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Forms and surveys

Does SimpleSurvey store data in Canada?

Surveys, forms and online voting

Yes.

For Canadian customers, SimpleSurvey stores data in Canada. It is Canadian-owned.

Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in CanadaCanadian-owned and data stored in Canada, but the servers belong to AWS, Microsoft or Google, or the vendor does not say whose servers they are.

Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.

The facts, claim by claim

Where data is stored
Canada only: Microsoft Azure Canadian data centres, primary and backup
Where it is processed
Canada
Support and backups
Primary and backup data in Azure Canada (SimpleSurvey)
Owner
OutSideSoft Solutions Inc. (Québec); SimpleSurvey is a division · Parent country: Canada
Servers run by
Microsoft Azure Canada · US company
Customer-held keys
Not recorded
Certifications
SOC 2 certified Azure data centres (vendor)
Worth knowing
Designated voting provider for Québec's professional orders. Canadian-owned, but runs on Microsoft (US) infrastructure.

What the rules say about this

  • US CLOUD Act: The owner is not American, but a US company runs the servers underneath.
  • 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 SimpleSurvey

None found in this category yet: no Canadian-owned, non-US or self-hosted forms or survey tool could be confirmed. See Forms and surveys for every option, including US-owned ones with a Canadian region.

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.

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