Legal requirements
The legal requirements depend on the company, the country of the company, the location of the audience and the website itself. The basic obligations of the website owner in the EU is displayed here. Have a look to the links and examples. Before publishing your web app, please consult an attorney and create your own legal documents.
GDPR Compliance in the EU
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a first step toward giving EU citizens and residents more control over how their data are used by organizations; Sources:
DSGVO in germany
The European General Data Protection Regulation is published in German here:
Data Protection in the US
TermsFeed from Los Angeles gives an introduction to cookies, privacy policy, terms and conditions and more. They offer a generator and publish examples:
Legally compliant website in Germany
The IHK Munich has published an interesting article in german language: Legally compliant website, Rechtssichere Webseite. The linked sources in this section are all written in German.
Cookies
If cookies are used, which are not essential for the website, the user must be informed, see Notification requirement for cookies.
Imprint
Every business website needs a so-called “imprint” with information about the identity and contact details of the website provider. It must be accessible with 2 clicks. Further mandatory information arises from the Digital Service Act.
Data protection
The obligation to provide a data protection declaration and its scope results from the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Sample data protection declarations are linked here:
- Sample from LDI NRW: Datenschutzhinweise
- Sample from fuer-gruender: DSGO-konforme Datenschutzerklärung
- Generator of Recht24: Datenschutz-Generator
after registering, the text can be downloaded
terms of use
As soon as users can carry out interactions, terms of use are required. The user must agree to the terms of use when registering. At jurarat.de, the terms of use are well described and an example is presented.
Legal documents in K8 Web Kit
Cookies
Please look in the "masterdata/_init.php". There is the cookie mode (domain_cookiemode) defined:
- no cookie
- ask for cookie
- cookie allowed
- cookie denied
The variable domain_cookieconf[<country>] defines:
- title, example: Use of cookies
- text: the description of the use of cookies
- allow: text for allow
- deny: text for deny
Imprint, Privacy policy, Terms of use
Please look in the "_init_page.php" for the global variable pages[<page>]. Here are the page names defined:
- Imprint: legalnotice
- Privacy policy: privacypolicy
- Terms of use: termsofuse
The variable pages[<page>] configures the source of the content:
- Imprint, file: _legalnotice.php
- Privacy policy: table k8pages, marking=privacypolicy
- Terms of use: table k8pages, marking=termsofuse
The user "superuser" reaches the pages by menu "Admin / Pages". The privacy policy and the terns of use can be edited there.