Les Rituels

Convenience translation. The German version is binding.

These terms apply to invitations of Line V "Les Rituels" (currently Rituel N° I "Hold still.") acquired by consumers on maisontaut.com. Where they provide otherwise, they take precedence over the other terms on this page.

1. Contracting party. Your contracting party is gannaca GmbH & Co. KG, Habsburgerring 3, 50674 Köln, Germany, Amtsgericht Köln, HRA 23235, VAT ID DE814575529 ("we"). Maison Taut is a brand of gannaca GmbH & Co. KG. Contact: door@maisontaut.com, phone +49 160 92269672.

2. Subject matter. You acquire an invitation to a domestic ritual between two adults, in one of the variants offered ("Shave me.", "Let me.", "In turn." or "The triptych." with three invitations). The contract comprises:

• The invitation: a personal card as a web page and in a printable version, stating the variant, a serial number, the validity date and, if provided, the first name of the recipient and a dedication (up to 120 characters). Digital content.
• The ritual book: instructions in seven steps with a shopping list and notes on safety, hygiene and aftercare. It is unlocked once the invitation has been accepted. Digital content.
• The rehearsal, only if the option is booked or with the triptych: an online service in which you describe the planned sequence and upload up to three photos of the room; an AI system replies with suggestions. Digital service.

The replies in the rehearsal are generated by an AI system (a language model of Anthropic PBC) that writes in the register of Niander Wallace. No person writes or reviews them before they are shown. They may be incomplete or incorrect.

The contract is a one-time acquisition; no subscription arises. Technical requirements: a current web browser, an internet connection and an e-mail account; for the rehearsal, photos in common image formats. The description on the offer page at the time of the order is decisive.

3. Conclusion of the contract. The presentation on maisontaut.com is not a binding offer. After choosing the variant and, where applicable, the option, you are taken to a payment page of Stripe Payments Europe Ltd. There you enter your details, confirm these terms and your request for immediate performance, and make a binding offer with the payment button. The contract is concluded once payment has been completed successfully. Until then you may correct your entries or cancel. The contract languages are German and English; the German version prevails. We store the contract text. You receive it, together with these terms and the withdrawal information, in the confirmation e-mail.

4. Prices and payment. The prices stated at the time of the order apply. They are final prices including statutory VAT; there are no shipping costs. You pay via Stripe using the payment methods offered there; the price is due on conclusion of the contract. You receive the invoice by e-mail. Your bank statement shows the name of gannaca only, with no reference to the content.

5. Provision. Immediately after the contract is concluded we send the contract confirmation with the link to the invitation to the e-mail address you provided. From then on the invitation can be opened and printed. The ritual book and, if booked, the rehearsal are unlocked once the invitation has been accepted via its link. If the e-mail does not arrive, write to door@maisontaut.com; we will resend the link to the address given at purchase.

6. Validity. An invitation can be accepted until the end of the third calendar year after the year of purchase; for purchases in 2026, until 31 December 2029. The date is shown on the invitation. Until then the ritual book and the rehearsal remain available. You may print the ritual book or save it as a PDF at any time.

7. Passing on. The invitation is meant as a gift. You may pass the link or the printed version to an adult. Whoever knows the link can accept the invitation; treat it like a key. Each invitation can be accepted once and is then assigned to the person who accepted it. You remain the contracting party; the rights under the contract, such as withdrawal and remedies for defects, are yours.

8. No cash payout. The price is not paid out in cash or as credit. Statutory claims to repayment, in particular after withdrawal or because of a defect, remain unaffected.

9. Requirements. The rituals are intended for adults only. Purchase and acceptance require that the person concerned has reached the age of 18. A ritual requires the free and continuing consent of both participants. Each participant may end it at any time without giving reasons, in particular with the word agreed beforehand; an ending must be respected at once. The participants carry out the ritual on their own responsibility.

10. Safety and health.

• The ritual book and the rehearsal are not medical, dermatological or other health advice.
• Do not carry out the ritual in case of skin disease, irritated, inflamed or injured skin, known allergies to the products used, bleeding disorders or the use of anticoagulants, impaired wound healing or comparable circumstances. If in doubt, seek medical advice beforehand.
• Each person uses their own new blade. Blades are neither shared nor reused.
• Never shave dry. No straight razor without practice. No alcohol or other intoxicants beforehand.
• Test new care products on a small area of skin first.
• If there is a cut, stop the bleeding with clean pressure and dress the spot. For deep or persistently bleeding injuries or signs of inflammation, seek medical help.

11. No products, no performance of the ritual. We supply only the invitation, the ritual book and, where applicable, the rehearsal. We do not sell blades, razors, trimmers, care products or any other goods, and we neither carry out the ritual nor attend or supervise it. The shopping list names types of products, not brands; for choice and use, the manufacturers' instructions apply.

12. Rights of use. Texts, images and design of the invitation, the ritual book and the rehearsal are protected by copyright. You and the person who accepts the invitation receive the simple, non-transferable right to use, store and print the content privately; passing on the invitation under clause 7 remains permitted. In particular, copying for distribution to third parties, publication, commercial use and use for training AI models are not permitted. The same applies to the replies of the rehearsal, to the extent rights exist in them.

13. The rehearsal. Each invitation with rehearsal includes up to five runs, usable until the end of validity. A run consists of a description with up to three photos and the reply. Photos must not show persons, nudity or data of third parties. The system may reject entries that breach this; a rejected run is not counted. The rehearsal depends on third-party services (AI provider, hosting). Temporary interruptions due to maintenance or faults may occur; we remedy them within a reasonable time. Your rights under §§ 327 et seq. BGB remain unaffected.

14. Remedies for defects. The statutory remedies for defects apply; for the invitation, the ritual book and the rehearsal as digital products, in particular §§ 327 et seq. BGB. Please send defects and complaints to door@maisontaut.com.

15. Liability. We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act and to the extent of any guarantee we have given. For a slightly negligent breach of an essential contractual obligation, meaning an obligation whose fulfilment makes proper performance of the contract possible in the first place and on whose observance you may regularly rely, liability is limited to the foreseeable damage typical for the contract. Otherwise, liability for slight negligence is excluded. These rules also apply to our legal representatives and vicarious agents.

We provide the invitation and the instructions, not the performance of the ritual. We are not responsible for how the participants carry it out or for third-party products, unless damage results from an error in our content; the preceding paragraph remains unaffected.

16. Withdrawal. You have a right of withdrawal as set out in the following withdrawal information. After an effective withdrawal we deactivate the invitation concerned together with the ritual book and the rehearsal; the content may no longer be used (§ 357(8), § 327p BGB). Any compensation for the rehearsal is based on its price: the price shown for the option or, in the triptych, the share shown on the invoice. It is calculated by the runs completed until withdrawal in proportion to five.

17. Dispute resolution. We are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

18. Applicable law. German law applies. Mandatory consumer protection provisions of the country of your habitual residence remain unaffected.

Convenience translation. The German version is binding.

Withdrawal information

Right of withdrawal

You have the right to withdraw from this contract within fourteen days without giving any reason.

The withdrawal period will expire after fourteen days from the day of the conclusion of the contract.

To exercise the right of withdrawal, you must inform us (gannaca GmbH & Co. KG, Habsburgerring 3, 50674 Köln, Germany, phone: +49 160 92269672, e-mail: door@maisontaut.com) of your decision to withdraw from this contract by an unequivocal statement (e.g. a letter sent by post or an e-mail). You may use the attached model withdrawal form, but it is not obligatory.

You can also exercise your right of withdrawal online at maisontaut.com/legal/widerruf. If you use this online function, we will send you, on a durable medium (e.g. by e-mail) and without undue delay, an acknowledgement of receipt with information on the content of the withdrawal statement and the date and time of its receipt.

To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient for you to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.

Effects of withdrawal

If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse to you all payments received from you, including the costs of delivery (with the exception of the supplementary costs resulting from your choice of a type of delivery other than the least expensive type of standard delivery offered by us), without undue delay and in any event not later than fourteen days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw from this contract. We will carry out such reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction, unless you have expressly agreed otherwise; in any event, you will not incur any fees as a result of such reimbursement.

If you requested to begin the performance of services during the withdrawal period, you shall pay us an amount which is in proportion to what has been provided until you have communicated to us your withdrawal from this contract, in comparison with the full coverage of the contract.

Lapse of the right of withdrawal

The invitation and the ritual book are digital content not supplied on a tangible medium. Your right of withdrawal for this part of the contract lapses once we have begun performance, after you have expressly consented to our beginning performance before the end of the withdrawal period, have acknowledged that by this consent you lose your right of withdrawal once performance begins, and we have provided you with a confirmation of the contract on a durable medium (§ 356(6) BGB).

The rehearsal is a service. Your right of withdrawal for this part of the contract lapses once it has been fully provided, if before provision began you expressly consented to our beginning provision before the end of the withdrawal period and acknowledged that your right of withdrawal lapses once we have fully performed the contract (§ 356(5) BGB). The rehearsal has been fully provided once all five runs have been used.

Model withdrawal form

(Complete and return this form only if you wish to withdraw from the contract.)

• To gannaca GmbH & Co. KG, Habsburgerring 3, 50674 Köln, Germany, e-mail: door@maisontaut.com:
• I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/We (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract of sale of the following goods (*)/for the provision of the following service (*)
• Ordered on (*)/received on (*)
• Name of consumer(s)
• Address of consumer(s)
• Signature of consumer(s) (only if this form is notified on paper)
• Date

(*) Delete as appropriate.

Convenience translation. The German version is binding.

Controller. gannaca GmbH & Co. KG, Habsburgerring 3, 50674 Köln, Germany, door@maisontaut.com. See the imprint.

What data. At purchase: your e-mail address, the chosen variant and option, optionally the recipient's first name and a dedication (up to 120 characters), the serial number of the invitation, the time of purchase and of consent, and the Stripe session ID. Name, billing address and payment details are collected by Stripe; we receive what is needed for invoicing and accounting. At acceptance: the time of acceptance and the confirmations given. In the rehearsal: your description and up to three photos per run, and the number of runs used. We do not store photos. When pages are accessed, our host processes technically necessary connection data such as the IP address.

Purposes and legal bases.

• Conclusion and performance of the contract: providing the invitation, unlocking the ritual book and the rehearsal, messages about the contract. Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
• Invoicing and statutory retention. Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR in conjunction with § 147 AO and § 257 HGB.
• Evidence of your consents and confirmations, prevention of misuse, processing of the first name and dedication for the recipient. Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our interest and that of the giver lies in handing over the gift properly and in evidencing the handling of the contract.
• Free texts and photos in the rehearsal, where they contain special categories of personal data: your explicit consent, Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR, which you give before the first run and may withdraw at any time with effect for the future.

Special categories. We do not ask for information on health or sex life. Anyone who provides it in the dedication or in the description for the rehearsal does so voluntarily. Please bear in mind that the dedication is visible to anyone who knows the link.

The rehearsal and AI. The replies in the rehearsal are generated by an AI system; the rehearsal page says so (Art. 50(1) AI Act). For each run we transmit your description and your photos to Anthropic PBC, display the reply and then discard photos, description and reply. Before transmission we remove embedded photo metadata such as location. Photos should not show persons. According to Anthropic, it deletes inputs and outputs within 30 days unless agreed otherwise and, under its terms for commercial customers, does not use them for training. No automated decision within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR takes place.

Recipients. We use the following service providers, as processors under Art. 28 GDPR or, in the case of Stripe for parts of payment processing, as independent controllers:

• Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., Dublin, Ireland: payment, invoice, tax calculation.
• Netlify, Inc., San Francisco, USA: hosting, server functions and storage of invitation data (Netlify Blobs).
• Resend, Inc., San Francisco, USA: sending e-mails. Our e-mails contain no tracking pixels.
• Anthropic PBC, San Francisco, USA: AI system of the rehearsal.

Netlify, Resend and Anthropic process data in the USA; Stripe may transfer data to Stripe, Inc. in the USA. The legal basis is the European Commission's adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (Art. 45 GDPR) where the recipient is certified, and otherwise the European Commission's standard contractual clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR).

On the pages of the rituals we collect no personal usage data; usage figures are collected only in aggregate and without reference to persons.

Retention. We store invitation data until the end of the validity of the invitation concerned (for purchases in 2026: 31 December 2029) and then delete it. At your request we delete earlier unless a retention obligation prevents it; the invitation can then no longer be used. Invoices and other accounting vouchers are kept for eight years, books for ten years (§ 147 AO, § 257 HGB). Evidence of consent and contract confirmation is kept for as long as claims under the contract can be asserted.

Obligation to provide data. Without an e-mail address we cannot perform the contract. First name and dedication are voluntary.

Your rights. You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20). You may object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21). You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7(3)). Write to door@maisontaut.com. You may lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77), for example the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia.