See the steps we ensure your privacy and protection with Ideanote
Ideanote uses certain sub-processors to assist in providing Ideanote’s services. A sub-processors is a third party data processor engaged by Ideanote who agrees to receive personal data from Ideanote intended for processing activities to be carried out (i) on behalf of Ideanote Customers; (ii) in accordance with Customer instructions as communicated by Ideanote; and (iii) in accordance with the terms of a written contract between Ideanote and the sub-processors.
Ideanote imposes data protection terms on each sub-processor regarding their security controls and applicable laws for the protection of personal data. Further information relating to sub-processor security measures can be found via the external links below.
Where the engagement of a sub-processor requires the cross-border transfer of personal data, Ideanote has performed Transfer Impact Assessments for such data transfer.
Ideanote maintains an up-to-date list of the names and locations of all sub-processors below.
Duration of processing: For each sub-processor below, processing of personal data will be for the duration that the Customer uses and continues to use Ideanote and for the retention periods as set out in customer’s agreement with Ideanote.
We have in place written Data Processing Agreements (“DPA”) with all of our sub-processors. The DPA is a contract between a data controller and a data processor, and covers the items required under Art. 28 of the GDPR. This includes the roles and responsibilities of the parties when personal data is processed.
According to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), contractual clauses ensuring appropriate data protection safeguards can be used as a ground for data transfers from the EU to third countries. This includes model contract clauses – so-called standard contractual clauses ("SCC") – that have been “pre-approved” by the European Commission. All of our sub-processors outside of EU have SCC in place.
Ideanote works with other third parties to provide specific functions or features within the Service. These providers will have access to relevant personal information (in both an identifiable and anonymous manner) in order to provide their relevant functions. The use of information is limited to the specific purposes.
The following sub-processors are used to provide the Ideanote Service and are part of the chain of processing of sensitive, personal and other data of end-users.
Function: Server infrastructure
Personal data: End-user IP, End-user URL, End-user Referrer, End-user Browser, End-user Device, End-user Events, End-user Settings
Sensitive data: Customer Content
Pseudonymized data: End-user ID
Other Data: Customer Subdomain, Customer Company Email, Customer Name, Customer Email, Customer Settings, Events
Vendor measures: Secure Infrastructure, Encryption at Rest, Encryption in Transit, Compliance and Certifications, Privacy, Blog
Certifications: ISO27001/17/18, SOC1/2/3, PCI DSS, HIPAA
Additional measures: Ideanote exclusively hosts its Service on Google Cloud servers in the EU, where it is encrypted at rest. Backups are also performed on Google Cloud servers in the EU, so you Data remains stored in the EU.
Retention: Ideanote does not automatically expire data on Ideanote servers. Customer has the option to delete Content and End-users individual and in bulk as well as delete all data on their Workspace (per GDPR compliance).
Entity: Google Inc.
Data location: EU
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Function: Email Infrastructure
Personal data: End-user Email Addresses, End-user Names
Sensitive data: None
Other Data: Email Content
Vendor measures: Security Measures, GDPR
Certifications: SOC2 Type II
Additional measures: Ideanote enforces full TLS 1.1. end-to-end encryption in transit for all emails.
Retention: SendGrid email providers retain email message activity (such as opens and clicks) for up to 90 days. Aggregated sending stats and suppression lists (bounces, unsubscribes) and spam reports are stored indefinitely.
Entity: Twilio Inc.
Data location: United States
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
The following sub-processors are only used in connection with data related directly to the Customer that signed up for an Ideanote Workspace and Workspace Owners invited for billing purposes - and not with other End-users invited to collaborate on the platform.
Function: Payment and credit card processing
Sensitive data: Customer Credit Card Details
Personal data: Customer Contact Email, Customer Contact Name, Customer Contact IP, Customer Address
Other Data: Customer Company Name, Customer Subdomain, Customer Subscription, Customer Company Name
Vendor measures: Security Hub
Certifications: PCI Service Provider Level 1, PCI DSS
Additional measures: Ideanote uses Stripe for services related to payment processing for our subscription and billing. The use of information is limited to that specific purpose. Stripe is PCI compliant and Ideanote does not handle or store credit card information.
Retention: Ideanote keeps records of billing data for up to 10 years for compliance reasons, this does not include personal data. Credit card data can be deleted by the Customer in the Ideanote interface.
Entity: Stripe Inc.
Data location: United States
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Function: Business suite for communication.
Sensitive data: None, unless shared with Ideanote by Customer in connection with a Customer Request (e.g. Data Export).
Personal data: None, unless shared with Ideanote by Customer in connection with a Customer Request (e.g. Data Export).
Other Data: Company Name, Customer Requests
Vendor measures: Secure Infrastructure, Encryption at Rest, Encryption in Transit, Compliance and Certifications, Privacy
Certifications: ISO27001/17/18, SOC1/2/3, PCI DSS, HIPAA
Additional measures: Internal communication does not contain personal data apart from support requested by Customer in relation to a support request. Traces of Customer Data are deleted as soon as possible. Access is secured via SSO and restricted on a need to know basis.
Retention: Sensitive and personal data pertaining to Customer support requests is deleted within 72 hours after completion of Customer requests.
Entity: Google Inc.
Data location: United States
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Function: Internal communication
Sensitive data: None, unless shared with Ideanote by Customer in connection with a Customer Request (e.g. Data Export)
Personal Data: None, unless shared with Ideanote by Customer in connection with a Customer Request (e.g. Data Export)
Other Data: Company Name, Customer Requests
Vendor measures: Secure Infrastructure, Encryption at Rest, Encryption in Transit, Compliance and Certifications, Privacy
Certifications: ISO27001/17/18, SOC2 Type II, SOC3, CSA, FedRamp, HIPAA
Additional measures: Internal communication does not contain personal data apart from support requested by Customer in relation to a support request. Traces of Customer Data are deleted as soon as possible. Access is secured via SSO and restricted on a need to know basis.
Retention: Sensitive and personal data pertaining to Customer support requests is deleted within 72 hours after completion of Customer requests.
Entity: Slack Inc.
Data location: United States
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Function: Customer onboarding, support and outreach.
Sensitive data: None
Personal data: Customer Contact Email, Customer Contact Name
Pseudonymized data: Customer ID
Other Data: Customer Subdomain, Customer Company Name, Events, URL, Referrer
Vendor measures: Privacy and Security
Certifications: AWS server with SOC2
Additional measures: None
Retention: Data from inactive contacts is deleted after 3 years.
Entity: Drip Inc.
Data location: United States
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Function: Customer onboarding, support and outreach.
Sensitive data: None
Personal data: Customer Contact Email, Customer Contact Name
Pseudonymized data: Customer ID
Other Data: Customer Subdomain, Customer Company Name, Aggregated Activity Counts
Vendor measures: Privacy and Security
Certifications: SOC2 Certified
Additional measures: None
Retention: Data from inactive contacts is deleted after 3 years.
Entity: FrontApp Inc.
Data location: EU
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Function: Enterprise customer onboarding, support and outreach.
Sensitive data: None
Personal data: Customer Contact Email, Customer Contact Name
Pseudonymized data: Customer ID
Other Data: Customer Subdomain, Customer Company Name, Aggregated Activity Counts
Vendor measures: Privacy and Security
Certifications: SOC2 Certified
Additional measures: None
Retention: Data from inactive contacts is deleted after 3 years.
Entity: Intercom Inc.
Data location: United States
Legal basis: DPA (SCC)
Ideanote uses Clearbit for the purposes of legitimate business interest to guess company names based on their IP Addresses during the initial workspace creation process.
Clearbit has developed a business intelligence API to aid businesses in acquiring more information about their clients in order to increase turnover and reduce fraud. Clearbit collects your IP address so that we may improve our website. For more information and to have yourself removed from the Clearbit database, please click here.
Ideanote uses OpenAI for the purposes of AI assisted content generation such as generating ideas based on your company profile. We do not send personal data like your name or email to OpenAI. OpenAI does not retain data for more than 30 days (source) and does not use data submitted to their API to train their AI. You can chose to not make use of Ideanote's AI functionalities if you would like to avoid that any data is sent to OpenAI.
Our business needs may change from time to time. For example, we may deprecate a sub-processor to consolidate and minimize our use of sub-processors. Similarly, we may add a sub-processor if we believe that doing so will enhance our ability to deliver our Services. Before engaging a sub-processors, we perform due diligence, including a security and legal analysis. We do not engage a sub-processor unless our quality, security and the standard of the GDPR are met.
Changes in sub-processors are regulated by the DPA we have in place with you.