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Technical audit · 29.05.2026

bverwg.de

German Federal Administrative Court
DE

German Federal Administrative Court. 27 requests, 1 domain. Grav CMS, Cloudflare CDN. Merriweather and Font Awesome served locally. No analytics, no trackers, no banner. Cloudflare NEL is declared only as 'Dienste Dritter,' with no name given. Set-Cookie — zero.

Request timeline

+0 ms · homepage
www.bverwg.de/das-gericht — Grav CMS, Cloudflare CDN (cf-ray: a038618ef9bcb32c-FRA, cf-cache-status: HIT). A NEL header points to the endpoint a.nel.cloudflare.com for network error reporting.
+106 ms · styles and media
A single CSS bundle (assets/5eeeb5fa…css) and JS bundle (assets/67494444…js), compiled by Grav. Logos (SVG, PNG), images of the court's divisions — all local.
+128 ms · fonts
Font Awesome 4.6.3 (fontawesome-webfont.woff2) and Merriweather v18 (Regular, Italic, Bold with latin-ext) — three woff2 files, all local, from user/themes/bverwg/fonts/.
+147 ms · VTT subtitles
user/data/media/020000.vtt — WebVTT subtitles for a video about the court. px-video.js — a proprietary HTML5 player with no external dependencies.

Declared versus actual

✓ Cookies — technically necessary, Art. 6(1)(f) — declared
✓ Dienste Dritter — mentioned without specific names — declared
✓ Auftragsverarbeiter (a tour operator) — mentioned without a name — declared
+ Cloudflare Inc. (CDN and NEL) — not named — not declared

Context

Bundesverwaltungsgericht is Germany’s highest court of administrative jurisdiction, located in Leipzig. It hears appeals on points of administrative law. Sensitivity is high. Grav CMS, Cloudflare CDN. HAR: 27 requests, 1 domain.

Grav CMS with a proprietary theme

The site is built on Grav — a flat-file CMS with no database. The bverwg theme contains a full set of local resources: fonts, icons, images, JS/CSS. One compiled CSS bundle, one JS bundle. The HTML5 video player px-video.js with VTT subtitles — no YouTube or Vimeo iframe.

Cloudflare — a CDN, undeclared by name

The response headers unambiguously identify Cloudflare: server: cloudflare, cf-ray: a038618ef9bcb32c-FRA, cf-cache-status: HIT. Network Error Logging (NEL) is configured to a.nel.cloudflare.com — Cloudflare receives reports of the browser’s network errors. When using Cloudflare’s CDN, all visitors’ IP addresses pass through Cloudflare Inc.’s infrastructure (USA).

The policy declares the use of “Dienste Dritter” (third-party services), with data processed “on specially secured servers in Germany and other EU member states,” and allows for processing outside the EEA subject to Art. 44 ff. GDPR. Cloudflare is not named.

Policy — concise, no TDDDG reference

The privacy policy runs to roughly 4,200 characters and contains not a single mention of a specific third-party provider. Cookies are described as technically necessary (Art. 6(1)(f)), with no reference to TDDDG.

Merriweather and Font Awesome — local

Merriweather v18 (Regular, Italic, Bold, with the extended latin-ext set) and Font Awesome 4.6.3 — all woff2 files from Grav’s local theme. No Google Fonts.

Conclusion

www.bverwg.de uses no trackers or analytics. The one finding is that Cloudflare is not disclosed by name in the privacy policy. For the website of the highest administrative court, one that also hears data-protection cases, this is a notable omission.

Evidence

How to verify: download the file and compute its checksum — sha256sum file.har (Linux, macOS) or certutil -hashfile file.har SHA256 (Windows); it must match the one shown. The conclusions apply to the scope of this measurement — see the limitations of the method.

Original (audit)
HAR file: de/bverwg-de-2026-05-29.har
SHA-256: 388247e270412d38d5a97a67ea988ca0bbb1faa8aa704c115fce05b1149387c8
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HAR files are stored on EU infrastructure (Proton Drive). SHA-256 is published for integrity verification.
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Step 1. Data access request (GDPR Art. 15)

Send this letter directly to the company first — before contacting the regulator it has the right to respond (GDPR Art. 12(3) — 30 days).

Subject: Data access request (GDPR Art. 15) — bverwg.de

To: [insert the company's address — DPO / support / legal department]
From: [Your name], [contact email]

I request access to my personal data processed in connection with the website bverwg.de.

1. Categories of data and purposes of processing (Art. 15(1)(a)-(c))
I request information on all categories, purposes, and recipients of my data processed on this site — regardless of whether any non-compliance has been identified to date.

2. Recipients, retention periods, and transfers outside the EEA (Art. 15(1)(c)-(d), 46)
I also request the full list of third-party recipients, the applicable retention period for each category, and the legal basis for any transfer of data outside the EEA. The full technical audit with evidence (saved network log, SHA-256 checksum) is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/de-bverwg-de/

3. Automated processing and profiling (Art. 15(1)(h))
Please state whether I am subject to automated decision-making or profiling, and if so, disclose the logic involved.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[contact email]
[Country]


[Date]
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Ready-to-send complaint letter

Where to file: Federal Commissioner for Data Protection (BfDI) — file a complaint online →

The regulator reviews complaints in its national language. There is an officially translated template from the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) — you can use it instead of or alongside this letter: Official EDPB complaint form (PDF, your language)

Subject: Complaint regarding personal data processing — bverwg.de

1. Subject of the complaint
I am filing a complaint regarding the processing of my personal data by the website bverwg.de.

2. Circumstances
I visited the website bverwg.de and found indications that the processing of my personal data does not comply with the GDPR. The technical analysis published on gdpru.eu on 29 May 2026 (open methodology, reproducible measurements) documents the following indications:

Full technical documentation is published at: https://gdpru.eu/en/audits/de-bverwg-de/

3. GDPR provisions I ask you to examine


4. Request
I request that you examine the circumstances described and, if non-compliance is confirmed, apply the measures provided for in Article 58(2) GDPR.

5. Attachments
The full evidence base — the HAR file, its SHA-256 checksum and the quotation from the site's privacy policy documenting the stated contradiction — is published and verifiable at the link in point 2 above.

Sincerely,

[Your name]
[contact email]
[Country]


[Date]