Sherlock's is a small, themed steakhouse located in Ahaus, Germany, offering a unique digital dining experience integrated with the chayns platform. The business leverages technology to provide customers with smartphone-based table reservations, ordering, and payment, enhancing convenience and modernizing traditional hospitality services. The website reflects a consistent brand identity centered around the Sherlock Holmes theme and promotes special event dinners to attract and engage customers. Technically, the site uses modern frameworks such as React and is hosted on reputable infrastructure, ensuring moderate performance and good mobile optimization. However, the absence of explicit privacy and cookie policies, as well as security headers, indicates areas for improvement in compliance and security posture. Overall, the domain registration data aligns well with the business claims, supporting legitimacy and trustworthiness.
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NIS2 and GDPR posture
GDPR outside view
25/ 100 · Critical
Checks completed
7of 7
NIS2 Art. 21(2)
a(a) Risk analysis and security policies: Not visible from outside
b(b) Incident handling: One indicator
c(c) Business continuity, backups and crisis management: Not visible from outside
d(d) Supply chain security: Not visible from outside
e(e) Secure acquisition, development and maintenance, including vulnerability handling: Partly checked
f(f) Assessing the effectiveness of security measures: Not visible from outside
g(g) Cyber hygiene and security training: Not visible from outside
h(h) Cryptography and encryption: Partly checked
i(i) HR security, access control and asset management: One indicator
j(j) Multi-factor authentication and secured communications: Not visible from outside
Partly checked
One indicator
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.
GDPR outside view
These are the privacy signals visitors and data protection authorities look for under GDPR.
Critical
EU business without adequate privacy measures
EU businesses are subject to strict GDPR requirements
What to do: Implement comprehensive GDPR compliance including privacy policy, cookie consent, and data protection measures
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
Security headers are instructions your web server sends to every visitor’s browser. Missing ones leave visitors more exposed to attacks such as clickjacking and injected scripts.
High
Missing X-Frame-Options header
Prevents clickjacking attacks
What to do: Add "X-Frame-Options: DENY" or "X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN"
This scan found 26 issues across 6 checks. Monitoring re-runs those checks daily, emails you when something material changes and records each fix, so you can show progress.
Daily monitoring
Recommended
€25per month
TLS certificates and expiry
DNS records
SPF, DKIM and DMARC
Security headers
GDPR and NIS2 posture
Exposed services
Third-party trackers
Security score drift
Email alerts on material changes and an exportable JSON history of every change.
Prices incl. 21% VAT. Secure checkout by Mollie; sold by SEQ SIA, Latvia.
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
72
Security headers
60
Email security
40
DNS health
60
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
25
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
Breach exposure
Leaked credentials and lookalike domains from OffSeq Breach. The counts are free; the detailed lists are paid add-ons.
Dark web exposure
Add-on
Leaked records that mention sherlocks-ahaus.de, from OffSeq Breach.
No leaked records found
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Business context, site observations and technical notes gathered during the scan, and the standards behind each reference.
Business context
Business profile
Sherlock's occupies a niche market segment combining hospitality with digital innovation. Its competitive advantage lies in the seamless integration of digital ordering and payment within a themed environment, appealing to tech-savvy diners and event enthusiasts. The business model focuses on direct customer engagement through digital channels, reducing operational friction. Revenue streams likely include dine-in services, event dinners, and possibly gift vouchers. The partnership with Tobit.Labs and use of the chayns platform indicates a strategic ecosystem alignment, enhancing operational efficiency and customer experience. Growth potential exists through expanding event offerings and digital marketing. The lack of visible contact emails or phone numbers may limit direct customer outreach.
Security posture
The website enforces HTTPS, ensuring encrypted communication, and uses modern web technologies that reduce common vulnerabilities. However, the lack of security headers such as Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options reduces protection against clickjacking and cross-site scripting attacks. No incident response or security contact information is provided, which may hinder timely vulnerability reporting and mitigation. The absence of privacy and cookie policies also raises compliance concerns under GDPR. No exposed sensitive data or vulnerable libraries were detected in the HTML content. Overall, the security posture is moderate but can be significantly improved by implementing standard security headers and compliance documentation.
Recommendations
Implement and publish a comprehensive privacy policy and cookie policy with GDPR compliance details.
Add security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options to enhance protection.
Provide clear contact information including email and phone numbers for customer support and incident response.
Conduct regular security audits of third-party scripts and dependencies to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities.
Enhance accessibility features and SEO optimization to improve user experience and search engine ranking.
Automated reading of the public site. Ratings are indicative.
Business
Company
Sherlock's
Description
Sherlock's is a steakhouse located in the center of Ahaus, Germany, operating within the pub 'The Unbrexit'. It offers a digital dining experience with table reservations, ordering, and payment via smartphone. The venue features a Sherlock Holmes theme with antique bookshelves and paintings. It provides a variety of food and drink specialties and hosts themed event dinners such as Magic Dinner and Crime Dinner.
Key services
Steakhouse dining, Digital table reservation, Smartphone ordering and payment, Event dinners (Magic Dinner, Crime Dinner)
Content quality
good
Branding
consistent
Technology
Stack
React, chayns API, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5
Frameworks
React, chayns
Platforms
chayns platform
Performance
moderate
Mobile
good
Accessibility
basic
SEO
basic
Security
Observed score
80/100
Good practices seen
HTTPS enforced
No exposed sensitive data in HTML
Use of modern JavaScript frameworks
Analytics and tracking
Tracking level
minimal
Privacy practices
poor
Advertising
Marketing tools
chayns platform marketing tools
Transparency
basic
Site quality
Design
good
User experience
good
Content relevance
good
Navigation
good
Professionalism
good
Trustworthiness
moderate
Key observations
Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges.
No explicit privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies found.
Contact information limited to physical address; no emails or phone numbers provided.
Website uses modern web technologies and chayns platform for digital hospitality services.
Event dinners are a key feature, enhancing user engagement.
No security headers detected in HTML source; potential area for improvement.
No visible analytics or tracking scripts detected.
No suspicious or malicious content found.
Technical notes
Notes
The website is built on the chayns platform using React and modern JavaScript, ensuring a responsive and interactive user interface. Hosting is managed via Gandi.net nameservers, indicating a reliable infrastructure. Performance is moderate with some optimizations possible in loading times and accessibility. The site uses multiple external resources from trusted domains related to Tobit and chayns services. No CMS other than chayns is detected. The technical debt appears low, but the absence of security headers and privacy compliance documents suggests gaps in the technical implementation of security and legal requirements.
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.
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