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Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California, globally known as the center of technology and innovation. Major tech companies such as Google, Apple and Meta are based there and many start-ups and investors are active in the area. It is the heart of technological development and entrepreneurship, but data stored there falls under U.S. law, which may lead to privacy and compliance issues for European companies.

What personal data is processed on my website?
Personal data refers to any information that is fully or partially unique to a person. This includes, for example, an email address, IBAN bank account number, phone number, photo, IP address or a postal address. If your website has a contact form, discussion forum, learning environment, or webshop, you are already processing personal data. Be aware of hosting providers that are based in the Netherlands but rent their servers from non-European providers.

With Klarned, you are fully GDPR compliant!

Since the active enforcement of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation, the international name for the AVG), it has become important to know who can access your website and customer data and how it is secured.

The GDPR does not allow personal data to be processed from non-European countries. This applies throughout the entire chain, even if the provider you use is based in the EU (such as the Netherlands or Germany). If their services are hosted on servers owned by non-EU companies, you are no longer fully GDPR compliant.

Even when using an EU-based provider, you must ensure that your website connection is secured with a certificate (visible as https in the address bar). While this doesn’t prevent hacking altogether, it significantly reduces the risk that the data your visitor enters into a form is intercepted en route to the server.

At Klarned, all servers are located within the EU. Your data is never shared with non-EU companies, ensuring you remain GDPR-compliant and your customers privacy is fully protected.

The solution is GDPR-compliant hosting from Klarned

• All of our server and network hardware is fully owned by us.
• We are not part of a parent company and operate completely independently.
• We have a data processor agreement, which is standard in our terms and conditions.
• All our servers are located in the Netherlands and/or the EU within our own private cloud setup.
• All sites receive a highly secure certificate by default, using at least ECC 256 encryption.
• Backups are stored on our own hardware, in the Netherlands.
• Your data is not shared with non-EU companies; for example, our mailing list software is Mailerlite, not Mailchimp.
• Even our main DNS and CDN services are not hosted by Amazon, but by trusted European providers.

What does GDPR-compliant hosting mean for you?

A processor is anyone who can process data or potentially has access to do so. This includes the party responsible for server maintenance or, for example, managing server backups. In short, when it comes to websites, this refers to the web hosting provider and any additional services you offer.

Additional services for a website may include:

• Email (Gmail)

• Mailing list (Mailchimp)

• Backups (Dropbox)

• Your online CRM / DRM / accounting

At Klarned, your data remains secure, transparent and entirely under your control. Always close to home, always in Europe. To ensure that control and security, we use Nextcloud, the open-source platform that allows you to safely store, share and collaborate on files, fully hosted on our own servers in Europe.

Real help. Just a phone call away.

Our clients understand that fast, secure and stable hosting is crucial for their reputation, conversions and continuity.
When every minute counts, no one wants a chatbot, a ticket system, or a user forum.

Support doesn’t stop at five o’clock
With a Service Level Agreement (SLA), you receive assistance in the evening, on weekends and even on Christmas Eve.

Financial compensation for downtime
Should unexpected downtime occur within our control, we offer financial compensation to SLA1 and SLA2 customers.

Continuous monitoring
With an SLA, we perform fully automated monitoring, checking every 30 seconds whether the page loads quickly and whether a predefined keyword is present.

True speed proves itself in practice.

Take control of your digital environment today.

Ask us anything and discover how European hosting keeps your organization secure and helps it move forward.

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