Does Hushmail store data in Canada?
Encrypted email and web forms for health practitioners
Yes.
For Canadian customers, Hushmail stores data in Canada. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Tier 4: US-owned, Canadian regionData can be stored in Canada, and the owner is a US company.
Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.
The facts, claim by claim
- Where data is stored
- Vancouver and Calgary
- Where it is processed
- Canada
- Support and backups
- Not stated on the pages read
- Owner
- Hush Communications Canada Inc. (Vancouver), a wholly owned subsidiary of Hush Communications Corporation, a private Delaware, USA company · Parent country: United States
- Servers run by
- Servers in Vancouver and Calgary operated by Hush Communications Canada Inc. · US company
- Customer-held keys
- Not recorded
- Certifications
- Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)
- Worth knowing
- Sells to Canadian practitioners with a signed Information Manager Agreement (an "Alberta IMA" for Alberta). Data stays in Canada, but the parent is a US company.
- Caveats
- The clearest example in this category of Canadian servers under a US parent. Privacy policy last updated 2019-02-13.
What the rules say about this
- US CLOUD Act: The owner is a US company: storing data in Canada does not take it out of reach of US legal process.
- Nova Scotia public bodies: Storage and access must both be in Canada: check support access and backups, not only storage.
- Québec Law 25: Canada is not Québec: storage in Toronto still needs a privacy impact assessment for Québec data.
- OCAP®: Data held by any outside vendor is not in the Nation's possession, whoever owns the vendor.
Summaries only; each rule page links the law or regulator. Not legal advice.
Canadian alternatives to Hushmail
Other email listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canadian Web Hosting Email | Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in Canada | Yes | Canadian | Owner not stated |
| Zoho Mail | Tier 3: Not US-owned, data in Canada | Yes | India | Owner not stated |
Sources
All checked 2026-10-13. Claims about storage and ownership rest on the vendor's own pages (or its parent's); supporting links can include regulators and program lists.
- Where the data is stored: https://www.hushmail.com/privacy
- Supporting page: https://www.hushmail.com/secure-healthcare-email-for-canadians