Security center

Your data is safe with us. EMDESK understands that your projects contain personal, restricted, and classified data that is core to your organisation’s activity and competitive advantage.

IT security

From ground up in mind

Information security

Keeping our clients' data secure, protected and confidential is an absolute top priority at EMDESK. We put enterprise-class security measures in place with strong technical, logical, and legal precautions to protect your data from loss or unauthorized access.

EMDESK is entirely developed and maintained by our workforce in Germany, with proven, long-standing experience. The production system and customer data are solely hosted in redundant, secure data centres with the Open Telekom Cloud (OTC by Deutsche Telekom) in Germany, providing end-to-end security and privacy features built in. Our team takes additional proactive measures to ensure a secure infrastructure environment.

We make sure your data is safe and secure by providing multiple layers of protection, as well as controls that enable you to meet your security needs.

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Penetration tests

To ensure that your data is protected from unauthorised access, we request external security experts to regularly perform penetration tests of EMDESK. Here you can find the latest report (the detailed report may be shared under a confidentiality agreement and upon request).

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System status

With the EMDESK status page users have a central point of information about the availability and performance of EMDESK and its features. On the status page, you will also be informed about planned maintenance windows.

OTC Status Page

Data protection

Full security & control over your data

Data privacy

We are committed to protecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your data. Here you can read our privacy policy which describes the procedures on collecting and processing of your data.

Privacy policy

Social Media privacy

We take the protection of your data very seriously. Here you can read our social media privacy policy which describes the procedures on content sharing and engagement across our social media platforms.

Social Media privacy policy

Cookie policy

We use various cookies to improve your experience with our website and our tools. Since we respect your data privacy, we let you customize your cookie preferences. Here you can read about the cookies we use.

Cookie policy

Compliance

Meeting privacy and security standards

GDPR, BDSG, and CAN-SPAM

EMDESK fully complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), as well as CAN-SPAM Act.

Data protection declaration

Open Telekom Cloud (OTC)

EMDESK is fully hosted with OTC which services are strictly regulated and are regularly checked and certified by independent institutions (TISAX, PSA, TCDP 1.0, SOC 1, SOC 2, BSI C5, ISO 27000 Family and other ISO certificates).

OTC data protection

Terms and conditions

Clear, understandable, and customer-friendly

Terms of service

In order to provide you with our services, we need to obtain your agreement to our terms of use. Here you can read our Subscription Agreement describing the relationship between EMDESK GmbH and customers.

Terms of use

Subprocessors

We take special care to select the most trusted subprocessors for our software. Here you can find a list of the subprocessors employed by EMDESK GmbH in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.

List of subprocessors

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We understand that you may have specific concerns that are not addressed on this page and we encourage you to contact us if you have any questions about EMDESK’s security and compliance procedures. Please note that EMDESK is committed to the continuous improvement of its security practices and the information on this page is subject to change.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Is our data secure and treated confidentially?

Security and confidentiality are our highest priority. For more information on our security measures, please visit our Security Centre.

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Where is EMDESK hosted?

EMDESK is built exclusively by our own employees, who bring a wealth of experience, great track records, and proven reliability to EMDESK. Our team is located in our headquarters in Germany. The production systems and customer data is stored in secure data centres with Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) in Germany.
We put enterprise class security measures in place with strong technical, logical, and legal precautions to protect your data from loss or unauthorised access. We make sure your data is safe and secure by providing multiple layers of protection as well as controls that enable you to meet your security needs.

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Is EMDESK GDPR compliant?

EMDESK is both committed and obligated by European and German law to protect the privacy of users and their data. For more information, please visit our Security Centre.

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Where can I review your privacy policy?

You can view our privacy policy by clicking the button below.

Privacy policy

What happens to my data after my project ends?

Paid subscriptions will retain their data until you request its deletion, if your subscriptions ends, your account will move to a free plan with limited access to your data. In the case of inactive accounts, we may contact you after some time to ask you if the data is still needed, otherwise it will be deleted.

Where can I review your terms of use?

You can view our Terms of use by clicking the button below.

Terms of use
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