Non-EU vendorE-signaturesHeadquarters: NZ

Secured Signing: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Secured Signing is a cloud platform for digital signatures and online notarisation. Users have documents signed through the browser, and according to the vendor the service also supports identity verification and several types of electronic signature, up to qualified signatures. On its website the company lists, among others, SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and eIDAS. The service is delivered as SaaS.

The contracting company is Secured Signing Limited, based in Auckland, New Zealand; customers in the United States contract with the affiliate Secured Signing, Inc. Data is held on Microsoft Azure. According to the privacy policy, data of customers in the EU and the United Kingdom is stored and processed in Azure data centres in the United Kingdom, not in the EU. New Zealand and Australian data stays in those regions, and US and Canadian data is held in Azure data centres in the US. The company states that it extends GDPR rights to all users and relies on adequacy decisions or standard contractual clauses for transfers.

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Sovereignty score

32 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-250
Headquartered outside the EU (NZ)
Data residency SOV-30
No hosting in Europe (OTHER, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-340
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-630
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	NZ (OTHER)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Yes — found adequate by the European CommissionVerified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	OTHER, USVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Category	E-signatures
Type	Product
Website	securedsigning.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Secured Signing

The European alternatives to Secured Signing come from our knowledge base of over 8,000 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 Secured Signing

Secured Signing is headquartered in NZ, outside the EU. Contracts and data therefore also fall under non-European law. The GDPR applies through contractual terms, but in a conflict with local legislation you have less certainty than with a European vendor.

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

Secured Signing 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 Secured Signing 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 Secured Signing?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Secured Signing include A-Trust, Agrello and ANF AC. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Secured Signing?

Our list of EU alternatives to Secured Signing is mostly commercial options. Browse the category on the map for open-source choices.

Is Secured Signing GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Secured Signing is headquartered in NZ (OTHER) and hosts data in OTHER, 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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