Subprocessors
Last updated: April 20, 2021
Starmind engages third-party service providers to deliver Starmind services to customers. With respect to the customer’s personal data that is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the customer is a controller, Starmind is a processor and third-party providers engaged by Starmind are sub-processors (“Subprocessors”).
This page lists all current Sub-processors engaged by Starmind.
As of March 2021, both the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield are still deemed to be an invalid ground of international data transfer. In cases where Privacy Shield was used in the past, Starmind has signed EU Standard Contractual Clauses with the respective Subprocessor. The list below provides the required details for each individual Subprocessor.
Hosting provider
Starmind is engaging the following providers for the provision of our services:
| Hosting provider | Privacy safeguards |
|---|---|
| Swisscom (Switzerland) Ltd (Title in German: Swisscom (Schweiz) AG) Alte Tiefenaustrasse 6, CH-3048 Worblaufen, Switzerland |
DPA signed. Switzerland is deemed to be a country providing adequate level of protection. |
| Microsoft Azure Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way, Redmond WA, USA 98052 |
DPA accepted. Standard Contractual Clauses signed. Participant of: |
Email services
Starmind uses transactional email providers for sending notification emails and other emails like invitations, reminders, summaries, recommendations, etc. to end users of Starmind platform. The data transferred to the provider for sending emails: user attributes (name, surname, email address), a snippet about the respective question, answer, or comment.
As a Starmind customer you can choose one of the following two email providers based on your data protection preferences:
| Email Services Providers | Privacy safeguards |
|---|---|
| SendGrid, Inc. Denver, Colorado, USA |
DPA signed. Standard Contractual Clauses signed. Participant of: |
| Retarus, Schaffhauserstrasse 104 • 8152 Glattbrugg, Switzerland |
DPA signed. |
Translation services
As a Starmind customer you may enable the following translation services:
| Translation provider | Privacy safeguards |
|---|---|
| Google Translate |
Standard Contractual Clauses signed. |
| DeepL, Im Mediaparkt 8a, 50670 Cologne, Germany |
DPA signed. |
Other service providers
| Provider | Processing of personal data | Privacy safeguards |
|---|---|---|
| Mixpanel San Francisco, California, USA |
Analysis of the usage of Starmind platform based on a hashed user ID. |
DPA accepted. Processing takes place on MixPanel Servers in the EU. Standard Contractual Clauses signed. Participant of: |
| Ask Nicely Holdings, Inc. Portland, Oregon 97210, USA |
Ask Nicely is used to (a) ask a user how likely she would recommend Starmind (NPS) and (b) to trigger an email conversation with that user afterwards. |
DPA signed. Standard Contractual Clauses signed. Participant of: |
| Canny.io Wilmington, DE 19801, USA |
A tool that is integrate into the Starmind admin user interface where admins (project managers from client side) can propose features and up / downvote ideas proposed by others. |
DPA signed. EU standard contractual clauses are included into DPA. |
| Infomaniak Network SA, Rue Eugène-Marziano 25, 1227 Genève, Switzerland | On-demand sporadic exchange of export, installation and other files between Starmind and the customer. |
DPA accepted. |
| OneSignal 2850 S. Delaware St., Suite 201, San Mateo, CA 94403 |
Notification Provider. Providing push notifications to Starmind users within the Web App and Mobile App |
DPA signed.
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