CMSStrapi Cloud and the GDPR: agreement, role and data location.
Strapi Cloud is a cms tool. Most customers use it as a processor, it publishes its data processing agreement, and the data location depends on your account. Below: what to check and how to declare it.
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In short
- Category
- CMS
- Usual role
- Usually a processor
- Data location
- Set per account or project
- Agreement
- Published by the vendor
What does Strapi Cloud do with personal data?
Create, store and publish website or app content in a content management system. That is how Privacyboard describes a typical use of Strapi Cloud, as a starting point you can edit.
The data usually involved: editor names, work email addresses, published content and any personal data included in entries.
Is Strapi Cloud a processor or a controller?
Most customers use Strapi Cloud as a processor: it handles personal data on their instructions, for the purposes they set. That is the common reading for cms tools and it is what Privacyboard suggests.
As a processor, it needs a written agreement with you under Article 28, and you should know which subprocessors it uses. Confirm the role against your own agreement, because the way you use a tool can change it.
Where does Strapi Cloud store personal data?
Strapi Cloud does not have one fixed location for every customer. The location depends on the plan, the account and the services you enable.
How to find yours: Check the project or space settings: the region is often chosen when it is created.
Even when the main location is in the EU, ask whether subprocessors or support access involve a transfer outside the EEA, and record it if so.
Does Strapi Cloud have a data processing agreement?
Checked on 1 November 2026. Vendors change their pages, so check the date.
Yes. Strapi Cloud publishes the text of its data processing agreement on its own website. Article 28 of the GDPR requires a written contract with every processor, so this is the document to read and keep.
What we noted when we opened the page: Cloud Legal Policies include Strapi, Inc.'s DPA, effective November 21, 2024. Covers customer data processed for the cloud service. No single hosting location is established.
A page that exists does not mean you are covered. Whether the agreement applies to you depends on your plan and on what you accepted, so record the decision yourself in your vendor list.
Read the Strapi Cloud agreementHow to declare Strapi Cloud
- 1
In your privacy policy
Name Strapi Cloud as a recipient, say what it is used for (create, store and publish website or app content in a content management system) and mention any transfer outside the EEA. Articles 13 and 14 ask you to tell people who receives their data.
- 2
In your vendor list
Add Strapi Cloud with its purpose, the data involved, its role, its region and a link to the agreement. Privacyboard prefills all of this, you confirm or correct it.
- 3
In your processing register
Link Strapi Cloud to the activities that use it, so each record shows its recipients. Article 30 asks the register to list the categories of recipients.
What to check before relying on Strapi Cloud
- Keep personal data out of content entries unless you need it.
- Check the region chosen for each project or space.
- Review editor accounts and remove people who have left.
- Record any integration that sends content or visitor data elsewhere.
Questions, answered.
Is Strapi Cloud GDPR compliant?
Privacyboard does not certify vendors. Compliance depends on how Strapi Cloud is configured and used, on the agreement you have with it and on your own practices. What can be checked is documented here: it publishes a data processing agreement, the usual role and the data location. Read the agreement itself before relying on it.
Does Strapi Cloud have a DPA?
Yes. Strapi Cloud publishes the text of its data processing agreement on its own website. Article 28 of the GDPR requires a written contract with every processor, so this is the document to read and keep. You can read it at https://strapi.io/cloud-legal.
Is Strapi Cloud a data processor?
Usually, yes. Most customers use Strapi Cloud as a processor that acts on their instructions. Check your own agreement and how you use the tool, because the role can differ.
Where does Strapi Cloud store data?
Strapi Cloud does not have one fixed location for every customer. The location depends on the plan, the account and the services you enable. How to find yours: Check the project or space settings: the region is often chosen when it is created.
Do I need to mention Strapi Cloud in my privacy policy?
Yes, if Strapi Cloud handles personal data for you. The GDPR asks you to tell people who receives their data (Articles 13 and 14). Name the vendor or its category, say what it is used for and mention any transfer outside the EEA.
How do I add Strapi Cloud to my vendor list?
In Privacyboard, pick Strapi Cloud from the catalog. The purpose, the data, the suggested role and a link to its agreement are prefilled, and you confirm each one. Creating a workspace is free.
Privacyboard is not affiliated with Strapi Cloud. Names and logos belong to their owners and are used only to identify the tool. This page summarises public documents as checked on 1 November 2026; it is guidance, not legal advice, and it does not certify any vendor.