Terms of Use

Last updated: 5 October 2026. This is a translation for convenience; the German version is the authoritative one.

1. Scope and provider

These terms govern the use of Pocket Quarters at pocketquarters.io (the “service”). The provider is Crytech Berlin UG (haftungsbeschränkt), c/o TUECHTIG, Haus 06, Aufgang D, Etage 1, Oudenarder Str. 16, 13347 Berlin, Germany (“we”). Full details are in the imprint.

2. What the service is

Pocket Quarters is a virtual office in the browser. Users move a figure across a floor plan with rooms; people standing in the same room, or close to each other in the hallway, can talk, share camera and screen, exchange files, chat and draw together.

This content is transmitted directly between the participants' browsers and does not pass through our server. Whether a direct connection can be established depends on the participants' networks; on some networks (for example behind strict corporate firewalls) it may fail. There is no entitlement to a connection being established between particular users.

3. Account and offices

Anyone who registers with an email address and password can create an office. Registration is only permitted for people aged 16 or over. You must keep your login details confidential.

Whoever creates an office is responsible for whom they give the link to and how access is set (open, password or knocking). With an open door, anyone who knows the link can enter the office. Visitors need no account; they enter a name when they come in.

4. What is not allowed

You may not use the service to

• break applicable law or distribute unlawful content,
• harass, threaten or insult others, or impersonate another person,
• record other people's conversations, video or screen content without their consent,
• distribute malware or share content you do not hold the necessary rights to,
• attack or overload the service, circumvent access restrictions, try out office numbers or passwords, or use the service by automated means to an extent that impairs its operation.

5. Responsibility for content

You alone are responsible for everything you say, show, write, draw or pass on as files in the service. As this content does not pass through our server, we can neither review nor remove it. Whoever created an office can show individual visitors out and restrict access.

We accept reports of abuse at the email address given in the imprint. In the event of breaches of these terms we may block or delete offices or accounts.

6. Cost, availability and changes

The service is currently free of charge. We strive for uninterrupted operation but do not owe any particular level of availability. We may develop the service further, change or limit features (for example the number of people per office) and introduce paid add-ons. If we discontinue the service, we will announce this on the website with reasonable notice.

7. Termination

You can delete your account and your offices at any time under “Manage account”. This ends the user relationship. We may end it with four weeks' notice; the right to terminate without notice for good cause, in particular for breaches of section 4, remains unaffected.

8. Liability

We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, and under the German Product Liability Act. In the event of a slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation – an obligation whose fulfilment makes use of the service possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely – our liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for this type of contract. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded. Where the service is provided free of charge, statutory limitations of liability remain unaffected.

9. Data protection

How we handle personal data is set out in the privacy policy.

10. Final provisions

German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. For consumers, this choice of law applies only insofar as it does not deprive them of the protection of mandatory provisions of the state in which they have their habitual residence. If the user is a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction is Berlin.

We may amend these terms where there is an objective reason (for example new features or a change in the law). We will inform registered users of amendments at least four weeks before they take effect, by email or at login; if they do not object within this period and continue to use the service, the amended terms apply. We will point out this consequence in the notice.

Should any provision be invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected.