Hetzner: DPA, subprocessors and transfers

Links last opened 21 October 2026. Record confirmed by a person on 16 September 2026. 2 recorded changes, listed below.

Hetzner contracts through Hetzner Online GmbH, registered in Germany. It is registered inside the EEA, so sending personal data to it is not a transfer out of the EEA. Data regions it offers: EU, US, APAC. Its trust center is published at https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/zertifizierung/. Its customer data processing agreement, also called a data processing addendum, is published by Hetzner itself; the link is below. We open those pages every day — last on 21 October 2026 — and a person last went through this record on 16 September 2026.

Contracting legal entity: Hetzner Online GmbH
Country of registration: Germany
Transfer mechanism for its own onward transfers: Not applicable
Reaching Hetzner is not a transfer out of the EEA: it is registered in Germany. This is what the record holds for where it sends personal data on, and it is not something we have checked — its sub-processor list is the place to look.
Data processing agreement: https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf
Subprocessor list: We read Hetzner's own site on 6 October 2026 and found none there. It may exist behind a login or on request — this says what a visitor can reach, not what the company has.
Security or trust page: https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/zertifizierung/
Data regions: EU, US, APAC

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Subprocessor	Legal entity	Country	Purpose	Transfer	DPA
Hetzner	Hetzner Online GmbH	DE	Hosting and infrastructure	n/a	https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf

Questions people ask about Hetzner

Where is Hetzner's DPA?: Hetzner publishes its customer data processing agreement at https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf. We last opened that link on 21 October 2026.
Is Hetzner's DPA the same thing as a data processing addendum?: Yes. A data processing agreement and a data processing addendum are two names for the document Article 28 of the GDPR requires between a controller and a processor; vendors use both, and some call it processor terms. What it has to contain does not change with the name. Hetzner's is at https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf.
Which legal entity does Hetzner contract through?: Hetzner Online GmbH, registered in Germany. That is the name to put in a record of processing or a sub-processor list, not the brand.
Does sending personal data to Hetzner count as a transfer out of the EEA?: No. Hetzner Online GmbH is registered in Germany, inside the EEA, so no transfer mechanism is needed to reach it. Where it sends personal data on to is a separate question, and one for its own sub-processor list.
Where is Hetzner's trust center?: Hetzner publishes it at https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/zertifizierung/. A trust center, trust page or security page is the same thing under different names: the vendor's own account of how it protects data, and the place it keeps its certifications. It is Hetzner's page, so we link to it rather than repeat what it says.

What has changed, and when

Changes we noticed on Hetzner's own pages, each with the page we saw it on. The vendor does not publish this, and neither does anyone else.

2 October 2026
We recorded a change to the trust or security page.
22 September 2026
We recorded a change to the UK transfer mechanism.
Recorded from a source other than their own pages.

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Subprocessor

Legal entity

Country

Purpose

Transfer

DPA

Hetzner

Hetzner Online GmbH

Hosting and infrastructure

n/a

https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf

Questions people ask about Hetzner

Where is Hetzner's DPA?

Hetzner publishes its customer data processing agreement at https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf. We last opened that link on 21 October 2026.

Is Hetzner's DPA the same thing as a data processing addendum?

Yes. A data processing agreement and a data processing addendum are two names for the document Article 28 of the GDPR requires between a controller and a processor; vendors use both, and some call it processor terms. What it has to contain does not change with the name. Hetzner's is at https://www.hetzner.com/AV/DPA_en.pdf.

Which legal entity does Hetzner contract through?

Hetzner Online GmbH, registered in Germany. That is the name to put in a record of processing or a sub-processor list, not the brand.

Does sending personal data to Hetzner count as a transfer out of the EEA?

No. Hetzner Online GmbH is registered in Germany, inside the EEA, so no transfer mechanism is needed to reach it. Where it sends personal data on to is a separate question, and one for its own sub-processor list.

Where is Hetzner's trust center?

Hetzner publishes it at https://www.hetzner.com/unternehmen/zertifizierung/. A trust center, trust page or security page is the same thing under different names: the vendor's own account of how it protects data, and the place it keeps its certifications. It is Hetzner's page, so we link to it rather than repeat what it says.

What has changed, and when

Changes we noticed on Hetzner's own pages, each with the page we saw it on. The vendor does not publish this, and neither does anyone else.

2 October 2026

We recorded a change to the trust or security page.

22 September 2026

We recorded a change to the UK transfer mechanism.

Recorded from a source other than their own pages.

Hetzner: DPA, subprocessors and transfers

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Hetzner: DPA, subprocessors and transfers

What to put in your subprocessor list

Questions people ask about Hetzner

What has changed, and when

Building your own sub-processor list?

Where to go next

Other hosting and infrastructure