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

Dare Together organises a shared workation for a small group selected in person. The cost contribution includes:

• accommodation in the shared house for the agreed period
• organising the week and the shared group formats, such as the check-in and hot seats
• access to the community, which runs on WhatsApp
• a contact person on site during the agreed period

Not included are activities with external providers such as tours, trips, courses or shared meals. They are voluntary and paid for individually (section 9). Also not included are travel to and from the destination (flights, transfers), further meals, insurance, visas and personal expenses. The participant books and pays for the flight themselves, directly with the provider. Dare Together does not broker flights and does not accept payments for them.

The contract covers one workation limited in time. It creates no membership, no subscription and no continuing obligation.

3. A Trip at Cost, Not a Travel Organiser

The cost contribution consists of a share of the accommodation costs and an organisation fee. The fee covers part of the costs the organising team incurs for planning and accompanying the group on site, including its own accommodation and participation. Neither Dare Together nor any cooperation partner makes a profit from it or receives a fee. Activities on site are not part of what Dare Together provides (section 9).

An offer to take part is not made publicly. It goes only to people whom Dare Together selects after a personal conversation (section 4). Price and terms are stated only in that offer.

The rules on package travel therefore do not apply. There is no insolvency protection under section 651r of the German Civil Code, and no security certificate is issued. Dare Together recommends taking out trip cancellation insurance and choosing a refundable fare for the flight.

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 15 November 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 Cost Contribution

(1) The contract is concluded when the participant accepts the offer in text form and Dare Together confirms the acceptance. The contract covers only the services described in section 2.

(2) The cost contribution is stated in the offer as a total amount, together with the due date, the payment method and the terms for cancelling under section 7. No price is stated on the website. The contribution is only due after the contract has been concluded.

(3) After the trip Dare Together settles the accommodation costs. If they turn out lower than calculated, the difference is refunded to the participants pro rata. The organisation fee is not affected. No additional payment can be demanded.

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

(5) Participation is personal. A transfer to another person is only possible with the consent of Dare Together (section 7).

6. No Right of Withdrawal

The contract concerns accommodation and further services related to leisure activities for a fixed agreed period. There is therefore no statutory right of withdrawal (section 312g(2) no. 9 of the German Civil Code).

The participant may cancel the contract under section 7.

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; any cost contribution already paid is refunded in full.

With that confirmation, the accommodation is booked bindingly for the group, and its costs are shared among all participants. A participant who cancels after that continues to bear their share: the cost contribution remains owed and is not refunded, except to the extent that the costs attributable to them are saved or covered by a replacement participant.

If the participant names a suitable replacement whom Dare Together accepts, the cost contribution is refunded as soon as the replacement has paid. In every case the participant remains free to prove that no damage or substantially less damage was caused.

Costs for the participant’s own flight 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 people is reached; the organising team counts towards it. 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 cost contribution 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 11. In particular Dare Together is not liable for costs from the participant’s own bookings. That is why the flight 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 their own flight
• their own conduct on site

Taking part in shared activities is voluntary and at the participant’s own risk. Whoever joins pays their share directly to the provider or on site. If an activity has to be booked in advance, a fellow traveller can make the booking and passes the costs on without a mark-up, with the receipt, to those who join. Dare Together does not collect payments for activities and does not become a contracting party of the providers.

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 cost contribution 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. 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 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) The accommodation is provided by a third party. In that respect Dare Together owes careful selection and booking. For defects of the accommodation that already exist when the contract is concluded, Dare Together is only liable if it is responsible for them; liability regardless of fault under section 536a(1) alt. 1 of the German Civil Code is excluded. On request Dare Together assigns its claims against the landlord to the participants. Paragraphs 1 and 2 remain unaffected.

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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).

15. 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.