# Disqus

[4 tracked vendors](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/disqus#used-by) name Disqus as a subprocessor, including [Chatra](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/chatra), [Dataedo](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/dataedo) and [Pluralsight](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/pluralsight). We have not found a subprocessor list published by Disqus. We monitor 6 of its documents, which we last checked on 2026-11-11.

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

- Page: https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/disqus
- Documents last verified: 2026-11-11
- Transparency rating: 44/100 (how much it publishes, not how secure it is): Subprocessor list 0/30 (not found); Processing locations 0/8 (no list); Purposes 0/7 (no list); Data processing addendum 12/12; Trust center 8/8; Privacy policy 6/6; security.txt 0/6 (not found); Security page 5/5; Status page 5/5; Vulnerability disclosure 0/5 (not found); Pages still reachable 8/8
- Part of: [Zeta Global](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/zeta-global)
- Supply chain: relies on 0 tracked vendors directly, 0 within two hops, 0 within three; 4 tracked vendors rely on it directly, 6 within two hops, 8 within three
- Cite as: Disqus, Third Party Index, https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/disqus (data CC BY 4.0)

## Documents

| Document | URL | Last verified | Last changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trust center | https://disqus.com/by/trust/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-10-20 |
| Data processing addendum | https://disqus.com/by/dpa/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-07 |
| Privacy policy | https://disqus.com/privacy-policy/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-10-06 |
| Terms | https://disqus.com/by/Terms/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-11 |
| Security page | https://disqus.com/by/security/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-11 |
| Status page | https://status.disqus.com/ | 2026-11-11 | 2026-11-11 |

## Subprocessors (0)

No subprocessor list has been found or read for this vendor.

## Compliance

As its trust center lists them.

- IAB Europe TCF Global Vendor List: registered as Disqus (vendor 833 · consent for 10 purposes · 1 special feature) ([evidence](https://thirdpartyindex.com/evidence/31004))
  - Device storage: Cookies kept up to 12 months
  - Purposes, with consent: Store and/or access information on a device; Use limited data to select advertising; Create profiles for personalised advertising; Use profiles to select personalised advertising; Create profiles to personalise content; Use profiles to select personalised content; Measure advertising performance; Measure content performance; Understand audiences through statistics or combinations of data from different sources; Develop and improve services
  - Special features: Identify devices based on information actively requested

## Web Technologies

Disqus's homepage made 80 requests to 29 domains, 14 services controlled by another company, and 1 domain not identified. Loaded on 2026-11-03 by a browser that accepted nothing; other visits may load more or less. What a page loads is not a list of who receives customer data.

14 third parties by category: Advertising 9 (Google Cloud; reviewed: BidSwitch GmbH, Index Exchange Inc., Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC, OpenX; usually detected as Advertising: Magnite, Inc., Neustar, Inc. (TransUnion), PubMatic, Xandr); Analytics 1 (HubSpot); Marketing automation 1 (usually detected as Marketing automation: Adobe); Cookie compliance 1 (Osano); Customer data platform 1 (reviewed: LiveRamp); Email 1 (usually detected as Email: LiveIntent). Each company that appears controlled by another organization is counted once, under the main category of the technologies detected from it on this homepage or, when none was, the category recorded from the company's own page (marked reviewed) or else the one it is usually detected as on other published homepages (marked as such); unclassified: none of these.

### Third parties (14)

- Google Cloud: 20 requests to google.com, doubleclick.net, googletagmanager.com, gstatic.com; DoubleClick Floodlight, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager
- HubSpot: 7 requests to hubspot.com, hs-analytics.net, hs-banner.com, hs-scripts.com, hsadspixel.net, hubapi.com; HubSpot, HubSpot Analytics
- Adobe: 2 requests to demdex.net, everesttech.net
- Osano: 2 requests to osano.com; Osano
- BidSwitch GmbH: 1 request to bidswitch.net
- Index Exchange Inc.: 1 request to casalemedia.com
- LiveIntent: 1 request to liadm.com
- LiveRamp: 1 request to rlcdn.com
- Magnite, Inc.: 1 request to tremorhub.com
- Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC: 1 request to media.net
- Neustar, Inc. (TransUnion): 1 request to agkn.com
- OpenX: 1 request to openx.net
- PubMatic: 1 request to pubmatic.com
- Xandr: 1 request to adnxs.com

### Affiliates (1)

- Zeta Global: 4 requests to rfihub.com, rezync.com, rfihub.net; Rocket Fuel

### Unknown (1)

Domains not identified yet: rqtrk.eu

### First party (1)

- Disqus: 34 requests to disquscdn.com, disqus.com; HSTS, Modernizr 3.1.0, Nginx, Open Graph, Webpack, lit-html 2.8.0

8 tracked companies loaded by the homepage are not in Disqus's subprocessor list. A website can use a service without it processing customer data.

## Subprocessor of (4)

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

- [Chatra](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/chatra.md): Blog comment system
- [Dataedo](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/dataedo.md): Blog comment hosting
- [Pluralsight](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/pluralsight.md): Platform Communications Tool
- [Ringostat](https://thirdpartyindex.com/vendors/ringostat.md): Provision of technical solution for convenient communication with clients and users

## Security record

Breaches listed by Have I Been Pwned (CC BY 4.0, haveibeenpwned.com):

- Disqus, 2012-07-01: 17551044 accounts; data: Email addresses, Passwords, Usernames

## Service status

Incidents it reported on its own status page.

- Last 90 days: 0 reported incidents (0 major or critical, 0 minor, 0 with no impact stated)
- Status page last read: 2026-11-12
- No incidents reported in the last 12 months
- Latest incident reported: 2023-06-06: Email and Notification Delivery Down (major)

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