Mandatory Use Of Imprint On "XING"

According to German telemedia law, each person and company maintaining an own website to sell goods or services is required to make available certain information (so called "Imprint" or "About US") in a way which easily enables recognition, and which is directly accessible as well as consistently available. Recently German courts have begun to impose the duty to use an imprint on the hosts of an own presence within a social media platform. Thus, the District Courts of Aschaffenburg and Regensburg have decided in 2011 and 2013 explicitly with regard to the hosts of individual Facebook websites that they have to use an own imprint if such Facebook website is used as an entry channel to an own website (outside of Facebook) on which professional services are offered for remuneration or if the Facebook account is used for marketing purposes and not solely in a private way.