Impressum (Website Legal Notice)

IMPRESSUM (WEBSITE LEGAL NOTICE) (§ 5 Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz "DDG", formerly § 5 Telemediengesetz "TMG")

Information according to § 5 DDG:

✓Business name (Legal form) Business address

1. CONTACT 1.1. E-mail: Contact e-mail 1.2. Phone: Phone number

2. REPRESENTED BY 2.1. Legal representative (Geschäftsführer/Inhaber)

3. REGISTER ENTRY 3.1. Commercial register entry: Commercial register entry, if any 3.2. VAT identification number (Umsatzsteuer-Identifikationsnummer per § 27a UStG): VAT ID (USt-IdNr), if any

4. SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY / CHAMBER 4.1. Supervisory authority / chamber, if applicable 4.2. ⚠️ A hairdressing (Friseur) business is a meisterpflichtiges Handwerk under Anlage A of the Handwerksordnung (HwO) and must be entered in the Handwerksrolle — its supervising Handwerkskammer must be named here; other beauty/cosmetics services (Kosmetik) are generally zulassungsfrei and do not require this entry.

5. ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENT 5.1. Under § 5 DDG, this Impressum must be "easily recognisable, directly accessible and permanently available" — the established standard is reachability within TWO CLICKS from any page of the website, including linked social-media profiles used for the business.

6. WHY THIS MATTERS 6.1. ⚠️ A missing, incomplete, or hard-to-find Impressum is one of the most common and inexpensive targets for competitor and specialised-lawyer cease-and-desist letters (Abmahnungen) in Germany, typically claiming €500–2,000 plus a cease-and-desist declaration (Unterlassungserklärung). Keep every field current — for example, the 2024 rename from TMG to DDG is a classic example of an outdated legal reference that Abmahnanwälte specifically look for.

Effective date: Effective date

— — — ⚠️ This is a boilerplate template, not legal advice. German employment, consumer-protection, data-protection and workplace-safety law (BGB, Nachweisgesetz "NachwG", ArbSchG, MiLoG, SGB IV, DSGVO/BDSG, DDG, EGBGB Art. 246a) changes frequently and includes sector-specific exceptions — notably § 2a Gesetz gegen Schwarzarbeit "SchwarzArbG", which keeps the Gaststätten- und Beherbergungsgewerbe (restaurants and hotels) on paper-only Schriftform even after the BEG IV digitalisation reform. Statutory figures (Mindestlohn, Minijob-Grenze) are re-indexed periodically — have this document reviewed and adapted by a German employment/legal advisor (Rechtsanwalt/Steuerberater) and verified against the current rates before use. Where a German-language version of this document is also used, that version prevails in case of conflict.