TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE
of the 5-Star Planet® Platform
Last updated: June 27, 2026
Terms at a glance (please read the full document)
This summary contains only the key points we consider most important. Only the full text of these Terms and Conditions has contractual value.
- 5-Star Planet® is the digital platform that helps you turn a great business idea into a well-organized Project, with full transparency and fair profit sharing (our 5-star model).
- The Platform is intended for professional (business) purposes. Therefore, users do not benefit from consumer rights.
- You can use the Platform in three simple ways:
- Solo Plan (free – just you and your ideas)
- Team Plan (paid – when you bring other people on board)
- Contributor Plan (free – you want to contribute to other people's projects and receive a share of the profit when it comes)
- You must be at least 18 years old and have full legal capacity to use the Platform.
- The Platform is intended for professional use. Users do not benefit from specific consumer rights.
- The Platform does not interfere in your business. We are not a party to any associations, contracts or agreements you make with other users. All such matters are resolved directly between you, outside the Platform.
- You can log in easily (currently with your Google account).
- Everything you find here (templates, advice, calculations) is for informational purposes only. It does not replace a lawyer, accountant or consultant – we do not provide legal or tax advice.
- We strive to provide you with a quality service through the Platform, but we also need to protect ourselves. Please also review our liability limitations.
1. About Us and the Platform
1.1. 5-STAR PLANET S.R.L. (hereinafter referred to as “5-Star Planet”, “we” or “the Platform”) is a Romanian legal entity, with its registered office in Bucharest, Sector 5, Str. Ana Davila, No. 6D, room 1, Floor 1, Apartment 3, registered with the Trade Register under no. J2026014776009, unique registration code: 54170047. Contact address: echipa@groupntravel.com.
1.2. We created the Platform as a modern digital tool that facilitates the planning, organization, collaboration and transparent presentation of Projects, based on the 5-Star Planet® model of fair profit sharing (presented on www.5starplanet.org). The Platform promotes social responsibility by enabling a portion of the profit generated by Projects to be directed towards social causes (such as NGOs selected by Contributors). Through the Platform we aim to build a “5-star” community based on transparency, fairness and positive impact on society.
1.3. The Platform is available to Users in three distinct usage Plans (detailed in Section 4) or as simple visitors to public pages.
1.4. All information regarding Projects, Tasks, ownership shares or Contributors is entered directly by Users. We do not verify the accuracy, completeness or legality of such information and assume no responsibility for user-generated content.
1.5. 5-Star Planet® is a platform intended primarily for entrepreneurs, startup founders and persons acting for professional or economic purposes. Even in the case of the Solo Plan, the use is made in the context of planning or testing a business idea or project with economic potential. By accepting these Terms, the User declares that they are acting for the purpose of carrying out an economic or professional activity and not as a consumer within the meaning of consumer protection legislation. The Platform is not designed for and is not addressed to ordinary consumers acting outside any economic activity.
1.6. The specific manner of using the Platform’s functionalities (for example, the calculation of ownership shares, task management, the flow for inviting Contributors) may be detailed in a User Guide, available in the Resources section or directly within the Platform. The User Guide reflects the technical characteristics and functionalities of the Platform, forms an integral part of these Terms and must be observed by Users. Any breach of the User Guide may constitute a breach of these Terms.
2. Our Contract with You
2.1. This document (“Terms”) constitutes the contract concluded between 5-Star Planet and you (“User” or “you”) and sets out the rights and obligations of both parties regarding the use of the Platform.
2.2. These Terms are supplemented by:
- The User Guide – which describes in detail the functionalities, tools and usage of the Platform;
- The Privacy Policy (www.5starplanet.org/privacy) – which regulates the processing of personal data; and
- The Data Processing Agreement (www.5starplanet.org/privacy) – which regulates the relationship between us and you when we process personal data as a data processor.
3. Acceptance of the Terms
3.1. For unregistered visitors, acceptance is made by simply browsing the public pages.
3.2. For creating an account and choosing a Usage Plan, you must read and expressly accept the Terms by checking the corresponding boxes in the acceptance form upon logging in with your Google account.
4. User Plans
4.1. The Platform currently offers three types of access (Plans) for Users, as detailed below. From time to time we may expand or limit the number of Plans, without affecting existing Plans.
4.2. Solo Plan (free)
- Intended for individual testing and personal planning of business ideas.
- Private page, maximum 200 Tasks.
- Does not allow publishing or inviting external Contributors.
4.3. Team Plan (paid)
- Subscription: (prices displayed on the subscription page).
- Allows publishing the Project, inviting Contributors and managing a large number of Tasks.
- The subscription price represents the consideration for the use of the Platform’s technical functionalities. It is not a commission, intermediation fee or profit participation. The Platform is not a party to the relationships between Users.
- The Platform acts exclusively as a technical service provider and does not have the capacity of intermediary, mandatary, associate or party in any legal relationship concluded between Users through the Platform.
4.4. Contributor Plan (free)
- Allows you to create a profile and participate in Projects initiated on the Platform by other persons.
- When getting involved in a Project you must choose one of the following options:
- Contributor – Associate: contribution in goods, skills or money in exchange for a share of the profit (association).
- Contributor – Service Provider: provision and invoicing of services, without profit participation.
- Contributor – Employee: collaboration within the Project as an employee (employment relationship).
The Platform is not a party to any of these legal relationships and does not provide legal, tax or other advice regarding them.
5. User Legal Capacity
5.1. The Platform is addressed to natural persons who are at least 18 years old and have full legal capacity to contract, as well as to legally constituted legal entities acting for professional purposes (not as consumers). We do not assume the obligation to actively verify compliance with these conditions, but we may request confirmation when creating an account.
5.2. If you create an account on behalf of a legal entity (for example, for a startup or for a Contributor legal entity), you declare and warrant that you have the authority to represent that legal entity. Upon our request, you must provide proof of this authority (e.g. a power of attorney or a trade registry excerpt certifying your capacity within the respective entity).
5.3. If you do not meet the above capacity conditions, please do not use the Platform and cease any access to it.
5.4. We reserve the right (without being obliged) to request additional information or documents for the verification of identity and the above conditions. If such information is not provided or is found to be false, we may refuse or suspend the creation of the account or access to the Platform.
6. Registration and Authentication
6.1. User account creation and authentication on the Platform is currently done through your Google account. In the future, we may use other methods of account creation or authentication.
6.2. Upon authentication we receive from Google the minimum necessary information (name, email address, possibly profile picture). The processing of personal data is governed by our Privacy Policy.
6.3. You are responsible for the security of your Google account. We do not access or control this account.
6.4. The account on the Platform belongs exclusively to the User who created it. You may not authorize or allow another person to use your account without our written consent.
7. User Content
7.1. You are fully responsible for the Content you publish (Project descriptions, Tasks, comments etc.).
7.2. By publishing Content you grant us a non-exclusive license to use, display and distribute it within the Platform.
7.3. You declare that you hold the necessary rights over the Content and that it does not infringe third-party rights. It is prohibited to upload, generate or use illegal, harmful, offensive, racist, xenophobic or immoral Content.
7.4. For your login and account data (name, email address associated with the Google account), we act as data controller, according to the Privacy Policy.
7.5. For any other personal data contained in the Content you publish or upload on the Platform (for example, data about Contributors included in Task descriptions or other sections of the Project), you are the data controller, and we act exclusively as a data processor, under the terms of the Data Processing Agreement mentioned in Section 2.2, which is incorporated by reference and forms an integral part of these Terms.
8. Notifications through the Platform
8.1. We may send you notifications through the Platform and/or to the email address associated with your Google account.
8.2. Notifications related to account operation or contractual obligations cannot be disabled.
8.3. A notification sent by email is considered communicated on the first working day following the day it was sent.
9. Billing, Payments and Cancellation (Team Plan)
9.1. The subscription is paid in advance, monthly or annually, and renews automatically unless you choose to cancel it.
9.2. You can cancel the subscription at any time from the account settings, and this termination will take effect at the next billing cycle. Payments made in advance are non-refundable.
9.3. Payment is made through the payment processor indicated within the Platform, in the currency and at the price displayed on the Subscriptions page at the time of purchase. The displayed prices are exclusive of VAT, which shall be applied in accordance with the applicable tax legislation, depending on the country and the tax status of the User.
9.4. For each payment, you will receive a tax invoice issued by 5-Star Planet, sent to the email address associated with your account or made available in the billing section of the Platform.
9.5. We reserve the right to modify the subscription prices. Any increase will apply to existing subscriptions only from the next billing cycle after a minimum 10-day prior notice, sent in accordance with Section 15.
9.6. If a subscription payment cannot be processed (e.g. due to expiration or insufficient funds of the associated payment method), we will notify you and offer you the possibility to update the payment method within a reasonable term.
10. Intellectual Property
10.1. The Platform, the website, the source code and object code, the database, the graphical interface, the design and structure, as well as any other original element of the Platform (collectively referred to as the “Platform Elements”) are the exclusive property of 5-Star Planet S.R.L. or its licensors and are protected by copyright, trademark, design and database protection laws.
10.2. The “5-Star Planet” trademark, logos, slogans and other distinctive signs used in connection with the Platform (hereinafter “Trademarks”) belong to 5-Star Planet S.R.L. or are used by it under license. No provision of these Terms grants you any right over the Trademarks, except those expressly mentioned.
10.3. Subject to compliance with these Terms, we grant you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable and revocable license to access and use the Platform, exclusively for the purposes for which it was made available and for the duration your account is active. This license does not include the right to sublicense, resell or distribute the Platform to third parties.
10.4. Without our prior written consent, you may not:
- copy, reproduce, distribute or create derivative works based on the Trademarks or Platform Elements;
- decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Platform, except where imperatively permitted by law;
- remove, modify or hide any intellectual property notice displayed on the Platform;
- extract, by automated means (scraping, crawling or similar), content or data from the Platform;
- use the Trademarks, in whole or in part, in any product, service, domain name or promotional material of your own;
- present the Platform as your own product or remove references to 5-Star Planet (white-labeling);
- in general, use the Trademarks or Platform Elements otherwise than expressly permitted by these Terms.
10.5. User-generated Content remains, as a rule, the property of its authors, in accordance with Section 7, which regulates the limited license granted to us over it.
10.6. If you send us ideas, suggestions or feedback regarding the Platform, you grant us the right to use, implement and exploit them freely, without any obligation of confidentiality, attribution or compensation to you.
10.7. If you believe that any Content published on the Platform infringes your intellectual property rights, you may notify us at the address indicated in Section 18, indicating the rights invoked and the Content in question; we will analyze the notification and, if justified, restrict access to the respective Content.
10.8. The provisions of this section remain in effect even after the termination, for any reason, of your access to the Platform.
10.9. We may use, free of charge, the name, trade name or trademark of a User, exclusively for the purpose of promoting the Platform (for example, in presentation or marketing materials), limiting ourselves to mentioning the fact that the respective User uses or has used the Platform. Any other use of the name, trade name or trademark of a User is prohibited without their written consent.
11. Permitted Use
11.1. You undertake to use the Platform in good faith, according to its purpose. In particular, it is PROHIBITED:
- to use the Platform otherwise than in accordance with these Terms;
- to publish malicious Content or Content intended to mislead other Users;
- to upload or use illegal, harmful, offensive, racist, xenophobic or immoral content;
- to damage, overload or unauthorizedly interfere with the operation of the Platform or the experience of other Users;
- to decompile or copy the Platform by any method, including reverse engineering;
- to use the Platform for illegal activities, including phishing, unauthorized advertising, spam or other forms of mass messaging;
- to use the Platform in ways that infringe the intellectual property, trade secrets or confidentiality of third parties;
- to transmit materials that contain malware, computer viruses or any other malicious code;
- to use the Platform, in general, in an unreasonable, abusive or illegal manner.
11.2. Violation of the above rules may lead to the suspension or termination of the account, in accordance with Section 14.
12. Availability and Functionality of the Platform
12.1. The Platform is provided “as is”, without warranties of accuracy, continuous availability, economic, legal, tax or other efficiency.
12.2. The Platform is hosted, at the date of this document, on the cloud infrastructure provided by Google, a reputable hosting provider (hereinafter “Hosting Provider”), whose service terms are available at https://cloud.google.com/terms. The Hosting Provider’s Terms apply, symmetrically, to the relationship between us and the Users, to the extent permitted by these Terms.
12.3. We reserve the right to change the Hosting Provider at any time, at our sole discretion, while striving to maintain a high level of availability and functionality of the Platform.
12.4. The Platform is under continuous development. Occasional interruptions, delays or temporary malfunctions may occur; we will strive to minimize them, without being able to guarantee their complete absence.
12.5. The availability, operation and security of the Platform depend, in part, on the infrastructure of the Hosting Provider. We exclude any liability for the unavailability, malfunction or limitation of the Platform’s functionality to the extent that these are caused by failures, interruptions, errors or limitations of the services provided by the Hosting Provider, regardless of their cause.
13. Resources. Limitation of Liability
13.1. Through the Resources section of the website, we may provide you, free of charge, various templates, models or informative materials (e.g. a model of Association Agreement or tools for recording contributions), built on the philosophy of the 5-Star Planet® association model.
13.2. These resources are exclusively informative, represent only an indicative starting point and do not constitute legal, tax, accounting, technical or other advice. It is your responsibility to adapt them to your concrete situation and, it is recommended, to consult a lawyer, tax expert or other qualified professional before using them or making decisions based on them.
13.3. We assume no liability, direct or indirect, for the way these resources are used, adapted or implemented by Users, or for the consequences resulting from such use.
13.4. 5-Star Planet is not a party to the legal relationships between Users and is not liable for the performance of association agreements, service contracts or other commitments concluded between you.
13.5. In any situation, our total liability towards a User is limited to the maximum equivalent of the amounts actually paid by that User to 5-Star Planet in the last 12 months prior to the occurrence of the damage (in the case of the Team Plan) or to 100 RON (in the case of free access). This limitation does not apply in cases of intent or gross negligence. Liability for any indirect damage (such as, but not limited to: lost profit, loss of business opportunities etc.) is excluded.
13.6. The above liability limitations apply, for our benefit, also to the associates, directors, administrators, employees and representatives of 5-Star Planet S.R.L.
13.7. We are not liable for the non-performance or delayed performance of any obligation when this is caused by events or circumstances beyond our reasonable control (e.g. hosting provider malfunctions, cyberattacks, database corruption, force majeure or fortuitous event).
13.8. The Platform may contain links to third-party websites. You use them at your own risk; we are not responsible for the content, products or services offered by those third-party websites.
14. Suspension and Termination of Accounts
14.1. We may suspend or close the account in case of breach of the Terms.
14.2. You may delete your account at any time from the settings. Certain elements of already published Content (for example, comments or Tasks related to other Users’ projects) may be retained for the maintenance of the Platform’s coherence and integrity.
15. Modification of the Terms
15.1. We reserve the right to modify these Terms, with prior notification to Users with a minimum term of 10 days before entry into force.
15.2. Continued use of the Platform after the modification is equivalent to acceptance of the new Terms.
16. Governing Law and Dispute Resolution
16.1. These Terms are governed by Romanian law.
16.2. Disputes shall be resolved by the competent courts at our registered office, unless the law provides otherwise.
17. Assignment
17.1. We may assign this contract to another party, with written notification to you (for example, in the case of the sale or transfer of the Platform). We may also subcontract to third parties certain services related to the operation of the Platform, with your notification, without your consent being required.
18. Contact
18.1. For any questions you can contact us at echipa@groupntravel.com.
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