Website legal compliance in Germany — Impressum and GDPR rules
The imprint, privacy and cookie-consent rules that apply to a business website in Germany, with the statute and the penalty range. Checked automatically by Titan Omega.
Titan checks every item on this page automatically and reports each one separately — legal findings are never averaged into an SEO score, because a missing imprint is not "partly fixed" by a good page title.
Governing rule
§5 Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (DDG, replaced TMG in May 2024)
Imprint / provider identification
required
Cookie consent before non-essential cookies
required
Penalty range
up to €50,000 (typically €500–1,500 for a first, minor defect)
Competitor warning letters (Abmahnung)
Yes — in Germany a competitor or a consumer association can send a formal warning letter and invoice you for their legal costs. This is the expensive part, and it does not require a regulator to act.
Imprint page must be findable as
impressumanbieterkennzeichnung
Privacy policy must be findable as
datenschutzdatenschutzerklärungdatenschutzerklaerungprivacy
Terms page must be findable as
agballgemeine geschäftsbedingungen
How Titan checks this
- Fetches the site and looks for a link matching the terms above, in the local language — not just the English word.
- Reports each requirement separately, with the statute, so a finding can be handed to a lawyer or a developer as-is.
- Re-checks on a schedule, so a page removed during a redesign is caught rather than discovered by a warning letter.
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