Impressum Checker

If the site is geschäftsmäßig — commercial in the broad sense, which includes ads, affiliate links or promoting a paid product — § 5 DDG requires one, regardless of company size. Purely private pages are exempt.

The Impressum duty targets services addressing the German market. If you sell to German customers in German or euros, prudent practice is to have one. The privacy-policy duty (Art. 13 GDPR) applies EU-wide regardless.

§ 5 DDG lists it: the operator's full name and a postal address (a P.O. box does not count), contact details including an email address and a second fast channel such as a phone number, and — depending on legal form — the authorised representatives, the commercial register and registration number, the VAT identification number under § 27a UStG, and the supervisory authority for regulated professions. It also has to be easy to reach from every page, which in practice means a footer link labelled Impressum. Our check page lists the details with sources.

Yes — “imprint” is the usual English rendering of Impressum, the German legal-disclosure page. Other countries word their disclosure duties differently, but if your site addresses the German market it is § 5 DDG that applies, and the German requirements above are the ones your page has to satisfy.