# Who is responsible for this site.

Last updated 25 July 2026

German law requires a named, reachable operator on every business-like website. CloakDrop does not have one yet — no registered entity, no address to publish. This page lists the fields the law requires and leaves them empty, rather than filling them with something invented.

## Status of this page

This imprint is incomplete, on purpose. An imprint is a legal document. Filling one with a plausible-looking company name and address would be a lie of exactly the kind the rest of this site is built to avoid, and it would not protect anyone.

So the fields below are the real ones, in the order the law asks for them, and the values are missing. If this site is put at a public address and offered as a product, they have to be completed first — and checked by someone who practises law, which this page is not a substitute for.

Everything else on this site is a preview: there is no relay and no company behind it. The about page is the longer version of that sentence.

## Required details

Information according to § 5 DDG and, for editorial content, § 18 Abs. 2 MStV.

- Name of the provider — not filled in. The natural person or company operating the site.
- Legal form — not filled in. Sole trader, GmbH, UG, e. K. and so on.
- Postal address — not filled in. A real street address. A P.O. box is not sufficient.
- Represented by — not filled in. Managing director or authorised representative.
- Email address — hello@cloakdrop.com
- Telephone number — not filled in. Or another second channel that allows fast, direct contact.
- Commercial register — not filled in. Register court and number, where the entity is registered.
- VAT identification number — not filled in. § 27a UStG, where one has been issued.
- Responsible for editorial content — not filled in. § 18 Abs. 2 MStV — name and address, for journalistic content.
- Supervisory authority — not filled in. Only for regulated professions and licensed trades.

## What each field means

Kept here so that completing this page later is a matter of typing, not research.

### Why an address and not just an email

The point of the rule is that someone can be served notice. That is why a postal address is required and a contact form is not enough. A P.O. box does not satisfy it.

### Why a second channel

The law asks for “fast electronic contact and direct communication”. In practice an email address plus a phone number is the safe reading; email alone has been challenged in court.

### Who has to have one

Every business-like online offering, not only shops. A project page counts as soon as it is run with a commercial purpose. Purely private pages do not.

### What happens without one

An incomplete imprint is a competition-law violation in Germany and is routinely pursued by warning letter, at the operator’s cost.

## Reaching us

One address, read by the people building this: hello@cloakdrop.com. There is no ticket system behind it and no measured response time to quote, so none is quoted. The contact page composes the mail for you.

For anything about the cryptography or the link format, describe what you did and what happened, and never include a drop link — it carries the key to the files it points at.

## Liability and copyright

### Content

The pages here are written carefully and checked against the source of the product they describe, but this is a preview build and it changes. Where a page describes something that does not exist yet, it says so; if you find a claim that survives neither your own check nor ours, that is a mistake worth reporting.

### External links

Links leaving this site point at content nobody here controls. They were reasonable when they were added; what sits behind them later is the responsibility of whoever runs those pages.

### Copyright

The text, the design and the client belong to their authors. All rights reserved: the client is readable in full in your browser — deliberately, so that its claims can be checked — but no licence is granted to redistribute it or to operate a copy of it. What that means in practice is set out on the read the code page.

## Dispute resolution

The European Commission’s online dispute resolution platform, which German imprints were long required to link, was shut down in July 2025. There is nothing to link in its place.

Whether this project takes part in consumer arbitration proceedings under the VSBG is a decision that belongs to an operating entity, and there is not one yet — not settled.