Terms of use
Two things fall under this: how the site geo-hamburg.com is used, and the shape in which I take on paid work. The site exists to inform. Paid work proceeds under its own written agreement — and on the rare occasion the two pull apart, the agreement prevails.
1. Using the site
Whatever appears on geo-hamburg.com gives, in good faith, an honest picture of how the work runs as of the time it was written. It does not amount to legal, regulatory, or commercial advice. Anyone acting on what the site says outside an active engagement does so at their own risk.
Scraping the site's content in bulk is off-limits, as is reconstructing the method out of the public pages, and so is reposting lengthy extracts with no attribution. A link or a quotation that names its source clearly is, generally speaking, no problem.
2. The contact form
Sending the form creates no offer, no contract, and no promise on either side. It is purely an orderly channel for handing over context. I write back once that context makes a useful answer possible. The act of submitting, on its own, confers no entitlement to a specific reply, a turnaround time, or a service.
I may turn down a message — perhaps it sits outside what I do, perhaps my present capacity will not stretch to it, or for some other operational reason. A decline carries no verdict on your business; capacity and how well the work fits are usually what tips the decision.
3. How paid work is framed
Paid work gets underway only once both sides have signed a written agreement beforehand. Within it sit the scope, the deliverables, the timing, the amounts, the payment terms, confidentiality, intellectual property, and the route for settling any dispute. These site terms are no substitute for it.
The work is steered by the principles I state openly: the visible answer takes priority over the theory; the prompt and the source route are safeguarded before any fix is even floated; GEO is not handled as SEO under a new name; genuine misreads turn into anonymised composites instead of public finger-pointing; and no engagement pledges control over rankings. When an instruction runs against these principles, the work is either renegotiated or wound down — the principles are not bartered away for the sake of flexibility.
4. No guaranteed result
Your visibility in answer engines and in search turns on forces nobody holds in full: how the models behave, the policies of third-party platforms, the implementation calls you make yourself, the market, and time. Nothing is therefore promised — not a slot in the results, not a citation from a model, not a recommendation, not any particular AI behaviour. What the work does is cut down on misreading, flattening, omission, and source drift; the outcomes themselves stay beyond its steering. Concrete expectations, their limits, and a clearly bounded scope are set down in the written agreement.
5. Liability
Where the site is used free of charge, liability is held to the narrowest the law will permit. Where the work is paid, liability is spelled out and capped within the agreement itself. None of this sets aside liability for deliberate wrongdoing, fraud, gross negligence, or any situation in which the law refuses to allow an exclusion.
6. Governing law
Use of the site is governed by the law of the place where the operator is established, except where consumer-protection law hands you a jurisdiction that suits you better. For paid work, the governing law and the competent court are laid down in the written agreement.
7. Changes to these terms
As the working model evolves, these terms are revised to match. The version in force is the one the "Updated" date at the top indicates. Where a change bears on work already underway, the clients concerned hear of it directly; where it touches the site alone, it shows up here.
Contact
For any question about these terms, reach me at hello@geo-hamburg.com.