# Automattic

Automattic (automattic.com): subprocessors, data processing agreement, security documents and changes, as monitored by Third Party Index.

- Page: https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/automattic
- Documents last verified: 2026-10-02
- Transparency rating: 75/100 (how much it publishes, not how secure it is): Subprocessor list 30/30; Processing locations 8/8; Purposes 7/7; Data processing addendum 0/12 (not found); Trust center 0/8 (not found); Privacy policy 6/6; security.txt 6/6; Security page 5/5; Status page 5/5; Vulnerability disclosure 0/5 (not found); Pages still reachable 8/8
- Supply chain: relies on 1 tracked vendors directly, 4 within two hops, 15 within three; 12 tracked vendors rely on it directly, 128 within two hops, 525 within three
- Cite as: Automattic, Third Party Index, https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/automattic (data CC BY 4.0)

## Documents

| Document | URL | Last verified | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subprocessor list | https://automattic.com/subprocessor-list/ | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| Privacy policy | https://automattic.com/privacy/ | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| Terms | https://wordpress.com/tos/ | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| Security page | https://automattic.com/security/ | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| security.txt | https://automattic.com/.well-known/security.txt | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |
| Status page | https://automatticstatus.com/ | 2026-10-02 | 2026-10-02 |

## Subprocessors (1)

As its own list states them.

| Subprocessor | Purpose | Location | Listed since |
|---|---|---|---|
| [Amazon Web Services](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/amazon-web-services.md) | Storage and backup of data | United States | 2026-10-02 |

Read from ([evidence](https://thirdpartyindex.com/evidence/34771)). CSV: https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/automattic/subprocessors.csv

## Subprocessor of (12)

Tracked vendors whose own subprocessor lists name it, and what they say they use it for.

- [Aha Labs](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/aha-labs.md)
- [Digicert](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/digicert.md): Support customer inquiries
- [Discourse](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/discourse.md): for forums using our anti-spam plugin:; identifies spam forum posts; provides user avatars for forum members
- [Figma](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/figma.md): Content moderation and safety filtering
- [Freshworks](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/freshworks.md): Freshdesk offers Forums, which is a community on your customer service portal using which your customers could build an active discussion to find mutual solutio…
- [GoDaddy](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/godaddy.md): Akismet WordPress comment spam-protection
- [Massed Compute](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/massed-compute.md): Website hosting and site analytics
- [Netlify](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/netlify.md): Automated spam-filtering service (Akismet) used to detect and filter spam in comment, form, and text submissions.; Spam Filtering
- [Nextiva](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/nextiva.md): External marketing website which may gather sales leads.
- [PagerDuty](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/pagerduty.md): Account Profiles
- [Pressable](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/pressable.md): Data Centers
- [UltraDNS](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/ultradns.md): Support customer inquiries

## Security contact

From its security.txt (https://automattic.com/.well-known/security.txt) ([evidence](https://thirdpartyindex.com/evidence/34412)):

- Contact: https://hackerone.com/automattic/reports/new
- Contact: mailto:security@automattic.com
- Disclosure policy: https://hackerone.com/automattic
- Encryption key: https://automattic.com/security/pgp-key/
- Acknowledgments: https://hackerone.com/automattic/thanks
- No expiry date
- Signed

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Third Party Index (https://thirdpartyindex.com) monitors vendors' public security and privacy documents and keeps each version as evidence. Data CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/); vendors' own documents are theirs. API: https://thirdpartyindex.com/api