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Sub-processors

Last updated: 2026-05-09

Litheon LLC engages the third parties below to process personal information on our behalf. We require each sub-processor to operate under a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with appropriate technical and organizational safeguards. New sub-processors are announced 30 days before they go live; you can object via [email protected] within that window.

Infrastructure

| Sub-processor | Purpose | Data | Location | Safeguards | |---|---|---|---|---| | Vercel, Inc. | Application hosting, edge functions | Application traffic, logs | US (primary), regional edge | DPA, SCCs | | Supabase, Inc. | Database, authentication, storage | User accounts, content, files | Seoul / Tokyo / Frankfurt (configurable) | DPA, SCCs, ISO 27001 | | Cloudflare, Inc. | CDN, DDoS protection, WAF, R2 object storage | Traffic metadata, IP, backups | Global | DPA, SCCs, EU-US DPF | | Hetzner Online GmbH | Self-hosted observability + backup target | Error logs, analytics events, encrypted DB backups | Germany | DPA, GDPR-native (DE) |

AI inference

| Sub-processor | Purpose | Data | Location | Safeguards | |---|---|---|---|---| | Anthropic, PBC | Default LLM inference (Claude) | Prompts + responses (transient) | US | DPA, zero-retention API mode | | OpenAI, LLC | Optional LLM inference (BYOK only) | Prompts + responses, BYOK key | US | DPA (customer-direct under BYOK) | | Voyage AI | Optional embeddings (BYOK or workspace setting) | Text chunks | US | DPA | | Cohere, Inc. | Optional reranking (BYOK or workspace setting) | Text chunks | US / EU | DPA |

Communication

| Sub-processor | Purpose | Data | Location | Safeguards | |---|---|---|---|---| | Plus Five Five, Inc. (dba Resend) | Transactional email delivery | Email addresses, recipient names, message metadata, message body | US | DPA, EU-US DPF certified, SCCs Commission Decision 2021/914 Module Two. Customer data deleted within 90 days of account termination. |

Payments

| Sub-processor | Purpose | Data | Location | Safeguards | |---|---|---|---|---| | Stripe, Inc. | Subscription billing, tax, customer portal | Payment method, billing address, tax ID, invoice history | US / EU | DPA, PCI-DSS L1, EU-US DPF |

Observability (self-hosted)

| Sub-processor | Purpose | Data | Location | Safeguards | |---|---|---|---|---| | GlitchTip (self-hosted on Hetzner) | Error tracking (Sentry-compatible) | Stack traces, request metadata, user ID | Germany | First-party, no third-party transfer | | Plausible Analytics (self-hosted on Hetzner, Community Edition) | Marketing analytics, cookieless | Page URL, referrer, country, device class | Germany | First-party, no third-party transfer, no cookies |

Optional integrations (only if you connect them)

| Sub-processor | Purpose | Data | Location | Safeguards | |---|---|---|---|---| | Google LLC | Google OAuth sign-in, Google Drive Cloud Sync | Email, profile, authorized files | US / EU | DPA, EU-US DPF | | GitHub, Inc. | GitHub OAuth sign-in | Email, profile | US | DPA, EU-US DPF | | AWS KMS / Azure Key Vault / Google Cloud KMS | BYOK key encryption (customer-selected) | Encryption keys (no plaintext key material visible to Seizn) | Customer-selected region | DPA, FIPS 140-2 |

International transfers

For transfers outside the EEA, UK, or Switzerland we rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (where applicable) and Standard Contractual Clauses (Commission Decision 2021/914) executed with each sub-processor. Korean transfers are documented per PIPA §28-8(1) in the Privacy Policy §6.

Change history

| Date | Change | |---|---| | 2026-05-09 | v1 published (W3.7). Adds Resend (transactional email), GlitchTip + Plausible self-hosted, Hetzner backup target. |

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Status: draft pending lawyer review. Operational binding from launch date.