Umami
Web Analytics · United States
Popular open-source, cookieless analytics. MIT licensed and easy to self-host, but the company behind the hosted cloud is registered in Delaware.
What is Umami?
Umami is one of the most widely used open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, with a simple cookieless tracker and a clean single-page dashboard. It is genuinely easy to self-host, which is how most people run it, and there is a hosted cloud for those who would rather not. The project is MIT licensed; the company operating the cloud is American.
Key Features
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Pros & Cons
Company and data
Who you are buying from, and where your data goes.
- Company based in
- United States
- Ownership
- Non-European company
- Data hosted
- Not reviewed yet
- Data processing agreement
- Not reviewed yet
Subject to the US CLOUD Act: a US parent company can be compelled to disclose data it holds, including data stored in the EU.
Full privacy and compliance record (show)
GDPR Compliance Data
Not independently verified| GDPR Status | Partially Compliant |
| HQ Country | United States |
| Ownership | Non-European |
| Foreign Disclosure Exposure | US CLOUD Act / FISA 702 |
| Data Hosting Location | Unknown |
| EU Servers Available | |
| Data Processing Agreement | Not verified |
| Sub-processor List | Not verified |
| Schrems II Risk | Medium Risk |
| SCCs in Place |
How we reached this
Terms of Service state verbatim: "We are Umami Software, Inc., doing business as Umami ('Company,' 'we,' 'us,' 'our'), a company registered in Delaware, United States", and the terms are governed by Delaware law. The privacy policy names the same entity. No hosting region is published for Umami Cloud and no DPA document was located. The software is MIT licensed and straightforward to self-host, which is the configuration most users choose and the one where the Delaware incorporation becomes irrelevant, because no data reaches the company at all.
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Questions about Umami
Is Umami GDPR compliant?
Partly. Umami meets some of the requirements, with caveats worth reading before you commit. Umami is based in United States, outside the EU/EEA.
Where does Umami store data?
We could not locate a clear statement of where Umami hosts data. Ask the vendor directly, or check their privacy policy and sub-processor list before signing.
Does Umami offer a Data Processing Agreement (DPA)?
We could not locate a published DPA for Umami. That does not mean one is unavailable. Many vendors provide it on request or inside the account area rather than publishing it. Ask before you sign.
What a DPA has to cover →Is Umami a European company?
No. Umami is based in United States, outside the EU/EEA. It may still be a sound choice (EU hosting and a signed DPA matter more than a flag) but the ownership is not European.
Is Umami subject to the US CLOUD Act?
Yes. US authorities can compel disclosure of data held by a US company or its subsidiaries, regardless of the country the servers sit in. EU hosting alone does not remove this, the question is who controls the data, not where the disk is.
Schrems II compliance checklist →Spotted something wrong?
Martech moves fast. Vendors change hosting regions, get acquired, publish a new DPA or rewrite their pricing, and they rarely announce it. We check what we publish and date every compliance review, but some of what you see here will be out of date before we catch it.
If you work at Umami and something on this page is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Readers, same invitation. Pointing us at the page that proves it gets it changed fastest.