Terms of use

Last updated: 8 August 2026

In short

Before the details, here are the most important points in five sentences. What is binding is the full text below.

• Journex is free and for ages 16 and up.
• What you write in the app still belongs to you. We may only use it to show you the app.
• Journex is not a coach, not therapy and not professional advice. Your "Founder DNA" is an assessment made by an AI, not a diagnosis about you.
• Be decent to the others. Anyone who attacks other people or games the points system is removed — and is told why.
• You can stop at any time and delete your account along with everything in it.

1. Who we are and what these terms cover

The provider of the app "Journex" is Lars Haberland, Bühlenstraße 126, 71088 Holzgerlingen ("we", "us"). You will find the full details in the Legal notice.

These terms of use govern how you may use the Journex app and the features that go with it. They apply between you and us as soon as you use the app.

How we handle your data is not covered here but in the Privacy policy.

2. What Journex is — and what it expressly is not

Journex accompanies young people as they start a first project of their own. This includes:

• a conversation with an AI that results in a personal assessment (your "Founder DNA": an archetype, strengths, a blind spot, an estimate of your potential, first steps);
• a Journey: your own project in ten steps, for each of which you submit a short piece of evidence and get feedback;
• Mission Possible: monthly tasks that you work on together in a team ("Squad"), rated by other users;
• Ranks and experience points (XP) that make your progress visible;
• social features such as Squad chat and friendships.

What Journex is not — and this matters enough to us for a list of its own:

• Not professional advice. Journex does not replace legal, tax, financial, career or business advice.
• Not therapy and not a medical or psychological diagnosis. Your Founder DNA describes patterns that an AI saw in your answers. It is not a personality test in the scientific sense, not a diagnosis and not a statement about your worth or your future.
• Not a promise of success. Neither your Rank nor your potential nor any feedback from the AI predicts whether a project of yours will work.
• Not a broker of money, capital or jobs.

The assessment is produced automatically. AI systems can be wrong, and they are. If a statement about you bothers you or gets you wrong, write to us — the address is in the legal notice.

If you are in a difficult situation and need help, please turn to professional services, for example Telefonseelsorge (German telephone counselling service) on 0800 111 0 111 or 0800 111 0 222 (free, around the clock).

3. Who may use Journex

You may use Journex if you are at least 16 years old. When you register we ask for your year of birth. This is self-declared; we do not verify it.

Use under the age of 16 is not permitted. If we learn that an account is run by a person under 16, we block and delete it.

If you are between 16 and 18, we recommend that you talk to your parents or guardians about using Journex.

You may only create one account, for yourself, not for other people.

4. Contract, account and costs

Using Journex is free. There are no subscriptions, no in-app purchases and no advertising. If that ever changes, section 12 applies — nothing becomes chargeable quietly.

The contract between you and us comes into being when you start the app and use what it offers. The first time you open it, the app creates a guest account so the conversation can begin straight away. Only at the end of the conversation does that become a real account with your email address and a password.

Keep your password to yourself and do not pass on your access. If you suspect that someone else has access to your account, change the password and write to us.

5. What you can expect from us

We do our best to keep Journex running — but we do not owe you any particular availability. There can be maintenance, disruptions and outages, including in the services Journex is built on.

We may develop features further, change them and also discontinue them. If we discontinue a feature that is noticeably important to you, we will tell you beforehand in the app or by email, as far as that is possible with reasonable effort.

6. Your content

"Content" is everything you put into Journex: your answers in the conversation, your project, your evidence including photos and files, messages in Squad chat, your display name and your profile picture.

The rights to your content stay with you. We acquire no ownership of it.

So that we can show you the app at all, you grant us a simple, non-exclusive, geographically unlimited and free right of use in your content. This right is limited to running Journex and covers only:

• storing, reproducing and displaying your content in the app so that you can see and edit it;
• the technically necessary processing that makes the features work — this includes conversation content and evidence texts being transmitted to our AI provider (see Privacy policy);
• showing it to exactly those other users you intended the content for — that is, messages for your Squad, and Mission evidence for the users who are allowed to vote as part of the Mission.

What is not covered, in particular, is the use of your content for advertising or for display outside the app. If we ever want something like that, we will ask you separately beforehand, and you can say no without any disadvantage to you.

The right of use ends when you delete the content or your account. For technical reasons, copies may still exist in backups for a short while; they are no longer used and are overwritten in the course of the normal backup cycle.

You are responsible for holding the rights to what you upload. So do not upload photos in which other people are recognisable without their consent, and no content that belongs to someone else.

7. Rules for how we treat each other

Journex is a place where young people talk about themselves. That only works if people can rely on how they are treated here. It is therefore prohibited, in the app:

1. to insult, threaten, harass, humiliate or exclude others;
2. to post content that incites hatred or violence or that is extremist, anti-constitutional, sexualised, pornographic or glorifies violence;
3. to post content that breaks the law or infringes third-party rights — such as copyright, trade mark or personality rights;
4. to publish other people's personal data without their consent;
5. to pretend to be someone else;
6. to spread advertising, chain letters, spam or links to third-party offers;
7. to manipulate Ranks, XP, evidence or votes — this includes invented or copied evidence, second accounts, vote-trading arrangements and any form of automation;
8. to attack, overload, circumvent or reverse-engineer the app technically, or to scrape data automatically;
9. to use the app commercially without our agreement.

If you see something that breaks these rules, report it to us via the reporting feature in the app.

8. Reporting, reviewing, removing

We do not screen content in advance — we act when something is reported to us or we learn of it some other way.

This is how a report works:

1. You report a piece of content, an account or a Squad room in the app. Alternatively you can reach us at journex.team@gmail.com.
2. We confirm receipt and review the report without undue delay. Obviously illegal content is blocked immediately.
3. We decide and tell you the outcome.

If we remove something or block an account, we tell the person concerned what was removed or blocked and why — including which rule or which law we believe it broke.

You can object. If you think a decision is wrong, write to us at journex.team@gmail.com within six months. We will review the case again, and not by automated means alone. Your right to go to court or to a dispute resolution body remains unaffected.

Depending on how serious the breach is and whether it is repeated, our measures range from a warning to removing a piece of content and a temporary block, up to permanently blocking the account. We choose the mildest measure that ends the breach.

9. Ranks, XP and competitions

Ranks and XP are a game element. They have no monetary value, are not transferable and cannot be paid out. There is no entitlement to a particular Rank or a particular score.

We may correct or reset points, Ranks and placements if they came about through an error or through a breach of section 7 no. 7.

For Missions, the rating by other users decides, according to the rules described in the respective Mission. Prizes are recognition and visibility — there are no cash prizes. Legal recourse is not excluded for Missions; we do reserve the right, however, to exclude participants from the ranking in case of manipulation.

10. Ending

You can stop at any time. In the app you delete your account under Profile → Security → Delete account permanently. This permanently deletes your profile, your assessment, your evidence and your contributions. What exactly happens is set out in the Privacy policy.

We can terminate the contract with 14 days' notice to the end of the month. In the case of a serious or repeated breach of section 7 we can also terminate without notice and block the account. In that case we tell you why (section 8).

11. Liability

We are liable to you without limitation

• for intent and gross negligence,
• for injury to life, body or health,
• to the extent that we have given a guarantee,
• and under the Produkthaftungsgesetz (German Product Liability Act).

In cases of simple negligence we are only liable if we breach a duty 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 at the time the contract was concluded.

Otherwise our liability is excluded.

In particular, we are not liable for decisions you make on the basis of an AI-generated assessment, of feedback on a piece of evidence or of a suggestion in the app. See section 2.

12. Changes to these terms

We may change these terms of use if there is an objective reason for it — such as a change in the legal situation, a court ruling, a new feature or a security requirement.

We will inform you of a change at least 30 days in advance in the app or by email, and will point out the change and your right to object. If you do not object before it takes effect, the new version counts as accepted. If you do object, the contract ends at the moment the change takes effect; you can export your data beforehand.

13. Right of withdrawal

Using Journex is free of charge. You pay no money, and we use your data solely to provide the app to you and to meet legal obligations — not to sell it or use it for advertising. In our assessment, this does not give rise to a statutory right of withdrawal for consumer contracts.

Regardless of that: you can end your use at any time and without giving reasons and delete your account completely (section 10). In practice this leaves you no worse off than a right of withdrawal would.

14. Applicable law and place of jurisdiction

German law applies. If you are a consumer and have your habitual residence in another state of the European Union, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of that state remain unaffected — this choice of law does not cost you any protection you are entitled to there.

No special place of jurisdiction is agreed; the statutory rules apply.

The language of the contract is German. Translations of these terms are there to help you understand them; the German version is authoritative.

We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body.

15. If a provision is invalid

Should a provision of these terms be invalid, the rest of the contract remains valid. The statutory provisions take the place of the invalid provision.