Newsletter platforms
GetResponse privacy rating
Email marketing platform with newsletters, autoresponders, marketing automation, landing pages, webinars and paid newsletters. Opens and clicks are tracked.
Summary
GetResponse scores 31 out of 100 (grade F) on the newsletter platforms criteria. It meets 2 of 8 criteria: tells users about requests and 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 and security headers. It is based in Poland: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B-.
Score 31 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?
Click tracking is always on for automation messages and cannot be turned off there, and the website loads Amplitude analytics.
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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 subscriptions and states personal information is not sold, but website data is shared with partners for remarketing and with the Google advertising network.
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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?
States PCI DSS certification and independent external penetration tests, but the pentest summary, certificate and SOC 2 materials are only available by email request.
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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 or government request policy is published. The privacy policy only says data may be disclosed in response to lawful requests by government authorities.
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Yes
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?
The privacy policy states GetResponse will take commercially reasonable steps to inform users when it must disclose personal information as part of a legal process.
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 B- (65/100+)
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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.