Every company that handles your data.
The vendors that receive customer data to run Proofsource: what each does for us, what it receives, and where it processes it. Each gets only what its job needs. We do not sell personal data or share it with advertisers.
| Vendor | What it does for us | Data it receives | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Web Services | Runs the app and its database, keeps backups, and runs some AI models through Amazon Bedrock. | Everything the service stores. | United States (us-east-1). Amazon Bedrock may process an AI request in another AWS region through cross-region inference. |
| Cloudflare | Carries all traffic to the app and its API, and serves this website. | Every request to app.proofsource.co and proofsource.co, including IP addresses. | Worldwide edge network. |
| OpenAI | Answers your tracked prompts as ChatGPT, runs the assistant and content drafts, and transcribes cited videos. | Tracked prompts, assistant messages, and the workspace content a task needs. | United States. |
| Anthropic | Answers your tracked prompts as Claude, and is a backup for our analysis models. | Tracked prompts, captured answers, and the workspace content a task needs. | United States. |
| Perplexity | Answers your tracked prompts as Perplexity. | Tracked prompts. | United States. |
| Google Gemini | Answers your tracked prompts as Gemini, only on plans that add it. | Tracked prompts. | Google data centers, worldwide. |
| xAI | Answers your tracked prompts as Grok, only on plans that add it. | Tracked prompts. | United States. |
| DeepSeek | Answers your tracked prompts as DeepSeek, only on plans that add it. It runs on Amazon Bedrock; DeepSeek's own API answers only when Bedrock fails. | Tracked prompts. | United States on Amazon Bedrock. China when DeepSeek's own API answers. |
| TypeSafe | Grades captured answers with its Jev model: intent, claim accuracy and stance. | Captured answers, tracked prompts, and the brand facts answers are checked against. | United States. |
| DataForSEO | Fetches Google AI Overviews, logged-out ChatGPT answers, search results and keyword volumes. | Tracked prompts, keywords and domains. When Firecrawl search is unavailable, the web searches it would have run, such as searches for your brand's reviews and for lists in your category. | Estonia (EU) and Ukraine. |
| Firecrawl | Reads public web pages our own crawler cannot (cited pages, your site, competitor pages), takes screenshots of cited pages and your homepage, searches the web for new pages about your category, and watches competitor pages for changes. | Addresses of public web pages, and search queries built from your tracked prompts, brand name, category and competitor names. | United States. |
| TinyFish | Reads public web pages and Google AI Overviews in a real browser. | Addresses of public web pages, and tracked prompts. | United States. |
| Resend | Sends our emails: sign-in codes, results, alerts, and service and billing notices. | Recipient email addresses and the email content. | United States. |
| Knock | Delivers in-app notifications, and Slack notifications you set up. | Member names, email addresses and notification content. | United States. |
| Slack | Our own team's workspace: service alerts, and messages sent through our contact, demo and support forms. | What you write in a form, with your name and email address, and service alerts that may name a workspace or brand. | United States. |
| Dodo Payments | Merchant of record: bills you and handles sales tax. Card and bank details go to Dodo Payments, not to us. | Billing name, email, address, country and tax details. | India and United States. |
| PostHog | Website analytics, including approximate visitor location, and anonymous quality counts from the app. | Website page views and a few named events, such as demo requests, each with the visitor's IP address and browser type. With your consent, a browser identifier and session replays, with form inputs masked. | United States. |
Services you connect yourself, such as Google Search Console, Google Analytics, your Cloudflare account, your Slack or a webhook, receive data because you asked us to send it, under their own terms. How we use your data is in the Privacy Policy. Questions about this list go to privacy@proofsource.co.