Vertec works with the following companies to offer cloud services such as the Vertec Cloud Suite. Vertec offers all such services under the ISO 27001 certification for information security. For this reason, we prefer to work with suppliers that are also ISO 27001 certified. This means that we and these suppliers have been audited by an external, independent auditor to verify the level of protection and the technical and procedural measures taken. This list of subcontractors is mentioned in point 7 of the Order Data Processing Regulation (available on page terms and conditions and refers to the documentation obligations under data protection laws, but also aims to make transparent to all customers and leads which supplier provides which service and which level of confidentiality and data protection is observed.
Headquarters: 1006 Lausanne, Switzerland
For data center services as an IaaS provider for the Cloud Suite of our locations in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The information security management system of Akenes SA is ISO 27001 certified, which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection. In addition, Akenes SA is bound by contracts of absolute confidentiality (Exoscale terms and conditions, “5.1 Protection of Client Data”). The supplier has been instructed by Vertec about the criminal consequences the assistants or service providers of lawyers may face (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Registered office: 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
For backups of Vertec Cloud subscriptions. The information security management system cloudscale.ch AG is certified according to ISO 27001, which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection. The backup data are transmitted by Vertec encrypted to Cloudscale and saved there only in encrypted form – Cloudscale has no access to customer or personal data.
Headquarters: 8805 Richterswil, Switzerland
For data center services as an IaaS provider for the Cloud Suite of our locations in Switzerland, Germany and Austria. The information security management system of Hosttech GmbH is certified according to ISO 27001, which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection. In addition, Hosttech GmbH is bound by contracts to absolute confidentiality. The supplier has been instructed by Vertec about the criminal consequences the assistants or service providers of lawyers may face (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Headquarters: 00100 Helsinki, Finnland
For data center services as an IaaS provider for our cloud Cloud Suite quote in Germany. The information security management system of UpCloud Ltd. is certified according to ISO 27001 which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection.
Registered office: 56410 Montabaur, Germany
For backups of Vertec Cloud subscriptions. The information security management system IONOS Hold SE is certified according to ISO 27001, which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection. The backup data are transmitted by Vertec to IONOS Hold SE in encrypted form and saved there only in encrypted form – IONOS Hold SE therefore has no access to customer or personal data.
Registered office: 3097 Liebefeld, Switzerland
For operational support of Linux-based systems. The company and its employees do not have access to customer data during normal operation, exceptions only arise in the case of disaster recovery or error analysis. netnea AG has committed itself individually to absolute confidentiality. The supplier has been instructed by Vertec about the criminal consequences of assisting persons or service providers of lawyers (§ 43e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Registered office: 85774 Unterföhring, Germany
For the operational support of our cloud services. TNG Technology Consulting GmbH has committed itself individually to absolute secrecy. The supplier has been supplier instructed by Vertec about the criminal consequences of lawyer persons or service providers of lawyers (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Headquarters: San Antonio, TX 78205
For sending emails in the Vertec Cloud Suite, customers can use a Mailgun account provided by Vertec free of charge. Technically speaking, Mailgun can access the contents of emails. In addition, the company does not have ISO 27001 certification and there have been no instructions regarding § 43 e paragraph 3 BRAO or § 13 BGFA. Customers can integrate their own SMTP service into Vertec at any time or not use the service provided by Vertec via Mailgun.
Registered office: Dublin 18, Ireland
Vertec relies on Microsoft services for the AI-based recognition of document data. For this purpose, expense and payable documents uploaded in Vertec are sent to Microsoft AI services. Automatic receipt recognition must be activated explicitly in Vertec; if receipt recognition is disabled, no data will be transmitted to Microsoft.
The information security management system of Microsoft Azure is certified according to ISO 27001 which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection. In addition, the supplier is bound by standard contracts to absolute confidentiality. The supplier is also aware of the importance of the criminal consequences for assistants or service providers of lawyers (§ 43 e para 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA). Excerpt from Microsoft’s “Professional Secrecy Supplementary Agreement”: “Microsoft is aware that the customer is subject to legal obligations with regard to permitting access to information of the customer’s clients and the violation of such obligations may result in criminal consequences for the parties involved within the meaning of § 203 StGB (custodial or monetary penalty).”