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Two models for sharing a confidential document
On one side, a service operated in France by a French company. On the other, document-sharing services hosted and operated outside the European Union, principally from the United States. Compared on the criteria that decide the matter for a professional in the EU: where the documents live, whose law the operator answers to, where the AI runs, what is subcontracted.
What this page compares, and how to check it
This page compares two models, not two products. On the left, Dicte Send: a service operated in France by a French company. On the right, the category of document-sharing services hosted and operated outside the European Union, principally from the United States. No competitor is named and none is described in its place: what the right-hand column says holds for the category, and what the left-hand column says is what we operate. Check the service you use today in the three documents any serious provider publishes — its data-processing agreement, its list of subprocessors and its hosting page. They tell you where your documents sit, which company answers for them, and who else touches them.
Criterion by criterion
The left-hand column is what we operate. The right-hand column is what holds for a service run from outside the European Union; each note says where to verify the point for the provider you use, or which law the statement comes from.
| Criterion by criterion | Dicte Send | Services operated outside the EU, mostly in the US |
|---|---|---|
| Where your documents are storedA hosting page tells you where the servers stand, not which law the operator answers to. | Dedicated servers in France, operated by us. | Wherever the operator chooses, most often in the United States; a European region is sometimes offered. |
| Whose law the operator answers toUS CLOUD Act, 2018: it reaches providers under US jurisdiction whatever the country in which the data is stored. | A French company, outside the scope of the US CLOUD Act. | A company incorporated in the United States answers to US law wherever its servers stand, European regions included. |
| Transfers outside the European UnionGDPR, Chapter V: sending personal data to a country outside the EU needs a legal basis of its own. | None. Your documents stay on our servers in France. | A transfer takes place, and it must rest on a transfer mechanism and an assessment you are expected to be able to produce. |
| Where the AI runsWorth asking in writing: where inference happens, how long prompts are kept, and whether your content trains a model. | On Dicte Send's own dedicated servers: document text and page images are processed there and nowhere else. | AI features are usually served by third-party model providers; the provider's documentation states which ones, and where they run. |
| SubcontractingGDPR, Article 28: a processor names its subprocessors and informs you before adding one. | None: no third-party model, no external analytics processor. | A published list of subprocessors, which the operator may change with notice. |
| Who you sign with, and under which lawOne clause in the agreement you have already signed answers this. | A French company; a contract in French or English, under French law. | The contracting entity, the governing law and the competent court are named in the terms; read that clause before assuming they are European. |
| Your recipients' reading dataWho read which page, and for how long, is personal data: the GDPR covers it as it covers the document. | Computed on our servers; visitor IP addresses are hashed; neither this site nor the reader loads a third-party script. | Ask whether reading analytics involve an external processor, and whether they leave the EU along with the document. |
| The language your recipient reads inThe far side of the link is the part a counterparty judges you on. | The reader, the emails and the agreements exist in the 24 official EU languages, chosen by the recipient, with no account to create. | Varies from one service to another; check which languages your counterparties will actually be shown. |
| Pricing modelPrice the year you actually expect, at the number of seats and visits you actually expect. | Per workspace, in euros, billed by seat; recipients never count as seats and no plan caps visits. Prices come with early access. | Two structural things to settle before comparing figures: whether you pay per seat, and whether the entry plan caps monthly visits, a common pattern in this category. |
| Leaving: export and erasureGDPR, Article 20 covers the portability of personal data; your contract covers everything else. | Export your documents and your analytics as CSV; ask for erasure and it is erased. | Check the exit clause: what you may export, in which format, and what becomes of the data after termination. |
| Running it yourselfThis matters the day an obligation, an audit or a client requires the service inside your own perimeter. | Possible: Dicte Send can run on servers you operate. This site describes the version we operate. | A hosted service is generally the only form on offer; check whether an edition you can install exists. |
This page describes a category, not a named product. What it says of services operated outside the European Union is general and can be checked, for any provider, against the documents it publishes: its data-processing agreement, its list of subprocessors and its hosting page. What it says of Dicte Send describes what we operate. Tell us about any inaccuracy and we will correct it.
When a non-European tool is the better answer
Honest answers save everyone time.
Your work already lives in one non-European suite
If your files, your mailbox and your CRM sit in the same suite and its native sync is what makes your week work, that integration is worth something real. Dicte Send offers an API and webhooks, not a seat inside that suite.
Your counterparties are outside the EU and want it that way
If your deals close under non-European law, with advisers who work in English and expect the tool they already know, sovereignty may simply not be the argument that decides your choice.
You need a standalone certified e-signature today
Dicte Send has agreements signed at the gate, before the document opens. A certified electronic signature is coming, without a date; if you need one now, for contracts beyond an NDA, buy it elsewhere and share the signed file here.
You need single sign-on with your identity provider
Not offered at launch; two-factor authentication and workspace roles are. If your security policy requires SSO on day one, we are not your answer yet — tell us, it weighs on the order of the roadmap.
How switching works
Export your documents
Download the files from the service you use today; your links and rooms are rebuilt here rather than migrated.
Upload and organise
Drop the files into folders, set your workspace branding, invite your team.
Rebuild links and rooms
Save your standard link settings, build one room, clone it for the others.
Ask for help
During early access we help you move across. Say so in the waitlist form and we plan it with you.
Prefer the European option?
Join the waitlist; early access opens profession by profession.
Questions about this comparison
Why does this page name no service?
Because what separates the two columns is not a brand but a model: a service operated inside the European Union, and services operated outside it. Naming one company would turn the page into a duel about features, when what changes for you is the law that applies to your documents.
Is hosting in Europe enough?
No. A European region is a server location. What decides whether a foreign authority can compel disclosure is the operator's jurisdiction: a company under US jurisdiction answers to US requests wherever its servers stand. Dicte Send is operated by a French company on dedicated servers in France.
Can I move the content I already have?
Download your documents from the service you use today and upload them here; links and rooms are rebuilt in Dicte Send. There is no automatic import, and during early access we help you do it.
How do I check any of this for my own provider?
In three documents it publishes: its data-processing agreement, its list of subprocessors and its hosting page. Between them they name the contracting entity, the law that governs it, the countries where the data sits and every company that processes it.