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Paperform privacy rating

Online form builder from Paperform Pty Ltd in Australia that combines forms with document-style pages, payments and bookings.

Australia Five EyesPlatforms: Web

Summary

Paperform 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 Australia: Five Eyes member; CLOUD Act data access agreement with the US. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade D-.

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 describes cookies, pixel tags and third parties that provide advertising, and the website loads Google Analytics.

    paperform.co

  • 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 with no ads in forms, but the privacy policy describes remarketing through Google and Facebook and processing of personal data for targeted advertising, with an opt-out.

    paperform.co

  • Partial

    Independent audit Weight 2 of 3

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

    Completed a SOC 2 audit. The report is shared with customers, not published.

    paperform.co

  • 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 legal requirements or law enforcement requests.

    paperform.co

  • 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 D- (25/100+)

    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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