Sub-processors
The third parties that process personal data on our behalf, with the data they handle and where they operate. We announce new sub-processors at least 30 days before they go live.
This register is a working draft pending legal review. Entities, locations, and transfer mechanisms will be confirmed at sign-off.
- Controller
- Stay Now (operator entity — confirm legal name)
- Last reviewed
- Pending legal review
Stripe
Host Plan subscription billing and payment facilitation; VAT is added at checkout (§6, §19).
- Data
- billing contact (name, email)
- payment metadata (Stripe customer/subscription ids; card data handled by Stripe, never stored by Stay Now)
- Location
- EU/US
- Transfer mechanism
- SCCs (confirm)
Webhook and nightly reconciliation re-fetch from Stripe (§19). Stay Now stores only Stripe ids and subscription status, not card data.
Resend
Transactional email delivery (OTP, Action Links, host inquiry and retention notices, §16).
- Data
- recipient email address
- email subject/body (may reference a guest first name in localized copy)
- Location
- US (confirm region options)
- Transfer mechanism
- SCCs (confirm)
Cloudflare
DNS for custom domains and ACME DNS-01 delegation (§9.1); CDN/edge for the status page (§23.4).
- Data
- DNS records (apartment domain names; no guest PII)
- request metadata (IP, user agent) at the edge
- Location
- Global edge
- Transfer mechanism
- SCCs (confirm)
Hetzner
Compute and managed Kubernetes hosting the application, worker, Postgres (CNPG), KeyDB, Garage, and OCR.
- Data
- all categories at rest/in transit within the cluster (encrypted PII vault; see ROPA)
- Location
- EU region (confirm)
- Transfer mechanism
- intra-EU (confirm)
CNPG, cert-manager, Garage object storage, and the OCR service run inside this cluster as self-hosted components, listed in the ROPA as internal processing systems. The stay-now-backups bucket holds only BMK-encrypted data.
Google (OAuth)
Optional Sign-in with Google for hosts and guests (§5).
- Data
- authentication identifier (email, subject id) when a user chooses Google sign-in
- Location
- EU/US
- Transfer mechanism
- SCCs (confirm)
Only engaged when a user elects OAuth; OTP/password users are unaffected.
Meta (Facebook Login)
Optional Sign-in with Facebook for hosts and guests (§5).
- Data
- authentication identifier (email, subject id) when a user chooses Facebook sign-in
- Location
- EU/US
- Transfer mechanism
- SCCs (confirm)
Only engaged when a user elects OAuth; OTP/password users are unaffected.