Imprint
Disclosure under § 5 E-Commerce-Gesetz (Austrian E-Commerce Act), § 25 Mediengesetz (Austrian Media Act) and § 14 Unternehmensgesetzbuch (Austrian Commercial Code).
DRAFT — must be reviewed by a lawyer. This text was produced as a first draft and is not legal advice. It must be reviewed and adapted to the actual circumstances before publication.
The German version is authoritative. This translation is provided for convenience only.
Media owner, publisher and service provider
[COMPANY NAME AS PER COMPANIES REGISTER] [LEGAL FORM]
Business address: [STREET AND NUMBER] [POSTCODE] [CITY] Austria
Registered seat as per Firmenbuch (Austrian Companies Register): [REGISTERED SEAT AS PER COMPANIES REGISTER]
Companies register and value added tax
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Firmenbuch number (company register number) | [COMPANIES REGISTER NUMBER] |
| Firmenbuchgericht (registry court) | [COMPANIES REGISTER COURT] |
| UID-Nummer (VAT identification number) | [VAT ID] |
| Global Location Number (GLN) | [GLN OR NOT APPLICABLE] |
The information required by § 14 UGB (Unternehmensgesetzbuch, Austrian Commercial Code) is also given in this form on business papers and order forms.
Contact
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Phone | [PHONE] |
| [EMAIL ADDRESS] | |
| Website | [WEBSITE ADDRESS] |
Bodies authorised to represent the company
Management: [NAME OF MANAGING DIRECTOR] [FURTHER AUTHORISED REPRESENTATIVES OR NOT APPLICABLE]
Shareholders: [SHAREHOLDERS AND SHAREHOLDINGS — required under § 25 MedienG]
Object of the company
[OBJECT OF THE COMPANY AS PER COMPANIES REGISTER]
Trade licence wording: [TRADE LICENCE WORDING AS PER GEWERBEREGISTER]
Trade authority and chamber membership
Trade supervisory authority / Bezirksverwaltungsbehörde (district administrative authority): [COMPETENT DISTRICT ADMINISTRATIVE AUTHORITY] [TO VERIFY: For companies with their seat within the city of Linz, the Magistrat der Stadt Linz (municipal authority of the City of Linz) is regularly the competent district administrative authority. Confirm against the extract from the Gewerberegister (trade register) before publication.]
Membership: Wirtschaftskammer [FEDERAL PROVINCE] (Austrian Economic Chamber), Fachgruppe Unternehmensberatung, Buchhaltung und Informationstechnologie (UBIT — professional group for management consultancy, accounting and information technology) [TO VERIFY: The exact professional group or association follows from the trade licence. Please check against the WKO membership data sheet.]
Applicable legal provisions
Gewerbeordnung 1994 (GewO 1994, Austrian Trade Act) as amended.
The text is available from the Rechtsinformationssystem des Bundes (RIS, the Austrian federal legal information system): [RIS LINK — https://www.ris.bka.gv.at]
Further provisions relevant to our activity: [FURTHER LEGAL PROVISIONS OR NOT APPLICABLE]
Editorial policy under § 25(4) Mediengesetz
Basic orientation of this website (Blattlinie, the declared editorial policy required by the Austrian Media Act): information about the services, the working practices and the references of [COMPANY NAME], together with technical articles on software development, software operation and adjacent topics. The website serves to present the company and to initiate business relationships.
[TO VERIFY: § 25(5) MedienG provides reduced disclosure duties for websites whose informational content does not go beyond presenting the media owner (so-called small websites). Whether a website carrying technical articles still falls under that provision, or whether full disclosure under § 25(2) and (3) MedienG is required, has to be assessed case by case. As a precaution, this draft assumes full disclosure.]
Copyright
The contents of this website are protected by copyright. Any use beyond the cases permitted by law requires the prior written consent of [COMPANY NAME].
Liability for links
This website contains references to third-party websites. We have no influence on their content. At the time of linking, no unlawful content was apparent. If we become aware of an infringement, we remove the reference concerned.
Dispute resolution and consumer arbitration
We are neither obliged nor willing to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration body. [TO VERIFY: This statement is a business decision and must be confirmed or changed before publication. If participation is intended, the competent arbitration body must be named — for online business in Austria the Internet Ombudsstelle is regularly the relevant body.]
Competent arbitration body (if participation takes place): [NAME AND ADDRESS OF THE ARBITRATION BODY]
Online dispute resolution platform of the European Commission
[TO VERIFY — IMPORTANT: To the best of our knowledge, the online dispute resolution platform (ODR platform) operated by the European Commission under Regulation (EU) No 524/2013 was discontinued with effect from 20 July 2025, and the underlying regulation was repealed. A reference to the platform together with a link would therefore be pointless and possibly even misleading. Please check the current legal position and either delete this section entirely or replace it with whatever notice then applies. Should the duty to provide this notice unexpectedly still exist, the standard wording is: ‘The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution, which you can reach at [ODR PLATFORM LINK]. Our email address is [EMAIL ADDRESS].’]
Image credits
[IMAGE CREDITS AND LICENCE INFORMATION OR NOT APPLICABLE]