Password managers
Does 1Password store data in Canada?
1Password Business and Teams
Yes, if you choose it.
1Password offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is Canadian-owned.
Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in CanadaCanadian-owned and data stored in Canada, but the servers belong to AWS, Microsoft or Google, or the vendor does not say whose servers they are.
Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.
The facts, claim by claim
- Where data is stored
- Canada, for accounts on 1Password.ca (billed in CAD); 1Password.com accounts are hosted in the US
- Where it is processed
- Canada for 1Password.ca accounts
- Support and backups
- An older privacy policy says 1Password.ca service data access is limited to staff residing in Canada
- Owner
- AgileBits Inc., doing business as 1Password (Toronto, ON), describes itself as a Canadian company · Parent country: Canada
- Servers run by
- Amazon Web Services (Montréal region per a 1Password engineering post; dated) · US company
- Customer-held keys
- End-to-end encrypted; the vault key never leaves the user's devices
- Certifications
- Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)
- Worth knowing
- Canadian-owned, and data stays in Canada if the account is created on 1Password.ca. Choose .ca at sign-up; data is never moved between regions automatically.
What the rules say about this
- US CLOUD Act: The owner is not American, but a US company runs the servers underneath.
- Nova Scotia public bodies: Storage and access must both be in Canada: check support access and backups, not only storage.
- Québec Law 25: Canada is not Québec: storage in Toronto still needs a privacy impact assessment for Québec data.
- OCAP®: Data held by any outside vendor is not in the Nation's possession, whoever owns the vendor.
Summaries only; each rule page links the law or regulator. Not legal advice.
Canadian alternatives to 1Password
Other password managers listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bitwarden | Self-hosted: Run it yourself | If you host it yourself | US | US company |
| Devolutions | Self-hosted: Run it yourself | If you host it yourself | Canadian | Owner not stated |
Sources
All checked 2026-10-13. Claims about storage and ownership rest on the vendor's own pages (or its parent's); supporting links can include regulators and program lists.
- Where the data is stored: https://support.1password.com/regions/
- Who owns it: https://1password.com/legal/privacy/privacy-20181026
- Supporting page: https://blog.1password.com/terraforming-1password/