# Forms and surveys privacy ratings

Form builders, surveys and polls.

**Our pick:** [Formbricks](https://privacyratings.com/forms/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.

| Name | Grade | Jurisdiction | Description |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Formbricks](https://privacyratings.com/forms/formbricks/) (our pick) | D (53/100) | Germany (Fourteen Eyes) | 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. |
| [Nextcloud Forms](https://privacyratings.com/forms/nextcloud-forms/) | B (80/100) | Germany (Fourteen Eyes) | Survey and questionnaire app for self-hosted Nextcloud servers. Responses stay on the server running Nextcloud. |
| [Framaforms](https://privacyratings.com/forms/framaforms/) | D (53/100) | France (Nine Eyes) | 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. |
| [LimeSurvey](https://privacyratings.com/forms/limesurvey/) | D (47/100) | Germany (Fourteen Eyes) | 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. |
| [Zoho Forms](https://privacyratings.com/forms/zoho-forms/) | D (41/100) | India | Online form builder from Zoho with approvals, payments, offline mobile apps and integrations with other Zoho apps. |
| [Google Forms](https://privacyratings.com/forms/google-forms/) | F (38/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | 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. |
| [Microsoft Forms](https://privacyratings.com/forms/microsoft-forms/) | F (38/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Microsoft's online form, survey and quiz builder, included with Microsoft 365 and free with a Microsoft account. Responses can be exported to Excel. |
| [OpnForm](https://privacyratings.com/forms/opnform/) | F (38/100) | France (Nine Eyes) | Open-source form builder with logic, file uploads and integrations, available as a hosted service or self-hosted. |
| [Fillout](https://privacyratings.com/forms/fillout/) | F (34/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Online form, survey and quiz builder from Zite, with scheduling, payments and PDF generation. Form responses can be stored in the EU on request. |
| [Jotform](https://privacyratings.com/forms/jotform/) | F (34/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Online form builder from Jotform Inc. in San Francisco, with templates, payments, approvals and PDF tools. Form data can be stored on EU servers. |
| [Qualtrics](https://privacyratings.com/forms/qualtrics/) | F (28/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Survey and experience management platform for research, customer and employee feedback, run by Qualtrics LLC in the United States. |
| [Typeform](https://privacyratings.com/forms/typeform/) | F (28/100) | Spain (Fourteen Eyes) | Online form and survey builder that presents questions one at a time, run by Typeform SL in Barcelona. |
| [Cognito Forms](https://privacyratings.com/forms/cognito-forms/) | F (25/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Online form builder with calculations, payments, workflows and document generation, run by Cognito Forms in the United States. |
| [HeyForm](https://privacyratings.com/forms/heyform/) | F (25/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Open-source conversational form builder from EarlyBird, Inc., available as a hosted service or self-hosted. |
| [Paperform](https://privacyratings.com/forms/paperform/) | F (25/100) | Australia (Five Eyes) | Online form builder from Paperform Pty Ltd in Australia that combines forms with document-style pages, payments and bookings. |
| [Tally](https://privacyratings.com/forms/tally/) | F (25/100) | Belgium (Fourteen Eyes) | Online form builder operated by Tally BV in Belgium, with forms created in a document-style editor. Form data is hosted in the EU. |
| [SurveyMonkey](https://privacyratings.com/forms/surveymonkey/) | F (22/100) | United States (Five Eyes) | Online survey platform from SurveyMonkey Inc. in the US for building surveys and forms and analyzing responses. |

## Criteria

- **Open source** (weight 3): Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
- **No trackers or telemetry** (weight 3): Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
- **No ads or data sales** (weight 2): Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
- **Independent audit** (weight 2): Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
- **Transparency report** (weight 2): Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
- **Tells users about requests** (weight 1): Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
- **TLS configuration** (weight 2, automated): Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
- **Security headers** (weight 1, automated): Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
- **Modern web standards** (weight 1, automated): Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?

Source: https://privacyratings.com/forms/