Forms and surveys
Does SurveyMonkey store data in Canada?
SurveyMonkey surveys, Apply
Yes, if you choose it.
SurveyMonkey offers Canadian storage, but you have to choose it, and it may depend on your plan. It is owned by a US company, so the US CLOUD Act can require it to produce data it controls, wherever that data is stored.
Tier 4: US-owned, Canadian regionData can be stored in Canada, and the owner is a US company.
Checked 2026-10-13 against the vendor's own pages.
The facts, claim by claim
- Where data is stored
- Canadian data centre for Enterprise accounts: survey questions and responses stored in Canada. Accounts opened before 2023 cannot move
- Where it is processed
- Login data, logs, respondent contact information and account metadata are stored in the US; de-identified responses may go to the US
- Support and backups
- Support staff in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Costa Rica, the Philippines and Australia may access accounts (SurveyMonkey)
- Owner
- SurveyMonkey Inc. (San Mateo, CA), owned by a consortium led by Symphony Technology Group (STG) since 2023 · Parent country: United States
- Servers run by
- SurveyMonkey cloud storage · US company
- Customer-held keys
- Not recorded
- Certifications
- Not recorded (blank means not checked, not none)
- Worth knowing
- Some features (sentiment analysis, SMS collector, most integrations) are unavailable on Canadian storage; AI survey generation sends prompts to a US vendor.
What the rules say about this
- US CLOUD Act: The owner is a US company: storing data in Canada does not take it out of reach of US legal process.
- 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 SurveyMonkey
Other forms and surveys listings that are Canadian-owned, not US-owned, or self-hostable.
| Listing | Tier | Stored in Canada? | Owner | Servers run by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SimpleSurvey | Tier 2: Canadian-owned, data in Canada | Yes | Canadian | US company |
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://www.surveymonkey.com/mp/legal/international-data-center-overview/
- Who owns it: https://www.surveymonkey.com/newsroom/stg-completes-acquisition-of-momentive-global/
- Supporting page: https://www.surveymonkey.com/about/office-locations/