Version: 18 August 2026
1. Provider, scope and acceptance
Deskbrew is provided by the operator named below. These terms apply when you browse the service or submit content. Before submitting, you are shown links to these terms and the privacy policy; submitting confirms your agreement. Mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.
Elias Anderlohr · [email protected]
2. The service
Deskbrew lists physical office locations, collects taste ratings and factual confirmations, and publishes calculated rankings, comparisons and editorial explanations. The score is an opinion-based estimate, not a scientific measurement or promise about a workplace.
Deskbrew is not an employer-review, employee-rating, café-discovery or workplace-complaint service. Entries concern one office’s coffee setup only.
Some features are optional and are switched on only if you allow them: anonymous product measurement, remembering your map position, and an offline cache. Refusing them, or ignoring the question, does not restrict access to any part of the service. Your answer is stored on your device, can be changed at any time under Privacy settings, and is asked for again if we change what the question covers.
3. Eligibility and permitted use
You may use Deskbrew only if you can lawfully agree to these terms. If you are a minor and cannot validly agree alone, you need permission from a parent or legal guardian. Use is free unless a separate offer expressly states otherwise.
4. Contribution rules
You remain responsible for content you submit. Contributions must comply with applicable law and these rules:
- Rate only coffee you genuinely experienced at the exact office selected.
- Submit office facts and correction sources honestly and with reasonable care.
- Do not identify, depict, insult or target employees or other private people, and do not publish personal, confidential or security-sensitive information.
- Do not submit unlawful, defamatory, threatening, hateful, discriminatory, sexually exploitative, privacy-invasive, copyright-infringing or otherwise rights-violating content.
- Do not scrape excessively, interfere with security, bypass rate limits or human checks, introduce malware, or use the service to advertise or spam.
- Do not coordinate fake ratings, submit multiple identities, trade incentives for scores or otherwise manipulate rankings.
5. Photos
If photo upload is offered, upload only content you created or may lawfully license, such as the coffee machine, station, cup, beans or milk selection. Do not show identifiable people without a valid legal basis, documents, access badges, security systems or private screens. Photos start pending moderation and metadata such as EXIF location data is removed before publication where the feature supports publication.
6. Rights you grant
You keep ownership of your content. To operate Deskbrew, you grant the operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to host, reproduce, format, translate, moderate, publish and make the content available through Deskbrew, its feeds, search previews and promotional references to the service. The licence includes the right to use technical service providers for those purposes and is limited to operating, securing, explaining and promoting Deskbrew.
The licence ends when the content is deleted, except for copies that must temporarily remain in backups, integrity and moderation records, legal evidence, or material already lawfully shared by others. Statutory moral and withdrawal rights remain unaffected.
7. Moderation and restrictions
We apply these rules diligently, objectively and proportionately, considering freedom of expression, privacy and the rights of affected people and organisations. Office submissions and comments may be reviewed before publication. Reports and correction requests receive human review.
Automated tools validate formats, identify duplicates, enforce rate limits and flag unusual rating velocity. A flag can temporarily exclude a rating from the score, but lasting content decisions are not made solely by automation.
- Reject or delay a submission before publication.
- Remove content, disable access or reduce its visibility when it is illegal, violates these terms, creates a privacy or security risk, or lacks a credible office connection.
- Exclude suspected manipulation, tests, duplicates or insufficiently supported entries from rankings while preserving a transparent confidence label where appropriate.
- Restrict a guest session or network from contributing when needed to stop abuse or protect the service.
Where we know an affected contributor’s electronic contact details and restrict their content, we provide a clear reason and available redress as required by law. A contributor may ask us to review a decision at the legal contact address.
8. Scores and rankings
Only taste ratings affect the public score. Identity and recency weights, a Bayesian prior, confidence thresholds and integrity exclusions are described in the methodology. Cost, milk, machine and visitor access are factual filters. We may improve the methodology prospectively and version material changes; no office is guaranteed a rank, audience or score.
9. Offices, companies and corrections
Company representatives and other users may propose corrections to factual office details. Representatives cannot identify raters, edit taste scores, remove lawful opinions merely because they are negative, or buy ranking changes. Trademarks and company names are used descriptively to identify locations; no affiliation or endorsement is implied.
10. Illegal-content notices
Anyone can report specific allegedly illegal content through the electronic notice channel linked below. Notices must identify the content and explain the alleged illegality in good faith. We acknowledge sufficiently contactable notices, decide them in a timely, diligent, non-arbitrary and objective manner, and provide the notifier with the decision and available redress. Knowingly false or abusive notices may be disregarded or restricted.
11. Availability and changes to the service
We aim to keep Deskbrew available but do not guarantee uninterrupted or error-free operation. We may repair, secure, change or discontinue functions and may remove obsolete or duplicate office entries. We do not promise to preserve a particular feature, ranking position or item of content indefinitely.
12. Liability
We are liable without limitation for intent and gross negligence, for injury to life, body or health, under the German Product Liability Act, for guarantees expressly given, and wherever liability cannot legally be limited. For ordinary negligence, we are liable only for breach of an essential contractual duty whose performance makes the service possible and on which users may regularly rely; in that case liability is limited to the foreseeable, typical damage.
We are not responsible for user content or third-party sites as though they were our own, but this does not limit duties to act after obtaining legally relevant knowledge. Statutory consumer rights and mandatory liability remain unaffected.
13. Ending use
You may stop using Deskbrew at any time. You may update your active rating from the recognised browser and request deletion or exercise data-protection rights by contacting us. We may restrict contributions for a material or repeated breach, normally after warning where proportionate; immediate action remains possible for illegality, manipulation, security risk or serious harm.
14. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms for changes in law, security, functionality or moderation practice. Significant changes are announced clearly before they take effect where reasonably possible. Changes do not apply retroactively in a way that unfairly removes acquired rights. The date above identifies the current version.
15. Governing law
German law applies, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods. If you are a consumer, this choice does not deprive you of mandatory protections of the country in which you habitually reside. Statutory rules on jurisdiction apply.
16. Consumer dispute resolution
The operator is neither willing nor obliged to participate in dispute-resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board, unless a mandatory rule requires participation in a particular case.