Technical audit · 2026-05-26

manz.at

Leading Austrian Legal Publisher

Leading Austrian legal publisher — 65 requests, 2 domains. Piwik PRO on stats.manz.at loads the container and consent templates — no tracking ping. The consent gate holds.

Timeline of the leak

+441 ms · Piwik PRO container
stats.manz.at loads the Piwik PRO container. No tracking ping — the script waits for consent.
+517 ms · privacy-templates
stats.manz.at loads privacy-templates.json — the Piwik PRO CMP banner configuration.
Session total
65 requests. 63 — [www.manz.at](https://www.manz.at), 2 — stats.manz.at. Zero tracking pings, zero cookies, zero external domains.

Declared versus actual

Google Ads — declared in the policy, without personal tracking — заявлен
Piwik PRO — a reference to the Cookie Policy on the site — заявлен
Friendly Captcha — CSS present in the HAR, for forms — заявлен

Context

MANZ’sche Verlags- und Universitätsbuchhandlung GmbH is Austria’s leading legal publisher, operating legal databases (RDB Rechtsdatenbank) and serving as an ERV-Übermittlungsstelle for electronic justice. HAR: 65 requests, 2 domains.

stats.manz.at — self-hosted Piwik PRO. The container loads at +441 ms, followed by privacy-templates.json — the consent banner configuration. No tracking ping appears in the HAR: the CMP works. Zero external services, zero cookies.

Sensitive context with a nuance

MANZ is not just a bookstore. It is an ERV-Übermittlungsstelle — an intermediary between the courts, the Bundesrechenzentrum, and lawyers for the transmission of procedural documents. The site serves lawyers, notaries, and tax advisors. The legal databases contain sensitive professional data. This is precisely why a properly functioning consent gate matters here — and it works.

Conclusion

A legal publisher whose business is built on compliance with legal norms has built an architecture in which the tracker does not run without consent. 65 requests, 2 domains, zero violations.

Evidence
Original (audit)
HAR file: at/manz-at-2026-05-26.har
SHA-256: 5862c397cfcfc083638ef0a25495c04a3ed3cd3bc1083c9b2102c52017619c0a
HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.