Help Scout

helpscout.com

Help Scout declares 20 subprocessors in its subprocessor list, which we last checked on Nov 11, 2026 (evidence). They include Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and OpenAI. No published changes since we first read it on Sep 21, 2026. 62 tracked vendors name Help Scout as a subprocessor, including ChartMogul, Fly.io and Mixmax.

Subprocessors CSV of Help Scout's subprocessors · Atom feed of Help Scout's subprocessors DORA draft CSV of Help Scout's subprocessors as declared by Help Scout what's this? · 

20 third parties.

NamePurposeLocationListed since
Amazon Web Services Cloud infrastructure hostingUSA
Anthropic PBC AIMachine learningUSA
Auth0 SAML SSOUSA
Census Business analyticsUSA
Clearbit Customer intelligenceUSA
Clickhouse Cloud Real-time analytical databaseUSA
Confluent Message brokerUSA
Datadog Log management and observabilityUSA
dbt Cloud Business analyticsUSA
E-hawk Spam preventionUSA
Elastic Cloud Data processing enhancingUSA
Freeplay AI quality controlUSA
Google LLC Business analytics, Machine Learning, etc.USA
Looker Business analyticsUSA
OpenAI AIMachine learningUSA
Pinecone Vector data storeUK
Pusher.io Real-time servicesUK
Twilio Two-factor authenticationUSA
Unify Sales automated outreachUSA
Vitally Customer successUSA

Web TechnologiesCSV of Help Scout's web technologies · Atom feed of Help Scout's web technologies

Help Scout's homepage made 121 requests to 8 domains, and 6 services controlled by another company.

Advertising (1): usually detected as Advertising: Google CloudAnalytics (1): reviewed: MatomoMarketing automation (1): HubSpotCookie compliance (1): TranscendCDN (1): reviewed: imgixOther (1): reviewed as Affiliate programs: TUNE, Inc.

6 third parties by category: Advertising 1Analytics 1Marketing automation 1Cookie compliance 1CDN 1Other 1

Third parties 6 · 42 requests
imgix imgix.net 26% of the page's requests 31
Google Cloudsubprocessor gstatic.com, fonts.googleapis.com 3% of the page's requests 4
Transcend Transcend 2% of the page's requests 3
Matomo matomo.cloud 2% of the page's requests 2
HubSpot HubSpot <1% of the page's requests 1
TUNE, Inc. go2cloud.org <1% of the page's requests 1
First party 1 · 79 requests
Help Scout Contentful Gatsby 5.15.0 Google Font API Google Tag Manager HSTS Imgix Matomo Analytics Matomo Tag Manager Open Graph PWA Prism React Vercel Vercel Speed Insights Webpack core-js 3.45.1 65% of the page's requests 79

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

Subprocessor of (62)CSV of the companies listing Help Scout · Atom feed of the companies listing Help Scout

62 companies
  • 37signals 37signals.com Help desk software
  • Akita akitaapp.com Help Scout provides help desk and ticketing services used to resolve customer issues.
  • AllClients allclients.com Help and Knowledgebase
  • Appwrite appwrite.io Support
  • Balsamiq balsamiq.com Support help desk (email and chatbot)
  • Basecamp basecamp.com Help desk software
  • Buffer buffer.com
  • Canopy canopy.is Customer support
  • Capsule CRM capsulecrm.com Help desk services for customer support queries
  • ChartMogul chartmogul.com We use Help Scout to provide customer support and ticketing.
  • Civic Roundtable civicroundtable.com Help center and knowledge base.; Support
  • CookieHub cookiehub.com Customer support
  • Crowdin crowdin.com Customer support ticketing system
  • Designmodo designmodo.com
  • Dock dock.us Customer support
  • Education Perfect educationperfect.com Helpdesk software
  • EmailOctopus emailoctopus.com Customer support ticketing. Processes Protected Data only where it is included in a support request
  • Ethnio ethn.io Help tickets
  • Fathom Analytics usefathom.com Support requests
  • Feature Upvote featureupvote.com Customer support management
  • Feedly Threat Intelligence feedly.com Email Support
  • Fly.io fly.io Customer support communication
  • Frill frill.co Support
  • Higher Logic higherlogic.com Support Services
  • Kira Talent kiratalent.com User support
  • KnowledgeOwl knowledgeowl.com Help desk software
  • Koalendar koalendar.com Customer support and help desk
  • Konvu konvu.com Customer support ticketing and communications
  • Lucky Orange luckyorange.com Customer Support
  • Macabacus macabacus.com Cloud service that stores customer support tickets.
  • Milemarker milemarker.co
  • Mixmax mixmax.com Support Services
  • Nicereply nicereply.com Customer support (Help Desk software)
  • Outline getoutline.com Email support
  • Partnero partnero.com Customer support platform; stores and processes customer inquiries, emails, and support ticket data to facilitate Partnero’s support services.
  • Paved paved.com Customer Support
  • Pin Payments pinpayments.com Customer relationship management
  • Prefinery prefinery.com Customer support
  • PropelAuth propelauth.com Customer relationship management
  • Quinncia quinncia.io Customer Support and communications
  • ReadWorks readworks.org Customer support ticketing
  • Relay Commerce relaycommerce.io
  • Responsly responsly.com Customer support
  • Rows rows.com Customer support services
  • Salad salad.com
  • Scrible scrible.com Customer support and communication; Receive, manage, and respond to support inquiries
  • SegMetrics segmetrics.io Customer support ticketing (incidental processing only — applies when a Customer initiates contact with SegMetrics support)
  • Signable signable.co.uk Customer Support
  • Simple In/Out simpleinout.com Email Support
  • Simple Poll simplepoll.rocks User support
  • SmartWinnr smartwinnr.com Customer Support
  • SocialPilot socialpilot.co Customer Support Services
  • Spiffy spiffy.co Support inbox and help desk for merchant support conversations; handles merchant contact details and the content of support requests.
  • Steady runsteady.com customer support services
  • streamGo streamgo.events for technical support purposes only
  • TaxJar taxjar.com Customer service platform
  • Topaz Labs topazlabs.com
  • Transpond mpzmail.com Help desk services for customer support queries
  • TrueVault truevault.com Customer Support
  • Tuple tuple.app Support portal to communicate with customers
  • UserCheck usercheck.com Customer support
  • Vocal Video vocalvideo.com Helpdesk Software

ComplianceCSV of Help Scout's compliance · Atom feed of Help Scout's compliance

Certified
Says it complies with

Certifications as Help Scout's trust center lists them; reports are usually shared on request (evidence)

Service statusCSV of Help Scout's status page incidents · Atom feed of Help Scout's status page incidents

Aug 15: no incident reportedAug 16: no incident reportedAug 17: no incident reportedAug 18: 1 incident (1 minor)Aug 19: no incident reportedAug 20: no incident reportedAug 21: no incident reportedAug 22: no incident reportedAug 23: no incident reportedAug 24: no incident reportedAug 25: no incident reportedAug 26: no incident reportedAug 27: no incident reportedAug 28: no incident reportedAug 29: no incident reportedAug 30: no incident reportedAug 31: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 1: no incident reportedSep 2: no incident reportedSep 3: no incident reportedSep 4: no incident reportedSep 5: no incident reportedSep 6: no incident reportedSep 7: no incident reportedSep 8: no incident reportedSep 9: no incident reportedSep 10: no incident reportedSep 11: no incident reportedSep 12: no incident reportedSep 13: no incident reportedSep 14: no incident reportedSep 15: no incident reportedSep 16: no incident reportedSep 17: no incident reportedSep 18: no incident reportedSep 19: no incident reportedSep 20: no incident reportedSep 21: no incident reportedSep 22: 1 incident (1 minor)Sep 23: no incident reportedSep 24: no incident reportedSep 25: no incident reportedSep 26: no incident reportedSep 27: no incident reportedSep 28: no incident reportedSep 29: no incident reportedSep 30: no incident reportedOct 1: no incident reportedOct 2: no incident reportedOct 3: no incident reportedOct 4: no incident reportedOct 5: no incident reportedOct 6: no incident reportedOct 7: no incident reportedOct 8: no incident reportedOct 9: no incident reportedOct 10: no incident reportedOct 11: no incident reportedOct 12: no incident reportedOct 13: no incident reportedOct 14: no incident reportedOct 15: no incident reportedOct 16: no incident reportedOct 17: no incident reportedOct 18: no incident reportedOct 19: no incident reportedOct 20: no incident reportedOct 21: no incident reportedOct 22: no incident reportedOct 23: no incident reportedOct 24: no incident reportedOct 25: no incident reportedOct 26: no incident reportedOct 27: no incident reportedOct 28: no incident reportedOct 29: no incident reportedOct 30: no incident reportedOct 31: no incident reportedNov 1: no incident reportedNov 2: no incident reportedNov 3: no incident reportedNov 4: no incident reportedNov 5: no incident reportedNov 6: no incident reportedNov 7: no incident reportedNov 8: no incident reportedNov 9: no incident reportedNov 10: no incident reportedNov 11: no incident reportedNov 12: no incident reported

90 days agotoday

  • 4 incidents in 90 days
  • 0 major or critical
  • 3 h 12 min typical time to resolve
BeganIncidentImpactLasted
Mailbox counts, folders, reports, search resultsminor36 min
Mailbox countsminor3 h 57 min
App Access Issuesminor3 h 12 min
Beacon Issuesminor1 h 18 min
SLA issuesminor1 h 42 min
Report Loadingminor1 h 13 min
Delays with Inbox counts, folders, reports and search resultsminor1 h 1 min
Docs Errorsmajor6 h 43 min

Incidents per month

0 5 10 Dec 2025: 4 incidents (1 critical, 1 major, 2 minor) · typical time to resolve 1 h 19 min Jan 2026: 2 incidents (1 minor, 1 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 9 h 54 min Feb 2026: 3 incidents (1 major, 2 minor) · typical time to resolve 28 min Mar 2026: 9 incidents (7 minor, 2 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 54 min Apr 2026: 6 incidents (1 critical, 3 minor, 2 no impact stated) · typical time to resolve 1 h 36 min May 2026: 2 incidents (2 minor) · typical time to resolve 1 h 47 min Jun 2026: 2 incidents (2 minor) · typical time to resolve 22 h 59 min Jul 2026: 4 incidents (1 major, 3 minor) · typical time to resolve 3 h 56 min Aug 2026: 5 incidents (5 minor) · typical time to resolve 1 h 42 min Sep 2026: 1 incident (1 minor) · typical time to resolve 36 min Oct 2026: 0 incidents Nov 2026: 0 incidents Dec 2025Jan 2026Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov

critical major minor no impact stated

Components affected

ComponentIncidentsBar
Mailbox counts, folders, reports, search results2
AI Answers1
AI Assist1
AI Drafts1
AI Summarize1
Beacon1

As Help Scout's status page reports its own incidents (scheduled maintenance left out), read every few hours since (evidence)

Incidents reported by Help Scout's subprocessorsCSV of incidents reported by vendors Help Scout lists · Atom feed of incidents reported by vendors Help Scout lists

267 reported incidents in the last 30 days, by 9 of the vendors Help Scout lists as subprocessors.

A subprocessor list names a company, not the service an incident touched. This does not show that Help Scout was involved.

DateCompanyIncidentImpactLasted
OpenAIGPT-image-2.5 and 2.6 Sunburst & Flare High error rate minor32 min
TwilioMMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to GCI United States minor3 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio 10DLC to AT&T United States minor4 h 3 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to Orange Sierra Leone minorongoing
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures From Long Code Numbers to AT&T in the US minor1 h 19 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Delays from Twilio to MTS Kazakhstan minorongoing
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to Tcell Tajikistan minorongoing
OpenAIUnable to start new Workspace Agent runs critical9 h 42 min
TwilioMMS Delivery Delays from a Subset of Twilio Long Codes to Multiple Small Networks in United States minorongoing
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from a Subset of Twilio Phone Numbers to K-Cell Kazakhstan minor7 h 23 min
OpenAIElevated errors affecting logins, sign-ups, and ChatGPT features minor8 min
TwilioVoice Call Failures in JP1 minor3 h 51 min
dbt LabsCloud IDE sessions failed to load no impact stated8 min
ClickHouseProvisioning and scaling operations may take longer in AWS ap-northeast-1 Tokyo minor7 h 38 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Failures from Twilio to Turkcell Turkey minor3 h 54 min
TwilioRetroactive Incident Impacting Twilio Usage APIs no impact stated1 min
AnthropicElevated errors on Fable 52 and Mythos 52 no impact stated1 min
TwilioIssue resolved minor1 h 43 min
TwilioSMS Delivery Receipt Delays from Twilio Phone Numbers to Movistar Venezuela minor3 h 26 min
Pinecone[Serverless][GCP][us-central1] Elevated errors and timeouts on read operations for some indexes major1 h 54 min
dbt LabsDegraded run performance due to dbt State service disruption no impact stated—
TwilioGateway API (Lookup API) Failure Increase on Verizon in United States minor10 h 23 min
OpenAIIncorrect cost data in Costs API exports no impact stated2 h 20 min
OpenAIElevated Errors On API minor42 min
TwilioWhatsApp Business API Message Send Failures minor16 h 29 min

And 242 more. All of them: CSV · Who is around them.

ChangesCSV of Help Scout's changes · Atom feed of Help Scout's changes

See the list as we read it on any date: Time machine

None since tracking began.

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