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by Stopline Pty Ltd · www.stopline.com.au

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Stopline at a glance

Vendor
Stopline Pty Ltd
Headquarters
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Data hosting
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Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Stopline 1.5/5, the mean of 6 judges. Stopline Pty Ltd, an Australian external whistleblower hotline founded in 2001, earns its strongest marks on reporting channels: a flat 7 — 7 — for intake spanning 24/7/365 freecall lines answered by trained investigators, QR-code entry without an app install, end-to-end encrypted SMS and MMS, encrypted video conferencing, mail, a National Relay Service, and an anonymous form with optional two-way dialog; judges found no public information on language coverage, which holds the score below the top band. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 20 Oct 2026; evaluated by the panel 21 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

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Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Group Counsel
Reporting channels & reporter experience 3.5 of 5 3.5 of 5
Case management & deadline discipline 2 of 5 2 of 5
Legal compliance alignment 2 of 5 1.5 of 5
Security & anonymity assurance 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5
Group & multi-entity capability 1 of 5 1 of 5
European sovereignty 0 of 5 0 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

The channel list is genuinely broad — freecall telephone answered by trained investigators around the clock, QR-code entry without any app install, end-to-end encrypted SMS and MMS, encrypted video conferencing, mail, and a National Relay Service for hearing-impaired reporters — with anonymous two-way communication and mobile-responsive access evidenced. I found no public information on language coverage or translation support, which is what holds this back for a dozen-country rollout. 2 3

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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

Investigations are tracked and escalated on a configurable platform, with role-based access for governance, risk, HR and executive teams, real-time Power BI dashboards with trend analysis and exportable reports, and a designated officer attached to each case. I found no public information on statutory deadline clocks, conflict-of-interest exclusion of implicated handlers, tamper-evident case history or retention rules — the audit-proof qualities I would need to defend a file to an investigator or regulator. 2 3

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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 Australian homework is real and specific — public companies must hold a policy from 1 January 2020, the employee, revenue and asset tests for a large proprietary company are spelled out, and Corporations Act, public interest disclosure and WHS coverage is cited. I found no public information on EU Directive 2019/1937 or any national transposition such as the German law, which leaves me without a usable legal mapping for European subsidiaries. 2 3

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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

Encryption is asserted channel by channel — a secure online form, end-to-end encrypted SMS and MMS, encrypted video conferencing — but none of it is audited from what I can see. I found no public information on ISO 27001 or equivalent certification, penetration tests, metadata or IP-logging practice, or a published security contact and disclosure policy. 2 3

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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

Everything is framed around a single client organisation — one externally branded portal, customised categories and flows aligned to that organisation's own policies, role-based access at team level. I found no public information on per-entity channels with genuinely separated case access, delegated administration, external ombudsman roles, or group-level reporting that respects entity boundaries — precisely the architecture my 25 subsidiaries would need. 2 3

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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

This is an Australian vendor — Stopline Pty Ltd, post office box in Diamond Creek, Victoria — and even the mail channel routes paper disclosures to that address. I found no public information on a data processing agreement, a subprocessor list, hosting regions or any EU-resident treatment of report content and metadata, so for European whistleblowing data the entire chain is undocumented. 2 3

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

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

Pricing is available only through a quote request; no tier, employee band or setup figure is stated publicly. An obligated company cannot compute even a single-entity invoice from these pages, let alone a five-entity group. 1

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Questions about Stopline

Is Stopline European?

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

Where does Stopline store data?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

Does Stopline have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 20 Oct 2026.

What are the best alternatives to Stopline?

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: Stopline alternatives.

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Sources (3)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page www.stopline.com.au Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap www.stopline.com.au Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap www.stopline.com.au Checked 20 Oct 2026 Details →