The website the-doghouse.de represents a small local business specializing in comprehensive dog care services including dog boarding, daycare, training, and retail of pet food and equipment. The business targets dog owners primarily in the German regions around Schöffengrund, Wetzlar, Gießen, and Frankfurt. The site is professionally designed with clear navigation and relevant content that effectively communicates the business offerings. Technically, the site is built on the 1&1 IONOS Website Editor platform, leveraging modern technologies such as jQuery, Mapbox, and CDN services to ensure moderate performance and good mobile optimization. Security posture is adequate with HTTPS enforced and CAPTCHA on contact forms, but lacks advanced security headers and explicit privacy or cookie policies, indicating room for improvement in compliance and security best practices. Overall, the site is trustworthy and functional but would benefit from enhanced privacy compliance and security hardening.
Scanned ·
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
5 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 21 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.
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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.
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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
100
Security headers
50
Email security
70
DNS health
60
Network security
100
GDPR outside view
25
Average
68
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 the-doghouse.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
The business operates in the hospitality sector with a niche focus on dog care and related services. Its competitive advantage lies in offering a broad spectrum of services from dog boarding and daycare to training and retail, supported by a local presence and personalized care approach. Revenue streams likely include service fees for boarding, training, and daycare, as well as sales from the pet food and equipment shop. The target customer segment is dog owners seeking professional and individualized care for their pets. The company appears to maintain partnerships with related service providers, such as a VDH Border Collie stud and local grooming services. The website content and structure suggest a stable local market position with potential for growth through events and training programs.
Security posture
The website demonstrates a basic to moderate security maturity level. HTTPS is properly implemented, and the contact form includes CAPTCHA to mitigate spam. However, the absence of key security headers such as Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options reduces protection against common web attacks. No incident response or vulnerability disclosure information is provided, which may impact readiness for security incidents. Privacy compliance is weak due to missing privacy and cookie policies, which is critical under GDPR regulations. No data protection officer contact or security policy is visible. Overall, the security posture is functional but requires enhancements to meet higher compliance and security standards.
Recommendations
Implement and publish comprehensive privacy and cookie policies with clear GDPR compliance statements.
Add security headers including Content-Security-Policy, X-Frame-Options, and X-Content-Type-Options to improve protection against web vulnerabilities.
Establish and display an incident response contact or security email address to improve transparency and readiness.
Enhance accessibility features to improve usability for all users.
Regularly audit and update third-party libraries and tracking scripts to mitigate vulnerabilities.
Website is fully accessible with no blocking or WAF challenges.
No explicit privacy, cookie, or terms of service policies found on the site.
Contact information is comprehensive and clearly presented.
Website uses HTTPS and modern CDN infrastructure.
Content is relevant and professionally presented for a small local dog care business.
Tracking via snowplow analytics is present but no aggressive tracking detected.
No security headers detected; room for improvement in security posture.
No data protection officer or incident response information provided.
No certifications or compliance badges visible.
Website built on 1&1 IONOS Website Editor platform.
Technical notes
Notes
The website is hosted on 1&1 IONOS infrastructure using their Website Editor CMS platform, which provides a stable and managed environment. The technology stack includes jQuery 2.2.4, Skrollr for parallax effects, Mapbox for mapping, and Cloudfront CDN for content delivery, indicating a modern but somewhat dated JavaScript framework usage. Performance is moderate with good mobile optimization and SEO meta tags present. The site lacks advanced accessibility features and security headers, which are technical debts that should be addressed. The use of snowplow analytics indicates moderate user tracking. Overall, the technical implementation is solid for a small business site but could benefit from modernization and security improvements.
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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