Non-EU vendorForms & SurveysHeadquarters: US

Pollfish: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Pollfish is an online platform for surveys and market research. Users build a questionnaire, with AI assistance for drafting questions, select a target audience and analyse the results. According to the vendor, respondents come from the consumer loyalty programmes of its parent company Prodege. Pollfish is delivered as SaaS and is aimed at businesses that want to run research quickly among an external audience. The company was founded in 2013.

Since 2022 Pollfish has been owned by Prodege LLC, headquartered in El Segundo, California, in the United States. According to its website, Pollfish also has an office in Greece, but the group seat is in the US. The website does not state a hosting location for survey data. Pollfish says it has complied with the GDPR since 25 May 2018 and handles data subject requests through a dedicated GDPR address. For a European organisation this means survey data ends up with a vendor in a US group, so US legislation such as the CLOUD Act may apply.

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Sovereignty score

17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
Key management with a non-European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 11, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	Forms & Surveys
Type	Product
Website	pollfish.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Pollfish

The European alternatives to Pollfish come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Pollfish

Pollfish is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Pollfish hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Pollfish is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Pollfish together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Pollfish?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Pollfish include 123FormBuilder, AidaForm and Askia. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Pollfish?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Pollfish include CryptPad Forms. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Pollfish GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Pollfish is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

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Compliance evidence

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