1. Scope and subject matter
These terms of use apply to the use of BrickDb at www.brickdb.de, at BrickDb's further addresses (www.brickdb.at, www.brickdb.ch, www.brickdb.dk, www.brickdb.nl, www.brickdb.be, www.brickdb.fr, www.brickdb.it, www.brickdb.lu, www.brickdb.es, www.brickdb.co.uk, www.brickdb.us, www.brickdb.com.mx, www.brickdb.eu, www.brickdb.net), and to the associated applications for mobile devices and desktop operating systems (together, "the service").
The provider of the service is ThreeB IT GmbH, Bergstrang 105, 49479 Ibbenbüren (the "provider"); the full details are given in the Imprint.
The service is made available free of charge. No goods or services are sold and no subscriptions are offered; no payment is ever demanded from users.
BrickDb takes part in affiliate programmes and labels the links concerned as advertising, immediately beside the link (see the Imprint). Any purchase contract is concluded solely between the buyer and the merchant; BrickDb is not a party to it and owes neither delivery nor warranty. Prices shown are what the merchant published at the time their data feed was read and may already be out of date — the price at the merchant is always the one that counts.
2. No entitlement to availability
The service is provided without any assurance of a particular availability, functionality or accuracy of data. The provider may restrict, interrupt or entirely discontinue its operation at any time.
There is no entitlement to use the service, to a particular set of features or to the service being continued. If operation is discontinued permanently, this will be announced with reasonable notice so that your own data can be exported.
3. User account
A user account is required for the collection features. Details of how the data arising in that context is processed are set out in the Privacy Policy.
Access credentials must be kept confidential. Anyone who suspects that third parties have obtained knowledge of them must inform the provider without delay. One account per person is permitted. The service is not directed at persons under 16 years of age.
4. User content
4.1 The rights remain with the user
Nothing changes in law as regards the photos, notes, condition details and other content stored in the service: they remain entirely with the person who uploaded them. The provider acquires no ownership and no rights in them going beyond sections 4.2 and 4.4.
4.2 The licence granted is narrow and revocable
This section covers collection content and photos. Event submissions follow section 4.4. So that the service can store uploaded content and display it again at all, the provider is granted a simple, non-exclusive, territorially unrestricted right of use, freely revocable at any time. It is limited to:
- the technical storage and reproduction of the content,
- the processing required for display, namely format conversion, resizing, automatic rotation and the removal of embedded metadata,
- the reproduction of the content to the uploading person themselves and to the people a collection has been opened to under the following paragraph, to the extent described there.
Collection content is private unless a collection's owner sets it otherwise; that is the default for every new collection. If a collection is shared with members, each member sees what their role permits: Owner and Editor see all content, including notes, storage locations, prices, valuations and photos; the Reader role sees only the sets and their condition; the Insurance role additionally sees valuation figures. If a collection is published, it shows its name, its description and the sets it holds with their quantity and condition, and nothing else: no photos, notes, storage locations, prices or valuations, and no members. The owner can withdraw sharing and publication at any time.
The right of use expressly goes no further. In particular, the provider does not pass that content on, sell or license it to third parties, use it for advertising purposes or use it to train machine learning models.
Should a feature be offered in future that uses your own photos to improve image recognition, this will happen only on the basis of separate, express consent that can be withdrawn at any time.
The right of use ends as soon as the content concerned is deleted. Thereafter it continues only for the short period that deletion from backup copies technically requires.
4.3 Responsibility for your own content
Only content in which you hold the necessary rights may be uploaded. Photos that recognisably depict other persons may be uploaded only with their consent.
4.4 Event submissions
Submitting an event stores its title, optional description, venue, country and schedule. For an all-day event, these are start and exclusive end dates. For a timed event, these are start and end instants and the venue time zone. We also store an optional registration opening, source URL, your account link and submission time. Moderation records the state and decision time. An administrator reviews the submission manually; pending and rejected submissions are not public. No email notification is sent.
By submitting, you grant the provider a non-exclusive right to store and review these event details and, after approval, publish them and the source URL within BrickDb's public event calendar. This limited permission continues for approved events after account deletion. Your account identity is not published. Submit only information you may publish, without private information or personal contact details. No publication or review deadline is guaranteed.
Submission and moderation provide the requested service (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). Maintaining approved calendar entries serves the legitimate interest in reliable event information (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Your Article 15 export includes your submissions in every moderation state. On account erasure, pending and rejected submissions are deleted; approved events remain public with the submitter link anonymised by a fresh random identifier with no account or mapping back to you. There is no fixed expiry for this anonymised record. The Privacy Policy explains the processing and your rights, including objection; statutory rights remain unaffected.
4.5 Public content, reports and moderation
Publicly visible in the service are events approved under section 4.4, events taken from public event feeds, and collections their owner has published.
Anyone can report such content using "Report" on the content itself, without an account. The grounds for a report are: unlawful content, abusive or offensive content, spam or advertising, untrue statements, use of somebody else's work or mark without the right to do so, personal data, and any other ground, which the report must describe. The provider may restrict content on any of these grounds, even where it is not unlawful.
Every report is reviewed and decided by a human; no automated decision is made. If a report is upheld, an event is removed from the public calendar. A collection is set back to private, its contents unchanged. It can be published again, and can then be reported again.
Whoever published the affected content in the service receives a statement of reasons for the decision by email. You can object to a decision with a support request; a human reviews that too. Statutory rights, including recourse to the courts, remain unaffected.
5. Prohibited use
The following in particular are prohibited:
- automated extraction of data from the service, and any use going beyond ordinary operation by a human being, unless it has been expressly permitted;
- attempts to gain access to accounts, data or areas of the system that are not intended for your own access;
- measures that impair the availability or integrity of the service, including denial-of-service attacks;
- circumventing technical protection, access or limitation mechanisms;
- uploading unlawful content, in particular content that infringes the rights of third parties;
- redistributing catalogue data originating from the service as a data set of your own, as a bulk download or as an interface of your own;
- any use that breaches the terms of use of the data sources incorporated into the service.
6. Third-party data and trademark rights
The service displays catalogue data and price information from third-party sources. That data is subject to the terms of its respective providers; the sources are listed under Attributions. No warranty is given for the accuracy, completeness or currency of that data. Price information consists of estimates based on observed market data and constitutes neither an offer nor a valuation in the legal sense.
BrickDb is an independent fan project and has no connection with the LEGO Group. The following trademark notice applies, and is binding in its English wording:
LEGO® is a trademark of the LEGO Group of companies. The LEGO Group does not sponsor, authorise or endorse this application.
7. Termination
The user relationship may be ended at any time and without giving reasons by deleting the account, which is done on the account page. When the account is deleted, the associated collection data and photos are deleted, and the sign-in account at the identity provider is deleted too. Bag-code contributions are anonymised rather than deleted. Pending and rejected event submissions are deleted; approved events remain public with the submitter link anonymised, as described in section 4.4. Details of the periods involved, and of the exceptions, are set out in the Privacy Policy.
The provider may block or delete an account where these terms of use are breached significantly or repeatedly, where this is necessary to avert a danger to the service or to third parties, or where the provider discontinues the service altogether. Before a block is imposed, the breach will be pointed out and an opportunity to remedy it given, as far as that is possible and reasonable.
8. Liability
The provider is liable without limitation
- for damage arising from injury to life, body or health that is based on a breach of duty by the provider,
- for intent and gross negligence,
- to the extent of a guarantee that has been given, and
- under the provisions of the German Product Liability Act.
In cases of simple negligence, the provider is liable only for the breach of a material contractual obligation, that is, an obligation whose fulfilment makes the proper use of the service possible in the first place and on whose observance the user may regularly rely. In that case liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical of this type of contract.
Otherwise, liability for simple negligence is excluded. In assessing the standard of care required, account is to be taken of the fact that the service is provided free of charge. The above limitations of liability apply also in favour of the provider's legal representatives and vicarious agents.
9. Data backup
BrickDb is no substitute for keeping your own backups. It is recommended that you export your own collection data regularly. The provider is liable for the loss of data within the scope of section 8; in assessing recoverable damage, account is to be taken of the effort that would have been involved had proper backups of your own been kept.
10. Changes to these terms of use
These terms of use may be changed where this is necessary because of changes in the legal position, in case law or in the range of features. You will be informed of material changes the next time you use the service. Anyone who does not agree with a change may delete their account.
11. Applicable law and authoritative language version
The law of the Federal Republic of Germany applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. Mandatory consumer protection provisions of the state in which a user has their habitual residence remain unaffected.
Only the German version of these terms of use is authoritative. The versions in English, French, Dutch, Danish, Italian and Spanish are translations provided for information and have no independent legal effect. This applies whichever address the service is used at and whichever language its interface is shown in.
12. Severability clause
Should any provision of these terms of use be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions is unaffected. The statutory rules take the place of the invalid provision.