Form builder privacy ratings

Form builders, surveys and polls.

17 forms and surveys are rated against 9 public criteria, and 17 have enough evidence for a letter grade. Our pick is Formbricks. Of the 17 with a known jurisdiction, 9 are based in a Five Eyes country, and 16 in the wider Fourteen Eyes.

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Forms and surveys privacy ratings, sorted by pick and then by grade
Name	Grade	Score	Data	Jurisdiction	Open source	No trackers or telemetry	No ads or data sales	Independent audit	Transparency report	Tells users about requests	TLS configuration	Security headers	Modern web standards
Formbricks Our pick Open-source survey and form platform for link, website and in-app surveys, from Formbricks GmbH in Germany. Available as a hosted cloud service or self-hosted with Docker.	Grade D	53	100%	Germany Fourteen Eyes	Yes	No	Yes	Partial	No	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet
Nextcloud Forms Survey and questionnaire app for self-hosted Nextcloud servers. Responses stay on the server running Nextcloud.	Grade B	80	100%	Germany Fourteen Eyes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable	Not applicable
Framaforms Free online form and survey service run by the French nonprofit Framasoft on the open-source Yakforms software. Forms expire after six months by default.	Grade D	53	100%	France Nine Eyes	Yes	Partial	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Not tested yet
LimeSurvey Open-source survey software from LimeSurvey GmbH in Hamburg. It can be self-hosted for free or used as the paid LimeSurvey Cloud service hosted in Germany.	Grade D	47	100%	Germany Fourteen Eyes	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet
Zoho Forms Online form builder from Zoho with approvals, payments, offline mobile apps and integrations with other Zoho apps.	Grade D	41	100%	India Outside Eyes	No	Partial	Yes	Partial	No	No	Yes	No	Not tested yet
Google Forms Google's online form and survey builder, part of Google Workspace. Responses are stored in the creator's Google account and can be exported to Google Sheets.	Grade F	38	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	No	Partial	Yes	Yes	Partial	Yes	Not tested yet
Microsoft Forms Microsoft's online form, survey and quiz builder, included with Microsoft 365 and free with a Microsoft account. Responses can be exported to Excel.	Grade F	38	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	No	Partial	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Not tested yet
OpnForm Open-source form builder with logic, file uploads and integrations, available as a hosted service or self-hosted.	Grade F	38	100%	France Nine Eyes	Yes	No	Partial	No	No	No	Yes	No	Not tested yet
Fillout Online form, survey and quiz builder from Zite, with scheduling, payments and PDF generation. Form responses can be stored in the EU on request.	Grade F	34	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	Yes	Partial	No	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet
Jotform Online form builder from Jotform Inc. in San Francisco, with templates, payments, approvals and PDF tools. Form data can be stored on EU servers.	Grade F	34	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	Partial	Partial	Partial	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet
Qualtrics Survey and experience management platform for research, customer and employee feedback, run by Qualtrics LLC in the United States.	Grade F	28	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	Partial	Partial	No	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet
Typeform Online form and survey builder that presents questions one at a time, run by Typeform SL in Barcelona.	Grade F	28	100%	Spain Fourteen Eyes	No	No	Partial	No	Partial	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet
Cognito Forms Online form builder with calculations, payments, workflows and document generation, run by Cognito Forms in the United States.	Grade F	25	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	Partial	Partial	No	No	Yes	No	Not tested yet
HeyForm Open-source conversational form builder from EarlyBird, Inc., available as a hosted service or self-hosted.	Grade F	25	100%	United States Five Eyes	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	Partial	No	Not tested yet
Paperform Online form builder from Paperform Pty Ltd in Australia that combines forms with document-style pages, payments and bookings.	Grade F	25	100%	Australia Five Eyes	No	No	Partial	Partial	No	No	Yes	No	Not tested yet
Tally Online form builder operated by Tally BV in Belgium, with forms created in a document-style editor. Form data is hosted in the EU.	Grade F	25	100%	Belgium Fourteen Eyes	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	Not tested yet
SurveyMonkey Online survey platform from SurveyMonkey Inc. in the US for building surveys and forms and analyzing responses.	Grade F	22	100%	United States Five Eyes	No	No	No	Partial	No	No	Yes	Partial	Not tested yet

Questions

What is the most private option among forms and surveys?

Our pick is Formbricks. Open-source surveys and forms for links, websites and apps, as a replacement for Typeform, SurveyMonkey and Google Forms. Made by a company in Germany, with a hosted service or self-hosting with Docker.

How are forms and surveys rated?

Each entry answers 9 questions: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, TLS configuration, security headers and modern web standards. Answers need links to evidence. See the full criteria.

Does jurisdiction matter?

Jurisdiction decides which laws can compel a provider to hand over data. Each entry shows its country and whether it is in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes. The data a provider can hand over depends mostly on what it stores and who holds the keys. Read about jurisdictions and the CLOUD Act.