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Legal notice
Who is responsible for this website, and the identity details the law requires a website operator to publish.
Last updated 2026-09-17.
Why this page is incomplete
A website operator is legally required to identify themselves so visitors and authorities can tell who is behind the site and contact them directly. We do not have that information for acbuyqc.org. Rather than fill it with a made-up company name, address, registration number or email — which would itself be unlawful and misleading — we state the gap plainly and list what must be provided.
Information that must be provided before launch
The fields below reflect the standard identity information required of an online service provider. Exactly which of them apply depends on the operator's country of establishment and legal form, which are also not yet known.
- Name of the operator — the individual's full name, or the registered legal name of the company/entity.
- Geographic address where the operator is established — a real postal address, not a PO box alone where the law requires a physical address.
- Direct contact details that allow rapid, direct and effective communication — at minimum a working email address, and (where required) a telephone number. No contact address is listed here because none has been verified; a placeholder such as
[email protected]has deliberately not been used. - Trade / commercial register and registration number, if the operator is entered in one.
- VAT identification number, if the operator's activity is subject to VAT.
- Supervisory authority, if the activity is subject to an authorisation or licensing scheme.
- Person responsible for the content, where the operator's jurisdiction requires a named responsible person for editorial content.
The legal basis
Online service providers in the EU/EEA must give recipients of the service permanent, easy and direct access to identifying information. The pan-EU baseline is Article 5 of Directive 2000/31/EC (the e-Commerce Directive), which remains in force in 2026 — the later Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065) updated other parts of the framework but did not remove these information requirements. The official consolidated text is on EUR-Lex.
The Directive is implemented by each country's national law, so the exact statute depends on where the operator is established. For example, an operator established in Germany would follow § 5 of the Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (DDG), which replaced § 5 of the Telemediengesetz (TMG) on 14 May 2024; the official statute portal is gesetze-im-internet.de. The provision that actually applies must be confirmed for the operator's own jurisdiction once it is known; this page does not assert a specific national statute for an operator whose location is undetermined.
About the .org domain
The .org extension in this domain does not indicate a non-profit, charity, association or official body. acbuyqc.org makes no such claim. It is an independent informational reference; see the disclaimer and about page.
This notice will be replaced with the operator's verified identity details before the site goes live. Until then its status is recorded as a launch blocker in the project's release-readiness documentation.