Legal
Last updated: October 2026
Braaands™ ("we", "us") is operated by Braaands™ Roman Hajek, Dreihausgasse 9, 1150 Vienna, Austria, and runs braaands.co — a curation and mediation platform where independent designers submit brand identity work for community voting. Braaands™ is not the author or creator of user-submitted content.
You sign in with a magic link sent to your email — no password is stored. You are responsible for keeping access to that email address secure and must report any unauthorized use of your account to us. Accounts are personal and may not be transferred.
By submitting work, you confirm you own the rights to it or have permission to share it, and you retain ownership of what you submit. You grant Braaands™ the right to display, feature, and promote your submission on the platform, in our email newsletter, and across our social channels. You are responsible for ensuring your submission does not infringe any third party's rights, and you agree to indemnify us against claims arising from a breach of this. If a submission is credibly disputed, we may hide or suspend it from public view while we investigate, even before a final decision is made. Submissions are reviewed before publication and may be rejected at our discretion. Votes are cast by registered members. Votes from jury members, PRO and Agency/Studio members, and members who had at least one approved submission at the time of voting are combined into a final score used to select Brand of the Day, Brand of the Month, Brand of the Year, and Honorable Mention; votes from other members are displayed separately and do not count toward the score or the vote quorum. We may adjust how votes are weighted and counted as the platform evolves.
You may use AI tools as part of your design process. You may not submit work that clearly imitates, reproduces, or closely resembles an existing brand, design, or other protected work — whether produced with or without AI assistance. We make no guarantees regarding the legal compliance of user-submitted content, and reserve the right to remove any submission that appears to infringe third-party rights. Repeated or clearly substantiated infringement may result in removal of the submission, forfeiture of any awards it received, and suspension or termination of your account.
Under the EU AI Act, you must truthfully declare at upload whether your submission contains AI-generated or AI-modified elements, and select the correct label. This declaration is made by you, the designer, on an honor basis — you are solely responsible for its accuracy, not Braaands™. We may remove a submission or its awards if a declaration turns out to be false.
If you believe a submission infringes your rights, send a takedown request to hello@braaands.co with proof of identity and evidence of ownership. We will review and, where warranted, remove the content. Where a claim is disputed, we give the submitting designer a reasonable opportunity to respond before a final decision, except where the evidence is clear or the content poses an urgent risk.
Pro and Agency/Studio designers may opt in to receive project inquiries from visitors. If you contact a designer through the site, your message and contact details are forwarded directly to that designer.
Brands for Sale lets designers with an active PRO or Agency/Studio membership list complete brand identities and lets visitors send them a structured enquiry. Braaands™ only makes the introduction. A listing is not an offer to sell, and Braaands™ is not a party to any agreement between seller and buyer, does not take part in negotiating it, takes no commission and handles no payment. Price, scope, adaptations, licence terms, contract, payment and delivery are agreed directly between the two of them, and each is responsible for their own taxes and legal obligations arising from it.
Selling is open to PRO and Agency/Studio members whom we have approved as sellers. You can list your own approved submissions. By listing a brand you confirm that you created it yourself, that it was not generated by AI, whether entirely or from a reference image, that you hold the rights needed to sell it, and that it infringes no trademark, copyright or other right of a third party. Work already delivered to a paying client, or whose rights lie with someone else, may not be listed. You decide on every enquiry, may decline without giving a reason, and may unlist a brand at any time; an enquiry that is not answered within seven days lapses. Listings go offline automatically when your PRO or Agency/Studio membership ends and stay offline until you switch them on again after renewing. Once you have sold an identity, you mark it as sold; it then stays visible on your profile and on Brands for Sale, labelled as sold, and can no longer be enquired about. Sold identities are not affected when your membership ends. We may hide or remove a listing, or end seller access, if it breaches these terms.
By listing a brand, you allow Braaands™ to show and promote it, including its images, name, description and your designer name, in order to help it sell and to promote Braaands™ itself: on the platform, in our newsletter, on our social channels, in paid advertising and in other marketing material. This is free of charge, non-exclusive and credits you as the designer. It applies to the identity as presented in the listing and continues for identities that have been sold, as a reference, unless you ask us to stop. Where a buyer has acquired rights to the identity, we will not use it in a way that conflicts with those rights.
Listings are shown as a starting price, not as a final price. Most identities have been published before on social platforms, design sites or blogs, and earlier publications cannot be removed from the internet, even where an identity is later sold exclusively. We do not check whether a trademark is available or registrable for a particular business, and a buyer should do this before adopting a brand. When you send an enquiry, your name, email address and the details you enter are forwarded to the seller, who may reply to you directly.
PRO and Agency/Studio subscriptions, one-time extra submission purchases, market listing fees, and sponsor slot bookings are billed through external payment providers. Braaands™ does not process or store your payment card details. Subscription fees renew automatically, monthly or yearly depending on the plan you choose, until cancelled; one-time fees are non-refundable regardless of the review outcome.
You can permanently delete your account, submissions, votes, and awards at any time from your dashboard. This action is irreversible.
The platform and its content are provided "as is." We do not guarantee uninterrupted availability and are not liable for indirect or consequential damages arising from your use of the site, to the extent permitted by law.
We may update these terms as the platform evolves. Continued use after a change means you accept the updated terms.
These terms are governed by Austrian law. The courts of Vienna, Austria have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
Questions about these terms: hello@braaands.co