Planner application, including its code, design, trademarks, and logos, is the proprietary property of the developer. All rights reserved. Unauthorized copying, modification, or distribution is strictly prohibited.

You retain all rights to the content you create using the application. We do not claim ownership of your projects, templates, or data.

If you provide feedback, suggestions, or ideas about the Service, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable license to use such feedback for any purpose without obligation to you.

Names of third-party manufacturers, products and services that appear in the application, for example ARRI, RED, Sony, Blackmagic Design, DATEV and ELSTER, are trademarks of their respective owners. They are used only to describe compatibility and specifications. Cine Power Planner is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by these companies.

The statutory rights for defects apply. For consumers, the rules on digital products in §§ 327 et seq. BGB apply in particular, including the right to updates; these Terms do not restrict those rights. We give a guarantee only where we expressly call it a guarantee.

Power and battery calculations, weather data and other planning outputs are estimates based on manufacturer specifications, your entries and third-party data; actual values may differ. Please check these outputs before you base production decisions on them. Cloud features may be temporarily unavailable because of maintenance or disruptions outside our control; your statutory rights remain unaffected.

Business, accounting, and tax features — including invoices, the cash book, bank reconciliation, depreciation, and tax reports and exports (EÜR, advance VAT return, DATEV, ELSTER) — are provided as tools and do not constitute tax, accounting, legal, or financial advice. You remain responsible for the correctness and completeness of your bookkeeping and tax filings and should consult a qualified professional. Our liability is governed by section 12.

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act (Produkthaftungsgesetz), to the extent of a guarantee we have given, and where we have fraudulently concealed a defect.

In cases of slight negligence we are liable only if we breach an essential contractual obligation. Essential contractual obligations are obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely. In that case our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract.

Beyond that, our liability for slight negligence is excluded. The statutory rights of consumers for defects remain unaffected.

These rules on liability also apply to the personal liability of our legal representatives, staff and agents.

If you culpably breach these Terms or the rights of third parties and third parties bring claims against us for that reason, you indemnify us against those claims and reimburse the reasonable costs of our legal defence. This does not apply to the extent that you are not responsible for the breach. We inform you of such claims without undue delay and give you the opportunity to comment.

You may terminate your account at any time by using the account deletion feature in Settings or by contacting support.

Ordinary termination by us: We may terminate a free account in text form with notice of three months. We may terminate a paid subscription in text form with notice of at least three months to the end of a billing period; until then a monthly subscription continues to renew on the existing terms. Your right to cancel at any time yourself remains unaffected.

Termination for good cause: The right of both sides to terminate the contract for good cause without notice (§ 314 BGB) remains unaffected. For us, good cause exists in particular if you breach these Terms seriously, or repeatedly despite a warning, or use the service for fraudulent or unlawful purposes. If the cause is a breach of duty, we terminate only after a warning or a period set for remedy has passed without result, unless this is dispensable under § 314 (2) in conjunction with § 323 (2) BGB. Instead of terminating, we may suspend your account temporarily to the extent that this is necessary and proportionate; the rules in the section on content moderation apply in addition.

When the contract ends, your right to use the service through your account ends. Local data remains on your device until you delete it. Any active subscription ends and no further charges are made. If a paid subscription ends before a paid period has run out for a reason you are not responsible for, we refund the fee for the unused time pro rata.

Provisions that by their nature are meant to apply beyond the end of the contract, in particular those on intellectual property, liability, indemnification and governing law, continue to apply.

We are not liable for a failure or delay in performing our obligations to the extent that it results from an event of force majeure. Force majeure means events outside our control for which we are not at fault and which we could not foresee or avert even with reasonable care, for example natural disasters, official orders, war, pandemics or large-scale failures of power or telecommunications networks. Attacks on our systems count only if we had taken the protective measures appropriate to the state of the art. Your statutory rights, in particular to terminate and to reduce the price, remain unaffected.

The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If you are a consumer and have your habitual residence in another country, you keep the protection of the mandatory provisions of the law of that country.

For consumers, the statutory places of jurisdiction apply; these Terms do not set a venue to their disadvantage. If you are a merchant within the meaning of the German Commercial Code (HGB), a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract is our registered place of business. Mandatory statutory places of jurisdiction remain unaffected.

We are not obligated and not willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

If individual provisions of these Terms are invalid in whole or in part or have not become part of the contract, the rest of the contract remains valid. The statutory provisions take the place of the invalid provision (§ 306 BGB).

We may change these Terms with effect for the future only to the extent that this is necessary for one of the following reasons: to adapt them to changed laws, court rulings or official requirements; to close security gaps or keep the service secure; to cover new features or services that do not put you in a worse position; or to remove gaps and ambiguities without curtailing your rights.

We tell you about changes in text form (for example by email) at least six weeks before they take effect. Until they take effect, you may object to the changes or terminate the contract free of charge. If you do not object, the changes are deemed accepted; in the notice we specifically point out this consequence, the period, and your right to object and to terminate. If you object, the contract continues under the previous Terms; we may then terminate it by ordinary notice as set out in section 14.

This does not apply to changes that alter our main services, the balance between service and payment or the term of the contract to your disadvantage, or that would amount to concluding a new contract. Such changes take effect only if you expressly agree to them. Price changes are governed by section 3 alone. Merely continuing to use the service never counts as agreement to such changes.

For questions about these Terms of Service, please contact us through the Help section in the application or email support@cine-power-planner.com.

• Email: support@cine-power-planner.com
• In-App: Help section within Cine Power Planner

We aim to respond to all inquiries within 5 business days.