Contract Guardian for expats in Germany
Understand your German contract before it renews.
Upload a German gym, mobile, or internet contract. Get a plain-English summary, likely cancellation dates, and clear warnings when something needs review.
No card required. German PDF or photo.
Gym membership
Contract analysis
Cancel by
30 September 2026
- ⚠ Renews for another 12 months if you miss the date.
Informational only. This is not legal advice. Always verify deadlines against your contract.
THE PROBLEM
German contracts are built to auto-renew before you notice.
Contracts renew without warning.
You find out your gym contract renewed for another year the same week your mobile plan did too, usually from a bank statement, not a warning. The notice period was there, buried in German legal language nobody has time to read.
CONTRACT GUARDIAN
Upload it once. We watch the date.
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Upload a supported German contract.
A PDF or a clear photo of the pages. It's stored the same way as everything else in your vault: encrypted.
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Review plain-English terms and confidence.
Within a few minutes, you get a plain-English summary: the notice period, a likely cancel-by date, and a confidence rating, plus clear warnings when something needs a closer look.
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Guardian watches saved deadlines and reminds paying users.
Your free check reads one contract. Once you're on Guardian, saved contracts are watched automatically and you get an email reminder before the date passes.
Also included with Guardian
So someone knows sooner if you go quiet.
Most people who live alone don't have anyone checking in on them regularly. If something happens, it can take days for anyone to notice. Guardian includes a check-in that fixes that too: pick how often, and if you stop responding, the people you trust hear from us.
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You check in, on your schedule.
One tap or click confirms you're okay and resets the clock. No new hardware, no wearable, no app to learn.
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Miss it, and a trusted contact hears from us.
A confirmed trusted contact you've named gets an email asking them to check on you. They don't see anything from your vault, only that you missed a check-in.
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Miss it for longer, and your vault reaches the people you chose.
A separate, longer threshold covers the encrypted vault: the documents, accounts, and messages you've prepared, released to the recipients you picked, only if the silence goes on.
THE MOMENT THAT MATTERS
This is what your recipients receive.
When your vault executes, your chosen recipients get a private, secure message: exactly what you wrote, nothing more.
Hi Jane,
Someone who cares about you left you a private message. It was kept safe until this moment, and it's meant for you.
Bank Account Details
Left by: John D.
Account ending: 4821
Sort code: 40-47-84
(more details inside)
This link is private and expires in 90 days.
Ready to set this up for your loved ones? Get Guardian protection →
SIMPLE PRICING
One Guardian plan. Choose monthly or annual billing.
Contract Guardian is included. So is the encrypted vault that looks after your people if you ever go quiet.
Never miss a cancellation deadline again. Sealed Vault items are encrypted in your browser, so only you can read them.
billed €29.99/year
billed monthly
- ✓ Contract Guardian: upload contracts, get alerted before cancel-by dates
- ✓ The German fine print translated, with the cancel-by date worked out for you
- ✓ Cancellation letters ready to send, in German and English
- Also included with Guardian
- ✓ Everything needed for a protected digital estate
- ✓ Sealed Vault (encrypted vault only you can unlock, not even us)
- ✓ Per-item phrase encryption (4-word passphrase, browser-side)
- ✓ Shared-Key Vault Item (E2E encrypted delivery)
- ✓ Two-Person Secret (needs 2 trusted people together to unlock)
- ✓ QR-Vault: print a physical backup your trusted contact can use
- ✓ Trusted Contact alerts
- ✓ Timed release per recipient (7/30/90/365 day delays)
- ✓ Unlimited recipients
- ✓ Recipients access link for up to 1 year
Your first contract check is free. 30-day money-back guarantee. No card required for the free check.
Supported today: Germany.
🇪🇺 Hosted in the EU · 🔒 Hosted on ISO 27001-certified infrastructure
For advisors and firms
Offer Guardian to your clients.
Estate planners, notaries, and financial advisors can add Guardian vault access to their client service.
For care providers and insurers
A daily wellness check-in for residents and clients.
Senior housing operators, Pflegedienste, and private health insurers can add a lightweight daily check-in that alerts the care circle sooner, with a full audit trail.
BEFORE YOU SIGN UP
Common questions
No, not by default. Your notes and files are encrypted the moment they're saved, and Notenz only stores the scrambled version. They're decrypted only when your vault executes and is delivered to your chosen recipients. For stronger protection, Guardian's Sealed Vault encrypts your data in your browser before it reaches our servers, and we never hold that key. Contract Guardian is different: to read your contract and pull out the dates, the file is sent once to Anthropic to be read. No one at Notenz reads it to produce the summary, but that step is not zero-knowledge the way Sealed Vault is.
Nothing happens immediately. Notenz sends reminder nudges and waits a full grace period before doing anything. As long as you click one check-in link before the grace period ends, your vault stays locked and your timer resets.
If delivery is triggered by mistake, Guardian gives you 24 hours to recall it and revoke recipient access. Your vault content is retained for 30 days after delivery, then all files and notes are permanently deleted from our servers.
Yes. Cancel Guardian any time from billing settings; access continues until the end of your billing period. There is no free trial period, but your first contract check is free before you pay. Guardian also includes a 30-day money-back guarantee. Request it from the billing form or by emailing [email protected].
You can export your full vault as a readable file any time from Settings. If Notenz ever wound down, every user would be notified by email with time to export everything before any deletion.
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FROM THE BLOG
Learn the basics
German Contract Cancellation Traps for Expats
How auto-renewal clauses and notice periods actually work, and how to read one before you sign.
What Happens to Your Online Accounts When You're Gone?
What happens to your email, bank, crypto, and subscriptions if no one has access.
How to Use Notenz: The 5-Minute Setup
A step-by-step walkthrough: create an account, add an entry, set your check-in.