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Jotform privacy rating

Online form builder from Jotform Inc. in San Francisco, with templates, payments, approvals and PDF tools. Form data can be stored on EU servers.

United States Five EyesPlatforms: Web · Android · iOS

Summary

Jotform scores 34 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, independent audit, transparency report and security headers. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry and tells users about requests. 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 B.

Score 34 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 describes web traffic analytics tools and advertising networks that use cookies and page tags, and the website loads Google Tag Manager.

    jotform.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 personal information and form data are not sold. Advertising networks use cookies to show Jotform ads on other websites.

    jotform.com

  • Partial

    Independent audit Weight 2 of 3

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

    States a SOC 2 environment for Enterprise customers and periodic penetration tests, but no report is published.

    jotform.com

  • Partial

    Transparency report Weight 2 of 3

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

    The privacy policy describes how legal and law enforcement requests are reviewed and what data may be produced, but no request counts are published.

    jotform.com

  • 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

  • Partial

    Security headers Weight 1 of 3

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

    Grade B (75/100+)

    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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