Additional Terms and Conditions for Authors
Additional general terms and conditions for authors on www.crazypatterns.net
Date: March 5, 2026
1. preamble
1.1 Registered Users can upgrade their User Account to an Author Account in order to make their templates available to AISYS for sale and for download by other Users at www.crazypatterns.net.
1.2 The following Author GTC regulate the legal relationship between you as an Author and us in addition to the User GTCs.
1.3 We act exclusively as provider/seller to the Users, retain the VAT collected and remit it to the tax authorities.
1.4 Unless expressly agreed otherwise in writing, these Author GTC apply exclusively as a supplement to our User GTCs. Any terms and conditions of the Author that deviate from or conflict with these Author GTC and the User GTCs are hereby rejected. By upgrading your User Account to an Author Account, you accept our additional Author GTC and our Privacy Policy.
1.5 "Author" in these Author GTC refers to any natural or legal person who places templates on our platform in the exercise of their commercial or self-employed activity and grants us the necessary rights of use for this purpose. This includes in particular authors, designers and publishers as well as other holders of rights of use who are contractually authorized to grant or pass on rights of use to third parties.
1.6 For the sake of linguistic simplification and better readability, terms such as "User" or "Author" are predominantly used in the masculine form in these Author Terms and Conditions. These terms are of course intended equally for all genders (m/f/d) and do not imply any discrimination.
2. upgrading your User Account to an Author Account
2.1 In order for you to make your templates available to us for sale, your already registered and activated User Account must be upgraded to an Author Account. Our consent is required for this.
2.2 Only natural persons with full capacity to contract (full legal capacity) and legal entities are permitted to upgrade their User Account to an Author Account, provided they meet the requirements of Section 1.5.
2.3 The extension of the User Account to an Author Account is free of charge.
2.4 The data to be provided when upgrading to an Author Account must be complete and truthful and must be kept up to date at all times.
2.5 When you upgrade to an Author Account, your Credit Account will also be upgraded. A distinction is made between credit from income (assigned to the Author Credit Account) and credit from deposits. No purchases can be made with the credit balance from income.
2.6 By clicking on the "Set up author account" button, you accept these Author GTC.
2.7 Your first template will only be activated after the personal and business data you have provided has been verified. For this purpose, it may be necessary to upload corresponding proof in the Author Account.
2.8 With the first activation of your templates, we agree to the extension of your User Account to an Author Account.
2.9 There is no entitlement to upgrade the User Account to an Author Account. We reserve the right to refuse or revert the conversion of your User Account to an Author Account without giving reasons.
2.10 The Author is obliged to update their company/address data, representation/authority arrangements (e.g., managing director, authorised signatory/power of attorney), register and tax data (in particular VAT identification number (VAT ID), tax number), bank details and contact details without undue delay in their Author Account in the event of a change and to provide evidence (e.g., extract from the register, official notices/assessments/decisions) in text form on request. Section 2.7 remains unaffected.
2.11 The Author is obliged to provide reasonable cooperation (e.g. uploading evidence in the Author Account) in order to fulfill statutory verification and proof obligations. If the Author fails to cooperate, we may delay activation or temporarily remove content; Sections 2.7 (initial verification) and 7 (blocking/restriction) apply accordingly.
2.12 We provide access to the following categories of data (not exhaustive, depending on technical availability) in your Author Account:
- (i) Your template, transaction and billing data (e.g. templates, sales, cancellations/reversals, payouts),
- (ii) Performance/usage indicators for your templates (e.g. views, clicks, conversion rate and others, depending on technical availability), possibly in aggregated/anonymized form,
- (iii) Ratings/feedback on your templates,
- (iv) information about action decisions regarding your Author Account/your content.
We use this data to fulfill the contract and to comply with legal requirements as well as for the operation, security and quality of the platform; access is only granted to authorized employees and service providers acting on our instructions to the extent necessary. After the end of the contract, access to historical data remains for a reasonable period of time to process open transactions and to comply with the law; in addition, we grant a reasonable export of your own data on request, insofar as this is technically possible and does not conflict with the rights of third parties.
3. your income and billing
3.1 For each template that you upload and sell via www.crazypatterns.net, i.e. for which the buyer is granted a non-exclusive right to use (simple/non-exclusive licence), you will receive 70% of the gross sales price, less the VAT collected from the buyer, which may vary depending on the buyer’s country. The remaining amount is the payout amount, which will be made available on your Author Credit Account.
3.2 You are responsible for setting the selling price for your templates offered for sale on our website. We reserve the right not to offer templates with non-competitive or non-market prices for sale.
3.3 You are entitled to change the selling price of your template offered for sale on our website at any time. You acknowledge that it is not permitted to change the selling price for transactions processed and confirmed on the website. The buyer acquires the non-exclusive right to use your template at the sales price that applied on our website when they initiated the purchase process for the corresponding template.
3.4 Since the templates are so-called digital goods under tax law, the VAT in the purchase contracts is calculated according to the respective buyer’s country. The amount paid out varies according to the VAT collected by us from the purchase contract between the buyer and us.
3.5 Reference is made to the so-called reverse charge mechanism with regard to the amount paid out as income for Authors from the European Union (except Latvia) and from third countries.
3.6 Once a month, we will prepare an overview in the form of an earnings statement / income statement, which will be available in your Author Account on the 10th of the following month at the latest under the menu item "Account statement → Income reports".
3.7 You can request the payment of your earnings in your Author Account under the menu item "Payouts". Payments will only be made to the bank account or PayPal account you registered when you upgraded your User Account to an Author Account. Payouts to your PayPal account may incur fees for you, which will be charged to you by PayPal and will not be reimbursed by us.
3.8 One payout request per month is free of charge, the day the payout request is submitted is decisive. For each additional payout request in the same month, we will charge a processing fee of €2.00, which will be debited from your Credit Account.
3.9 The maximum amount per payout for a bank transfer is €5,000.00 (five thousand euros) if the payment is made by bank transfer to your bank account and €100.00 (one hundred euros) if the payment is made to your PayPal account. We are entitled to change the maximum amount for payouts at any time for good cause. Higher payouts are possible at any time upon justified request to Support.
3.10 The processing time for a payout request is 5 working days. The processing time is the period from the day after the request is submitted until the day we issue the payment instruction.
3.11 You cannot submit a new request for payment of the remuneration as long as the processing of the previous request has not been completed.
3.12 For all sales of templates processed via the platform, we apply the standard tax rate applicable in the respective buyer country, subject to mandatory legal requirements.
3.13 A deviating (in particular reduced) tax rate will only be taken into account if we have an official decision (e.g. binding information/notice) that is effective against us and relates to the specific template and its distribution via Crazypatterns; the Author shall provide proof of this. Implementation shall only take place with a corresponding binding effect and shall only be effective for the future; retroactive changes to statements/settlements/accountings already issued are excluded, unless there is an existing official obligation towards us.
3.14 Our monthly income reports (cf. 3.6) shall be deemed accepted if the Author does not raise a reasoned objection in text form (e.g., by email) within 30 calendar days of their being made available. Objections are excluded after expiry of the deadline; legally mandatory corrections remain unaffected.
3.15 VAT obligations and rights in connection with the sales of templates processed via the platform shall be borne by us as the seller; the Author shall remain responsible for their own tax obligations and rights.
4. your obligations
4.1 You post your templates independently and at your own risk. In particular, we do not check the accuracy of your information in the description texts or the accuracy of the uploaded documents and images. There is no entitlement to the posting of templates. We alone decide which templates are offered on www.crazypatterns.net and we also reserve the right to remove templates that have already been uploaded.
4.2 Contact data that you receive from us, e.g. from User inquiries, may only be used for personal communication with the User. Any other use is not permitted.
4.3 You are obliged to comply with and observe the currently valid statutory data protection regulations in the context of your authoring activities on www.crazypatterns.net.
4.4 Furthermore, you are obliged to comply with the statutory provisions, in particular not to disseminate any infringing, offensive, racist, sexist, pornographic, defamatory, anti-competitive or otherwise unlawful content via our platform.
4.5 You are obliged to set up your system and programs in connection with the use of www.crazypatterns.net in such a way that neither the security nor the integrity nor the availability of the systems we use to provide the services are impaired. We have the right to set up necessary measures (e.g. access blocks) that are required to ensure the integrity of our systems or the systems of third parties, e.g. our Users.
4.6 You are responsible for the correct treatment of your income under tax law.
4.7 You undertake to keep internal knowledge, e.g. about the programming of our website, secret, neither to pass it on to third parties nor to use it yourself. This obligation remains in force until two years after the deletion of your Author Account.
4.8 You undertake to respond to inquiries from Users within 3 working days of receipt using the reply function on your Author Account. If this is not possible for you, you must inform us accordingly.
4.9 In the event of conflicts/disputes between the buyer and the Author, we will act in favor of the buyer (as long as there is no abuse).
4.10 The Author shall ensure that templates and associated files are provided exclusively in the permitted formats and sizes published on the platform.
4.11 No active content or execution functions are permitted, in particular macros/scripts in documents, embedded JavaScript in PDFs, actions/forms that trigger execution, hidden tracking pixels or external resource calls. Deviating from this, templates with automated functions required for the product purpose (e.g. Excel workbooks with calculations/evaluations) may be offered if this is clearly indicated before the purchase or free download - on the product page and in the file itself with an appropriate description of the purpose. Such functions must work exclusively locally, without external resources/tracking, and must not run automatically when opened. Files must be malware-free.
4.12 The Author shall ensure that all images and videos posted by them - including those within templates and associated files - are clear, sharp, sufficiently exposed, free of excessive artifacts and easy to read (in the case of text/graphics), support the respective content appropriately and are assigned to the content. Misleading, off-topic or obscuring essential product features are not permitted.
4.13 In the event of violations, we may refuse to activate, downgrade or remove content; further rights (e.g. blocking in accordance with Section 7) remain unaffected.
4.14 The statutory obligations of the General Product Safety Regulation (GPSR) apply to templates. The Author is obliged to fulfill these obligations on their own responsibility and to cooperate in their implementation to the extent necessary (in particular by providing correct information in good time).
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(a) The Author shall ensure that all legally required product and safety information for their offers (templates including product images and texts) is properly provided and kept up to date.
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(b) In the Author Account settings, an option is available for the automated integration of stored information on the product page and in their templates (product files/ZIP).
- (i) Activation: The Author authorizes us to automatically use the information stored there and warrants/ensures that it is correct and up-to-date. The Author hereby grants permission for the use of this data.
- (ii) Deactivation/incompleteness: In the event of deactivation or incomplete/incorrect information, the Author must provide the required information visibly on the product page and in the product files (templates) in accordance with GPSR; the information must be correct and truthful and comply with the legal requirements.
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(c) In the event of violations, we may refuse to activate, mark, downgrade or remove offers; the Author shall indemnify us insofar as claims are based on their breach of duty. Section 7 shall apply in addition.
5. rights of use, presentation and advertising measures
5.1 For all templates and other content posted by you, e.g. texts, images, videos, by posting them on our website you grant us a non-exclusive right of use for the purpose of publication and advertising, unlimited as to territory, time and content, but revocable with effect for the future and transferable to third parties.
5.2 It is clarified that the rights of use already granted by us to the respective buyers before the termination of your contract via the Author Account remain in force. The download option of your templates will also remain in the User Accounts of the buyers.
5.3 We may use, edit and evaluate the content at any time. This includes, in particular, the right to reproduce, distribute and the right of communication to the public and the right to make available to the public.
5.4 You also authorize us to use the content in whole or in part for advertising purposes, in particular in social media and in our newsletters.
5.5 In particular, you also grant us the right to technically edit, adapt or prepare the templates and other content posted by you in such a way that they can also be displayed on mobile devices and third-party software applications.
5.6 The granting of the right of use also includes such rights that are necessary to achieve the purpose of the contract and only arise subsequently due to new laws or for other reasons with regard to the content in question.
5.7 The granting of rights to us is fully compensated by the agreed revenue provision in Section 3.1.
5.8 A further granting of rights of use, in particular the granting of exclusive rights of use, can be agreed separately between you and us.
5.9 Notwithstanding Section 5.4, the Author may book optional paid advertising measures on the platform and in our own channels;
- (a) The price lists published in the Author Account shall apply (net plus VAT; reverse charge, if applicable, in accordance with applicable VAT law); changes shall only apply to future bookings;
- (b) Acceptance, scheduling and placement are at our discretion; there is no entitlement to specific series/slots/dates;
- (c) Depending on the format, billing is based on impressions delivered (CPM) or valid clicks (CPC) on the basis of our system logs; obviously invalid impressions/clicks (e.g. bots/automation) are not subject to remuneration;
- (d) Bookings without a time frame can be published at any time; bookings with a time frame expire when the time frame expires; refunds after the start are excluded, statutory rights remain unaffected.
- (e) We may set content/technical requirements; non-compliant advertisements may be rejected, postponed or terminated.
- (f) The Author is not entitled to disclosure of recipient lists, logs or similar data. Only aggregated evaluations are available in the Author Account.
6. rights of third parties, liability, indemnification
6.1 You represent and warrant that you are the lawful holder of the necessary usage rights to the posted templates and other content, e.g. texts, photos, videos, etc.
6.2 In particular, You represent and warrant that you can freely dispose of the templates posted and that the templates and other content (texts, photos, videos, etc.) posted on the sales platform do not infringe any third-party rights, e.g. copyrights, personal rights, name rights, trademark rights, related rights / neighbouring rights, data protection rights.
6.3 We assume no liability for the accuracy of the content uploaded by you. We are not obliged to take measures to check the content uploaded by you and compliance with copyrights or to carry out systematic checks or to establish/prove circumstances that indicate unlawful activity.
6.4 You indemnify us against all claims of third parties which they assert against us or against the buyers due to the unlawful content posted by you. This includes in particular claims for damages as well as the costs of legal prosecution and legal defense, such as lawyer's fees and court costs, which we incur in this connection.
7. blocking of your Author Account
7.1 We reserve the right to block or restrict the function of your already opened Author Account at any time, stating legitimate reasons.
7.2 We can block your Author Account by way of example (not exhaustively) in the following cases:
- if you have provided incorrect or incomplete data
- if you have posted offers with infringing content
- if you have behaved abusively in any other way
- if you violate your confidentiality obligation with regard to your Author Account
7.3 After your Author Account has been blocked or restricted, you can contact us via our contact form to have it unblocked if necessary.
8. limitation of liability
8.1 Insofar as our liability is excluded or limited, this shall also apply to the personal liability of our legal representatives, employees and vicarious agents.
8.2 We assume no liability:
- For loss of or damage to the content provided by you. You must keep the originals or copies of the content provided on your PC or other data carriers.
- For damages resulting from the fact that the warranties/assurances given by you in Section 6.2 are not correct.
- For the content and origin of files and images provided, for copyrights to content, images and designs and possible infringements of intellectual property rights - this is your personal responsibility.
9. modification of the website, unavailability of services, system integrity
9.1 We have the right to change, temporarily suspend or delete any content on our website www.crazypatterns.net, including all current and future site features, databases and other content, at any time.
9.2 In particular, we have the right to temporarily restrict the use of functions, certain services or access to www.crazypatterns.net or parts thereof without prior notice.
9.3 We do not owe or guarantee continuous availability of our website www.crazypatterns.net. Nonetheless, we naturally endeavor to ensure that functionality is as continuous as possible.
9.4 Furthermore, we would like to point out that access to www.crazypatterns.net may be interrupted at times due to technical problems on the part of the Internet, ourselves or third parties (e.g. service providers). The temporary accessibility of www.crazypatterns.net may also be impaired during updates and/or the implementation of additional services or functions.
10. term, termination of contract
10.1 The contract for your Author Account runs for an indefinite period and can be terminated with a notice period of 30 calendar days.
10.2 Your notice of termination must be sent in text form (e.g., by e-mail) to the e-mail address support@crazypatterns.net.
10.3 Termination by us shall be made in text form to the e-mail address stored in the Author Account at that time.
10.4 After notice of termination has been given, ongoing transactions will be duly processed; until they have been completed, templates already sold and services owed may not be interrupted, reduced or restricted.
10.5 We will no longer offer your templates for sale after termination of the contract for the Author Account and will convert your Author Account to a User Account after completion of all outstanding business transactions.
11. contract language, applicable law, final provisions
11.1 The contract language is German.
11.2 Any translations of these GTC available on www.crazypatterns.net are non-binding; only the German version shall be authoritative.
11.3 The contractual relationship between you and us shall be governed by the law of the Republic of Latvia.
11.4 If you are a merchant, a legal entity under public law or a special fund under public law, the place of jurisdiction for all disputes arising from contractual relationships between us and you is Riga / Latvia.
11.5 In the event of the invalidity of one or more provisions of these GTC, the parties shall agree on a replacement provision that comes as close as possible to the invalid provision. The invalidity of one or more provisions of these GTC shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.
11.6 Claims arising from or in connection with these Author GTC are to be asserted individually; bundling, collective actions or model/test case proceedings are excluded, insofar as this does not conflict with mandatory law.
12. Severability clause, reservation of right of amendment
12.1 If a provision in these GTC is or becomes invalid, this shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions.
12.2 We are entitled to unilaterally amend these Author GTC - insofar as they have been introduced into the contractual relationship with you - insofar as this is necessary to eliminate subsequent disruptions of contractual equivalence or to adapt to changed legal or technical conditions.
12.3 These Author GTC must therefore be read again before each contract is concluded. In the event of a change, the currently applicable Author GTC may no longer be available at a later date. However, you have the option of printing out the current Author GTC for your records. We do not store the contract data.
12.4 In the event of a change to the content of the previous Author GTC, you will receive the new version of the Author GTC sent to the e-mail address you have stored in your Author Account, with the note that the new Author GTC will become part of the contract if you do not object within four weeks of receipt. You will be informed of the option to object when you are notified of the new version of our Author GTC. If you do not expressly object to us by e-mail to support@crazypatterns.net within the four-week period, we will deem you to have consented to the application of the new Author GTC.
12.5 If you object to the validity of the new Author GTC in due time, we will no longer offer your provided templates for sale from the effective date of the new Author GTC and will convert your Author Account to a User Account after completion of all open business transactions.
SIA "AISYS" Mihoelsa iela 66-15 LV-5401 Daugavpils represented by its managing director: Aleksandrs Tarvids Register office: Latvijas Republikas Uzņēmumu Reģistrs Registration number: 41503038887 E-mail: post@crazypatterns.net
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