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Security report for richardson-designs.com

Richardson Designs Limited · Retail · United Kingdom

Medium risk. 8 critical or high findings in SSL/TLS, GDPR outside view and 1 other check.

Security score

60/100

Risk levelMedium

0–100, higher is better. How it is calculated

Richardson Designs Limited operates a UK-based e-commerce website specializing in the retail of personalised rosettes, engraved pet products, trophies, and related show accessories. The company targets customers seeking high-quality personalised products primarily within the UK market. The website is built on WordPress using WooCommerce, leveraging common plugins such as Smart Slider 3 and Yoast SEO to enhance user experience and search engine visibility. The site demonstrates a moderate level of digital maturity with good mobile optimization and clear navigation. From a security perspective, the website employs HTTPS with a valid SSL certificate and displays a payment security badge indicating secure transaction processing. However, the absence of WHOIS registration data raises concerns about domain legitimacy, although the website content and e-commerce functionality suggest a legitimate business. The site lacks explicit privacy, cookie, and terms of service policies, which are critical for compliance with data protection regulations such as GDPR. Overall, the website presents a professional retail platform with good content quality and user experience but requires improvements in privacy compliance and security best practices. Strategic recommendations include implementing comprehensive privacy and cookie policies, enhancing security headers, and clarifying domain registration details to improve trustworthiness and compliance.

Scanned

NIS2 and GDPR posture

GDPR outside view
35/ 100 · High
Checks completed
7of 7

NIS2 Art. 21(2)

  1. (a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
  2. (b) Incident handling: One indicator
  3. (c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
  4. (d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
  5. (e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
  6. (f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
  7. (g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
  8. (h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
  9. (i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
  10. (j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside

This scan rated NIS2 with an earlier keyword method that is no longer shown; rescan for the per-article view. 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.

Priority findings

8 findings rated critical or high. Fix these first.

  1. SSL/TLS

    TLS encrypts the connection and proves the site is really yours. Weak or expiring certificates trigger browser warnings and put traffic at risk.

    • High

      Weak Protocols Supported

      Server supports weak protocols: TLSv1.1

      What to do: Disable TLS 1.0, TLS 1.1, and all SSL versions

      • CWE-327
      • OWASP A04:2025
      • ASVS V12.1.1

  2. GDPR outside view

    These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.

    • High

      No Privacy Policy found

      GDPR requires a clear and accessible privacy policy

      What to do: Add a comprehensive privacy policy page and link to it prominently

    • High

      No Cookie Policy found

      GDPR requires clear information about cookie usage

      What to do: Add a dedicated cookie policy explaining cookie usage and purposes

    • High

      No Cookie Consent Banner found

      GDPR requires explicit consent for non-essential cookies

      What to do: Implement a cookie consent banner that appears on first visit

    • High

      Third-party services without privacy policy

      Detected services: Facebook, Twitter, Google APIs

      What to do: Document all third-party data sharing in your privacy policy

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Results by check

Each check with its score, findings and the evidence it collected.

How this score is calculated

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.

Counted in this score

SSL/TLS
47
Security headers
20
Email security
85
DNS health
70
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
35
Average
60

Not counted

  • NIS2 outside view: Re-weights evidence from the TLS, email, DNS, network and hygiene checks, so counting it would count that evidence twice. Shown on its own.
  • OffSeq Observations: An AI reading of the site, useful context but not reproducible evidence. Shown on its own.

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.

  • The certificate is not trusted by browsers
  • The website is not served over HTTPS
  • A database, remote desktop, file-sharing or Telnet service is reachable from the internet
  • The page loads a script from a compromised source
  • The domain registration has expired
  • SPF authorises every server to send mail as the domain

Partial scans

When the site blocks Guard or most checks cannot run, the score covers only the checks that ran (usually DNS and email), is capped at 75 and is shown as partial, without a risk level.

Risk levels

  • Critical0–25
  • High26–49
  • Medium50–75
  • Low76–100

Technical appendix

Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.

Business context

Business profile

Richardson Designs Limited occupies a niche market within the UK retail sector, focusing on personalised rosettes and pet-related engraved products. The business model is e-commerce retail, leveraging WooCommerce to manage product listings, shopping cart, and checkout processes. The company appears to have a stable market position with a specialized product range catering to show organizers, pet owners, and event participants. The presence of customer ratings and a payment security badge indicates efforts to build customer trust. The partnership with Payzone for payment processing suggests a reliable transaction infrastructure. Growth opportunities may include expanding product lines and enhancing digital marketing efforts. The lack of visible company contact details and privacy policies may impact customer confidence and regulatory compliance.

Security posture

The website demonstrates a basic to moderate security posture with HTTPS enforced and no visible exposure of sensitive data in the HTML content. The use of a payment security badge indicates secure payment processing practices. However, the absence of security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options reduces protection against common web attacks. The lack of privacy and cookie policies is a compliance gap, especially under GDPR. No incident response or vulnerability disclosure information is provided, limiting transparency in security management. Regular updates of WordPress core, themes, and plugins are essential to mitigate vulnerabilities. Overall, the security posture is adequate for a small e-commerce site but requires enhancements to meet best practices and regulatory requirements.

Recommendations

  1. Implement comprehensive privacy and cookie policies to ensure GDPR compliance and inform users about data handling.
  2. Add security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and Strict-Transport-Security to enhance web security.
  3. Publish incident response and vulnerability disclosure information to improve transparency and trust.
  4. Verify and update WHOIS registration details to ensure domain legitimacy and reduce suspicion.
  5. Enhance accessibility features to improve user experience for all visitors, including those with disabilities.
Site observations

Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.

Business

Company
Richardson Designs Limited
Description
Uk supplier of high quality personalised rosettes and engraved pet products at great prices.
Key services
Personalised rosettes, Engraved pet products, Sashes and banners, Show sundries, Printed badges, Ribbon and supplies, Trophies, Clothing, Seasonal gifts
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent

Technology

Stack
WordPress, WooCommerce, Smart Slider 3, jQuery, Contact Form 7, Yoast SEO
Frameworks
WooCommerce, Storefront theme
Platforms
WordPress CMS
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
good

Security

Observed score
80/100
Good practices seen
  • HTTPS enforced
  • Use of payment security badge
  • No exposed sensitive data in HTML

Analytics and tracking

Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
poor

Advertising

Marketing tools
Yoast SEO, Sassy Social Share
Transparency
basic

Site quality

Design
good
User experience
good
Content relevance
good
Navigation
good
Professionalism
good
Trustworthiness
moderate

Key observations

  1. Website is a WordPress WooCommerce e-commerce site selling personalised rosettes and pet products.
  2. No WHOIS registration data available, raising some legitimacy questions.
  3. No explicit privacy, cookie, or terms of service pages found.
  4. No direct contact emails or phone numbers found in the visible content.
  5. Social media links to Facebook, Twitter, WhatsApp, and Instagram are present.
  6. Site uses HTTPS with valid SSL certificate.
  7. No WAF or security blocking detected.
  8. Good product categorization and navigation structure.
  9. Use of common WordPress plugins and themes.
  10. No visible security headers detected in provided data.
Technical notes

Notes

The website is built on a WordPress CMS platform with WooCommerce for e-commerce functionality. It uses popular plugins including Smart Slider 3 for visual sliders, Contact Form 7 for forms, and Yoast SEO for search engine optimization. The Storefront theme and its child theme provide the design framework. The site loads jQuery and related scripts, and fonts are loaded from Google Fonts. Performance is moderate with some optimization for mobile devices. The site uses HTTPS with a valid SSL certificate but lacks advanced security headers. No major technical debt or deprecated technologies were detected. Opportunities exist to improve performance through caching and minification, and to modernize security configurations.
Standards and sources

Reference chips under each finding point to the standard, regulation or specification the finding relates to. They are taken from the official datasets below and mapped conservatively: a finding with no defensible link shows none. NIS2 and GDPR references mark where a finding is relevant evidence, not a compliance verdict. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2690 binds digital infrastructure and digital service providers; for other entities it is the most detailed public reading of the Article 21 measures. WCAG, EN 301 549, European Accessibility Act and Web Accessibility Directive references name the requirement an automated accessibility rule relates to; they are not a conformance verdict.

Retrieved 2026-10-25

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