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Sovereignty: not determined

0–5 in half steps. 5 means the rubric's top anchor is met on the evidence.

by caralegal GmbH · caralegal.eu

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The Skeptic

Weighted verdict

Hunts certification logos that link nowhere, "AI-powered" features with no substance behind them, consulting bundled as software, legal-update promises with no named lawyer, and customer counts that disagree between pages. Exists to keep the rest of the bench honest.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

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Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing (RoPA/VVT), data protection impact assessments, processor/DPA management and TOMs — how deeply the legal artifacts are modeled and connected.

0 — Document templates in a folder tree; the "register" is a Word file with version numbers in the filename.

3 — A structured RoPA with basic fields and a DPIA questionnaire, but processors, TOMs and legal bases live outside the system.

5 — RoPA and DPIA as linked modules with templates; processor management and TOM assignment exist but are shallow, and group reuse is copy-paste.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA triggers derived from the record, reusable group templates, and outputs a supervisory authority accepts.

10 — Privacy records as a system of record: the RoPA drives DPIAs, processor management and TOM coverage from one data model, multi-client/mandate capability included, and the documentation is audit-ready without manual assembly.

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The Skeptic

The record side is genuinely connected: processing activities run in a workflow with approval steps, the DPIA is triggered by automated threshold analysis linked to risky activities, and vendors and TOMs synchronize automatically with the register, with legally reviewed, editable templates throughout. We found no public information on multi-client or mandate capability, which is what separates the top anchors. Note also that the captured pages give different figures for the total function count (26 and 27). 7 8 9 2

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: data subject request handling with statutory clocks, breach register and authority notification, deletion concepts that actually delete.

0 — Requests arrive by email and live there; breaches are a phone call and a memo.

3 — A request log and a breach list exist, but deadlines are manual, intake is unstructured, and deletion rules are documentation rather than workflow.

5 — DSR workflows with the Art. 12 clock tracked, structured breach register with the 72-hour clock, deletion concepts assignable to records; automation is reminders.

8 — Intake channels for requests (portal/form), identity-check support, deadline automation with escalation, breach severity assessment and authority-report output, deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracking.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit walks through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 notification, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The Skeptic

Requests arrive in the system with automatic data-location lookup, automatic deadlines and a secure data room for the response, and the deletion concept is generated from the record itself. The breach module is described only as central documentation with a guided decision process — we found no public information on a 72-hour clock, severity assessment, authority notification output or identity verification, which is why this sits below the stronger anchors. 8 9 7 2

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

Which privacy regimes the product actually operationalizes — GDPR, BDSG, Swiss nDSG, UK GDPR, ePrivacy, EU AI Act privacy duties — and whether one record maps across them or each regime is a fresh island.

0 — One regime, hard-coded; anything else is "on the roadmap".

3 — GDPR plus one national law as separate checklists; the same processing activity is documented once per regime.

5 — The major regimes for its market with partial cross-mapping; newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy changes) present as content packs of varying depth.

8 — Broad current coverage with one-record-many-regimes mapping and visible maintenance as regimes evolve.

10 — Regime coverage as a living product: multiple privacy regimes on one data basis, per-country variants, and documented update cadence when the law moves.

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The Skeptic

Beyond GDPR the product carries the German Standard-Datenschutzmodell 3.1 with always-updated building blocks, audit templates for the AI Act, and a website cookie check, and the vendor states privacy and AI documentation build on the same basis. We found no public information on Swiss or UK coverage or per-country variants, so the breadth of a top score is not evidenced. 9 8 1

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

Whether the system produces defensible proof: revision-safe history, evidence collection, reports for auditors, authorities and management.

0 — Exports are screenshots; history is overwritten in place.

3 — PDF reports exist but evidence is attached ad hoc and changes leave no reliable trail.

5 — Versioned records, standard report generators for the core registers, evidence attachments per activity; assembling a full audit file still takes days.

8 — Revision-safe change history, audit-scoped evidence packs on demand, management and authority reports current at a click, auditor access roles.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: continuous documentation status per regime and scope, exportable proof packs an auditor accepts as-is, and a defensible answer to "show me the state on date X".

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The Skeptic

An Audit & Vendor Flow, audit templates for ISO, GDPR and AI Act, gap-analysis questionnaires, PDF/Excel register export and submission to authorities with a single click are all evidenced. But we found no public information on revision-safe change history, auditor access roles or reconstructing the state on a given date, so the audit file may still take manual assembly even if the outputs are fast. 8 7 2 9

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

Whether the platform feeds from the real IT estate — directory import, ticketing, API — and automates the recurring privacy work instead of re-typing it.

0 — A closed island: manual entry in, PDF out, no API.

3 — CSV/Excel import and export; no live connections, no API worth the name.

5 — Directory import (AD/Entra), a documented REST API for core objects, a handful of native connectors (ticketing or SSO); automation is reminders and recurrence.

8 — Real connector set (ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO/SCIM, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, useful AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API parity for the data model, event streams, bidirectional sync with the estate, and automation that measurably removes the recurring toil (reviews, attestations, evidence pulls) rather than renaming it.

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The Skeptic

The only connections to the outside estate evidenced are a one-time automatic transfer of existing documentation and PDF/Excel export; we found no public information on an API, directory import, ticketing or HR connectors, or SSO. The AI assistant and agents appear once in a webinar description with no detail on what they actually do, and I do not credit that as automation. 2 7 1

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for the system holding your RoPA.

3 — A DPA exists and an EU region is available on request or on top tiers; subprocessor exposure to US CLOUD Act reach is broad or undocumented.

5 — EU hosting is the default, DPA and subprocessor list published; the vendor or a critical subprocessor is still within non-European jurisdictional reach.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting with named data centers, published subprocessor list free of content-touching non-EU processors, DPA and TOMs public.

10 — Jurisdictionally clean end to end: European ownership, EU-only hosting and subprocessors, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The Skeptic

A German entity with a Berlin seat and VAT number is confirmed in the imprint, and the privacy policy discloses the website's processors — including US-based ones such as Supademo on AWS and Google and Microsoft under the Data Privacy Framework. For the platform holding the customer's register itself, we found no public information on hosting location, product subprocessors or a product data processing agreement, and the captured security page confirmed nothing on certifications either. 3 5 6

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real invoice — per module, per entity, per year, with consulting unbundled — from public pages alone. Unpublished pricing is the B2B norm in this market, so this criterion describes rather than condemns; the benches weight it accordingly.

0 — No public prices at all; every configuration is a sales conversation.

3 — An entry price exists, but module add-ons, entity counts or bundled consulting make the real total incomputable.

5 — Most editions carry real numbers with billing period stated and software separated from services; at least one commonly needed module or scale step is unpriced.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: modules, scale steps, service packages and renewal rules public, so the invoice for a 100-employee company and a 10-client consultancy is a two-minute exercise.

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The Skeptic

Essential carries a published starting price of "ab 79€ pro Monat" with entity counts per tier, unlimited users and documents, a stated trial condition and a 50% nonprofit discount. Enterprise is "auf Anfrage" and we found no public prices for the Professional and Corporate tiers, so the real invoice for anything above one entity is not computable from the captured pages. 4

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European sovereignty — proven facts

0 of 4 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Ownership Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data residency Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error

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Sources (9)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor homepage caralegal.eu Checked 15 Sep 2026 +2 earlier captures: 24 Aug 2026, 23 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Product page (EN) caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Imprint caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Vendor pricing page caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Privacy policy caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Security / trust page caralegal.eu Checked 30 Sep 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap caralegal.eu Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →