--- title: "Host Agreement (Supplier Terms) | LakeBooking.com" description: "These terms govern the relationship between LakeBooking and the Lake Owners/Hosts listing their venues on our platform." canonical_url: "https://lakebooking.com/legal/host-agreement" locale: en meta: "og:description": "These terms govern the relationship between LakeBooking and the Lake Owners/Hosts listing their venues on our platform." "og:title": "Host Agreement (Supplier Terms)" --- # **Host Agreement (Supplier Terms)** These terms govern the relationship between LakeBooking and the Lake Owners/Hosts listing their venues on our platform. ## Host Agreement (Supplier Terms) **Last Updated:** 20.10.2026 This Host Agreement ("Agreement") is concluded between **LakeBooking S.R.L.** (registered in Romania, CUI 55420249, Trade Register no. J2026049620005, registered office: Strada Dr. Leonte Anastasievici, Nr. 9, Camera 2, Etaj 1, Ap. 2, Sector 5, Bucharest, 050464) (the "Operator") and any legal entity, sole trader (PFA, II, IF), freelancer, or individual owner who registers a host account and lists a fishing lake or swim on lakebooking.com (the "Host" or "Owner"). By publishing a listing on the Platform, the Host accepts and agrees to be legally bound by this Agreement. ### 1. Legal Status of the Platform - **pure Intermediary:** LakeBooking acts exclusively as a technological intermediary (marketplace facilitator) connecting anglers with hosts. LakeBooking does not own, manage, or operate the fishing lakes, swims, or services listed by the Host. - **No Employment:** This Agreement does not create any employment, partnership, joint venture, or franchise relationship between the Operator and the Host. The Host operates as an independent contractor under their own authority. ### 2. Host Licensing, Safety, and Claims - **Compliance and Permits:** The Host represents and warrants that they hold all valid national and local permits, licenses, authorizations, registrations, or approvals required by Romanian and European law for the Host's specific activities, to operate the fishing venue and receive paying customers. - **Safety Obligations:** The Host is solely responsible for maintaining safe premises and complying with all applicable health, safety, environmental, water hygiene, and access regulations. - **Venue and Services Liability:** The Host bears sole responsibility for all representations made in listings and for the services provided at the venue. The Operator assumes zero liability for regulatory breaches, safety failures, or representations made by the Host. - **Niche-Specific Disclaimer:** The Host acknowledges that the Operator does not guarantee fish stock levels, fish species availability, catch success, weather conditions, water conditions, accessibility, lake quality, or general safety of the venue. ### 3. Financial Flow, Platform Fees, and Invoicing - **Booking Fee:** In exchange for the search, listing, and booking technology provided by the Operator, a Booking Fee (currently 10% of the booking value, subject to modification by the Operator upon prior notice to the Host) is charged online. - **No Payout Flow:** The Host acknowledges and agrees that the Booking Fee is collected by the Operator directly from the angler. In settlement of this technology service: - The Operator retains the online fee as its compensation. - The Host is entitled to collect the remaining balance (currently 90% of the booking value) directly from the angler on-site (via cash, card, or other payment methods accepted at the fishery). - No funds will flow from the Operator's bank accounts to the Host's bank accounts. - **Fiscal Invoicing:** - The Operator will issue a fiscal invoice for the Booking Fee directly to the angler (which will be reported to the RO e-Factura system). - The Host holds the exclusive legal obligation to issue a fiscal receipt (*bon fiscal*) or invoice to the angler for the remaining balance collected on-site, in compliance with Romanian fiscal laws. The Host warrants that they will declare all such earnings to the competent tax authorities (ANAF). ### 4. EU DAC7 Tax Reporting Compliance - **Data Provision and Reporting:** Where required by applicable law, including DAC7 reporting obligations, the Host must provide the Operator with complete and accurate tax identification details (CUI, CNP, VAT number, legal address, and IBAN) upon request. The Operator may collect, verify, retain, and report relevant Host information and total facilitated booking values to competent authorities (such as ANAF) as legally required. ### 5. GDPR and Data Protection - **Independent Data Controllers:** The angler's name reaches the Host with the booking. Their email address and phone number reach the Host once the booking is confirmed. From that moment the Host is an independent Data Controller of that personal data under GDPR. At the same moment the angler receives the contact details the Host saved in Lake settings. - **Strict Purpose Limitation:** The Host agrees to process the angler's personal data *solely* to confirm and fulfill the specific booking. The Host is strictly prohibited from: - Using the angler's contact details for unsolicited marketing communications (emails, SMS, phone calls) without obtaining separate, explicit consent. - Selling or sharing the data with any third parties. - **Security:** The Host must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect angler personal data from unauthorized access or leakage. ### 6. Listings, Pricing, Calendar and Suspension Rights - **Listing Responsibility:** The Host is responsible for maintaining accurate pricing, availability, capacity, and booking restrictions. - **Calendar Management:** The Host must keep their calendar up-to-date. If a double-booking occurs due to Host calendar mismanagement, it is treated as a Host-initiated cancellation. - **Prices are final.** The prices the Host sets are the full prices anglers pay for the session, including VAT and every charge an angler cannot avoid (entry, parking or site fees, cleaning, and any tourist or local tax that applies to a package with accommodation). Optional extras are listed as add-ons with their price. The Host does not ask an angler at the lake for any mandatory payment that is not in the price shown on LakeBooking. A deposit, a no-show fee, or a fishing licence the angler needs must be stated in the listing before the angler books. - **How listings are ranked.** A listing appears in search only when its lake accepts bookings, has a package available for the angler's dates and group, and matches every filter the angler set. The default search order is the distance from the place the angler searched, nearest first; anglers can instead sort by price, rating, number of reviews or most recently updated. The lakes directory lists verified lakes first, then the best rated, then the most recently listed. Distance comes first because anglers choose a lake they can reach; verification and reviews come next because they are the signals of quality we can check. No Host can pay for a better position, and the Booking Fee is the same for every Host. We will update this section, with the notice below, before we add or reweight any parameter. - **Honoring Bookings:** The Host must honor all bookings confirmed by the Platform. If the Host cancels a booking (except in documented cases of force majeure, extreme weather, or lake closures), the Operator will refund 100% of the Booking Fee to the angler. Repeated cancellations may lead to a restriction or suspension under the rules below. - **Restriction, suspension and termination:** The Operator may restrict, suspend or delist a listing or an account where the Host breaches this Agreement or Platform policies, provides inaccurate or misleading listing information, receives repeated substantiated complaints, or breaches applicable law. If the Operator ends this Agreement with a Host altogether, it gives at least 30 days' notice with its reasons, except where the law requires it to act sooner, where it must act at once to protect anglers, or where the Host has repeatedly breached this Agreement. The Host can answer the reasons by writing to [**contact@lakebooking.com**](mailto:contact@lakebooking.com), and the Operator will reply. - **Statement of Reasons:** When the Operator restricts, suspends or removes a listing, the Host receives a statement of reasons at the latest when it takes effect, by email, in their account and in their thread with our team. The statement sets out what was restricted and for how long, why, the rule or the law it rests on, whether the bookings ahead stay or are cancelled with their booking fees refunded, and how to ask us to review it within six months. A suspended listing stays editable from the dashboard so the Host can fix what the statement names. - **Changes:** The Operator gives Hosts at least 15 days' notice of any change to this Agreement or to the Booking Fee, unless the law requires an earlier change. ### 7. Chargebacks and Indemnification - **Chargeback Liability:** If an angler initiates a card chargeback via Stripe/bank for the online fee, and the chargeback is decided in the angler's favor due to Host fault (e.g., the swim was unavailable, the Host canceled the session, or the venue was closed), the Host agrees to indemnify and reimburse the Operator for the amount of the refunded fee plus any administrative chargeback fees. ### 8. Reviews, Content and Intellectual Property - **Customer Reviews:** The Host acknowledges and agrees that customers may leave reviews and ratings on the Platform regarding their venue and services. - **Review Moderation:** The Operator may remove reviews that violate Platform policies, in accordance with the Review & Content Policy. - **Review Challenges:** Hosts may challenge reviews through moderation appeal procedures established by the Operator. - **No Rewards for Reviews:** The Host does not offer anglers anything in exchange for a review and does not review their own lake. - **Host Content License:** By uploading photos, logos, descriptions, or videos to the listing, the Host grants the Operator a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to display and distribute that content to promote the platform. - **Accuracy:** The Host warrants that all listing information is accurate and does not violate any third-party copyrights or trademarks. ### 9. Limitation of Liability - **Limitation of Liability.** The Operator is not liable for the services the Host provides at the venue, for fish stock, catches, weather or water conditions, for the acts or omissions of anglers, for disputes between the Host and anglers, or for the Host's lost profits or business interruption. Nothing in this Agreement limits or excludes the Operator's liability for death or personal injury caused by its negligence, for fraud, or for damage caused intentionally or through gross negligence. ### 10. Transfer of a Listing to Another Host - **Right to Request a Transfer:** A Host may request to transfer one of their lake listings, together with everything attached to it (swims, packages, media, calendar, and existing bookings), to another person who already holds a registered host account with a verified email address. - **Operator Approval and Recipient Acceptance:** A transfer takes effect only after (i) the Operator reviews and approves the request, and (ii) the receiving Host expressly accepts it. The Operator may refuse or reverse a transfer at its sole discretion, including where the recipient is not adequately identified or verified, or where the transfer appears intended to circumvent a suspension, penalty, or these terms. - **Effect on the Listing:** Upon completion, the listing is re-submitted for verification and its bookings are paused until the receiving Host completes their own verification and re-enables bookings. The receiving Host becomes the sole party responsible for the listing from that moment. - **Existing Bookings and Liabilities:** Confirmed and upcoming bookings transfer to the receiving Host, who assumes full responsibility for honoring, servicing, and (where applicable) refunding them. The transferring Host remains responsible for their own obligations (including fiscal and DAC7 obligations) for the period during which they operated the listing; the receiving Host is responsible from the moment the transfer completes. - **Tax and Reporting Attribution:** Each Host is responsible for declaring and reporting their own earnings to the competent authorities (ANAF) for the period in which they operated the listing. The Operator may record, retain, and report Host information and facilitated booking values as required by law, including DAC7. - **No Fee:** The Operator does not currently charge a fee for processing a listing transfer. ### 11. Governing Law and Disputes - This Agreement is governed by Romanian law, without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 on platform-to-business relations and to any other rule that applies whatever law the parties choose. - Any dispute arising from this Agreement that cannot be settled amicably will be submitted to the competent courts of law in the municipality where the Operator is registered. - If you list as a private individual who is not acting for the purposes of a trade, business, craft or profession, the two paragraphs above do not deprive you of the protection of the mandatory rules of the country where you live, and you may also bring proceedings in the courts of that country. [**Review & Content Policy** Rules for reviews, ratings, and content uploaded by users on LakeBooking.](https://lakebooking.com/legal/review-policy) [**Experience Host Standards** The standards every host of a fishing experience on LakeBooking agrees to, covering honest listings, safety, licences and closed seasons, money, cancellations and conduct.](https://lakebooking.com/legal/experience-host-standards) ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.