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 who are also ISO 27001 certified. This means that we and these suppliers have been verified by an external, independent auditor for the level of protection and the technical and procedural measures taken.
This list of subcontractors is set out in point 7 of the list of subcontractors (can be found on page terms and conditions) mentions and refers to the documentation obligations according to the data protection laws, but also wants to explain transparently to all customers and leads which supplier provides which service and which level of confidentiality and data protection respects.
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 certified according to ISO 27001, which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high standard of data protection. In addition, Akenes SA is bound by contracts to absolute confidentiality (Exoscale Terms and Conditions, “5.1 Protection of Client Data”). The supplier has been informed by Vertec of the criminal consequences that legal assistants or service providers of lawyers may face (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Registered office: 90552 Röthenbach a.d. Pegnitz, Germany
For the development of the Vertec Customer Portal and for the development of administration software for the Vertec Cloud Suite and our web access service. The company and its employees do not have access to customer data during normal operation, except in the case of disaster recovery or error analysis. appGenerics GmbH has committed itself to absolute confidentiality under individual contracts. The supplier has been informed by Vertec of the criminal consequences that legal assistants or service providers of lawyers may face (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO or Art. 13 BGFA).
Headquarters: 8805 Richterswil, Switzerland
For data center services as an IaaS provider on the cloud Cloud Suite for 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 informed by Vertec of the criminal consequences that legal assistants or service providers of lawyers may face (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Headquarters: 1227 Les Acacias, Switzerland
For backups of Vertec Cloud subscriptions. The information security management system Infomaniak Network SA is certified according to ISO 27001, which guarantees a high level of technical protection and a high level of data protection. The backup data is transmitted by Vertec to Infomaniak in encrypted form and saved only in encrypted form. Infomaniak does not have access to customer or personal data.
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 is transmitted by Vertec to IONOS Hold SE in encrypted form and saved only in encrypted form. IONOS Hold SE therefore has no access to customer or personal data.
Registered office: 3097 Liebefeld, Switzerland
For the operational support of the Linux-based systems. The company and its employees do not have access to customer data during normal operation, exceptions are made only in the case of disaster recovery or error analysis. netnea AG has committed itself to absolute confidentiality in an individual contract. The supplier has been informed by Vertec of the criminal consequences that legal assistants or service providers of lawyers may face (§ 43 e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA).
Location: San Antonio, TX 78205
To send 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 has not been instructed on § 43 e para. 3 BRAO or Art. 13 BGFA. Customers can integrate their own SMPT service in Vertec at any time or not use the service provided by Vertec via Mailgun.
Registered office: Dublin 18, Ireland
Vertec uses Microsoft services for AI-based recognition of receipt data. For this purpose, expense and accounts payable documents uploaded in Vertec are sent to Microsoft AI services. Automatic receipt recognition must be explicitly activated in Vertec; if receipt recognition is deactivated, 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 obliged to maintain absolute confidentiality through standard contracts. The supplier is also aware of the importance of the criminal consequences for assistants or service providers of lawyers (§ 43e para. 3 BRAO resp. Art. 13 BGFA). Excerpt from Microsoft’s “Supplementary Agreement for Professional Secrets”: “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).”