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Sovereignty: 1 of 4 dimensions proven

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

by preeco GmbH & Co. KG · www.preeco.de

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The In-House Counsel

Weighted verdict

Answers personally when the authority writes. Optimizes for defensibility: request clocks that never slip, a breach workflow that produces the Art. 33 notification, regime coverage that matches where the company actually operates. Rejects tools whose legal content nobody maintains.

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Scored by The In-House Counsel

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 In-House Counsel

The register is a genuinely connected model: every Article 30 mandatory field is guided in the record, activities are intelligently linked to systems, TOMs and contracts, and data processing agreements are matched to data recipients automatically by name with uncovered recipients flagged as missing. The Article 35 necessity and screening assessment is proposed from the activity itself, deletion classes derive deletion rules with deadlines and responsibilities, and external DPOs and groups can run hundreds of mandates with cross-client inheritance plus one-click status reports, procedure files and the Bavarian authority questionnaire. I hold back the top mark because missing processor connections are closed by hand, and I found no public information on TOM coverage being computed and reported off the register. 1 16 17 2 2 7

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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 In-House Counsel

This is the operational half done to a standard I would defend: web-form intake, documented identity verification with time of request, all Article 15-22 request types under automatic deadline monitoring with proactive warnings, and replies sent only as a one-time link to an encrypted page. The breach workflow produces what I would actually file — nine ready templates covering the initial, follow-up and final reports to the authority under Article 33, the Article 34 notices and the German BSI reports, each with an unambiguous deadline state and a documented justification when a deadline is missed. Deletion classes tie to processing activities and derive rules with deadlines and owners, but I found no public information on execution tracking or evidence that a deletion was carried out. 18 7 2 20 19 23

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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 In-House Counsel

Coverage is Germany-anchored but genuinely one-record-many-regimes: the GDPR record carries the EU AI Act conformity checks and risk classification in the same system, breach incidents emit both Article 33/34 notifications and the German NIS2 reports under a single deadline status, and Schrems II transfer impact assessments and the Bavarian supervisory questionnaire are generated from the same data. Roughly monthly, automatically distributed updates are visible maintenance of a living product. I found no public information on Swiss, UK or other national privacy regimes, so beyond the German-speaking EU this is partial coverage. 2 7 20 23 3

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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 In-House Counsel

Defensibility is engineered in: every approval freezes an immutable revision, SHA-256 checksums expose any later manipulation, and the vendor advertises a fixed state of the documentation for any point in time — the answer to 'show me the state on date X'. Status reports, procedure files per processing activity and the Bavarian authority questionnaire generate at the push of a button, a complete automatic activity log records every change and administrative action with user and timestamp, and a full audit module with prebuilt catalogs and permissions separating answering from managing sits on top. I found no public information on external auditor access roles or scope-assembled evidence packs, which is what separates this from the standing-state ideal. 3 7 23 22 16 18

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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 In-House Counsel

The vendor describes the application as a closed system with no public REST API, developing customer-specific endpoints only for Private Cloud and On-Premises; I found no public information on directory import, ticketing or HR connectors, webhooks or SCIM. What the pages do show: structured DOCX and XLSX import of existing registers, embeddable web forms via HTML snippet, a Model Context Protocol server that lets an AI assistant query activities and export revisions under application access rights, optional SAML2 single sign-on on the higher hosting tiers, and AI drafting that must pass review and approval before entering documentation. Automation is reminders, recurrence and scheduled reports rather than a live feed from the IT estate. 2 15 24 3 2 12

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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 In-House Counsel

The compliance record lives under German law end to end: a German entity in Ulm, hosting exclusively in the named Hetzner data centers in Nuremberg and Falkenstein, the vendor stating no transfer of personal data to third countries, and a published data processing agreement with downloadable TOMs and two weeks' written notice of subprocessor changes. The hosting subprocessors named on the vendor's privacy policy are Hetzner in Germany and UpCloud in Finland, on-premises is available where data may never leave the customer's datacenter, and the AI functions are off by default and can run against the customer's own endpoint. I deduct for the undocumented ownership structure and because the same privacy policy concedes that transfers to the US parent companies of LinkedIn, Google and X are not excluded for the vendor's own website. 5 15 9 10 6 9

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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 — 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 In-House Counsel

I found no public price figures at all; the license is described only as scaling with employees, modules and hosting variant — usefully never with the number of organizations managed, which matters to a group or a consultancy. The vendor does state there are no setup fees and no cancellation periods and that every GDPR obligation ships without add-on modules, but premium support, the DeepL integration, the optional audit catalogs and data migration are all optional and chargeable with no numbers anywhere, and even the FAQ treats premium support costs as an open question. The real invoice is therefore a sales conversation. 2 3 7 15 8

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 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 (25)

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

  1. 1 Vendor homepage www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 15 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026, 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Data protection product page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 16 Sep 2026, 15 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Information security product page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +4 earlier captures: 16 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026, 24 Aug 2026, 23 Aug 2026 Details →
  4. 4 About page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Imprint www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Privacy policy www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 GDPR software page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +4 earlier captures: 16 Sep 2026, 11 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026, 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Product documentation library www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +3 earlier captures: 15 Sep 2026, 31 Aug 2026, 24 Aug 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Hosting variants page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 16 Sep 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Published DPA (AVV) for cloud customers www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  11. 11 Multi-entity use case page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  12. 12 AI-assisted GDPR use case page www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  13. 13 MFA documentation www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 +1 earlier capture: 15 Sep 2026 Details →
  14. 14 Access rights system documentation www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  15. 15 Full product specification (Leistungsbeschreibung) www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  16. 16 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  17. 17 Records & DPIA depth — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  18. 18 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  19. 19 Data subject rights & incidents — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  20. 20 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  21. 21 Privacy regime coverage — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  22. 22 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  23. 23 Audit readiness & evidence — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  24. 24 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →
  25. 25 Integrations & automation — found from sitemap www.preeco.de Checked 5 Oct 2026 Details →