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    "schema": "veldhost-vendor-profile/1",
    "reviewed_at": "2026-09-09",
    "generated_at": "2026-09-11T07:27:02+00:00",
    "vendor": {
        "name": "Veldhost",
        "legal_form": "eenmanszaak",
        "kvk": "98167820",
        "vat": "NL005311289B72",
        "registered_office": "Piet Heinstraat 12, 7511 JE Enschede, Netherlands",
        "country": "NL",
        "website": "https://veldhost.eu"
    },
    "not_held": [
        "ISO/IEC 27001 certification",
        "SOC 2 report",
        "Independent penetration-test report (published)",
        "Cyber-liability insurance certificate (published)",
        "Single sign-on (SAML / OIDC) for customer accounts",
        "24/7 staffed human support"
    ],
    "sections": [
        {
            "key": "identity",
            "title": "Legal identity",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Trading name",
                    "value": "Veldhost"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Legal form",
                    "value": "Sole proprietorship (eenmanszaak) under Dutch law — a natural person trading under a registered trade name, not a B.V."
                },
                {
                    "label": "Owner",
                    "value": "Janis Berzins"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Chamber of Commerce (KvK)",
                    "value": "98167820"
                },
                {
                    "label": "VAT number",
                    "value": "NL005311289B72"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Registered office",
                    "value": "Piet Heinstraat 12, 7511 JE Enschede, Netherlands"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Country of establishment",
                    "value": "Netherlands (EU)"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Trade name registered",
                    "value": "August 2026 (Dutch Chamber of Commerce)"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Governing law / venue",
                    "value": "Dutch law; competent Dutch courts, without prejudice to mandatory consumer rights",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/terms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "contacts",
            "title": "Contacts",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Sales & general",
                    "value": "info@veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "mailto:info@veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Support",
                    "value": "info@veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "mailto:info@veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Security (vulnerabilities, questionnaires, incidents)",
                    "value": "security@veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "mailto:security@veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Legal, contracts, DPA signature, privacy requests",
                    "value": "legal@veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "mailto:legal@veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Abuse (AUP)",
                    "value": "abuse@veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "mailto:abuse@veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Languages",
                    "value": "English, Dutch, Latvian"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Support hours",
                    "value": "Monday–Friday, Dutch business hours (CET/CEST), excluding Dutch public holidays. No 24/7 staffed support.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "First-response targets",
                    "value": "General enquiries within one business day; quotes and procurement or security questionnaires within two business days; P1 incidents per plan (SLA §3).",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "service",
            "title": "Service & availability",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Service",
                    "value": "Fully managed EU web hosting: WordPress, PHP, Laravel and static sites with domains, DNS on our own nameservers, email, backups, staging, monitoring, REST API and MCP server.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/platform"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Commercial availability",
                    "value": "Public testing phase — ordering opens 1 October 2026. Evaluation and quotes available now.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/plans"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Plans",
                    "value": "Starter €5/mo · Pro €15/mo · Business from €79/mo (dedicated server, quoted)",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/plans"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Website",
                    "value": "https://veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Customer portal",
                    "value": "https://manage.veldhost.eu",
                    "href": "https://manage.veldhost.eu"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Status page",
                    "value": "https://veldhost.eu/status",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/status"
                },
                {
                    "label": "API specification",
                    "value": "https://manage.veldhost.eu/api/v1/openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1)",
                    "href": "https://manage.veldhost.eu/api/v1/openapi.json"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "infrastructure",
            "title": "Infrastructure & data residency",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Hosting provider",
                    "value": "Hetzner Online GmbH (Germany) — servers operated entirely by veldhost",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa#subprocessors"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Data locations",
                    "value": "Germany: Falkenstein (production), Nuremberg (nightly backup replication). The DPA also permits Hetzner Finland. All EU/EEA.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sovereignty"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Data leaves the EU?",
                    "value": "No — Customer Content, compute, storage and backups stay in the EU/EEA.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "US hyperscaler / CDN in the serving path?",
                    "value": "No. Served from our own infrastructure and our own authoritative nameservers.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sovereignty"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Tenant isolation",
                    "value": "One LXD system container per site; localhost-only databases; container-to-container traffic denied by default.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/security"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Sub-processors",
                    "value": "Hetzner (DE), Stripe Payments Europe (IE), Openprovider (NL), OpenSRS/Tucows (CA, legacy, domain string only), self-hosted mail. Versioned register in the DPA.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa#subprocessors"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "compliance",
            "title": "Compliance & certification status",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "GDPR",
                    "value": "Article 28 DPA published and incorporated by reference; countersigned copy on request.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Breach notification",
                    "value": "Controller notified within 48 hours of awareness (DPA §10).",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "NIS2",
                    "value": "Measures mapped to the directive; no certification exists for a provider of our size.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sovereignty"
                },
                {
                    "label": "ISO/IEC 27001",
                    "value": "Not held. Certification is on the public roadmap (later); not implied before a certificate exists.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sovereignty"
                },
                {
                    "label": "SOC 2",
                    "value": "Not held.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/security"
                },
                {
                    "label": "PCI DSS",
                    "value": "Card data is handled by Stripe (PCI DSS Level 1); no card data reaches veldhost systems.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/privacy"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Independent penetration test",
                    "value": "No published report. Daily automated CVE scanning; responsible-disclosure programme.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/security"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Cyber-liability insurance",
                    "value": "No certificate published; ask legal@veldhost.eu."
                },
                {
                    "label": "DNSSEC",
                    "value": "Available on our nameservers, enabled per domain from the dashboard.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/security"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "commitments",
            "title": "Contractual commitments (quoted)",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Availability",
                    "value": "Starter best effort · Pro 99.5% monthly target (no credits) · Business 99.9% monthly with credits of 10% / 25% / 50% of the monthly hosting fee, capped at one month, once the dedicated setup is confirmed in the order.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Support first response (P1)",
                    "value": "Starter 1 business day · Pro 4 business hours · Business 2 business hours.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Backups",
                    "value": "Weekly on every plan; daily with 30-day retention on Business or as an add-on; nightly encrypted replication to a second region.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "RPO / RTO targets",
                    "value": "RPO 7 days (weekly) or 24 hours (daily). RTO 2 business days / 1 business day / 8 business hours (Business). Objectives, not guarantees.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Maintenance window",
                    "value": "Sunday 22:00–02:00 CET/CEST, max 2 hours per month; notice 3 / 5 / 7 business days by plan.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Liability cap",
                    "value": "Fees paid for the affected service in the preceding 12 months, never below one billing period; negotiable in a Business order form.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/terms"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Sub-processor changes",
                    "value": "At least 14 days’ notice; right to object and terminate the affected service.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Audit rights",
                    "value": "Once per 12 months on reasonable notice, or after a breach affecting you.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Data return & deletion",
                    "value": "Export of files, database, DNS and mail plus domain transfer codes on termination; deletion of all copies within the export window; 7-year fiscal retention of invoices only.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Cancellation & refunds",
                    "value": "Cancel any time, effective end of paid period. 14-day withdrawal with full refund on hosting for consumers and sole traders; domain registrations non-refundable. Pro-rata refund if we terminate for convenience.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/terms"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "commercial",
            "title": "Billing",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Currency",
                    "value": "EUR"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Payment",
                    "value": "Card via Stripe, monthly or annual. Business orders: written quote and order form; purchase-order references and invoice-based payment discussed per order.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/business"
                },
                {
                    "label": "VAT",
                    "value": "Dutch VAT; EU business customers with a valid VAT number are reverse-charged (0%).",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/plans"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Invoices",
                    "value": "Issued for every charge; listed in the dashboard with PDF download. Purchase-order references on Business orders.",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/docs/billing-and-plans"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "key": "documents",
            "title": "Document library",
            "facts": [
                {
                    "label": "Terms of Service",
                    "value": "Last reviewed 2026-07-03",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/terms"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Privacy Policy",
                    "value": "Last reviewed 2026-07-03",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/privacy"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Data Processing Agreement",
                    "value": "GDPR Art. 28(3), with sub-processor register",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Hosting SLA",
                    "value": "Availability, support, maintenance, backups, credits",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sla"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Acceptable Use Policy",
                    "value": "Abuse handling and content notices",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/aup"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Security overview",
                    "value": "Controls actually in place",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/security"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Digital sovereignty & NIS2",
                    "value": "Residency, register summary, NIS2 mapping",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/sovereignty"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Security questionnaire (pre-answered)",
                    "value": "Version 1.0, reviewed 2026-09-09",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/trust/security-questionnaire"
                },
                {
                    "label": "Changelog & roadmap",
                    "value": "One entry per production deploy",
                    "href": "https://veldhost.eu/changelog"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "links": {
        "trust_centre": "https://veldhost.eu/trust",
        "vendor_profile": "https://veldhost.eu/trust/vendor-profile",
        "security_questionnaire": "https://veldhost.eu/trust/security-questionnaire",
        "security_questionnaire_text": "https://veldhost.eu/trust/security-questionnaire.txt",
        "dpa": "https://veldhost.eu/dpa",
        "sla": "https://veldhost.eu/sla",
        "terms": "https://veldhost.eu/terms",
        "privacy": "https://veldhost.eu/privacy",
        "status": "https://veldhost.eu/status"
    }
}