Cognito Forms is an online form builder for creating forms with calculations, conditional logic and payment collection, without writing code. Organisations use it to collect applications, orders, registrations and other structured data. It is delivered as a web service. The product is operated by Cognito LLC, which gives a mailing address in Columbia, South Carolina, United States, and is part of the Cognito Apps family of products.
For a European organisation the main question is jurisdiction. The vendor states that its servers and data are kept in geo-redundant data centres in the United States, hosted on Microsoft Azure and replicated across US sites. It refers to the EU-US and Swiss-US Data Privacy Frameworks and says that customers in the European Economic Area must sign its Data Processing Addendum. As a US company holding the data in the US, Cognito LLC is subject to US law, including the CLOUD Act. No European hosting option is mentioned on the pages reviewed.