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Scan rule · RSC-PRV-019

Legal notice: sample values from the template

Privacy (GDPR)Severity: Low

Checks whether the German legal notice still contains example values — sample address, placeholder email, unreplaced template fields.

Why this matters

The neighbouring rule checks whether a detail is **present**. This one checks whether it **means** anything. A sample street and postcode passes every completeness check and is still not a legal notice — it is a generator's untouched scaffold.

For generated apps this is the norm, not the exception: the mandatory page gets created, filled with example values and never opened again — it is there, after all. Which is exactly why nobody on the team notices.

This rule rests on firmer ground than the completeness check beside it: there we make a claim about your legal form and can be wrong, here we quote a string that sits on your page — a sample street is not a valid business address under any legal form. It stays a low-severity hint and does not overturn your overall verdict; a formal defect on a mandatory page is not an open database. Worth looking at all the same — missing mandatory details are actionable under German law.

Scan tier

External scan (anonymous)

How to fix it

Replace every entry in the legal notice with the real one and read the page top to bottom once.

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