Site Check Episode

Often, little things decide whether an imprint is correct or a cease and desist letter can be pronounced. In our series recently at the site check “we portray everyday problems, we have found in our Web site checks and demonstrate solutions. A check point at our free site check the issue after a legally correct provider identification (imprint). So quickly, a cease and desist letter threatening the imprint must gem. 5 Telemediengesetz (TMG) for the visitors of a website easily visible, directly accessible and always available”? But already this is lacking at many sites. Although the German Federal Supreme Court decided that the imprint of each bottom with no more than two clicks must be accessible. On some sites, the links to the provider identification are however such hidden or lowercase that simply sending danger.

And not only that many a reader will ask the question, whether the contractor maybe has something to hide, if he the Mandatory so hidden. “Odds and ends” can significantly its substantive defects, such as an abbreviated name of the Managing Director, a missing E-Mail address or missing information to the full legal status of the company are a much more frequent reason for a chargeable warning by competitors, or for the imposition of a fine of up to 50,000 EUR by supervisory authorities. “Small entrepreneurs here on gap” put such an approach can quickly push on financial limits. Advisor, samples and literature (as E.g. see webimpressum) are good and help to incorporate in the matter, they are usually not sufficient in this respect. Security just advice from a specialist lawyer performs legal advice in individual cases but the EC-M. We put our finger in the legal wound but like”and are entrepreneurs out there, to consult a lawyer knowledgeable in Internet law as far as possible in the short term and the missed catching up to do.