Terms and Conditions

Last updated: 2 September 2026

1. Provider and Scope

This website, VFXstudy.com, is operated by:

VFXstudy – Bernd Klimm
Forststr. 7
50226 Frechen
Germany

Further contact information and legally required company information can be found in our Legal Notice / Impressum.

These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) apply to the use of VFXstudy.com and, where applicable, to contracts for digital products, training courses, downloads, consultations, training sessions, and other services provided by VFXstudy – Bernd Klimm (“VFXstudy”, “we”, “us”).

For purchases made through a third-party merchant of record, the terms presented by that merchant also apply to the purchase transaction. Section 3 below explains this distinction.

Individual agreements made with a customer take precedence over these Terms to the extent that they conflict with them.

A “Consumer” within these Terms means a natural person entering into a transaction predominantly for purposes outside their trade, business or profession. A “Business Customer” means a natural or legal person acting in the course of their trade, business or profession.

Mandatory statutory rights, in particular consumer rights, are not restricted by these Terms.

2. Website and Free Content

VFXstudy.com provides information, tutorials, articles, videos, downloads, and other materials primarily related to visual effects, compositing, motion graphics, DaVinci Resolve, Fusion, and related subjects.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, free content on the website is provided for informational and educational purposes and does not constitute an individual consulting or training contract.

We take reasonable care in preparing our content but cannot guarantee that every piece of information will remain complete, current or applicable to every particular workflow, software version, hardware configuration or individual situation.

Software, workflows and third-party products may change after content has been published.

3. Sales Channels and Contracting Parties

3.1 Purchases through a Merchant of Record

Certain products, particularly digital training products and downloads, may be sold through an external Merchant of Record.

At the time these Terms were last updated, VFXstudy uses Lemon Squeezy for certain sales.

Where a Merchant of Record is identified during checkout, that company acts as the seller or authorized reseller for the purchase transaction and handles matters such as payment processing, applicable transaction taxes, invoicing, refunds and chargebacks in accordance with the terms presented during checkout.

For purchases made through Lemon Squeezy, the applicable Lemon Squeezy Buyer Terms are presented as part of the checkout process.

VFXstudy remains the supplier, creator and, where applicable, licensor of the digital product or training content. These Terms therefore continue to apply to matters relating to permitted use, intellectual property, course access and the use of VFXstudy services to the extent applicable.

In the event of a conflict concerning the purchase transaction itself, the terms of the Merchant of Record presented to the customer during checkout take precedence for that transaction.

Nothing in these Terms limits mandatory statutory rights that a customer may have against the Merchant of Record or VFXstudy.

3.2 Direct Purchases and Services

VFXstudy may also offer products or services directly. This may include, for example:

individual consultations;
private or corporate training;
remote training sessions;
project-based services;
digital products sold directly;
services booked through an online scheduling system; or
services ordered by email, written offer or invoice.

Where the checkout, booking confirmation, offer or other order documentation identifies VFXstudy – Bernd Klimm as the provider or contracting party, the contract is concluded directly with VFXstudy.

Third-party services such as Stripe, PayPal, Calendly or similar providers may be used for payment processing, scheduling or technical administration. Their involvement does not make them the provider of the underlying VFXstudy product or service unless expressly stated otherwise during the transaction.

3.3 Formation of Direct Contracts

Product descriptions and other information on the website do not necessarily constitute a binding contractual offer.

For direct online purchases, the ordering process presented at checkout determines when a binding contract is formed.

For individually arranged services, a contract may be formed when we accept an order or offer in writing, send a booking or order confirmation, or otherwise expressly agree with the customer to provide the specified service.

The specific description, scope, date, price and other individual terms shown in the relevant offer, product page, booking process or order confirmation form part of the contract.

4. Prices and Payment

The price applicable to a purchase is the price displayed or agreed at the time the order is placed.

For purchases through a Merchant of Record, available payment methods, currency conversion, applicable taxes, invoices and payment processing are governed by the information and terms provided during that checkout.

For contracts concluded directly with VFXstudy, payment must be made using the method and by the due date specified during checkout, in the offer, booking confirmation or invoice.

Where no different payment period has been agreed, payment is due upon receipt of the invoice.

5. Digital Products and Online Training

Digital products may include, for example, video courses, downloadable videos, project files, graphics, templates, macros, scripts, documents, exercises, subtitles and other educational or production materials.

The specific content and features of a product are determined by the product description available at the time of purchase.

Unless otherwise stated, the purchase of a digital product grants the customer a personal, non-exclusive and non-transferable right to use the product for their own purposes.

Purchasing a product does not transfer copyright or other intellectual property rights in the product.

Customers may not, without prior permission:

redistribute, resell or sublicense course material or downloads;
share access credentials with other persons;
make purchased material publicly available;
reproduce substantial parts of a product for redistribution;
upload purchased material to file-sharing services or other platforms for access by third parties; or
remove copyright, trademark or other proprietary notices.

Normal use of the material for the customer’s own learning and work is permitted. Unless a product-specific license states otherwise, customers may use techniques and knowledge learned through the training in their own personal or commercial work.

Different or additional license terms may apply to particular downloadable assets, templates, scripts or other products. Where such terms are clearly provided before purchase or with the relevant product, those specific license terms take precedence for that product.

6. Product Updates and Changes

We may update course material and other digital products from time to time, for example to correct errors, improve explanations, reflect changes in software, improve compatibility or add new material.

Where statutory rules concerning updates or modifications to digital products apply, any update or modification will be made in accordance with those rules.

We will not use a general right to update a product in order to remove material features promised to a Consumer where doing so would violate applicable consumer law.

Technical changes to the delivery platform may occur provided that the customer can continue to use the product in a substantially equivalent manner or where another solution permitted by law is provided.

7. “Lifetime Access”

Some products may expressly be advertised as including “Lifetime Access.”

Where this term is expressly included in the product description, it means that the customer’s right to use the purchased content is not limited to a fixed subscription period.

“Lifetime Access” does not guarantee that a particular website, hosting provider, course platform, technical format or URL will remain operational indefinitely.

If a platform used to provide such content is discontinued or materially changed, we may migrate the content to another platform or provide another reasonable means of access where necessary and reasonably possible.

Where downloadable copies are provided, customers may retain and use those copies in accordance with the applicable license after downloading them.

Any mandatory statutory rights, including rights relating to digital products and their continued provision, remain unaffected.

8. Consultations, Individual Training and Other Services

The scope of an individual consultation, training session or other service is determined by the relevant product description, offer, booking page or individual agreement.

The customer is responsible for providing information and materials reasonably required for us to perform the agreed service and for participating at agreed appointment times.

Where a service requires particular software, hardware, project files, internet connectivity or other technical requirements, these may be specified before the booking.

Any specific cancellation or rescheduling conditions displayed before booking or agreed individually form part of the contract. Where no specific cancellation provisions have been agreed, the applicable statutory rules apply.

Educational, technical and creative consultations are based on professional experience and judgment. Unless expressly agreed as a specific contractual result, we do not guarantee that a consultation, course or training session will achieve a particular commercial, creative, technical or financial outcome.

9. Consumer Right of Withdrawal

Consumers may have a statutory right of withdrawal (“Widerrufsrecht”) for distance contracts under German and European consumer law.

Where VFXstudy is the contracting party and a statutory right of withdrawal applies, the legally required withdrawal information and, where required, the model withdrawal form will be made available separately in connection with the relevant transaction.

9.1 Digital Content

For digital content that is not supplied on a physical medium, a Consumer’s statutory right of withdrawal may expire once performance has begun if all legal requirements for the early expiry of the withdrawal right are satisfied.

In particular, where required by law, this requires the Consumer to:

expressly consent to performance beginning before expiry of the withdrawal period; and
acknowledge that by giving this consent the Consumer will lose the right of withdrawal once performance begins.

The legally required confirmation must also be provided.

A provision in these Terms alone does not constitute the Consumer’s individual consent to the early expiry of the withdrawal right.

9.2 Services

For services such as consultations or individual training, Consumers generally have a statutory withdrawal period where the contract is concluded at a distance.

If a Consumer expressly requests that performance begin before expiry of the withdrawal period and subsequently exercises the right of withdrawal before the service has been fully performed, the Consumer may be required to pay an appropriate amount for the service already provided where the statutory requirements are satisfied.

The right of withdrawal may expire once a paid service has been fully performed if the Consumer expressly agreed to performance beginning before expiry of the withdrawal period and acknowledged that the right of withdrawal would expire upon complete performance, where required by law.

9.3 Merchant of Record Sales

Where a product is purchased through a Merchant of Record, the Merchant of Record provides the applicable checkout information concerning the purchase transaction, including applicable withdrawal and refund provisions.

Mandatory statutory consumer rights remain unaffected.

10. Refunds and Voluntary Cancellation Policies

Statutory rights and any voluntary refund policy are separate matters.

If we or a Merchant of Record offer a voluntary refund, satisfaction guarantee or cancellation policy, the conditions of that offer will be stated in the applicable product description, refund policy or checkout.

A voluntary refund policy does not restrict any mandatory statutory rights.

For purchases made through a Merchant of Record, requests relating to payment refunds may need to be processed by the Merchant of Record in accordance with its applicable terms and procedures.

For purchases made directly from VFXstudy, any applicable refund or cancellation request should be directed to VFXstudy using the contact information specified below.

11. Customer Accounts and Access Credentials

Certain products may require a user account.

Customers are responsible for keeping their login credentials reasonably secure and should not permit unauthorized third parties to use their account.

If we reasonably believe that an account is being used fraudulently, shared contrary to the applicable license, used to infringe intellectual property rights, or used in a way that materially threatens the security of our systems, we may take reasonable measures to protect the service, including temporarily restricting access while the matter is investigated.

Paid access will not be permanently terminated without an appropriate legal or contractual basis.

12. Customer Materials

For consultations, training or other services, customers may provide us with project files, footage, images, audio, documents or other materials.

The customer retains their rights in those materials.

The customer grants VFXstudy the limited right to access, copy, process and display those materials only to the extent reasonably necessary to perform the agreed service.

The customer is responsible for ensuring that they have the necessary rights and permissions to provide such materials to us for this purpose.

Unless separately agreed, we do not acquire any right to publish or use confidential customer project material for advertising, portfolio use or unrelated purposes.

13. Intellectual Property

Unless otherwise indicated, the website and VFXstudy content, including text, graphics, videos, course materials, project files, branding and other original material, are protected by copyright and other applicable intellectual property laws.

All rights not expressly granted to the customer remain reserved.

“VFXstudy” and associated logos or branding may not be used in a manner that falsely suggests endorsement, partnership or affiliation.

Third-party trademarks, software names and other protected material remain the property of their respective owners.

14. Third-Party Services and Links

Our website and services may use or link to third-party services, including video hosting providers, course platforms, payment processors, scheduling systems, social networks and other websites.

Such third parties may apply their own terms and privacy policies to the customer’s direct use of their services.

We are not responsible for independent third-party websites or services that are outside our reasonable control.

This does not exclude responsibility where applicable law makes us responsible for a third-party service used to fulfil our own contractual obligations.

15. Availability and Technical Requirements

We aim to keep our website and purchased online content reasonably available but cannot guarantee uninterrupted operation of internet-based services.

Temporary interruptions may occur as a result of maintenance, security measures, technical failures, hosting outages or events outside our reasonable control.

Where an interruption affects a contractual digital product, the customer’s statutory contractual and consumer rights remain unaffected.

Customers are responsible for maintaining reasonably suitable hardware, software and internet access unless we have expressly agreed to provide them.

Specific compatibility requirements known to us will be described where relevant to the product.

16. Defects and Statutory Rights

Consumers have the statutory rights applicable to defective goods, digital products and services.

In particular, where the German statutory provisions on digital products apply, the Consumer’s statutory rights relating to conformity, required updates, subsequent performance, price reduction, termination and damages remain unaffected.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or restricts such mandatory rights.

Business Customers also retain their statutory rights except to the extent that a lawful individual or contractual agreement provides otherwise.

17. Liability

VFXstudy is liable without limitation:

for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence;
for injury to life, body or health caused intentionally or negligently;
where liability arises under mandatory product liability law;
where we have expressly assumed a guarantee; and
in any other case where liability cannot legally be excluded or limited.

In cases of ordinary negligence involving the breach of an essential contractual obligation, liability is limited to damage that was foreseeable and typical for the type of contract concerned.

An essential contractual obligation is an obligation whose performance is necessary for proper performance of the contract and on whose fulfilment the customer may normally rely.

The above limitations also apply, where legally permissible, to our representatives and persons engaged by us to perform contractual obligations.

Nothing in this section limits mandatory statutory consumer rights.

18. Prohibited Use

Users may not use the website, our services or VFXstudy content:

for unlawful purposes;
to infringe the rights of VFXstudy or third parties;
to distribute malware or malicious code;
to obtain unauthorized access to accounts, servers or systems;
to interfere materially with the operation or security of the website;
to scrape or systematically reproduce protected paid content in violation of applicable law or license terms; or
to impersonate another person or provide deliberately false information where that information is relevant to a transaction.

We may take proportionate measures to prevent or stop such misuse.

19. Privacy

Information about the processing of personal data is provided in our Privacy Policy.

Where third-party payment, scheduling, course-platform or other services are used, those providers may also process personal data in accordance with their own privacy information.

20. Changes to These Terms

We may amend these Terms for future use of the website and for future contracts.

The version presented or valid when a contract is concluded generally applies to that contract.

Changes to Terms governing an existing contract will only take effect where there is a valid legal or contractual basis for the change and where any legally required information, notice or consent requirements have been satisfied.

Merely publishing new Terms on the website does not retroactively change an existing contract where customer consent or another legal basis is required.

21. Governing Law

These Terms and contracts concluded directly with VFXstudy are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, excluding the UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods where its exclusion is legally permissible.

For Consumers, this choice of law does not deprive the Consumer of mandatory protections granted by the law of the country in which the Consumer has their habitual residence where those protections apply under applicable conflict-of-law rules.

22. Jurisdiction

The statutory rules on jurisdiction apply to Consumers.

For Business Customers who are merchants, legal entities under public law or special funds under public law, and where a jurisdiction agreement is legally permissible, the courts having jurisdiction for VFXstudy’s place of business shall have jurisdiction.

Mandatory statutory rules on jurisdiction remain unaffected.

23. Consumer Dispute Resolution

Unless required by law in an individual case, VFXstudy is neither willing nor obligated to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board (“Verbraucherschlichtungsstelle”).

24. Severability

If an individual provision of these Terms is invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions remain unaffected to the extent permitted by law.

The applicable statutory provision applies in place of an invalid or unenforceable provision.

25. Contact

Questions concerning these Terms or products and services provided by VFXstudy can be sent to: