This English version is provided for information only. Only the German version is legally binding: Allgemeine Leistungsbedingungen.
1. Scope and definitions
1.1 These terms apply to all contracts for agency services, including the strategy session, between SAVAARA FlexCo, Gentzgasse 122, 1180 Wien (“savaara”, “we”) and the company that commissions savaara (“you”). In these terms, “you” means this company, represented by the person acting on its behalf. For the purposes of these terms, the author is the natural person named in the offer under whose name the book is published.
1.2 savaara concludes contracts exclusively with businesses. The contracting party and recipient of the invoice is the company on whose behalf the enquiry is made and which is named in the offer; in the case of a sole proprietorship, this is the owner acting in their self-employed capacity, never a person acting as a private individual. The contracting party must be a business (Unternehmer) within the meaning of § 1 of the Austrian Consumer Protection Act (Konsumentenschutzgesetz, KSchG) and § 1 of the Austrian Commercial Code (Unternehmensgesetzbuch, UGB). When making your enquiry and when concluding the contract, you confirm that the commission forms part of the business operations of this company. We do not conclude contracts with consumers. If the company is still being founded, please tell us before we make you an offer. We only conclude contracts in preparation for founding a company by separate agreement.
1.3 Any deviating terms of your company only apply if savaara agrees to them in writing.
1.4 Subject matter of the contract: The contract consists of the accepted offer, for books in the savaara imprint the separate imprint agreement on rights and revenue, and these terms. The services you receive follow from the model and the add-ons set out in the offer. In the event of any conflict, the imprint agreement takes precedence over the offer, and the offer takes precedence over these terms.
1.5 savaara imprint refers to books that savaara publishes: for Expert and Authority, and for Author with the add-on “Publishing with savaara”. Self-publishing refers to books that you publish yourself under the Author model without this add-on.
1.6 Version: Your contract is governed by the version of these terms identified in the offer by its version number and date. savaara attaches this version to the offer as a PDF. Later amendments do not apply to contracts already concluded.
2. Enquiry, strategy session and conclusion of the contract
2.1 Enquiry: The questionnaire on savaara.com is a free and non-binding enquiry. It places no obligation on you or on savaara. savaara reviews every enquiry and only sends a link to book the strategy session if the enquiry is a good fit. There is no entitlement to a strategy session or a contract.
2.2 Strategy session: You book and pay for the strategy session through ablefy using the booking link. It costs €4,900 net plus VAT, lasts three hours and takes place online or in Vienna, as you choose. The fee is due on booking. You also book the strategy session exclusively for a company (1.2).
2.3 Outcome: After the strategy session, you receive a written book strategy as a PDF (positioning, target readership, core message, title ideas, outline structure), a sales and financing plan (pre-sales, sponsorship packages, sales channels, a first funnel idea) and a model recommendation with a binding offer. You may use the book strategy for your own book project, even if you do not commission savaara afterwards.
2.4 Crediting: If you accept the offer within the acceptance period stated in it, savaara credits the fee for the strategy session in full against the price of the book project.
2.5 Appointment and cancellation: You choose the appointment from the available times when booking. You may reschedule it once free of charge up to two working days before the appointment. Email is sufficient. If you cancel later or do not attend, the fee remains payable. If savaara has to cancel the appointment, we will offer you an alternative date. If you do not accept an alternative date, savaara refunds the fee in full.
2.6 Offer: The offer is made in writing. It describes the model, add-ons, scope of services, price, payment option, approximate durations and the acceptance period, and refers to the version of these terms that applies to your contract (1.6). savaara only states the price for book projects, add-ons and publishing with savaara in the offer.
2.7 The contract is concluded when you accept the offer and savaara confirms the acceptance in writing. Email is sufficient. For books in the savaara imprint, we also conclude the imprint agreement (1.4): for Expert and Authority together with the contract, and for the add-on “Publishing with savaara” when the add-on is booked.
3. Scope of services
3.1 The offer sets out the binding scope and the price. The descriptions on savaara.com provide an overview. In all models, two online meetings take place by video: the kick-off and the concept review. All further coordination takes place in writing. savaara designs the cover based on its own design templates; a custom cover is an add-on. A sales and financing strategy, for example on pre-sales, sponsorship packages or funnels, is not part of the models. It is the subject of the strategy session (2.3).
3.2 Author: book concept with title, core message and chapter structure; feedback on your text at two milestones, after the first chapters and on the complete manuscript; exactly one round of revisions on the version you revise after that feedback (7.5); editing and proofreading; final linguistic polish by linguists; cover, typesetting, print file (print PDF) and e-book. You write the text yourself. The result is your print-ready book: print PDF, e-book file and cover. You handle publication yourself (section 9.1), unless you book the add-on “Publishing with savaara”.
3.3 Expert: book concept with title, core message and chapter structure; co-writing from your material instead of feedback at milestones; exactly one round of revisions on the complete manuscript (7.5); editing and proofreading; final linguistic polish by linguists; cover, typesetting, print file (print PDF) and e-book; publication in the savaara imprint with ISBN, listing in the book trade (9.6), legal deposit copies (9.8), storage and shipping. Extended publishing services and the launch package are not included; they can be booked as add-ons. The advance announcement at least six months before publication forms part of the extended publishing services (3.4).
3.4 Authority: book concept with title, core message and chapter structure; complete writing from your material; two rounds of revisions on the complete manuscript (7.5); editing and proofreading; final linguistic polish by linguists; cover, typesetting, print file (print PDF) and e-book; publication in the savaara imprint with ISBN, listing in the book trade (9.6), legal deposit copies (9.8), storage and shipping; in addition, extended publishing services (advance announcement to the book trade and in the German Books in Print directory (Verzeichnis lieferbarer Bücher, VLB) at least six months before publication, press release on publication), the launch package, an audiobook and an online course with workbook, video recording and editing.
3.5 Add-ons: The following can be booked for a separate fee: “Publishing with savaara” (Author only), extended publishing services (Expert), launch package, audiobook and online course (Author and Expert) and a custom cover (all models). Their scope and price are set out in the offer. The add-on “Publishing with savaara” can also be booked after the contract has been concluded.
3.6 The add-on “Publishing with savaara” covers ISBN, listing in the book trade (9.6), legal deposit copies (9.8), storage and shipping of the print run, and sales through savaara in the savaara imprint. Section 10 applies to revenue. The extended publishing services under 3.4 are not included unless the offer provides otherwise.
3.7 The launch package covers optimisation of the Amazon listing, book description and keywords, a press text, graphics for social media and a dedicated book and author page in the savaara shop. For self-published books, this book page links to your own sales channel. In that case, savaara does not sell the book, and you are named as the publisher in the manufacturer information.
3.8 Book languages and working language: savaara supports books in German and in English. The offer specifies the language of the book and the working language of the project. Editing, proofreading and the final linguistic polish by linguists are carried out in the language of the book.
3.9 Due care and service providers: savaara provides the services with the diligence of a prudent businessperson (Sorgfalt eines ordentlichen Unternehmers). savaara may subcontract individual services to qualified service providers, for example for writing, editing, proofreading, the final linguistic polish, typesetting, design, audiobook, video recording, printing (for the savaara imprint) and shipping. Responsibility for quality and for performance of the contract remains with savaara. Confidentiality is governed by 18.2.
4. Cooperation and delivery of material
4.1 savaara works exclusively with the information and data you provide. You provide all content required for your book, completely and in the agreed form.
4.2 The approximate durations only begin once your material is complete. We agree together in the offer or at the start of the project which content this includes. If it becomes clear at the kick-off or while the concept is being developed that data is missing, you provide it before concept approval.
4.3 You take part in the two online meetings and answer queries within a reasonable time. In the Author model, you deliver your chapters in line with the schedule agreed together. Feedback and approvals are governed by 4.6.
4.4 You are responsible for the accuracy of the content of your material, in particular for facts, figures, quotations and statements about other people or companies.
4.5 Rights in your material and indemnity: You warrant that you are entitled to use the material you provide, for example texts, quotations, photographs, graphics, recordings, logos and trade marks, and that it does not infringe any third-party rights, for example copyright, personality, trade mark or data protection rights. This includes the consent of persons who are depicted, quoted or named in your material, where such consent is required. If third parties assert claims against savaara because of your material, you will indemnify savaara and hold it harmless (schad- und klaglos halten), including reasonable costs of legal defence. This does not apply to the extent that the claims arise because savaara has altered your material without your approval or used it beyond the scope of the commission. savaara informs you without undue delay of any claims asserted, does not acknowledge them without your consent and, at your request, leaves the defence of the claims to you.
4.6 Periods for feedback: You give feedback and approvals on the concept, the manuscript and comparable interim versions within 14 working days of receipt, unless otherwise agreed. In the Author model, your writing and revision phases are governed by the agreed schedule (4.3). The consequences of missing feedback are governed by 7.8.
4.7 Consequences of a lack of cooperation: If your cooperation is delayed without good reason by more than 30 days compared with the agreed schedule or the period under 4.6, savaara may, after giving prior notice, charge for the resulting additional work, for example for familiarising itself with the project again, at the hourly rate stated in the offer. Deadlines are postponed in accordance with 6.2. If the project is on hold for more than three months, 15.1 applies.
5. Limits of the services
5.1 savaara does not make any new recordings as material for the book. Exceptions are the video recording as part of the online course and the recording of the audiobook, in each case to the extent specified in the offer.
5.2 savaara does not carry out research and does not conduct additional interviews. savaara is not obliged to check the content for accuracy.
5.3 Press work consists exclusively of the press release on publication as part of the extended publishing services or the press text in the launch package. savaara does not owe any media coverage, reach, placements, sales figures or revenue.
5.4 savaara does not place manuscripts with publishers.
5.5 Print costs are not included in any model (12.2). In self-publishing, printing itself is not part of the services either (9.1). For the savaara imprint, 9.3 applies.
5.6 savaara only provides services beyond the offer by written agreement and for a separate fee.
6. Deadlines, duration and completion
6.1 Information on duration is given as approximate values, counted from complete delivery of your material. Deadlines are only binding if they have been agreed in writing as binding.
6.2 If your delivery, cooperation or approval is delayed, all deadlines are postponed accordingly, plus a reasonable period for resuming work.
6.3 If extended publishing services are part of your commission (Authority, or as an add-on with Expert), your book is announced to the book trade at least six months before publication. The publication date is therefore agreed together at an early stage.
6.4 We inform you without undue delay of any foreseeable delays on savaara’s side.
6.5 If the project is delayed for reasons on your side for which you are not responsible, for example illness of the author, we adjust the schedule together. For up to three months, this does not give rise to any additional costs for you. After that, savaara may charge for the documented additional work of resuming the project at the hourly rate under 4.7, and 15.1 applies. Force majeure is governed by 15.5 to 15.7, and the unavailability of persons on savaara’s side by 15.3.
6.6 Completion: Your book is completed when you have given print approval. On print approval, the book is deemed delivered (16.1). Services that follow, such as publication, the launch package, the audiobook or the online course, are performed when they are delivered.
7. Concept, approvals and rounds of revisions
7.1 Approvals are given in writing; email is sufficient. The approvals provided for are concept approval, manuscript approval and print approval.
7.2 Concept approval: After the kick-off, savaara develops the book concept in writing and discusses it with you in the concept review: title, core message and chapter structure. With concept approval, the concept becomes the binding basis for all further services.
7.3 Changes after concept approval: After concept approval, the book is no longer fundamentally restructured. Changes are only made within the approved concept. savaara does not owe a fundamental restructuring, in particular a different target readership, a different core message or a new structure. If you nevertheless want one, savaara may offer it as an additional service (5.6); services already provided remain payable.
7.4 Writing: In the Author model, you write yourself and receive feedback at two milestones, after the first chapters and on the complete manuscript. For Expert and Authority, savaara writes the entire manuscript after concept approval. Approval of individual chapters is not provided for.
7.5 Rounds of revisions: Exactly one round of revisions on the complete manuscript is included with Author and Expert, and two with Authority. With Author, this one round of revisions consists of savaara reviewing and commenting once on the version you have revised after the feedback on the complete manuscript. With Expert and Authority, you collect your comments for each round in a single set of feedback. After the last included round of revisions, you give manuscript approval. savaara only provides further rounds of revisions by separate agreement and for a fee.
7.6 By giving an approval, you confirm the approved version. savaara will implement requests for changes to parts that have already been approved where possible. They may be charged separately if they go beyond minor corrections. No book is printed or published without your print approval.
7.7 Review log: savaara keeps a review log for every book. It records who reviewed and approved which version and when. You receive a copy on request.
7.8 Missing feedback: If you do not respond within the period under 4.6, savaara sends you a written reminder and sets a further period of seven working days. The reminder states expressly that the version will then be deemed approved and, in the case of manuscript approval, also that the next payment will then fall due (13.2). If you do not respond within the further period either, the version that savaara last sent you is deemed approved; in the Author model, this is the version you last delivered. This does not apply to concept approval or print approval. If concept approval is not given, the project is put on hold (4.7, 15.1).
8. Rights
8.1 Author: You write the text yourself. The copyright in it lies with the author. You ensure that you hold the rights from the author that are necessary for this contract. You grant savaara only the rights necessary for editing, proofreading, typesetting and design within the scope of the commission.
8.2 Expert and Authority: Upon print approval, but not before payment in full (see 8.7), you receive, in the texts savaara has created for you, insofar as they are protected by intellectual property rights and subject to the rights under 8.4, the exclusive rights of use unlimited in time, territory and content (Werknutzungsrechte), including the rights to adapt and translate them and to exploit them as an audiobook. The author retains the copyright in their own texts and contributions. savaara does not appear as the creator (Urheberin) of the text, does not name the people who write your text as its creators and contractually obliges them to waive attribution. savaara obtains from them the rights that you receive under this clause.
8.3 For the cover, typesetting and other design services, you receive the rights of use necessary for publishing and marketing your book. Third-party rights, for example in fonts or images, are passed on to the extent of the respective licence.
8.4 savaara imprint: For books in the savaara imprint, savaara has, for the duration of the imprint agreement, only the right to reproduce, distribute and make available to the public the book as a printed book and as an e-book and, if agreed, also as an audiobook, and to use the cover, blurb and excerpts to promote the book. For Expert and Authority, savaara reserves this right. For Author with the add-on “Publishing with savaara”, you grant this right to savaara. Whether the right is exclusive, its duration and its termination are governed by the imprint agreement (1.4). All other rights remain with you.
8.5 Self-publishing: In self-publishing, savaara acquires no right to reproduce or sell your book.
8.6 Until payment in full, the rights in savaara’s services remain with savaara, unless 8.7 provides otherwise.
8.7 From print approval, you may use and publish the book to the agreed extent as long as you are not in default with payments due. This also applies to payment in monthly instalments. The rights under 8.2 and 8.3 pass to you definitively upon payment in full.
8.8 Rights in your material: You grant savaara, for the duration of the project, the rights in your material that are necessary for the agreed services. This includes passing it on to service providers under 3.9 and processing it with AI tools under section 11. For the book and author page in the savaara shop, you also grant savaara the non-exclusive right to use the author’s name, photograph and short biography as well as the cover and blurb for as long as the page is online. The same applies to the graphics of the launch package, where it forms part of your commission. You ensure that the author agrees to this. You may at any time require savaara to remove the author page and, in self-publishing, also the book page. Beyond this, savaara acquires no rights in your material. For books in the savaara imprint, 8.4 also applies.
8.9 savaara’s templates: Design templates, internal working templates, checklists, processes and tools that savaara has developed independently of your project remain with savaara. savaara may also use them for other projects. Texts in your book are always governed by 8.1 and 8.2. For a cover based on a design template, you receive the rights under 8.3 in the finished cover. savaara may continue to use the template itself, but does not design any cover that could be confused with yours. This right of further use does not apply to the custom cover (3.5). Your content and your rights under 8.1 to 8.3 are not affected.
9. Publication, book trade, print run and files
9.1 Self-publishing (Author without add-on): savaara hands over the print-ready files to you: print PDF, e-book file and cover. You are the publisher of your book. You take care of ISBN, printing, distribution, sales, storage and shipping, as well as the delivery of legal deposit copies, yourself. You set the fixed retail price. Your name and address appear on the book’s copyright page (Buchimpressum) and in the manufacturer information. You bear the obligations associated with the role of publisher. savaara has no share in your revenue.
9.2 savaara imprint: savaara publishes your book and is named on the copyright page and in the manufacturer information. savaara takes care of ISBN, publication, listing in the book trade (9.6), legal deposit copies (9.8), distribution, storage and shipping and, for Authority and for Expert with the corresponding add-on, also the extended publishing services under 3.4. savaara sets the fixed retail price in agreement with you. The details are governed by the imprint agreement.
9.3 Print run: You bear the costs of the print run. You determine the size of the print run before print approval. For the savaara imprint, savaara commissions the printer for your account. We agree the specification and the printer’s quote with you in advance. savaara asserts any printing defects against the printer. In self-publishing, you commission the printer yourself.
9.4 For the savaara imprint, savaara stores the print run and ships orders. Ownership of the print run, insurance and the return of remaining stock at the end of the contract are governed by the imprint agreement. The risk of unsold copies lies with you.
9.5 Sales take place primarily directly through your own channels. savaara does not owe any particular number of copies sold.
9.6 Listing in the book trade: For books in the savaara imprint, savaara takes care of the listing in the book trade. savaara registers your book with its ISBN and title data in the German Books in Print directory (VLB) and fulfils orders from bookshops and online booksellers from the print run (9.4) for as long as copies are in stock. savaara agrees the title data with you in advance. Without extended publishing services, savaara registers your book no later than its publication; with extended publishing services, savaara announces it at least six months in advance (3.4, 6.3). Whether wholesalers (Barsortimente) take your book on and whether retailers keep it in stock, list it in their online shops or promote it is for them to decide. savaara does not owe acceptance by a wholesaler or a presence in particular bookshops or online shops (9.5).
9.7 Handover of files: You receive the print PDF, the e-book file and the cover without undue delay after print approval, and no later than ten working days after it. No later than 30 days after print approval, you also receive the text in the version approved for print as a DOCX file. You receive the files for the audiobook and the online course, where they form part of your commission, once they have been completed. In each case, this is subject to you not being in default with payments due (8.7). In self-publishing, you also receive, on request, the open typesetting and cover files (for example as IDML), without licensed fonts and without the templates under 8.9. For books in the savaara imprint, savaara retains these files.
9.8 Legal deposit copies: For books in the savaara imprint, savaara delivers the legal deposit copies required under the Austrian Media Act (Mediengesetz) to the Austrian National Library and the other libraries designated for this purpose, offers the book to the libraries to which it must be offered and delivers it to them on request. For books in German, savaara also sends one copy to the German National Library. The copies are taken from the print run, the costs of which you bear (9.3), and do not count as sold. savaara bears the shipping costs.
10. Profit share in the savaara imprint
10.1 The profit share only applies to books in the savaara imprint. In self-publishing, you keep 100% of your revenue.
10.2 Profit is the net revenue from a book sold minus the direct costs per book sold: printing, shipping, payment and platform fees, any trade discount and, for sales through the trade, the fees of the intermediate book trade, for example a book wholesaler (Barsortiment). Net revenue is the selling price to end customers excluding VAT, as a rule the fixed retail price. If the book is sold through the trade, the trade discount granted is deducted as a cost once. Copies returned by the trade (Remissionen) do not count as sold. savaara bears the fees for the ISBN and the VLB.
10.3 From every copy sold, the print costs per copy first flow back to you. The relevant figure is the actual cost of the print run divided by the number of copies printed.
10.4 You receive 70% of the profit and savaara 30%.
10.5 The settlement interval, due dates and supporting documents are governed by the imprint agreement. You receive a clear statement showing units sold, revenue and costs.
11. Use of AI and final human review
11.1 savaara uses tools based on artificial intelligence, in particular to review and organise the material provided, to transcribe existing recordings, for outline suggestions, for first drafts from your material (Expert and Authority), for consistency and style checks and to compare texts with your material.
11.2 The concept, voice and style, every approval, editing, proofreading, the final linguistic polish by linguists and publication are the responsibility of people. No text goes to print without human review.
11.3 If trading platforms require information on the use of AI, savaara provides it truthfully and agrees it with you in advance.
11.4 Before the contract for your book project is concluded, savaara does not process your details and documents from the questionnaire and the strategy session with AI tools. Until then, only people see them.
12. Fees
12.1 All prices are net prices in euros plus statutory VAT, currently 20% in Austria. If your registered office is outside Austria, VAT is determined by the statutory rules. For businesses in another EU member state, the reverse charge mechanism (Übergang der Steuerschuld) generally applies; for this we need your VAT identification number. On savaara.com, savaara only states the price of the strategy session. The price in the accepted offer is decisive.
12.2 Print costs are not included in any model. You bear them in addition. This applies in particular to author copies and print runs.
13. Payment via ablefy
13.1 All payments are processed through the ablefy platform. ablefy acts as our service provider for ordering and payment, and your contractual partner remains SAVAARA FlexCo. The relationship between you and savaara is governed exclusively by the contract under 1.4, even if the checkout refers to other terms.
13.2 In the offer, you choose one of the following options:
- Payment in advance: payment of the total amount at the start with a 5% discount.
- Three milestones: 40% at the start, 30% on manuscript approval, 30% on print approval.
- Monthly instalments: up to 12 monthly instalments with an instalment surcharge, the amount of which is stated in the offer.
13.3 The amounts are due at the times stated in 13.2, and instalments on the dates stated in the offer. savaara starts work once the first payment has been received.
13.4 In the event of late payment, the statutory default interest for business transactions applies (§ 456 UGB). savaara may suspend work until payment is received. Deadlines are postponed accordingly. If amounts due are more than 30 days overdue, savaara may terminate the contract under 19.4.
13.5 Print approval and publication only take place once all amounts due by then have been paid.
14. Withdrawal before concept approval
14.1 If the concept does not convince you, you can terminate the contract in writing at any time up to concept approval. Email is sufficient.
14.2 In this case, savaara is entitled to 40% of the agreed net fee for the kick-off and the concept. This corresponds to the first milestone. savaara refunds any amounts paid in excess of this. If less than 40% has been paid, the difference becomes due.
14.3 After concept approval, section 19 applies to early termination.
15. Delay, unavailability and force majeure
15.1 If a project is on hold for more than three months for reasons on your side, savaara may terminate the contract after giving written notice and a grace period of four weeks. The fee is determined in the same way as on termination under 19.4.
15.2 If savaara is in default with a service agreed as binding, you set a reasonable grace period of at least four weeks. Only after that may you withdraw from the contract.
15.3 If a person involved in your project becomes unavailable, savaara ensures an equivalent replacement. There is no entitlement to a particular person.
15.4 Unavailability of the author: If the author can no longer take part because of death or an incapacity to work that is likely to be permanent, and you notify savaara of this in writing, the project is put on hold for 90 days. During this period, you decide whether to continue the project with another contact person or to end it. If no decision is made, the contract ends when this period expires. If the contract ends, only the services provided up to that point are payable (19.8); savaara refunds any amounts paid in excess of this.
15.5 Force majeure: Neither party is liable for delays or impossibility of performance resulting from unforeseeable events beyond the control of either party, such as pandemics, natural disasters, war or official measures.
15.6 The affected party informs the other party without undue delay. We agree a new schedule together.
15.7 If the force majeure lasts longer than six months, either party may terminate the contract in writing with immediate effect. The services provided up to that point are payable (19.8); savaara refunds any amounts paid in excess of this.
16. Warranty
16.1 You report obvious defects within 14 days of delivery of the respective service and hidden defects within 14 days of their discovery, in each case in writing and in a comprehensible form. If you report a defect later, you can no longer assert warranty claims (Gewährleistung) in respect of that defect.
16.2 savaara first remedies reported defects by rectification (Verbesserung). Defects in approved parts that were recognisable when an approval was expressly given are deemed accepted.
16.3 Stylistic decisions made in the course of the approvals and deviations resulting from the approved concept are not defects. The same applies to subsequent requests for changes of content and to additions beyond the approved version. These are additional services (5.6).
16.4 Texts that savaara writes for you are created from your material. savaara does not incorporate third-party texts into them without identifying them as such. Content from your material is governed by 4.5, and liability by section 17.
17. Liability
17.1 savaara is only liable for intent and gross negligence. Liability for slight negligence is excluded, except in the case of personal injury.
17.2 In the case of gross negligence, liability is limited to the net fee of the contract concerned. Loss of profit, reputational damage and other consequential damage are excluded in that case. No limitation applies in the case of intent or personal injury.
17.3 savaara is not liable for the content of the material you provide, for the accuracy of the content of your book or for the commercial success of the publication.
17.4 You are liable for the accuracy, completeness and lawfulness of your material (4.4 and 4.5).
17.5 The limitations under 17.1 and 17.2 also apply to 16.4 and 18.2 and for the benefit of the persons whom savaara engages for your project.
18. Confidentiality and data protection
18.1 savaara treats your material and all information from your project as confidential. This obligation continues after the contract has ended. It does not apply to information that is publicly known without any involvement on savaara’s part, that savaara must disclose by law or by order of an authority or court, or that savaara passes on to advisers bound by professional secrecy. savaara may publish aggregated information on results from which neither you nor your book can be identified.
18.2 savaara places persons and service providers who gain access to your material for your project under an obligation of confidentiality before they do so, unless they are already bound to confidentiality by law or under their terms of contract. savaara only uses providers of AI tools under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). savaara is liable for these persons as for its own conduct within the limits of section 17.
18.3 savaara only names you and your project with your consent. The following are excepted: for books in the savaara imprint, the details on the copyright page, the notifications to the book trade including the VLB and the book and author page in the savaara shop; for self-published books, the book and author page in the savaara shop if the launch package is part of your commission.
18.4 The content of your published book is no longer confidential from publication. Title data, blurb, cover and reading samples that savaara reports to the trade or uses for promotion with your consent (8.4, 9.6) are no longer confidential from the time of that notification or use.
18.5 Data protection: savaara processes personal data for your project, for publication and invoicing and to comply with legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(b), (c) and (f) GDPR). Details and the rights of the data subjects are set out in the privacy policy.
18.6 You ensure that persons who appear in your book or your material are anonymised or have given their consent, where required (4.5). If the material contains special categories of personal data, such as health data, savaara only processes them with the explicit consent of the data subject (Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR). If this concerns the author, savaara obtains the author’s consent before the project starts. If it concerns other persons, you ensure that they have given their consent (4.5).
18.7 Within three months of the last handover of files (9.7), savaara deletes your material and the working versions, unless the contract provides otherwise. The following are excepted: documents that savaara is required by law to retain, as a rule for seven years (§ 132 of the Austrian Federal Fiscal Code, Bundesabgabenordnung, BAO; § 212 UGB); open typesetting and design files, which savaara retains for twelve months after handover; the review log (7.7) and documents needed to assert or defend claims, for example under 4.5 and 16.4, which savaara retains until the limitation period has expired; for books in the savaara imprint, the files savaara needs for reproduction, sales and settlement; the content of your book and author page in the savaara shop for as long as the page is online.
19. Termination and special cases
19.1 Either party may terminate the contract in writing for good cause. Good cause exists in particular if the other party breaches material obligations despite a reminder and a grace period.
19.2 If you terminate the contract early after concept approval without savaara having given good cause, savaara is entitled to the agreed fee less any expenses saved (§ 1168 of the Austrian Civil Code, Allgemeines bürgerliches Gesetzbuch, ABGB). At a minimum, the services provided up to that point (19.8) and the current milestone must be paid.
19.3 When the contract ends, you receive the work results produced up to that point, insofar as they have been paid for (19.8). The rights in them pass to you to the extent of 8.2 and 8.3.
19.4 Termination by savaara: savaara may terminate the contract in writing with 14 days’ notice if, despite a reminder, you repeatedly breach your duties of cooperation under section 4, or if amounts due are more than 30 days overdue. As regards the fee, 14.2 applies before concept approval and 19.2 thereafter. If you are not responsible for the reason for termination, for example in the event of the author’s illness (6.5), you only pay, after concept approval, for the services provided (19.8).
19.5 Insolvency: If insolvency proceedings in respect of your assets are not opened for lack of assets sufficient to cover their costs, savaara may terminate the contract without notice. Otherwise, the Austrian Insolvency Code (Insolvenzordnung, IO) applies in the event of the insolvency of either party. If the contract ends, you receive the work results that have been paid for in accordance with 19.3.
19.6 Changes affecting your company: A change of managing director or of shareholders does not affect the contract. In the event of a merger or demerger, the contract passes to the legal successor; if your business is acquired, § 38 UGB applies. If the legal successor does not confirm in writing, within 30 days of being asked to do so, that it will continue the contract, savaara may terminate the contract with 30 days’ notice. The same applies if your company is dissolved or if you cease your business activities. For books in the savaara imprint, the imprint agreement governs the final settlement and the remaining stock (9.4).
19.7 In the cases under 19.5 and 19.6, payments for services already provided remain due. The obligation to pay for services not provided lapses. The confidentiality obligation under section 18 continues to apply.
19.8 Valuation of services provided: savaara values services provided according to the stage the project has reached: up to concept approval at no more than 40%, up to manuscript approval at no more than 70% and up to print approval at no more than 100% of the net fee for the book project, and pro rata according to progress within a stage. savaara values add-ons according to their stage of completion. On request, savaara provides evidence of the stage reached.
20. Purchase of books
You buy books offered on savaara.com from SAVAARA FlexCo. Ordering and payment are handled through the ablefy platform. Book purchases are governed by the general terms and conditions and the withdrawal notice shown to you at checkout. These terms of service do not apply to book purchases.
21. Final provisions
21.1 Austrian law applies, excluding its conflict-of-law rules and the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods.
21.2 The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from or in connection with contracts under these terms is Vienna; the court with subject-matter jurisdiction for the first district of Vienna has jurisdiction. savaara may also bring proceedings against you at your general place of jurisdiction.
21.3 Amendments and additions to the contract must be made in writing. Where these terms require written form or a written declaration, email is sufficient (to savaara: office@savaara.com). An email is deemed received if it arrives on a working day by 5 p.m. (Vienna time), and otherwise on the next working day. Working days are Monday to Friday, excluding statutory public holidays in Austria. The contract sets out all agreements on your book project in full; there are no oral side agreements.
21.4 If any provision is invalid, the remaining provisions remain valid. It is replaced by a valid provision that comes closest to its economic purpose. This also applies to the imprint agreement (1.4).
21.5 Where we also provide these terms in English, only the German version is authoritative. The English version is provided for information only. This also applies if we communicate with you in English or if your book is written in English.
21.6 Amicable resolution: In the event of any disagreement, both parties first seek to resolve it by discussion. If this does not lead to a solution within 14 days, the parties may agree on mediation before going to court. Termination for good cause and compliance with deadlines remain unaffected.