Scheduling
Acuity Scheduling privacy rating
Hosted appointment scheduling service owned by Squarespace, with client booking pages, intake forms, payments, packages, reminders and calendar integrations.
Summary
Acuity Scheduling scores 28 out of 100 (grade F) on the scheduling criteria. It meets 2 of 8 criteria: tells users about requests and TLS configuration. It partly meets no ads or data sales and security headers. It does not meet open source, no trackers or telemetry, independent audit and transparency report. 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 28 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 website loads Amplitude, Datadog and Google Tag Manager, and Squarespace uses cookies and third-party online services for analytics and ad targeting.
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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 with no ads in the product, but Squarespace shares data with third-party online services to target ads for its own products.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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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.
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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 Squarespace data protection addendum promises notice to customers of binding government or law enforcement demands for their data, where legally permitted.
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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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+ (80/100+)
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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.