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Ethicontrol at a glance

Vendor
Ethicontrol
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026
Starting price
“Whistleblowing platform from 89 EUR per month” (vendor’s words) source, captured 13 Oct 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Ethicontrol 3/5, the mean of 6 judges. Ethicontrol is strongest at intake: reporting channels scores cluster at 8, crediting a 24/7 toll-free line, a script-free portal reachable over Tor, anonymous two-way dialogue via secret code and Feedback Room, and metadata stripped from uploads; case management clusters at 7 for no-access-by-default roles and escalation bypassing implicated responders. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 13 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 15 Oct 2026. all sources

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The Group Counsel

Weighted verdict

Rolls one system out to 25 subsidiaries in a dozen countries. Optimizes for per-entity channels with real access separation, per-country legal rule sets, external ombudsman roles and group reporting that respects entity boundaries. Rejects one-channel products multiplied by twenty-five contracts.

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Scored by The Group Counsel

Panel median The Group Counsel 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 Group Counsel
Reporting channels & reporter experience 4 of 5 4 of 5
Case management & deadline discipline 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Legal compliance alignment 3 of 5 3 of 5
Security & anonymity assurance 2 of 5 2.5 of 5
Group & multi-entity capability 3.5 of 5 4 of 5
European sovereignty 1.5 of 5 2 of 5
Pricing transparency 1.5 of 5 1 of 5

Reporting channels & reporter experience

How this is scored

The intake side: how a reporter actually submits — web form, anonymous dialog, phone/voice, languages, accessibility — and whether anonymity survives first contact.

0 — A web form that is an email in disguise: no anonymous route, no way to reach the reporter afterwards.

3 — An anonymous form exists but the dialogue ends there — no secured mailbox for follow-up questions, few languages, desktop-only.

5 — Anonymous two-way dialog via a protected mailbox, a usable set of languages, mobile-friendly; voice or phone intake missing or an add-on.

8 — Multiple channels (web, voice message or hotline, QR entry points), broad language coverage with translation support, accessibility considered, and the anonymous dialog is first-class rather than bolted on.

10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel anonymous-capable, dozens of languages, WCAG-conscious, no app install or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.

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The Group Counsel

Multiple intake routes — web portal, browser-based calls, a 24/7 toll-free contact centre with native speakers, chatbots and live consultant chat — with anonymous two-way dialogue through a secret-code Feedback Room, sixty-plus intake languages with machine and manual translation, and anonymity engineered rather than bolted on: script-free portal, Tor access, metadata stripping on uploads and a stated policy of no tracking cookies, IP addresses or digital footprints. I found no public information on accessibility standards or QR-based entry points, which keeps this short of the top of the scale. 2 1 7 3 9

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Case management & deadline discipline

How this is scored

The case worker's side: triage, statutory deadlines (7-day acknowledgment, 3-month feedback), role separation, audit-proof documentation.

0 — Reports land in an inbox; deadlines, roles and history live in a spreadsheet next door.

3 — A case list with status fields, but deadlines are manual, permissions are all-or-nothing, and the record of who did what is thin.

5 — Deadline tracking with reminders for the statutory clocks, case notes and attachments, basic role separation between case handlers; reporting on the caseload is limited.

8 — Automated statutory clocks, conflict-of-interest handling (excluding implicated case handlers), complete tamper-evident case history, retention and deletion rules applied per case, and management reporting.

10 — A case system an external investigator can rely on: enforced workflows, full audit trail, legally aware retention/deletion automation, evidence handling, and statistics that survive a regulator's questions.

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The Group Counsel

The case worker gets real discipline: role-based access with no-access-by-default, audit and case activity logs, escalation that bypasses implicated process owners to the Audit Committee, automatic triage with due dates driven by procedure rules, overdue reminders, and management analytics including response time and substantiation rate. The seven-day and three-month clocks plus a six-month extension are stated on the compliance pages, but I found no public information on retention or deletion rules applied per case, which is what an external investigator asks about first. 4 1 5 7 8 10

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Legal compliance alignment

How this is scored

How specifically the product implements EU Directive 2019/1937 and national transpositions (HinSchG et al.) — not whether the marketing mentions them.

0 — Generic feedback software wearing a whistleblowing label; no reference to the legal obligations it claims to satisfy.

3 — The directive is invoked in marketing but the mapping is vague; deadline rules, documentation duties and retention periods are the customer's problem.

5 — The statutory duties are implemented as product features — acknowledgment and feedback clocks, documentation, deletion after the retention period — for at least one national law, with guidance for the rest.

8 — Multiple national transpositions supported with their differing details, legal templates and process guidance maintained by named counsel or documented review, and updates when the law moves.

10 — The product is a legal instrument: per-country rule sets kept current, documented legal review, guidance for edge cases (group-wide channels, external ombudsman setups), and the vendor shows its homework in public.

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The Group Counsel

The EU Directive page shows homework — thresholds, seven-day acknowledgment, three-month feedback, a six-month extension, and the required channel mix including mailbox and answering machine — and the web form flow genuinely changes with the jurisdiction the reporter selects. But I found no public information on national transpositions such as the German HinSchG, per-country rule sets, or any named counsel or documented legal review behind the templates. 7 6 2 1

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Security & anonymity assurance

How this is scored

Whether the confidentiality promise is engineered and evidenced: encryption, metadata handling, penetration tests, certifications.

0 — Security is a paragraph of adjectives; no certificates, no test reports, no statement on metadata.

3 — TLS and encryption at rest asserted, but nothing audited: no ISO 27001 or equivalent, no published pentest, silence on IP and metadata logging.

5 — A current ISO 27001 (or equivalent) certificate for vendor or hosting, end-to-end encryption of report content claimed with some technical detail, an explicit no-IP-logging statement.

8 — Certified ISMS covering the product, regular third-party penetration tests attested, documented end-to-end encryption architecture, metadata minimization explained, security contact and disclosure policy published.

10 — Assurance a hostile auditor accepts: current certificates with visible scope, recurring pentest summaries public, cryptographic architecture documented, anonymity analysed against the operator itself — the vendor can answer "how would you unmask a reporter?" with "we cannot, and here is why".

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The Group Counsel

Anonymity is engineered with unusual specificity — reporting channels physically separated from case management with the intake portal in a demilitarised zone, messages pushed to case management and deleted from intake on receipt, optional client-key encryption of the database, and on-premise or dedicated-server options. The certification claim stays generic as certified info-security and privacy management, and I found no public information on ISO 27001 scope, penetration tests, or a security contact and disclosure policy. 2 8 7 9

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Group & multi-entity capability

How this is scored

Whether one contract can serve a corporate group: separate channels per legal entity, central oversight, ombudsman access, white-labeling.

0 — One company, one channel; a group buys and administers N separate instances.

3 — Multiple channels under one account, but no separation of case access per entity and no consolidated view.

5 — Per-entity channels with separated case handlers and a group-level overview; branding per entity is basic; external counsel access possible.

8 — Real multi-tenant group structure: per-entity channels, languages and branding, delegated administration, external ombudsman roles, group reporting that respects entity boundaries.

10 — Group compliance as architecture: hundreds of entities manageable centrally, per-country legal rule assignment per entity, white-label reporting pages, and access separation strong enough to satisfy each subsidiary's works council.

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The Group Counsel

This is close to the architecture a 25-subsidiary rollout needs: multiple portals with their own subdomains and branding for groups not under a single brand, multi-tenant storage for data isolation, access split by region, division and organizational hierarchy with no-access-by-default roles, additional hierarchy levels for complex structures, and a permission-gated Groups report sliceable by unit, region and organisational level. The thin spot for my purposes is ombudsman access: outsourced processing is offered, but I found no public information on dedicated external ombudsman roles or per-country legal rule assignment per entity. 2 4 8 10 7

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where reports about people actually live and under whose law — entity, hosting, subprocessors, DPA. In this category the data is by definition the most sensitive a company holds.

0 — Non-EU entity, non-EU-default hosting, no public DPA or subprocessor list — for whistleblowing data.

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 for report content and metadata, on-premises or sovereign-cloud options, and the whole chain documented publicly.

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The Group Counsel

EU storage in certified data centers is claimed as the default and an on-premise option exists, which matters for the most sensitive data a company holds. But the vendor's jurisdiction and ownership are not documented, I found no published DPA or subprocessor list, and the same captured pages state servers in the EU, US, UAE, KSA, India and Tanzania — so for whistleblowing data I cannot establish whose law the chain sits under. 4 1 7 8

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Pricing transparency

How this is scored

Whether an obligated company can compute the real invoice — per entity, per employee band, per year — from public pages alone.

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

3 — An entry price exists, but the tiers most obligated companies need are unpriced, or the maths is obscured by employee bands, per-report fees or mandatory setup charges.

5 — Most tiers carry real numbers with billing period and VAT treatment stated, but at least one commonly needed capability — extra entities, extra languages, phone intake — hides in an unpriced add-on.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with employee-band boundaries, entity rules and setup fees stated; only genuine corporate-group contracts are custom.

10 — Complete price computability: every tier, band, add-on and renewal rule public, so the invoice for a 60-employee company and a 5-entity group is a two-minute exercise.

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The Group Counsel

Three plans exist by name — Starter, Advanced and Pro — with published differentiators such as four, ten or unlimited web-form languages, and the toll-free line and ethics helpdesk are each quoted from 89 EUR / month. But I found no public prices for the plans themselves and no employee bands, setup fees, entity rules or VAT treatment, so the real invoice for a five-entity group is a sales conversation. 2 7

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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 — uncited Report an error
Subprocessors Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about Ethicontrol

Is Ethicontrol European?

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

Where does Ethicontrol store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

Does Ethicontrol have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 13 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Ethicontrol?

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates preeco | hinweisgeberschutz (3.5/5), EQS Integrity Line (3.5/5) and Safecall (3.5/5) highest among the other 36 Whistleblowing Portals 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 | hinweisgeberschutz (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: Ethicontrol alternatives.

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Sources (10)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap help.ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Case management & deadline discipline — found from sitemap ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Case management & deadline discipline — found from sitemap help.ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Legal compliance alignment — found from sitemap ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Legal compliance alignment — found from sitemap ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Security & anonymity assurance — found from sitemap ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  9. 9 Security & anonymity assurance — found from sitemap help.ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →
  10. 10 Group & multi-entity capability — found from sitemap help.ethicontrol.com Checked 13 Oct 2026 Details →