Terms of Service — Checkpaint.tf
Last Updated: 7 January 2026 Provider: Daniel Misch – checkpaint.tf, Preußenallee 14, 86641 Rain am Lech, Germany Contact: [email protected]
§ 1 Operator and Scope of Application
Operator of the web service checkpaint.tf (“Service”) and contractual partner of the users of this Service is Daniel Misch – checkpaint.tf, Preußenallee 14, 86641 Rain am Lech, Germany, e-mail: [email protected] (“Provider”).
These Terms of Service (“GTC”) contain the conditions and rules of conduct for the use of the Service and for all legal transactions and actions similar to legal transactions carried out between you and the Provider. It is possible that additional conditions apply for certain special services; these will be provided to you in the form of supplemental terms prior to use. Terms and conditions that deviate from these GTC are not valid unless the Provider expressly agrees to them in writing.
These GTC apply accordingly to the redemption of promotional value vouchers, unless a deviating provision has been expressly agreed.
§ 2 Specification of Services
The Service provides information, analytics, community functions and tools related to Team Fortress 2 cosmetics and paints. It enables users to review item data, manage personal preferences, and interact with functionalities that support trading decisions made outside the Service. The Provider does not operate a marketplace, brokerage, escrow or payment service. Contracts for the purchase or sale of digital or physical goods are not concluded via the Service.
Where the Service references or links to third-party marketplaces, tools or communities (for example Steam), such integrations are purely for convenience. Any transactions, payments or contractual relationships arising from those third-party services are solely between you and the respective third party.
Using the Service may require free registration by the user. Use is permitted only within the framework of statutory provisions and these GTC. “Users” in the sense of these GTC are both consumers and entrepreneurs. Consumers are natural persons who conclude legal transactions for purposes that predominantly cannot be attributed to their commercial or professional activity. Entrepreneurs are natural or legal persons or partnerships with legal capacity who act in the exercise of their commercial or independent professional activity when concluding a contract with the Provider.
§ 3 Registration
Opening a member account may be a prerequisite for using certain functions of the Service. Registration is free of charge.
During registration you authenticate with your Steam account or another supported authentication method. In addition, you must confirm that you have read and accepted these GTC and have received the cancellation policy. The Provider reserves the right to refuse registration without stating reasons.
All voluntary additional information can be changed or supplemented at any time in the profile settings.
Natural persons with full legal capacity who are at least 18 years old may register as members. Registering a user account for third parties without their consent, or operating multiple member accounts, is expressly prohibited. The Provider reserves the right to make admission dependent on the submission of suitable proof (identity card, commercial register excerpt, business licence, official permits or approvals) or to request such proof during use of the Service.
The data required for registration must be provided completely and correctly. Changes to the data provided must be reported immediately or corrected in the profile settings. This includes changes of address as well as cessation of business or freelance activity and insolvency or liquidation of a company. Membership accounts are non-transferable.
The Provider reserves the right to make the use of the Service dependent on conditions such as verification of registration data, number of positive or negative evaluations or payment of agreed fees for premium features.
§ 4 Right of Revocation
Consumers have a statutory right of withdrawal for the provision of services, including distance contracts that are free of charge. Accordingly, we inform you about the right of withdrawal as follows:
Cancellation Policy
A consumer is any natural person who enters into a legal transaction for purposes that predominantly can neither be attributed to their commercial nor their independent professional activity.
Right of Withdrawal
You have the right to cancel this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason. The revocation period is fourteen days from the day of the conclusion of the contract. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (Daniel Misch – checkpaint.tf, Preußenallee 14, 86641 Rain am Lech, Germany, e-mail: [email protected]) by means of a clear declaration (e.g. a letter sent by mail or e-mail) about your decision to withdraw from this contract. You can use the attached sample withdrawal form, which is not mandatory. To comply with the cancellation period it is sufficient to send the notification about the exercise of the right of withdrawal before the expiry of the cancellation period.
Consequences of Withdrawal
If you cancel this contract, we must refund all payments we have received from you immediately and at the latest within fourteen days from the day on which we received the notification of your cancellation of this contract. For this repayment, we will use the same means of payment that you used for the original transaction, unless expressly agreed otherwise; in no case will you be charged fees because of this repayment. If you have requested that the services begin during the withdrawal period, you must pay us a reasonable amount corresponding to the proportion of the services already provided up to the time at which you notify us of the exercise of the right of withdrawal in respect of this contract compared to the total scope of the services provided for in the contract.
Exclusion of the Right of Withdrawal
The right of revocation does not exist if you are acting in the exercise of your commercial or independent professional activity when concluding the legal transaction and are therefore regarded as an entrepreneur (Section 14 BGB).
Sample Withdrawal Form
(If you want to cancel the contract, please fill out this form and send it back.)
To Daniel Misch – checkpaint.tf Preußenallee 14 86641 Rain am Lech Germany E-mail: [email protected]
I/we () hereby revoke the contract concluded by me/us () for the provision of the following services Ordered on ()/received on () Name of the customer(s) Address of the customer(s) Signature of the customer(s) (only for notice sent by mail) Date (*) Delete as applicable.
Before concluding the contract for a digital good: You expressly agree that we begin providing the service before the end of the revocation period.
When concluding the contract for a physical good: The cancellation policy will be sent to you in text form.
For services provided by us during the withdrawal period, you must pay the agreed fees.
§ 5 Fees
Registration and the core functions of the Service are currently provided free of charge. The Provider reserves the right to introduce paid premium features in the future. In such cases, you will be informed about the fees, payment modalities and any additional terms in advance, and the paid feature will only be activated after your express consent.
The Service does not facilitate purchase contracts, brokerage, escrow, or wallet services between users. Any financial transactions you conduct with third parties are outside the scope of these GTC.
§ 6 Duration of the Contract
The contract between you and the Provider is concluded for an indefinite period. You may terminate the contract at any time with a notice period of fourteen days to the end of the month by notifying the Provider in text form.
The Provider may terminate the user contract at any time with a notice period of fourteen days to the end of the month in text form. The right to block member accounts remains unaffected.
The right to extraordinary termination remains unaffected for both parties.
§ 7 Use of External Services
Certain functions of the Service may rely on third-party platforms, in particular Valve Corporation’s Steam service. You are responsible for complying with the terms and policies of any third-party service you use in connection with checkpaint.tf. The Provider has no influence on the availability, functionality or terms of those third-party services.
Interactions, trades or agreements that you enter into on third-party platforms are outside the Provider’s sphere of influence. Any rights, obligations or disputes arising from such interactions exist solely between you and the respective third party.
§ 8 Rights of Use for Uploaded Content
You grant the Provider transferable, simple, geographically and temporally unrestricted rights of use to the content posted by you on the Service to the extent necessary for the operation of the Service.
In particular, you grant the Provider the right to place the relevant content on the Service and to make the necessary copies of the content (storage on the servers, etc.). In addition, you grant the Provider the right to edit the content to better present it on the website, for example by shortening texts, producing excerpts from posted images or reducing images to thumbnails. The Provider also has the right to reproduce, make publicly available and publicly reproduce the content in the best possible quality via different end devices and networks (public and private). The right to make content publicly available includes the transmission of content to fixed or mobile end devices of other users. The right of public reproduction also includes reproduction by streaming.
If you post your content on the Service, you also allow other users to use your content to a certain extent. Posted texts may be read and images viewed, which inevitably entails storage of the content in the RAM of the other user’s terminal device.
§ 9 Illegal Content and Misuse
You undertake not to post any illegal content on the Service. Accordingly, you will not provide, offer, provide access to or advertise any content (especially photos, videos, texts, graphics, logos, etc.) that violates criminal law, narcotics law, medicines law or weapons law and/or that is:
- insulting or defamatory, regardless of whom the content concerns;
- pornographic, glorifies violence, abusive, immoral or violates youth protection laws;
- an unreasonable harassment of other users, in particular through spam within the meaning of Section 7 of the German Unfair Competition Act (UWG);
- protected by copyright, trademark, patent, design or utility model law without being entitled to do so; or
- intended to carry out or promote anti-competitive actions, including progressive customer advertising (such as chain, snowball or pyramid schemes).
You are also prohibited from distributing or publicly reproducing content of the Service or of other users, unless such distribution and public reproduction is provided for in the context of using the Service or the other user has consented to it. You must not set hyperlinks in content for the purpose of advertising external services in a misleading manner. The Provider reserves the right to remove such links immediately. Posting content that serves only to advertise services outside the platform or to manipulate engagement metrics is also forbidden.
Using the system for any purpose other than accessing the information, analytics and community features described in § 2 is prohibited. The Provider reserves the right to exclude users whose accounts are used for abusive activities, especially in the event of suspected criminal behaviour or actions that impair unrestricted use by other members.
If the Provider has reasonable doubts about the legality of content or the identity of a user, the Provider is entitled to suspend the content or account in question until the facts have been clarified or—if reasons for illegality emerge subsequently—to remove the content. In the event of an account being suspended, the Provider will display a corresponding message to the user.
§ 10 Warranty and Indemnification
You warrant to the Provider that you are entitled and able to grant the rights described above to the content you post. In particular, you warrant that you will not post content that infringes copyrights, trademark rights or other intellectual property rights of third parties. You also warrant that you will not post any anti-competitive content. You are obliged to inform yourself accordingly and, if there are doubts about authorisation, to ask the rights holder for permission.
You also warrant to the Provider that you will not post any content that otherwise infringes the rights of third parties or whose content is illegal or has been declared illegal by the Provider.
§ 11 Provider’s Liability
The Provider is liable with the following restrictions according to the legal regulations: If your damages result from the loss of data, the Provider is not liable insofar as the damages would have been avoided by regular and complete backups of all relevant data by you. Liability for atypical or unforeseeable damages is excluded. This does not apply if the damage affects life, limb or health, was caused intentionally or by gross negligence, results from the absence of a guaranteed quality or from the culpable breach of a material contractual obligation (cardinal obligations). Liability under the Product Liability Act remains unaffected.
The Provider is not liable for the accuracy, quality, completeness, reliability, nature, quality or credibility of content posted by members. Such content does not represent an expression of opinion by the Provider, who does not adopt member content as its own. The Provider is also not liable for the availability, functioning or contract execution of third-party services linked from the Service.
The Provider is not liable for damages and/or misuse of personal data that may occur due to your use of a third-party app.
§ 12 Your Duties and Liability
You are solely responsible for grants of rights of use, contributions, content of your user profile and interactions.
If a claim is made against the Provider by a third party because you violated obligations regarding the granting of rights of use, you shall hold the Provider harmless from any liability and any costs, including legal costs, to the full extent and upon first request. The Provider will inform you immediately about the claim and give you the opportunity to defend the asserted claim, as far as legally necessary and/or possible. The same applies to claims by third parties because content violates legal positions of third parties, in particular copyright exploitation rights or personal rights, regardless of authorship.
You are responsible to the Provider and third parties for your own posts, comments and all user profile content with regard to their accuracy. If a claim is made against the Provider by another user or third party due to illegal contributions, comments or user profile content, you indemnify the Provider from any liability and costs to the aforementioned extent.
Using the Service via third-party apps and comparable application programs is at your own risk, even if their use is mandatory for certain services of the Provider.
You are not permitted to give third parties access to your user account or to impersonate other persons. You must keep your access credentials confidential and notify the Provider immediately in the event of suspected misuse.
§ 13 Data Protection
The collection of your data serves the purpose of providing a user-friendly, efficient and secure online service.
All information on data protection and data security can be found in our Privacy Policy.
§ 14 Changes to Functions and Transfer of Contract
The Provider reserves the right to continuously edit, update, expand, restrict or discontinue individual functions of the Service.
The Provider is entitled to transfer its rights and obligations from this contractual relationship in whole or in part to a third party with a notice period of four weeks. In this case, you are entitled to extraordinarily terminate the user agreement after notification of the transfer of the agreement.
§ 15 Changes to the GTC
These GTC are subject to change at any time by the Provider.
Changes and the new GTC will be communicated to you by e-mail and optionally by announcement on the platform. The new GTC shall be deemed agreed if you do not object to their validity within six weeks after receipt of the announcement/e-mail. The objection must be in text form. The Provider will inform you separately about the possibility of objection, the deadline, the form and the consequences of your inaction.
§ 16 DSA Compliance (Digital Services Act)
As an online intermediary, Checkpaint.tf complies with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA):
16.1 Notice-and-Action Mechanism (Art. 14 DSA)
Users may report illegal content via:
- Email: [email protected]
- Designated forms (if available)
Valid notices should include a description, URL, reasons for illegality, and contact details (optional).
16.2 Statement on Recommender Systems (Art. 27 DSA)
Sorting, rankings and item visibility are influenced by:
- User-selected filters
- Relevance of price or item attributes
- Internal data metrics
No personalized advertising recommender systems are used without user consent.
16.3 Internal Complaint-Handling System (Art. 20 DSA)
Users whose content was removed or whose accounts were restricted may contest decisions at: [email protected]
16.4 Out-of-Court Dispute Settlement (Art. 21 DSA)
Users may use EU-recognized dispute settlement bodies for DSA-related issues. Participation is voluntary.
16.5 Contact Point for Authorities (Art. 11 DSA)
Email: [email protected] Languages: English and German
16.6 Annual Transparency
If legally required, annual transparency reports will be published on the platform.
§ 17 Final Clause
The contractual relationship between you and the Provider and these GTC shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. The application of German international private law is excluded.
Mandatory consumer protection provisions that apply in the state in which you have your habitual residence remain applicable if they offer more extensive protection.
If you are a businessman within the meaning of the BGB, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from the user contract and these GTC is the Provider’s place of business.