Legal Notice

Site operator (§ 5 DDG – German Digital Services Act)

Owner and legal representative: Daniel Lindenthal (solo private practice, sole proprietorship).

Responsible for content under § 18 (2) MStV (German State Media Treaty): Daniel Lindenthal, at the address above.

Professional title and medical chamber

Professional title: Physician (“Arzt” – title awarded in Germany).

Medical chamber: Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (State Medical Chamber of Baden-Württemberg), Bezirksärztekammer Nordwürttemberg (District Medical Chamber of North Württemberg), Jahnstraße 5, 70597 Stuttgart – www.aerztekammer-bw.de

Professional rules that apply to us: Berufsordnung der Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (Professional Code of the State Medical Chamber of Baden-Württemberg), Heilberufe-Kammergesetz Baden-Württemberg (Baden-Württemberg Health Professions Chamber Act) and the Gebührenordnung für Ärzte (GOÄ – German Medical Fee Schedule). You can read them on the State Medical Chamber’s website (www.aerztekammer-bw.de) and at www.gesetze-im-internet.de.

Supervisory authority

Professional oversight: Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (address see above) and the Gesundheitsamt der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart (Public Health Office of the State Capital Stuttgart). Licensing authority (Approbation): Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart (Stuttgart Regional Council).

Private practice – not part of the public insurance system

This is a purely private practice. We’re not contracted with Germany’s statutory (public) health insurers, so we can’t bill them. All services are billed under the Gebührenordnung für Ärzte (GOÄ – German physicians’ fee schedule) – to privately insured patients, patients covered by Beihilfe (civil-service health allowance) and self-pay patients.

Value-added tax

Medical services are VAT-exempt under § 4 No. 14 UStG (German VAT Act). If a VAT ID ever becomes necessary, we’ll add it here.

Professional liability insurance

Disclosure under § 2 (1) No. 11 DL-InfoV (German Service Providers Information Ordinance):

• Insurer: Deutsche Ärzteversicherung Allgemeine, branch of AXA Versicherung AG, Börsenplatz 1, 50667 Köln (Cologne), Germany; postal address: 51171 Köln
• Coverage: worldwide, including the US and Canada

Liability for content

We take great care with the content on this site, but we can’t guarantee it’s always correct, complete or up to date. As a service provider we’re responsible for our own content under general law; we don’t have to monitor third-party information that’s sent or stored here.

Our Health Guide articles are general information. They’re no substitute for personal medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.

Liability for links

This site links to third-party websites we don’t control. Their operators are responsible for their content. We checked the links for legal problems when we added them; if we learn of a violation, we’ll remove the link right away.

Copyright

The content and works we created for this site are protected under German copyright law. Copying, editing, distributing or otherwise using them beyond what copyright law allows requires our written permission.

Image credits

Photos and graphics: our own photography plus images from Unsplash. These are used under the Unsplash License.

Consumer dispute resolution

We’re not required to take part in dispute resolution before a consumer arbitration board, and we don’t (§ 36 VSBG – German Consumer Dispute Resolution Act). If you have questions about your medical treatment, you can contact the arbitration board of the Landesärztekammer Baden-Württemberg (www.aerztekammer-bw.de).