1. SCOPE AND PROVIDER
These Terms and Conditions ("Terms") apply to all contracts concluded via the website kimaboo.com and its services (together, the "Services") between Marinos Ventures, owner: Paulina Marinos, Murmelweg 14, 33729 Bielefeld, Germany ("kimaboo", "we", "us") and you as the customer. VAT ID: DE366763769. Contact: legal@marinos-ventures.com.
Our offer is directed at consumers — natural persons concluding the contract for purposes that are predominantly outside their trade, business or profession. You must be at least 18 years old to register for and use the Services.
The contract languages are German and English.
2. CONCLUSION OF CONTRACT
The presentation of books, credits and bundles on the website is not a binding offer, but an invitation to place an order.
Ordering works as follows: you select a product, enter your payment details in the payment form and click the "Buy now" button. A notice directly above the button informs you about the immediate performance and the expiry of the withdrawal right; by clicking the button you place a binding, payment-obligated order and give this consent. The contract is concluded when we accept your order by processing the payment and beginning performance; you receive an order confirmation by email.
Before clicking "Buy now" you can review and correct your selection and all inputs at any time using the on-screen controls (for example "Change selection") and your browser.
We store the contract text: the order confirmation email contains the essential contract data, these Terms are permanently available on this page, and your orders are visible in your account.
3. SERVICES AND DIGITAL PRODUCTS
Kimaboo lets you create personalised, illustrated children’s books. You provide details about the child (name, appearance as selections and descriptions, a story theme) and we use generative AI to produce a story and matching illustrations. Before any purchase you receive a free preview (title, cover and summary); the number of free previews per account is limited.
After purchase the complete book is generated and provided as PDF files that you can download from your library (standard, print-optimised and mobile versions). No physical product is shipped — you can print the print-optimised PDF yourself. The books are provided without technical protection measures (no DRM); a standard PDF reader is sufficient. "Made by kimaboo" books are pre-created books provided in the same way.
Generation normally takes a few minutes and starts immediately after purchase, based on your express consent (see section 6). For asynchronous payment methods (e.g. SEPA Direct Debit) generation starts once the payment is confirmed.
We aim for high availability of the Services. However, there is no entitlement to uninterrupted accessibility at all times; maintenance work, security measures or technical faults may lead to temporary restrictions.
4. PRICES AND PAYMENT
All displayed prices are final prices and include the applicable taxes where required by law. Where several currencies are offered, the amount shown in the checkout is the amount charged.
Payment is processed by our payment service provider Stripe. The payment methods available to you (for example card payments and, depending on your country, further methods such as SEPA Direct Debit) are shown in the checkout. Payment is due upon conclusion of the contract.
5. CREDITS
Credit bundles contain book credits; each credit unlocks one book. Credits do not expire and are tied to your account; they are not transferable.
During the statutory withdrawal period, credit purchases can be withdrawn as described in section 6.
6. RIGHT OF WITHDRAWAL
As a consumer you have a statutory fourteen-day right of withdrawal. The full withdrawal instruction, the conditions under which the right expires early for digital content, and the model withdrawal form are available here: Right of Withdrawal.
In short: when you unlock a book, you expressly request immediate performance and confirm your knowledge that your withdrawal right for that book expires once generation begins. For credit purchases, the fourteen-day right of withdrawal applies; credits already redeemed within the withdrawal period are deducted pro-rata from the refund.
7. YOUR CONTENT AND USAGE RIGHTS
You keep all rights to the inputs you provide (the child’s name, descriptions, story wishes). You grant us the non-exclusive right to process these inputs solely to generate and deliver your books and to operate the Services. You are responsible for having the right to provide the information you enter, in particular information about the child.
The generated story and illustrations are licensed to you for personal, non-commercial use — including printing, sharing with family, and gifting. Reselling generated books or using them for commercial purposes requires our prior written consent.
All rights to the Services themselves (software, design, trademarks) remain with us or our licensors.
8. ACCEPTABLE USE AND YOUR ACCOUNT
You may not use kimaboo to generate content that is illegal, sexually explicit, hateful or harassing, or that depicts real persons (including public figures, or minors other than the child the book is created for) without their consent. We may refuse or remove generation requests that violate these rules or our content policies and, in the event of serious or repeated violations, suspend or terminate accounts (section 12).
Your registration information must be accurate and kept up to date. Keep your password confidential; your account is personal and may not be shared. You may not access the Services by automated means or interfere with their security or operation.
9. AI-GENERATED CONTENT
Kimaboo uses third-party AI models to generate text and images. Output is produced algorithmically and may occasionally contain errors, unexpected details or imperfections; illustrations are stylised and are not intended to be a photorealistic likeness. We take reasonable care in prompt design, content filtering and review workflows. Every book contains a note that it was created with AI. Your statutory rights in the event of defects (section 10) remain unaffected.
10. STATUTORY RIGHTS FOR DEFECTS
Your statutory rights for defects in digital products (Sections 327 et seq. of the German Civil Code, BGB) apply. We provide the updates necessary to keep the provision of your books via your library in conformity during the provision period. Nothing in these Terms limits your statutory rights.
11. LIABILITY
We are liable without limitation for damage caused by intent or gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, and where we have fraudulently concealed a defect or assumed a guarantee.
In cases of slight negligence, we are liable only for the breach of essential contractual obligations — obligations whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely — and only up to the amount of the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract.
Any further liability is excluded.
12. TERM AND TERMINATION
You can close your account at any time in the account settings. After account deletion your books are retained for 30 days and then permanently deleted; details are described in the Privacy Policy.
We may suspend or terminate accounts for good cause, in particular in the event of serious or repeated violations of section 8. If we terminate without you being responsible for the reason, we refund unused credits.
13. CHANGES TO THESE TERMS
For each purchase, the version of these Terms in force at the time of your order applies to that order.
For the ongoing use of your free account, we may amend these Terms for the future where this is necessary for valid reasons (for example changes in law or case law, or changes to the Services) and reasonable for you. We will notify you of amendments by email at least six weeks before they take effect. If you do not agree, you can close your account at any time; books and credits you have already purchased are unaffected by amendments.
14. DISPUTE RESOLUTION
We are neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (Section 36 VSBG).
The European Commission provides information on consumer redress, including a list of dispute resolution bodies by country.
15. FINAL PROVISIONS
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 with habitual residence in the European Union, the mandatory consumer-protection provisions of the law of your country of residence remain unaffected by this choice of law.
Should individual provisions of these Terms be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions remains unaffected.
