Data location stated in Customer communities
Where the data sits decides who can demand access to it and whether a transfer is one at all. It does not by itself decide which privacy law applies.
8 of 32 companies we measured here publish it, that is 25%. Last checked 2026-10-18.
25% here against 24% across every category we measure. Customer communities sits above the overall share for this criterion.
This page counts companies, not product entries: a company with two products in this category is one company here and two rows below.
Back to Data location stated across all categories, or to Customer communities.
- Found8
- Not found at checked addresses24
- Not measured2
34 companies in total. Unmeasured companies are excluded from the published share.
Published
The hosting location is stated on a public page.
| Vendor | What we found |
|---|---|
| Bettermode | https://bettermode.com/securityChecked |
| Circle | https://circle.so/privacyChecked |
| Discourse | https://www.discourse.org/securityChecked |
| Fleep | https://fleep.io/privacyChecked |
| Higher Logic | https://www.higherlogic.com/legal/privacy/Checked |
| Mattermost | https://mattermost.com/privacy-policy/Checked |
| Octopus Community | https://www.octopuscommunity.com/privacy-policyChecked |
| Zulip | https://zulip.com/policies/privacyChecked |
No statement about data location found.
We reached at least one address for each of these vendors and none of them carried it. That is what we found at the addresses we checked, on the date we checked them, and not a statement about what the vendor has.
| Vendor | What we found |
|---|---|
| Chanty | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Disciple | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Flarum | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Flock | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Forumbee | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Guild | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Heartbeat | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Hivebrite | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Lemmy | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Mastodon | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Matrix | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Mighty Networks | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| NodeBB | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Rocket.Chat | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Ryver | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Skool | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Talkspirit | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Threema Work | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Tribe Social | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Twist | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Whaller | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Wimi | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| XenForo | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
| Zapnito | 7 addresses checkedChecked |
Not measured
We could not look at these, or their robots.txt asks us not to. That says something about our measurement, not about them, and they are left out of the percentage above.
| Vendor | What we found |
|---|---|
| Answerbase | The vendor’s server blocked or rate-limited our crawler, so this was not measured.Checked |
| phpBB | The vendor’s server blocked or rate-limited our crawler, so this was not measured.Checked |
Other criteria in Customer communities
- Data processing agreement
- Subprocessor list
- Status page with history
- Public pricing
- Certifications named
- HTTPS enforced with HSTS
- No third-party tracking before consent
- security.txt (RFC 9116)
- Notice before subprocessors change
- Named privacy contact
Data location stated in related categories
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