Important
Draft — not yet reviewed by a lawyer. These texts were written against what this system actually does, but not by a legal professional. They must be reviewed by a qualified lawyer and the marked details filled in before the product operates commercially. The German version is authoritative: the statutory model texts reproduced here have legal effect in German only.
Last updated: 2026-07-26
Scope and provider
These terms govern the use of the Modefold app and the modefold.com website and every contract concluded through them. The provider is the person named in the legal notice. Users' differing terms do not become part of the contract.
What Modefold does
Modefold searches public transport connections, estimates delay and transfer risk, shows departures, weather and walking routes, and links you to the transport operator's own booking page with your trip filled in. Modefold is not a transport operator, performs no carriage, sells no tickets and takes no payment. The service is free of charge.
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Prices are currently computed from a sample source rather than a live fare feed, and every price shown is labelled as an example in the interface. A price presented as the operator's real fare when it is not would be misleading within the meaning of § 5 UWG, so that labelling may not be removed until a live fare source is connected.
Account and registration
An account is required for saved travellers, favourites, watched trains, price alerts and notifications; searching needs none. The details you give must be accurate. Keep your credentials secret; if you suspect misuse, change your password and tell the provider. An account may only be created by persons aged 18 or over, or with the consent of their legal guardians.
Booking: no contract is concluded with Modefold
Modefold neither sells tickets nor collects payment. A booking link opens the transport operator's or retailer's own booking page with your trip filled in. Everything that follows — the offer, the price, the contract, the payment and the ticket — happens between you and that provider, under their terms. No contract of carriage or of sale comes into existence with Modefold, and Modefold is not a party to the one you conclude there.
It follows that Modefold cannot cancel, refund, exchange or reissue a ticket, and holds no record that you bought one. Those requests go to the provider you booked with.
Carriage is governed by the conditions of carriage and the tariff of the operator performing it. Claims arising from the contract of carriage — for cancellation or delay, for instance — lie against that operator, including your rights under Regulation (EU) 2021/782.
To be supplied by the operator
Legal characterisation of the booking link
Open question for the reviewing lawyer: a link that hands a prefilled trip to an operator, and that may later carry an affiliate tag, could be characterised as brokering (Vermittlung) rather than mere reference — which would attach information duties this text does not currently carry. The wording above is drafted on the basis that Modefold refers and does not broker, because it concludes nothing, receives no payment and has no agreement with any operator. Confirm before going live.
Prices and currency
Prices shown in Modefold are the operator's own and are shown for orientation. Modefold sets no price, adds no fee and grants no discount; what you pay is what the operator charges on their own page, and it may differ from what was shown here. If you choose a different display currency, the amount shown is a conversion at the European Central Bank reference rate — the operator will normally charge in euro.
How Modefold is funded
Modefold is free and shows no advertising. The intention is that a booking made through one of these links earns Modefold a commission from that provider. That commission is paid by the provider and never by you: it does not raise the price, and no saving is claimed or shown anywhere because there is none to claim.
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No affiliate agreement is in place today, so no link is tagged and no commission is earned. When one is signed, the affected links must be marked as advertising in the interface (§ 5a(4) UWG) before the tag is switched on.
Passenger rights
Delays in rail travel give rise to claims under Regulation (EU) 2021/782. Those claims lie against the transport operator and are filed with them. Modefold does not calculate, assess, document or file them, and holds no ticket a claim could be based on.
Forecasts, availability and data quality
Arrival times, transfer probabilities and punctuality figures shown are statistical estimates based on past observations and open timetable data. They are not a promise. Timetable, real-time and weather data come from third parties and may be incomplete, delayed or wrong; where a source returns nothing, Modefold says so rather than inventing a value.
No particular level of availability is owed. Maintenance and failures in upstream services may restrict the service temporarily.
Your obligations
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The service must not be queried automatically at a volume that impairs its operation.
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Traveller reports must be given to the best of your knowledge; knowingly false reports may lead to suspension.
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The open data obtained may only be reused within the licences named in the legal notice.
Liability
We are liable without limitation for injury to life, body or health and for intent and gross negligence, as well as under the Product Liability Act and where a guarantee has been given. For ordinary negligence we are liable only for breach of a material obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely; liability is then limited to the foreseeable damage typical of the contract. Liability is otherwise excluded.
Carriage itself is the transport operator's liability under the applicable law, in particular Regulation (EU) 2021/782.
Term, termination and account deletion
The user relationship runs for an indefinite term and can be ended by either side at any time without notice. Anything you booked with an operator is unaffected — that contract is theirs, not ours. The provider may suspend or terminate an account for serious or repeated breaches of these terms.
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Closing an account is currently only possible by email; there is no delete control in the app. § 312k BGB's cancellation-button requirement is aimed at contracts for consideration and this service is free, but the control is needed regardless — Art. 17 GDPR does not care what the contract cost.
Changes to these terms
Changes are announced in text form at least six weeks before they take effect. If you do not object before they take effect, they are deemed accepted; the announcement will point this consequence out separately. You may instead end the user relationship at any time.
Governing law and dispute resolution
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer habitually resident in another European Union state, the protection of mandatory provisions of that state remains unaffected (Art. 6 Rome I Regulation). The European Commission's Online Dispute Resolution platform was shut down on 20 July 2025. For participation in consumer arbitration, see the statement in the legal notice.