Den norske kirke · Government · Norway
Low risk. 2 critical or high findings in GDPR outside view.
Den norske kirke operates as the official Church of Norway, providing religious services and information to the Norwegian population. The website serves as a comprehensive portal for church-related activities including baptism, confirmation, weddings, and general church news. It targets Norwegian residents and members of the church, positioning itself as a large government-affiliated religious institution. The business model is non-profit and service-oriented, focusing on community engagement and religious service provision. Technically, the website is hosted on Microsoft Azure and built using ASP.NET Core with Episerver (Optimizely) CMS. It integrates multiple analytics platforms such as Matomo, Microsoft Application Insights, Piwik PRO, and Google Analytics, all managed with a GDPR-compliant cookie consent mechanism. The site demonstrates moderate performance and good mobile optimization, with a professional and consistent design. From a security perspective, the website enforces HTTPS and uses reputable cloud services, but lacks explicit security headers and published security policies. No vulnerabilities or exposed sensitive data were detected. Privacy compliance is good regarding cookie consent, but the absence of a visible privacy policy and terms of service is a gap. No contact information or incident response details are provided in the analyzed content. Overall, the website is trustworthy, safe, and professionally maintained, with strong legitimacy and alignment between domain registration and business identity. Strategic improvements include publishing privacy and security policies, enhancing accessibility, and adding contact and incident response information to strengthen compliance and user trust.
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NIS2 Art. 21(2)
The NIS2 figure counts only evidence anyone can see from the internet. Risk management, continuity, supply chain, training, MFA, management oversight (Art. 20) and incident reporting (Art. 23) need internal evidence, and Guard cannot tell whether NIS2 applies to this organisation.
GDPR is indicative only, based on publicly visible signals: Articles 7, 12, 13 and 32 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Not a certification or legal assessment.
2 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
Observed on the first page load as a new visitor, before any consent choice; Guard does not click the banner. A consent mechanism is present (Cookie Information), but these analytics or marketing cookies were already set: Piwik (_pk_id.2.900a, _pk_ses.2.900a).
What to do: Configure the consent platform to block these tags until the visitor accepts the matching category.
Guard opened the site in a separate, fresh browser profile, refused consent (CookieInformation.declineAllCategories()) as a visitor would, then reloaded the page. These analytics or marketing cookies were set after the refusal: Piwik (_pk_id.2.900a, _pk_ses.2.900a). Requests also went to Matomo (kirken.matomo.cloud). Storing them after a refusal has no consent basis under ePrivacy Art. 5(3); the CNIL fined Yahoo EUR 10 million in December 2023 for advertising cookies placed although visitors ha…
What to do: Tie every tag to its consent category in the consent platform or tag manager so it stays blocked after a refusal, then repeat the check: reject, reload, and confirm no analytics or marketing cookies appear.
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Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.
The security score runs 0–100, higher is better. It is the plain average of the security checks that completed in this scan, each counted equally. A check that could not run is left out: it counts neither as a pass nor as a fail.
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Findings that cap the score at 49
Each of these is serious on its own, so while any is present the site cannot rate better than high risk, however good the other checks are.
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