Forms and surveys
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 24 out of 100 (grade F) on the forms and surveys criteria. It meets 1 of 9 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, security headers and modern web standards. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+, Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade C and Internet.nl website score 62%.
Score 24 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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+
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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+)
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No
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Score 62%