Selling into Germany? Your site needs an Impressum that people can find.
We load your site the way any visitor does, look for provider details, check whether they are reachable from any page in at most two clicks, and tell you what is missing. Thirty seconds, no signup.
PASTE YOUR SITE'S ADDRESSAnyone running a commercial website aimed at Germany must keep certain details easily recognisable, directly reachable and permanently available under § 5 DDG (formerly § 5 TMG): name, postal address, email address, for companies the authorised representatives and the register, for certain professions the chamber and the professional title, and a VAT identification number where one exists.
"Commercial" is broader than most people assume. No profit is required: a site set up for the long term with some economic purpose falls under it. A pure hobby page with no advertising, no sales and no link to an occupation does not.
"Directly reachable" in practice means: from every page, in at most two clicks, under a label people recognise. A link that only sits in the footer of the home page and is missing on subpages does not qualify.
No builder produces an Impressum by itself and none asks for one. The templates are American, and the duty does not exist there. In our sample of public Lovable sites, 97 of 100 had no provider details at all.
On top of that comes the most common technical failure: the site is a single-page app, the link points at /impressum, and the builder serves the home page at that address. To a visitor it looks like an Impressum; to anyone checking, there is none. We report that separately.
Whether provider details exist at all, whether they are reachable from a subpage, whether the linked address really serves an Impressum instead of the home page, and whether the usual mandatory fields appear as text patterns.
We do not assess your individual case and we do not tell you whether your Impressum is complete in substance. That is legal advice and we are not allowed to give it. We tell you what is technically there and link the rule.
German law expects a provider page on commercial sites (§5 DDG). We say what we found and link the rule. General information, not legal advice.
For a purely private site with no economic purpose, no. As soon as advertising, affiliate links, a shop, a booking form or a link to your professional activity appear, the duty applies.
If the footer is on every subpage and the link actually works there, yes. The common failure on AI-built sites: the footer is present but the linked address serves the home page again.
It must be an address where legal documents can be served; a PO box is not enough. People who do not want to publish their home address usually use an Impressum service with a c/o address. Whether that fits your case is a question for a lawyer, not for us.
Typically a warning letter from a competitor or an association with legal fees in the high hundreds, plus a cease-and-desist undertaking. A fine is possible but rarer than the warning letter.
Everything legal on this page is general information with a pointer to the rule it comes from. Deckproof does not assess your individual case and does not give legal advice.