Legal Notice
This page provides the identification information required for commercial websites under Dutch and EU law (including Article 3:15d of the Dutch Civil Code and Article 5 of the E-Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC). It is the equivalent of what in German-speaking jurisdictions is known as an Impressum.
1. Service Operator
bzz.nu is a registered trade name of Junovy. The legal entity behind both bzz.nu and the Junovy brand is the same Dutch business:
Junovy
[protected address]
[protected]
The Netherlands
Junovy is a sole-proprietor business (eenmanszaak) registered with the Dutch Chamber of Commerce (Kamer van Koophandel).
- Legal name: Junovy
- Trade name for this service: bzz.nu
- KvK (Chamber of Commerce) number: 71813977
- Registered office: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2. Contact
The fastest way to reach us is by email. To reduce spam-bot harvesting, the addresses below are decoded by your browser; they should appear as clickable links shortly after the page loads.
- General enquiries: [protected email]
- Privacy and data protection: [protected email]
- Abuse reports: [protected email]
- Security disclosures: [protected email]
3. Responsible Person
The person responsible for the content of bzz.nu within the meaning of Article 5(1) of the E-Commerce Directive is:
[protected name]
c/o Junovy, [protected address], The Netherlands
Email: [protected email]
4. VAT
Junovy is registered for Dutch value-added tax (BTW) under identification number [protected VAT number]. This number is required on invoices under Article 35a of the Dutch Wet op de omzetbelasting 1968 and Article 226 of the EU VAT Directive (2006/112/EC). If the spam-protection script fails to decode the number in your browser, please contact us at the privacy address above and we will send it to you directly.
5. Regulatory Authority
Junovy is not subject to sector-specific professional supervision; we are a general commercial business. Our activities are governed by Dutch commercial law and relevant EU regulations including the GDPR and the Digital Services Act. The competent consumer-protection authority in the Netherlands is the Autoriteit Consument & Markt (acm.nl).
6. Data Protection Authority
The competent data protection supervisory authority for Junovy is the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (Dutch Data Protection Authority), autoriteitpersoonsgegevens.nl. See our Privacy Policy for details on how we handle personal data.
7. Online Dispute Resolution
The European Commission provides an online dispute resolution (ODR) platform at ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr. We do not currently participate in a specific dispute resolution body beyond what Dutch law requires, but we prefer to resolve disputes directly and informally wherever possible. Please contact us at [protected email] first.
8. Intellectual Property
Unless otherwise stated, the content of bzz.nu — including text, logos, graphics, and the bee mascot — is copyright © 2026 Junovy and is protected under Dutch and international copyright law. The name “bzz.nu” and the Junovy honeycomb brand marks are unregistered trademarks of Junovy. Open-source components used in building bzz.nu retain their respective licences.
9. Liability for Content
As operator of bzz.nu, we are responsible for our own content on this site under the Dutch implementation of Directive 2000/31/EC (Burgerlijk Wetboek, Boek 3 artikelen 15d–15f and Boek 6 artikelen 196c–196e), together with the applicable provisions of the EU Digital Services Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065). We are not, however, obliged to monitor user-submitted short links or micro-site content for illegality on our own initiative. Upon becoming aware of a specific legal infringement we will remove the content in question promptly (see our Notice and Takedown procedure).
10. Liability for Links
bzz.nu is by its nature a service that forwards visitors to third-party websites. We have no control over the content of destination URLs. At the time a short link is created we have no indication of legal violations. We will not and cannot continuously monitor the content behind every short link, but will remove a link immediately upon receiving a valid notice of illegal content. See Notice and Takedown.