Terms and conditions

01Who we are

Get Me Afloat is run by BRED Applications, a sole proprietorship (enkeltmandsvirksomhed) registered in Denmark. In these terms, “we” and “us” mean BRED Applications, and “you” means the business that buys or bids.

We're buying a Beneteau Oceanis 48 sailing yacht to live aboard and film, and BRED Applications will own her. She isn't bought yet: the sponsorships help pay for her, and section 8 says what happens if she's late. What we sell is advertising: spaces for your logo on her hull, sails and spreader flags, with sponsor mentions and reels, and a sponsor buoy on our website.

We don't take donations or contributions from the public. Anyone can join the sea of names on our website for free, by commenting SEA under one of our reels on Instagram.

02How you buy

Businesses only. Sponsor spaces, bids and the buoy are sold to businesses: companies, sole traders, associations and other organisations. By ordering or bidding you confirm that you act for a business and may bind it. If you buy as a consumer anyway, nothing in these terms takes away the rights consumer law gives you.

When it becomes binding:

The terms you accept. You accept these terms when you place an order, a bid or a request. The version on this page at that moment applies to it, and you can save or print this page to keep a copy. The contract and these terms are in English.

03Bidding on the spaces

Every space on the boat goes to the highest bid. Each side of the hull, each side of the mainsail and the genoa, and each spreader flag is its own space, with one sponsor per space.

Every space also puts your logo on the 3D boat on our website. Starting prices rise by 10% with every space sold, and the deposits with them, so the site always shows the current figures.

1. Deposit. To bid on a space you sign in with your email (we send you a link) and reserve a deposit on your card, once per space: 10% of the space's starting price at the time. It's a hold, not a charge.
2. Approval. A new company's first bid goes live once we've approved the brand, and we aim to do that within 24 hours. If we decline, your deposit is released and the bid lapses.
3. Binding bids. After that, your bids on the space go live at once, with no new payment step. A bid can't be withdrawn.
4. Minimum bid. At least the space's starting price, and at least 5% above the leading bid, rounded up to the next €100.
5. 72 hours. A bid that leads for 72 hours wins. Every new bid on the space starts the 72 hours again. A space without bids waits for its first.
6. Outbid. Your deposit stays reserved, so you can bid again at once. We release it when someone else wins the space, when Buy it now ends the bidding, or when you ask us to; to bid on the space again after that, you reserve a new deposit.
7. Renewing. A hold on a card lasts 7 days. After 6 days we ask you to renew your deposit, with one click. Until you do, you can't place new bids on the space, but your bids stand. If you win while your deposit has run out, the whole price is invoiced.
8. Winning. We charge your deposit and invoice the rest of your bid, plus VAT where it applies, due within 7 days. Every other deposit on the space is released.
9. Your print. We make, print and fit your hull decal, sail side or flag at our cost. Send us your logo as a vector file (SVG, PDF, EPS or AI) within 14 days of winning, so it prints sharp at full size. Your 12 months start when your logo is first on the boat at sea (section 8).
10. If the winner doesn't pay, we keep the deposit, and may offer the space to the next highest bidder at their bid, or open the bidding again. If our loss is bigger than the deposit, you owe us the rest of it, at most the difference between your bid and the price the space finally goes for.
11. On show while you lead. While your bid leads, the logo you sent with it (or your company name) is on the space on our website, with your bid and the time left.
12. Fair bidding. We never bid ourselves or through anyone else. We may pause the bidding during a technical fault. If we have to stop the bidding on a space for good, no bid wins and every deposit on it is released. If the order or time of bids is ever in doubt, the records on our server decide.
13. No card? If your card declines the deposit, we can arrange a deposit by bank transfer before approval. Write to us.

04Buy it now

One company can take every space on the boat at once, for 12 months: both sides of the hull, the mainsail and the genoa, and both spreader flags, with all their content (14 sponsor mentions in our YouTube videos and 16 reels) and your logo on every space of the 3D boat on our website.

• Price. €400,000 excl. VAT, or, if it's higher, the sum of what every space would cost right now (its price, or the minimum next bid where a bid leads), rounded up to the next €1,000. The site shows the current price, and the price when you send your request is yours.
• While the boat is free. Buy it now is on offer only while no space has been sold.
• How. You send a request with your company's invoice address and VAT number. We approve it like any sponsor, and when we do, the bidding ends on every space and every deposit is released.
• Payment. By invoice, plus VAT where it applies, due within 7 days.

05The sponsor buoy

A buoy floats beside the boat on our website, with the logos of up to 10 sponsors. It's an online ad only: there's no buoy at sea.

• Price. €1,000 excl. VAT for 30 days, or €9,000 for 12 months (365 days).
• Sharing. Up to 10 sponsors share the buoy, and it turns to each of them at least every 10 minutes.
• Clicks. A click on your logo opens the website you give us. The buoy is marked “Sponsored”.
• Your period starts when we approve your booking, and ends by itself. Nothing renews automatically.
• No guarantees of a number of visitors, views or clicks.

06Approval, your logo and our content

• Approval. We approve every sponsor before its logo goes up and before anything is charged. We can decline a brand without giving a reason, and we always decline gambling, alcohol, tobacco and nicotine, weapons, adult content and party politics.
• Your logo. You confirm that you may use the name and logo you send us, and give us a non-exclusive, royalty-free right to show them on the boat, on our website and in our videos, reels and posts during your term. If someone claims that your logo infringes their rights, you deal with the claim and cover our costs.
• After your term, your logo comes off the boat and our website. Videos, reels and posts published during your term stay online as they are.
• Marked as advertising. Sponsor mentions and reels are marked as advertising or a paid partnership, as the law and the platforms require.
• Our content. We decide what our videos and reels show and say. A sponsor mention says who you are and that you sponsor the boat, and we only say about your products what we believe to be true. You're welcome to send us a few facts to include.
• Conduct, both ways. If you seriously breach these terms, or your brand becomes one we would have declined or does something that seriously harms the project's reputation, we can end the sponsorship and take your logo down, without a refund. If we seriously harm your brand's reputation, you can end it, and we refund the part of the price for the time left (all of it, if your term hasn't started).

07Prices, payment and VAT

Prices are in euros and exclude VAT. The VAT depends on where your business is:

EU VAT numbers are checked in the EU's VIES register. Every purchase gets an invoice from BRED Applications, in euros, and Danish VAT is also shown in Danish kroner.

How you pay

• The buoy: by card at checkout. Your card is held for the price excl. VAT and charged when we approve your brand. Any VAT is on the invoice, due within 7 days. A hold on a card lasts 7 days; if it runs out before we've approved, the whole price is invoiced instead.
• Bids: the deposit is held on your card and charged if you win. The rest is invoiced, due within 7 days.
• Buy it now: by invoice, due within 7 days.

Card payments and invoices go through Stripe, and we don't add card fees. An invoice can be paid on its payment page; write to us if you'd rather pay by bank transfer. If an invoice isn't paid on time, we may charge interest and compensation under the Danish Interest Act (renteloven).

08The boat, your term and the unexpected

• The boat isn't bought yet. We'll email every sponsor as soon as we know when she'll sail with the sponsors' logos.
• Your 12 months on the boat start the day your logo is first on her at sea. Your logo is on the 3D boat on our website from our approval until your 12 months end, and your sponsor mentions and reels come during the 12 months.
• If she's late. If your logo isn't on the boat at sea within 12 months of your payment, you choose: end the sponsorship and get back everything you paid for it, or keep waiting.
• Damage and repairs. If your hull decal, sail or flag is damaged, or off the boat for more than 30 days in a row (for repairs, a refit or a winter ashore), we replace it, fit it again, or add the time to your term.
• If the voyage ends. If the boat is lost, or we have to end the project for good, we refund the part of your price for the months left (all of it, if your term hasn't started).
• Events we can't control, such as severe weather, illness, accidents, war, or closed ports and borders, can delay us. We're not liable for such a delay, but your right to your money back above still applies.
• What we promise is what's listed for your space: not particular routes, places or dates, nor a number of views or followers.

09Cancelling and refunds

• As a business you have no statutory right of withdrawal.
• Until we've approved your brand, you can cancel an order, or your first bid on a space, free of charge by emailing us. The hold on your card is released.
• After approval, an order can't be cancelled and a bid can't be withdrawn. Money comes back only where these terms say so (sections 6 and 8).
• Refunds go back the way you paid, within 14 days.

10What we show publicly

Sponsoring is public by nature. On the boat, on our website and in our videos and posts we show:

• each sponsor's company name and logo, and for the buoy, its website;
• on a space with bids, the leading company's logo or name, the leading bid and the time left;
• our sponsors, in the sponsor mentions and reels;
• in the sea of names, the Instagram @ of everyone who commented SEA under our reels, until they ask us to take it out.

We never publish email addresses, invoice addresses, VAT numbers or payment details, and we don't name outbid companies. Our privacy policy says how we handle personal data; BRED Applications is the data controller.

11Liability, law and complaints

• Liability. Except where a loss is caused intentionally or by gross negligence, our liability for a sponsorship is limited to the price you paid for it, and neither of us is liable to the other for indirect loss, such as lost profit or lost business.
• Law. Danish law applies, and disputes go to the Danish courts. A consumer keeps the protection of the law of their own country.
• Complaints. Write to us first, at contact@bredapplications.com, and we answer within 14 days. A consumer can also complain to Nævnenes Hus (naevneneshus.dk), and a consumer in another EU country can get help from the European Consumer Centre Denmark (forbrugereuropa.dk).

12Changes to these terms

We may update these terms, for example when we add new spaces or a new way to take part. Changes apply to orders, bids and requests placed after they're published here; the version you accepted applies to yours. The date at the top shows the latest version.