Data location stated in Customer communities
Where the data physically sits decides which law applies to it.
7 of 18 vendors we measured here publish it, that is 39%. Last checked 2026-09-03.
39% here against 44% across every category we measure. Customer communities sits below the overall share for this criterion.
Back to Data location stated across all categories, or to Customer communities.
Published
The hosting location is stated on a public page.
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 |
|---|---|
| Disciple | 7 addresses checked |
| Flarum | 7 addresses checked |
| Flock | 7 addresses checked |
| Forumbee | 7 addresses checked |
| Guild | 7 addresses checked |
| Heartbeat | 7 addresses checked |
| Hivebrite | 7 addresses checked |
| NodeBB | 7 addresses checked |
| Skool | 7 addresses checked |
| XenForo | 7 addresses checked |
| Zapnito | 7 addresses checked |
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. |
Found something we missed? Tell us and the next run picks it up.