European alternatives to Acuity Scheduling
An appointment-booking tool for service businesses, owned by Squarespace. A US company on AWS, under the CLOUD Act.
Company information about Acuity Scheduling
- Company
- Acuity Scheduling LLC
- Parent company
- Squarespace Inc.
- Headquarters
- New York, United States
- Founded
- 2006
- Data jurisdiction
- United States
- Ownership
- Publicly traded
- GDPR
- No
- Open source
- No
- Infrastructure
- Amazon AWS
Why people switch away from Acuity Scheduling
European alternatives to Acuity Scheduling
Open-source scheduling platform founded by German entrepreneur Peer Richelsen. Self-hostable Calendly alternative with deep integrations. Incorporated in California despite European roots.
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Why avoid United States-owned services?
CLOUD Act
Forces US companies to hand over data stored anywhere in the world upon government request, including data on European servers.
FISA Section 702
Authorises mass surveillance of non-US persons using data held by US tech platforms, without a warrant or notification.
GDPR vs US law conflict
EU courts have repeatedly found that US surveillance law conflicts with European fundamental rights. Schrems I and II both invalidated EU-US data transfer agreements.