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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 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.

Scored by The Skeptic

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 model is genuinely connected: every Art. 30 mandatory field, graphical links from processing activities to systems, TOMs and contracts, and a contract view flagging which data recipients are covered by a DPA — with missing links still set by hand rather than derived. Reusable text modules, cross-client inheritance for mandates and one-click BayLDA procedure files match the connected-model anchor; we found no evidence that DPIA necessity or processor coverage is derived rather than AI-proposed and hand-confirmed, which keeps it below system-of-record territory. 16 17 2 7 11

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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 and breaches are run as real operations: embeddable intake forms, documented identity verification with timestamp, recorded rejection reasons, automatic deadline monitoring with per-report states, replies by one-time encrypted link, a 72-hour breach clock with severity classification, and nine ready report templates covering Art. 33/34 and BSI. Deletion classes are linked to processing activities and derive rules with deadlines and responsibilities, but we found no public information on deadline escalation or on evidence that a deletion was actually executed. 18 19 7 2 20

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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

GDPR is deep and the German specifics are real — the BayLDA questionnaire generates at a button press, BSI reporting templates ship with the breach module, and EU AI Act risk classification runs in the same system as the GDPR record. We found no public information on UK GDPR, Swiss FADP or ePrivacy, and no evidence that one processing activity maps across regimes rather than living in a GDPR-centric world with content packs of varying depth. 2 23 2 20

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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

Every approval freezes an immutable revision sealed with a SHA-256 checksum and exported as PDF — the captured pages explicitly promise a fixed documentation state at any point in time — backed by an automatic log of every change and admin action with user and timestamp. Status reports, procedure files and the BayLDA questionnaire generate at a push of a button and a full audit module with gap-derived tasks exists; we found no public information on dedicated auditor access roles or pre-assembled evidence packs, which is what separates this from a standing audit state. 3 16 7 22 23

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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 vendor states plainly that the application is designed as a closed system without a public REST API, with custom endpoints developed per customer only on Private Cloud and On-Premises. The live touches that do exist — an MCP server for AI assistants under token control, SAML2 single sign-on on two hosting variants, embeddable web forms and optional DeepL — sit above pure import-and-export, but we found no public information on directory import, ticketing or HR connectors, webhooks or SCIM. 2 24 15 2

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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 company hosts exclusively in named Hetzner data centers in Nürnberg and Falkenstein, publishes its DPA and downloadable TOMs, and names its subprocessors — Hetzner in Germany, UpCloud in Finland, both EU — with AI switched off by default and no third-country transfer claimed for platform data. We found no public information on ownership, and the on-premises route is described as typically reserved for the public sector and enterprise, which leaves the top anchor out of reach. 5 6 10 9 21

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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 Skeptic

We found no public price figures of any kind; the license is described only as scaling with employees, modules and hosting variant, so the invoice remains a sales conversation. The no-setup-fee and no-cancellation terms are published, and audit catalogs (BSI IT-Grundschutz, CISIS12, VdA ISA) as well as DeepL, premium support and migration are listed as optional paid additions; without a single number published, no configuration is computable. 2 7 2 3

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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.

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

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What we left out

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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 →