Terms of Participation

1. Scope and Contracting Party

These terms of participation apply to the use of the website daretogether.net, to joining a Dare Together waitlist and to taking part in a Dare Together workation.

Your contracting party is Simon Maximilian Heistermann, Mutter-Teresa-Weg 6, 46325 Borken, Germany, email hello@daretogether.net (in the following: Dare Together). Dare Together is a brand of that sole proprietorship; there is no association and no company behind it.

You must be at least 18 years old to take part. Alongside these terms, our Privacy Policy and our Community Guidelines apply.

2. What Dare Together Provides

In return for a participation fee, Dare Together provides these services and nothing else:

• selecting and putting the group together
• organising the shared programme (community sessions, working together, activities)
• access to the community, which runs on WhatsApp
• being your contact and host on site during the agreed period

Dare Together owes an activity, not a result. The contract is a service contract (section 611 of the German Civil Code) for a single, time-limited workation. It creates no membership, no subscription and no continuing obligation.

Transport (flights, transfers), accommodation, vehicle rental, meals, insurance and visas are not part of the contract. You book and pay for these yourself, directly with the respective provider. Dare Together does not broker contracts for such services and accepts no payments for them.

3. Not a Travel Organiser

This is therefore neither a package tour nor a linked travel arrangement. There is no insolvency protection under section 651r of the German Civil Code and no security certificate is issued, because Dare Together accepts no payments for travel services.

Dare Together therefore recommends choosing refundable rates and taking out trip cancellation insurance.

4. Waitlist, Selection and Rejection

Joining the waitlist is free and creates no entitlement to take part. Your entry only becomes effective once you confirm it via the link in the confirmation email (double opt-in). The Cape Town waitlist closes on 31 October 2026. After that no further entries are possible; Dare Together then talks to everyone who signed up.

After a personal call, Dare Together decides whether to make an offer to participate.

Dare Together puts every group together individually. There is no entitlement to an offer; Dare Together is not obliged to accept a sign-up and does not have to give reasons for a rejection. The selection follows objective criteria such as professional situation, motivation, availability during the period and fit with the group.

5. Participation and Participation Fee

(1) The participation contract comes into being when the participant accepts the offer in text form and Dare Together confirms that acceptance. Its subject matter is limited to the services described in section 2.

(2) The participation fee covers organisation, selecting and putting the group together, community and hosting on site. No price is stated on the website.

(3) The participation fee is stated in the offer as a total price including VAT, together with the due date, the payment method and the cancellation terms under section 7. The fee only falls due once the contract has been concluded.

(4) Dare Together recommends booking flights and accommodation only after the written confirmation that the workation will go ahead (section 8), and choosing refundable rates and trip cancellation insurance.

(5) Participation is personal. It can be transferred to another person only with the consent of Dare Together (section 7).

6. Right of Withdrawal

Dare Together grants consumers a 14 day right of withdrawal for the participation contract. Details, the start of the period and the model withdrawal form are set out in the cancellation policy.

If, at the participant’s express request, Dare Together begins performing before the withdrawal period has expired, the participant owes reasonable compensation for what has been performed up to the withdrawal (section 357a(2) of the German Civil Code). If the service has been performed in full at the participant’s express request, the right of withdrawal expires (section 356(4) of the German Civil Code).

7. Cancellation by the Participant

The participant may cancel at any time before the workation begins. The cancellation must be declared in text form; what counts is when it reaches Dare Together.

Up to the confirmation that the workation will go ahead (section 8), cancelling is free of charge. After that, Dare Together may claim a lump-sum compensation. The scale depends on the preparatory work already done and on the risk of not being able to fill the place again; it is stated in the offer before the contract is concluded. The right of withdrawal under section 6 remains unaffected.

If the participant names a suitable replacement whom Dare Together accepts, no compensation is due. In every case the participant remains free to prove that no damage or substantially less damage was caused.

Costs from the participant’s own bookings, in particular flights and accommodation, follow the terms of the respective provider alone. Dare Together can neither cancel nor refund them.

8. Cancellation by Dare Together

The workation only takes place if a minimum number of participants is reached. That number, and the date by which Dare Together confirms in writing that it will go ahead or cancels it, are stated in the offer.

If the minimum number is not reached by that date, Dare Together may cancel; any participation fee already paid is refunded in full. The same applies if the workation becomes impossible for reasons Dare Together is not responsible for. No further claims exist in these cases, without prejudice to the liability under section 12. In particular Dare Together is not liable for costs from the participant’s own bookings. That is why flights and accommodation should only be booked after the confirmation that the workation will go ahead.

9. The Participant’s Own Responsibility

Each participant is responsible for:

• valid travel documents, visa and compliance with entry requirements
• vaccinations, health precautions and medical care
• health, accident, liability and trip cancellation insurance
• whether their own work during the stay is permitted under employment, social security and tax law
• booking, paying for and cancelling flight and accommodation
• their own conduct on site

Taking part in shared activities is voluntary and at the participant’s own risk. Costs for shared activities are paid by each participant directly to the respective provider; Dare Together does not collect payments for them and does not become a contracting party.

10. Community Guidelines and Exclusion

The Community Guidelines are part of these terms and apply to the WhatsApp group as much as to the time on site.

In case of serious violations, in particular harassment, discrimination, endangering others or criminal offences, Dare Together may exclude the participant from the community and from the workation. In that case the participation fee is refunded pro rata for the services not yet provided, with saved expenses taken into account. Costs from the participant’s own bookings are not refunded.

11. Photos and Recordings

Photos and videos are taken during a workation. Within the group they are shared for community purposes. Publishing them, for example on the website or on social media, only happens with the separate consent of the person shown. That consent is voluntary, is not a condition of taking part, and can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future.

Participants likewise publish recordings of other participants only with their consent.

12. Liability

(1) Dare Together is liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence and for damage arising from injury to life, body or health.

(2) In case of slight negligence, Dare Together is liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation, meaning an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance the participant may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this kind of contract.

(3) Dare Together is not liable for the services of third parties, in particular not for accommodation, airlines, transport providers and activity providers that the participant books and pays for themselves. Nor is Dare Together liable for the conduct of other participants.

(4) Liability under the German Product Liability Act remains unaffected.

13. Intellectual Property

The name Dare Together, the logo, the design of this website and the texts and images on it are the intellectual property of Simon Maximilian Heistermann and are protected by copyright. Using, reproducing or distributing them requires prior written consent.

14. Governing Law and Jurisdiction

German law applies, excluding the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). If the participant is a consumer, the mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country of their habitual residence remain unaffected.

If the participant is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, Borken is the sole place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from this contract.

15. Dispute Resolution

Dare Together is neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (section 36 of the German Act on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Consumer Matters).

16. Changes and Final Provisions

Changes and additions to this contract require text form. For participation contracts already concluded, the version of these terms that applied at the time of conclusion remains in force. Amended terms for future contracts are published on this page.

How personal data is processed is set out in the Privacy Policy.

Should any provision of these terms be invalid, the remaining provisions remain in force. The invalid provision is replaced by the statutory rule.