Marie Richter HR Consulting

Service Terms & Confidentiality

These service terms and the mutual confidentiality agreement below govern orders of the Pay Transparency Quick Check by Marie Richter Consulting GmbH, Berlin. They are accepted with your order; no separate signature is needed.

Service Terms - Pay Transparency Quick Check

  1. Provider/Client. Marie Richter Consulting GmbH, Berlin ("the Consultant") and the ordering company ("the Client").
  2. Scope of services. The Quick Check comprises exactly: (a) an evaluation of the intake questionnaire and of up to three optionally submitted documents (desk review, not an audit); (b) a readiness scorecard across eight dimensions; (c) a prioritised top-5 action plan; (d) a country overview for the Client's EU employment countries, stating the as-at date of the sources; (e) one 30-minute walkthrough call; (f) one round of written follow-up questions within 14 days after the walkthrough call. Further calls, additional stakeholder sessions or add-on modules require a separate order and separate remuneration.
  3. Express exclusions. No legal advice (transposition statuses are reported from public sources as at a stated date; legal review remains the responsibility of the Client and its law firm). No processing of salary or employee data at individual level. No implementation.
  4. Client cooperation and start of the delivery period. The delivery period of 5 working days (7 working days for the nine-or-more-EU-countries tier) begins on receipt of the fully completed questionnaire. Incomplete or evidently implausible information suspends the delivery period; the Consultant will raise queries once, in consolidated form.
  5. Price and payment. Fixed price as per the order (EUR 2,400 net for up to two EU employment countries; EUR 2,900 net for three to eight; EUR 3,600 net for nine or more EU employment countries, ordered only after a short scoping call and carrying the 7-working-day delivery period), plus statutory VAT. The invoice is issued on order and is payable within 14 days. Delivery of the report and the walkthrough call are not conditional on receipt of payment; the payment period runs independently.
  6. Cancellation. The Client may cancel free of charge until the completed questionnaire is submitted. Thereafter the full price is due, as preparation of the report begins at that point.
  7. Basis of the findings. The scorecard assesses the Client's self-reported information. Status statements (e.g. "Operating") do not confirm actual legal compliance; the status "Defensible" is not awarded on the basis of self-reported information.
  8. Usage rights. The report is intended for the Client's internal use (including sharing with its advisers and lawyers). The methodology, questionnaire, scoring model and templates remain the property of the Consultant.
  9. Liability. Liability for ordinary negligence is limited to the order value; liability for intent, gross negligence and injury to life, body or health remains unaffected. No liability is accepted for business or legal decisions taken by the Client on the basis of the report.
  10. Confidentiality. As per the attached confidentiality agreement (section 3a of this document).
  11. Data protection. Only company-level information is processed; details as per the privacy notice on the website. No special categories of personal data are collected.
  12. Concluding provisions. German law applies; the place of jurisdiction is Berlin, provided the Client is a merchant (Kaufmann) within the meaning of the German Commercial Code. Amendments must be made in text form. Should individual provisions be or become invalid, the remaining provisions remain in effect. The contract may be concluded in English or in German; where both language versions exist, the German version prevails.

Confidentiality Agreement (mutual NDA)

  1. Confidential information means all non-public information that one party makes available to the other in connection with the Quick Check, in particular information from the intake questionnaire, submitted documents and the report itself.
  2. Purpose limitation. Both parties use confidential information solely for carrying out the Quick Check and disclose it only to persons who need to know it for that purpose and who are bound by corresponding obligations. The Consultant may use AI-assisted tools under its own control in producing the deliverables; client information is not used to train third-party models.
  3. Exceptions. Information that is or becomes publicly known (without breach of this agreement), is lawfully obtained from third parties, is demonstrably developed independently, or must be disclosed under a legal obligation.
  4. Anonymised learnings. The Consultant may continue to use anonymised insights that cannot be traced back to the Client (patterns, benchmark logic, methodology improvements) in its consulting practice. The Client's name and identifying details are not referenced without separate consent.
  5. Term. The confidentiality obligations apply for 3 years from the date of the order.
  6. Return/deletion. At the Client's request, submitted documents are deleted after completion of the engagement; statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.
  7. No licence or transfer of rights beyond clause 2. German law applies.

Version: 2026-07-06