What a trade website has to settle legally without turning it into a project: the legal notice under section 5 DDG, a privacy policy, consent in the contact form, price information under German price indication rules. Alongside them, day-to-day matters that surface on the website — the right of withdrawal for contracts signed at the garden table, certificates and insurance, and the cutting seasons under the Federal Nature Conservation Act that a tree care business must be able to explain. Written factually and without offering legal advice; assessing a specific case remains a matter for a lawyer.
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Aerial photos of a customer garden: when a camera drone may fly over residential property, what Sec. 21h LuftVO requires and what to settle before the shoot.
Invoicing garden care under Sec. 2 No. 10 BetrKV: which services can be passed on to tenants, how to structure the invoice and what a page for managers shows.
The height scale of section 50 NNachbG from 0.25 to 8.00 metres, the measuring rule of section 51 and the window from 1 October to 15 March, as a guide page.
Private clients deduct 20 per cent of labour costs from their income tax, up to 1,200 euros a year. Whether that works is decided by your invoice: labour.
Thresholds, deadlines and records for excavated soil with citations - and how a services page turns them into a line item the customer understands.
Routine check, additional check, detailed examination: what the Federal Court of Justice requires, what the FLL rules cover and how that becomes a service page.
From 1 March to 30 September German law restricts hedge and tree work. What stays allowed, which exemptions apply and what your business must explain.
Liability cover, craft register, proof of competence: which documents clients expect, what you may show and how to word it on the website without overstating.
Contracts a consumer signs in their own garden can be withdrawn. What the notice must contain, when the period starts and what happens if the notice is missing.
Net or gross, total price, from-prices: what German price rules require of a landscaping site, what counts as misleading and what may be said about competitors.
Section 5 DDG explained: which details sole traders and limited companies need, where the link has to sit, and which mistakes regularly draw warnings.
Privacy policy, contact form, consent, hosting in Germany, processing agreements and audience metrics without cookies — sorted out for landscaping firms.