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Cognito Forms privacy rating

Online form builder with calculations, payments, workflows and document generation, run by Cognito Forms in the United States.

Summary

Cognito Forms scores 25 out of 100 (grade F) on the forms and surveys criteria. It meets 1 of 8 criteria: TLS configuration. It partly meets no ads or data sales and independent audit. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade C.

Score 25 out of 100. How scoring works

Criteria

  • No

    Open source Weight 3 of 3

    Is all the source code needed to run the product public?

    Closed source.

  • No

    No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3

    Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?

    The privacy policy states that the website uses Google Analytics. Public and embedded forms do not include it unless the form owner connects their own account.

    cognitoforms.com

  • Partial

    No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3

    Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?

    Funded by paid plans, and the privacy policy states that data is not sold or mined. The website loads the Microsoft Advertising tag.

    cognitoforms.com

  • Partial

    Independent audit Weight 2 of 3

    Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

    Has a SOC 2 Type 2 report, available to paid and prospective Enterprise customers under a non-disclosure agreement.

    cognitoforms.com

  • No

    Transparency report Weight 2 of 3

    Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?

    No transparency report is published. The privacy policy only says data may be disclosed in response to lawful requests by public authorities.

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  • No

    Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3

    Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?

    No published policy on notifying users about data requests.

Automated tests

  • Yes

    TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3

    Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?

    Grade A+

    ssllabs.com

  • No

    Security headers Weight 1 of 3

    Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?

    Grade C (50/100+)

    developer.mozilla.org

  • Not tested yet

    Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3

    Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?

    Not tested yet.

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