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Discourse

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vendor	purpose	evidence
A Akismet USA, Global	identifying spam forum posts	“Akismet for forums using our anti-spam plugin: identifies spam forum posts” source
A Amazon Web Services USA, Ireland, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Global	hosting and backup; content distribution	“Amazon Web Services for enterprise forums hosted on AWS: provides cloud servers and services for hosting and backup; distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are” source
A Apple Push Notification Service USA	sending push notifications	“Push Notification Service for users of the DiscourseHub iOS app: sends push notifications” source
C Content Delivery Network Global	hosting generic avatars and emoji	“Content Delivery Network hosts impersonal generic avatars (e.g. the letter "A" on a red background) and common emoji, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are” source
G Google LLC (Firebase Cloud Messaging) USA	sending push notifications	“Cloud Messaging for users of the DiscourseHub Android app: sends push notifications” source
G Gravatar USA, Global	providing user avatars	“Gravatar provides user avatars for forum members” source
S Server Colocation USA, Canada, Ireland	colocating servers hosting forums	“Server Colocation for forums hosted in our Seattle, Toronto, and Dublin data centers: colocates servers hosting forums” source

• A

  Akismet

  USA, Global

  identifying spam forum posts

  “Akismet for forums using our anti-spam plugin: identifies spam forum posts” source

• A

  Amazon Web Services

  USA, Ireland, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, Global

  hosting and backup; content distribution

  “Amazon Web Services for enterprise forums hosted on AWS: provides cloud servers and services for hosting and backup; distributes content, like images and website files, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are” source

• A

  Apple Push Notification Service

  USA

  sending push notifications

  “Push Notification Service for users of the DiscourseHub iOS app: sends push notifications” source

• C

  Content Delivery Network

  Global

  hosting generic avatars and emoji

  “Content Delivery Network hosts impersonal generic avatars (e.g. the letter "A" on a red background) and common emoji, so that users can download them quickly from servers close to where they are” source

• G

  Google LLC (Firebase Cloud Messaging)

  USA

  sending push notifications

  “Cloud Messaging for users of the DiscourseHub Android app: sends push notifications” source

• G

  Gravatar

  USA, Global

  providing user avatars

  “Gravatar provides user avatars for forum members” source

• S

  Server Colocation

  USA, Canada, Ireland

  colocating servers hosting forums

  “Server Colocation for forums hosted in our Seattle, Toronto, and Dublin data centers: colocates servers hosting forums” source