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Visslan

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by Visslan AB · www.visslan.com

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Visslan at a glance

Vendor
Visslan AB
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Free plan
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Panel verdict
The AI panel rates Visslan 1/5, the mean of 6 judges. Visslan is a whistleblowing portal from Visslan AB, a Swedish company with org.nr 559327-2999 at Norrgatan 10, 43241 Varberg. 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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The Security Auditor

Weighted verdict

Pentests the anonymity promise for a living. Optimizes for evidenced security: current certificates with visible scope, published pentests, documented end-to-end encryption, metadata minimization, and hosting outside hostile jurisdictional reach. Rejects adjective security and "military-grade" anything.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Security Auditor

Panel median The Security Auditor 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 Security Auditor
Reporting channels & reporter experience 2 of 5 2 of 5
Case management & deadline discipline 1 of 5 1 of 5
Legal compliance alignment 1 of 5 1 of 5
Security & anonymity assurance 1 of 5 1 of 5
European sovereignty 1 of 5 0.5 of 5
Pricing transparency 0.5 of 5 0.5 of 5

Reporting channels & reporter experience

How this is scored

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

0 — Not a reporting channel; a general contact or survey form with no anonymous route and no way to reach the reporter afterwards.

3 — A web form that accepts anonymous reports, with a case number or access code the reporter can use to check the report later.

5 — Anonymous two-way dialogue through a protected mailbox or access code, the reporting page in several languages, and use on mobile devices without an app or account.

8 — Several channels (web, voice message or phone hotline, in-person meeting requests, QR or intranet entry points), broad language coverage with translation of messages, accessibility addressed, and voice distortion or another anonymity measure for spoken reports.

10 — Intake engineered around the frightened reporter: every channel usable anonymously, dozens of languages, WCAG conformance stated, no app or account required, and the vendor documents how the reporter's identity is kept out of the channel itself.

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The Security Auditor

The vendor states that reporter identities are secured and that a two-way follow-up conversation with the reporter is possible, plus secure upload of supporting files — an anonymous dialogue, not a one-way form. We found no public information on channel types beyond that, languages, accessibility, or voice intake. 2

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Case management & deadline discipline

How this is scored

The case worker's side: triage, the statutory deadlines (7-day acknowledgement, 3-month feedback), roles for case handlers, documentation of each case, and retention and deletion.

0 — No case handling; reports are forwarded by email and handled outside the product.

3 — Reports collected in a case list with status, notes and messages to the reporter.

5 — Reminders or deadline tracking for the 7-day acknowledgement and 3-month feedback, case handlers assigned with roles and permissions, and notes, documents and the full dialogue kept per case.

8 — Statutory deadlines tracked automatically with escalation, conflict-of-interest handling that excludes implicated case handlers, a tamper-evident case history, retention and deletion periods applied per case, and caseload statistics or management reports.

10 — A case system an external investigator can rely on: configurable investigation workflows, a complete audit trail of every access and change, deletion automated to the statutory retention periods with evidence, and statistics prepared for the annual report or the regulator.

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The Security Auditor

The captured pages show a two-way follow-up conversation and a report handler who can request supporting files, so some handling sits inside the product. We found no public information on case statuses, notes, deadline tracking for the acknowledgement and feedback periods, retention, or deletion. 2

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Legal compliance alignment

How this is scored

How specifically the product implements EU Directive 2019/1937 and its national transpositions (HinSchG et al.): which statutory duties it maps to features, which countries it names, and how it keeps up when the law changes.

0 — Generic feedback or survey software with no reference to the whistleblowing obligations.

3 — The directive or HinSchG named on the vendor's pages, with the product presented as a way to meet the duty to provide an internal reporting channel.

5 — The statutory duties described as product features for at least one named national law — confidentiality, the acknowledgement and feedback deadlines, documentation of reports, and deletion after the retention period.

8 — Several national transpositions supported with their differing details, templates or process guidance (reporting policy, employee information) provided, and legal review by named counsel or a documented process.

10 — The product is a legal instrument: per-country rule sets kept current with a stated update process, documented legal review, and guidance for edge cases (group-wide channels, external ombudsman set-ups, works council involvement under the BetrVG) published.

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The Security Auditor

The pages present Visslan as a whistleblowing system for internal reporting, which is more than generic feedback software, but we found no public information naming the EU Directive or any national transposition, or mapping statutory duties to product features. 1 2

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Security & anonymity assurance

How this is scored

Whether the confidentiality promise is engineered and evidenced: encryption, IP and metadata handling, penetration tests, certifications of the vendor and its hosting.

0 — Reports are not protected as confidential data; the product makes no security or confidentiality commitment for them.

3 — Encrypted transmission and storage of reports stated, and a commitment that reports are confidential.

5 — Encryption of report content described with some technical detail (end-to-end or at rest with key handling), a statement that IP addresses or metadata are not logged, and an ISO 27001 certificate for the vendor or its named hosting provider.

8 — A certified ISMS covering the product itself, regular third-party penetration tests stated, the encryption architecture documented, metadata minimisation explained, and a security contact or disclosure policy published.

10 — Assurance a hostile auditor accepts: current certificates with their scope published, recurring pentest summaries public, the cryptographic architecture documented, and anonymity analysed against the operator itself — the vendor explains why it cannot unmask a reporter.

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The Security Auditor

What is documented is adjectives: the software "secures whistleblower identities" and files are provided "in a secure way" — a promise with no architecture behind it. We found no public information on encryption, IP or metadata handling, penetration tests, or certifications of the vendor or its hosting. 2

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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-labelling.

0 — Built for a single organisation only; a group needs one separate contract and instance per company.

3 — Several reporting channels or companies managed under one account.

5 — Separate channels per legal entity with their own case handlers, a group-level overview, and branding per channel; access for an external ombudsperson or counsel possible.

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

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

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The Security Auditor not rated — no public information

We found no public information on group or multi-entity capability: nothing on per-entity channels, central oversight, external ombudsman access, or white-labelling on either captured page. 1 2

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where reports about people actually live and under whose law: contracting entity and parent company, hosting location, subprocessors (hosting, phone or voice provider, translation, email), and the data processing agreement. In this category the data is by definition the most sensitive a company holds. 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 report content, and the DPA and TOMs published.

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

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The Security Auditor

The contracting entity is proven Swedish — Visslan AB, Norrgatan 10, 43241 Varberg, org.nr 559327-2999 — which puts the legal relationship inside the EU. We found no public information on hosting location, subprocessors, or a data processing agreement, so where reports actually live is unknown. 2

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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: tier prices, billing period, employee bands, add-ons (phone intake, languages, entities) and setup fees.

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

3 — A public "from" price or one priced tier; the other tiers, employee bands or add-ons are not public.

5 — Public per-tier prices with the billing period (monthly or annual) stated and the main inclusions or employee band of each tier listed.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with employee-band boundaries, entity rules, add-ons (phone intake, languages, extra entities) and setup fees stated, and VAT treatment given; 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 Security Auditor

The only pricing facts on the pages are free offers: a 14-day free trial and a free consultation. We found no public information on tier prices, billing period, employee bands, add-ons, or setup fees, so no invoice can be computed from these pages. 2

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Questions about Visslan

Is Visslan European?

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

Where does Visslan store data?

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

Does Visslan have a free plan?

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

What are the best alternatives to Visslan?

As of 4 Nov 2026, the panel rates preeco | hinweisgeberschutz (3.5/5), Ethicontrol (3/5) and LegalTegrity (3/5) highest among the other 39 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: Visslan alternatives.

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Sources (2)

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

  1. 1 Vendor page www.visslan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Reporting channels & reporter experience — found from sitemap www.visslan.com Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →