If you are in the EU, UK, or Switzerland, your personal data may be sent to and processed in the United States, where data protection rules differ from those in your home country, with Standard Contractual Clauses used as the legal transfer mechanism.
This analysis describes what Monday.com's agreement states, permits, or reserves. It does not constitute a legal determination about enforceability. Regulatory applicability and practical outcomes may vary by jurisdiction, enforcement context, and individual circumstances. Read our methodology
Transferring personal data out of the EEA to the United States means your data is subject to US law, including potential government access requests, and the adequacy of the transfer mechanism may be subject to legal challenge.
EU, UK, and Swiss users' personal data is transferred to the United States under Standard Contractual Clauses, meaning the data leaves the jurisdiction where it receives the strongest legal protections, and users should be aware of ongoing legal uncertainty around such transfers.
How other platforms handle this
Your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries outside of your country of residence, which may have data protection laws that are different from those in your country.
Your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers and partners operate. By using our Services, you acknowledge that your personal information may be transferred to countries outside your country of residence, in...
At Ledger, earning and maintaining our users' trust is a top priority. That's why we are deeply committed not only to protecting your privacy and securing your personal data, but also to being fully transparent about how we handle it.
Monitoring
Monday.com has changed this document before.
Receive same-day alerts, structured change summaries, and monitoring for up to 25 platforms.
"If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, please be aware that your personal data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside of these regions, including the United States, which may not have data protection laws that are as comprehensive as those in your home country. We rely on Standard Contractual Clauses and adequacy decisions as the legal mechanisms to transfer your personal data to such countries.— Excerpt from Monday.com's Monday.com Privacy Policy
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: This provision directly engages GDPR Chapter V (transfers of personal data to third countries), the UK GDPR equivalent transfer restrictions, and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection. The relevant enforcement authorities are EU national supervisory authorities, the UK ICO, and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework may also be relevant as an adequacy mechanism, though its long-term stability has been subject to legal challenge and organizations should monitor its status. (2) GOVERNANCE EXPOSURE: High for EEA, UK, and Swiss-based organizations using monday.com. SCCs must be accompanied by a Transfer Impact Assessment (TIA) under GDPR guidance following the Schrems II ruling to evaluate whether US law provides equivalent protection. Failure to maintain current, valid transfer documentation creates regulatory exposure and may result in enforcement action by supervisory authorities. (3) JURISDICTION FLAGS: The highest exposure jurisdictions are Germany, France, Austria, and the Netherlands, whose data protection authorities have historically taken aggressive enforcement positions on US data transfers. UK organizations post-Brexit must evaluate whether International Data Transfer Agreements (IDTAs) rather than EU SCCs are appropriate. Swiss organizations must comply with the revised Swiss FADP transfer requirements. (4) CONTRACT AND VENDOR IMPLICATIONS: Enterprise contracts should include an up-to-date Data Processing Addendum that specifies current transfer mechanisms and includes the executed SCCs or IDTAs as exhibits. Procurement teams should confirm that monday.com's sub-processors in the United States are also covered by adequate transfer mechanisms in the DPA's sub-processor provisions. TIA documentation should be maintained and reviewed when the regulatory landscape changes. (5) COMPLIANCE CONSIDERATIONS: Organizations should request monday.com's current Transfer Impact Assessment documentation or perform their own TIA for the processing activities in scope. DPA review cycles should be triggered whenever transfer mechanism regulations change. RoPA entries for monday.com-related processing should document the transfer mechanism in use and the date it was last verified.
Full compliance analysis
Regulatory citations, enforcement risk, and due diligence action items.
Free: track 1 platform + weekly digest. Monitor: 25 platforms + same-day alerts. No credit card required.
Ad personalization controls removed. Contact scanning added. Advertiser data partnerships quietly dropped. A timeline of every change.
Compliance Governance Intelligence
Need to monitor specific governance provisions?
Compliance includes provision-level monitoring, governance timelines, regulatory mapping, and audit-ready analysis.
Built from archived source documents, structured governance mappings, and historical version tracking.
Transferring personal data out of the EEA to the United States means your data is subject to US law, including potential government access requests, and the adequacy of the transfer mechanism may be subject to legal challenge.
EU, UK, and Swiss users' personal data is transferred to the United States under Standard Contractual Clauses, meaning the data leaves the jurisdiction where it receives the strongest legal protections, and users should be aware of ongoing legal uncertainty around such transfers.
ConductAtlas has identified this type of provision across 84 platforms. See the full comparison.
No. ConductAtlas is an independent monitoring service. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Monday.com.