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Ethyca at a glance

Vendor
Ethyca Inc.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
Outside the EU by default source, captured 3 Nov 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Ethyca 2.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Ethyca's strongest areas are rights and incidents and integrations and automation, both clustering at 6-7: a privacy center verifies requesters by email or phone with an MFA short code, and fulfilment runs programmatically across connected databases and SaaS applications. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 4 Nov 2026. all sources

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Read this page as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.

The External DPO

Weighted verdict

Carries thirty client mandates and bills by the hour they save. Optimizes for multi-client capability, reusable templates, a RoPA that drives the rest, and client-ready reports. Rejects single-tenant tools that treat the consultancy as thirty separate customers.

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Scored by The External DPO

Panel median The External DPO This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The External DPO
Records & DPIA depth 2 of 5 2 of 5
Data subject rights & incidents 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Privacy regime coverage 3 of 5 3 of 5
Audit readiness & evidence 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Integrations & automation 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
European sovereignty 1 of 5 1 of 5

Records & DPIA depth

How this is scored

The DSMS core: records of processing activities (RoPA/VVT, Art. 30 DSGVO), data protection impact assessments (DSFA, Art. 35), processor and DPA management (AVV), and technical and organisational measures (TOMs) — how deeply the legal artefacts are modelled and connected.

0 — Not a privacy management tool; at most a set of document templates with no structured records.

3 — A structured record of processing activities with templates, and a DPIA questionnaire or checklist.

5 — Records of processing and DPIAs as modules with templates, processors and their DPAs recorded, and TOMs documented and assigned to processing activities.

8 — A connected data model — processing activities linked to systems, processors, TOMs and legal bases — with DPIA need derived from the record, reusable templates across companies, and outputs (Art. 30 register, DPIA report) ready for a supervisory authority.

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

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The External DPO

The data map and system inventory carry a privacy declaration per data use with assigned stewards, and assessments export as a DPIA PDF fit to submit to a supervisory authority — that part I can hand a client. But I found no public information on processor and DPA management, on TOMs tied to processing activities, or on reusable templates across companies, so the register stops well short of driving the rest of the programme. 8 9 11 13

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Data subject rights & incidents

How this is scored

The operational half of the DSMS: handling data subject requests within the Art. 12 deadline, a breach register with the 72-hour notification of Art. 33, and deletion concepts that are carried out.

0 — No handling of data subject requests or data breaches in the product.

3 — A log of data subject requests and a register of data breaches, with templates for the responses.

5 — Request workflows with the one-month Art. 12 deadline tracked and reminders, a breach register with the 72-hour clock and a risk assessment per breach, and deletion periods recorded per processing activity.

8 — An intake form or portal for requests with identity verification, deadline escalation, breach severity assessment producing the authority notification, and deletion rules tied to the RoPA with execution tracked.

10 — Rights and incidents as operations: end-to-end request handling an authority audit can walk through, breach workflows that produce the Art. 33 and Art. 34 notifications, and deletion automation with evidence that the deletion happened.

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The External DPO

Rights handling is the strong suit: a privacy centre receives requests, identity is verified by email or phone with an MFA short code, and fulfilment runs programmatically across every connected database with statuses, audit logs and resumable pauses — an authority can walk a request through it. What I cannot find is any breach register or 72-hour workflow, and no deadline clocks, reminders or escalation on the requests themselves. 6 7 10 12

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Privacy regime coverage

How this is scored

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

0 — No privacy regime built in; a generic task or document tool.

3 — GDPR implemented with its registers, templates and checklists.

5 — GDPR plus the national law of its market (BDSG, nDSG or UK GDPR) named and supported with their own templates or requirements.

8 — Several regimes on one record with requirements mapped across them, newer duties (AI Act, ePrivacy/TTDSG) covered as maintained content, and updates published when a regime changes.

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

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The External DPO

GDPR, CCPA and Virginia's VCDPA are all operationalised on one orchestration layer that routes each request by jurisdiction — genuinely one record serving several regimes rather than separate islands. But I found no public information on national variants such as BDSG, nDSG or UK GDPR, no named EU AI Act duties despite the AI governance claims, and no published update cadence when a law moves. 5 6 7 9

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Audit readiness & evidence

How this is scored

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

0 — No reports, history or evidence; the product only stores the current state.

3 — PDF or Word reports of the registers, and documents attachable to records.

5 — Versioned records or a change history, report generators for the core registers (RoPA, DPIA, TOMs), and evidence attached per processing activity or measure.

8 — A revision-safe change history, audit evidence packs generated on demand, management and data protection officer reports at a click, and read-only auditor access.

10 — Audit readiness as a standing state: documentation status shown continuously per regime and scope, proof packs an auditor accepts as they are, and any record reproducible as it stood on a given date.

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The External DPO

Per-request evidence is real: CSV exports with reviewer and timestamps, and a diagnostics snapshot bundling lifecycle timestamps, execution and audit logs with no personal data in it — safe to attach to a client file. Beyond the DPIA PDF, though, I found no public information on versioned records or a change history, read-only auditor access, or management reports, so proof packs still need manual assembly. 10 11

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Integrations & automation

How this is scored

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

0 — No import, export or integration; data is typed in and printed out.

3 — CSV or Excel import and export, and reminders for recurring reviews.

5 — Single sign-on, a documented API or a few named connectors (directory, ticketing), and recurring tasks with reminders and assignment.

8 — A documented REST API for the core objects, a named connector set (directory, ticketing, HR or asset sources), webhooks, SSO with SCIM provisioning, workflow automation with delegation and escalation, and AI assistance with human review.

10 — The platform behaves like infrastructure: API coverage of the whole data model, events or webhooks for every object, two-way sync with the estate, and recurring work (reviews, attestations, evidence collection) automated and documented.

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The External DPO

This is where the platform earns its keep across mandates: a documented REST API for privacy requests, connectors to ten named databases plus SaaS tools like HubSpot and Google Analytics, and identity-provider monitors for Okta and Microsoft Entra ID that discover applications and create systems with privacy declarations. The LLM classifier suggests vendor and data uses while a human approves — automation I can trust; I found no public information on webhooks or single sign-on with SCIM provisioning. 10 12 13

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where the compliance record of the whole company actually lives and under whose law: contracting entity and parent company, hosting location, subprocessors (hosting, AI features, email, support tooling), DPA. A platform that maps your processing is itself your most concentrated processing. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; describe what is proven, and treat what is not stated as unknown rather than non-EU.

0 — Proven non-EU end to end: non-EU entity and non-EU hosting with no EU option, and no data processing agreement offered.

3 — A privacy policy and a data processing agreement exist; hosting location and subprocessors are not stated, or EU hosting is offered only on request or on top tiers.

5 — EU hosting stated as the default, a data processing agreement and a subprocessor list published; a parent company or a subprocessor may sit outside the EU.

8 — EU entity, EU hosting in named data centres, a subprocessor list with no non-EU processor touching customer content, and the DPA and TOMs published.

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

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The External DPO

The hosted solutions store customer personal information on servers on the east coast of the United States, with the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses named as the transfer mechanism; the open-source, self-hosted deployment on the customer's own infrastructure is the only EU-resident path the pages show. I found no public information on the contracting entity's jurisdiction, a data processing agreement, or a subprocessor list — for client mandates that is a diligence stop sign. 2 3

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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 — A public "from" price or one priced edition; the other editions, modules or entity counts are not public.

5 — Public prices per edition or tier with the billing period (monthly or annual) stated and the main inclusions listed.

8 — Every edition and module priced publicly with entity/user boundaries and setup fees stated, software separated from consulting, and VAT treatment given; 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 External DPO

The only public price point is the open-source tool under an Apache 2.0 licence — free, though the repository was archived and made read-only in August 2026 — and I found no public prices for the commercial platform, its modules or edition boundaries. Quoting a client engagement from public pages alone is not possible. 3

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 6 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.

Hosting location Outside the EU ⚠ unverified 0/4 pts 2 Report an error
Hosting options Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Open source Not determined ⚠ unverified — uncited Report an error
Data processing agreement Not determined — uncited Report an error
Transfer impact assessment Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about Ethyca

Is Ethyca European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where Ethyca is based.

Where does Ethyca store data?

Ethyca stores customer data outside the EU by default, per the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026.

Does Ethyca have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Ethyca?

As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates preeco | datenschutz (4/5), Dastra (3.5/5) and caralegal (3.5/5) highest among the other 43 Data Protection products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is preeco | datenschutz (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Ethyca alternatives.

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Sources (13)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Code repository (open-source licence) — found from the homepage github.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  12. 12 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  13. 13 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.ethyca.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →