SaaS Ranking

Data processing agreement in Customer communities

Without a published DPA you cannot review the contract before you talk to sales.

6 of 18 vendors we measured here publish it, that is 33%. Last checked 2026-09-03.

33% here against 12% across every category we measure. Customer communities sits above the overall share for this criterion.

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Published

Published and readable without a login.

VendorWhat we found
Bettermode https://bettermode.com/legal/data-processing-agreement
Circle https://circle.so/dpa
Disciple https://www.disciple.community/
Heartbeat https://www.heartbeat.chat/legal/dpa
Higher Logic https://www.higherlogic.com/gdpr/
Hivebrite https://hivebrite.io/legal/dpa/

No data processing agreement 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.

VendorWhat we found
Chanty 8 addresses checked
Discourse 8 addresses checked
Flarum 8 addresses checked
Fleep 8 addresses checked
Flock 8 addresses checked
Forumbee 8 addresses checked
Guild 8 addresses checked
NodeBB 8 addresses checked
Rocket.Chat 8 addresses checked
Skool 8 addresses checked
XenForo 8 addresses checked
Zapnito 8 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.

VendorWhat we found
Answerbase The vendor’s server blocked or rate-limited our crawler, so this was not measured.

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