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title: "Source CMS Product Privacy Notice"
date: "2026-02-04T15:45:36+00:00"
summary: "Discover Source CMS's privacy features, data processing details, and security measures for Drupal-powered websites."
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Source CMS (powered by Drupal)
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Last revision of this Product Notice: 1 October 2025  
Prior version(s) of this Product Notice: 31 July 2025

This Product Notices describes the privacy relevant aspects of the above-mentioned Acquia product/services.

### About the Product/Services

For details about these Products, please refer to the Product Description available online at [Products and Services Guide](/service-offerings/products-and-services-guide "Products and Services Guide").

### 1\. Processing Operation(s)

The objective of Processing of Personal Data by data importer is the performance of the Services pursuant to the Agreement.

*   Processing of Personal Data to deliver its core functionalities required: ☒ yes ☐ no
*   Optional features processing Personal Data: ☒ yes ☐ no
    *   The optional features are deactivated by default: ☒ yes ☐ no ☐ n/a\*
*   Processing of sensitive Personal Data: ☒ yes \*\* ☐ no ☐ n/a\*
*   Profiling of individuals based on personal characteristics: ☒ yes \*\* ☐ no ☐ n/a\*
*   Automated decision making that produces legal or other significant impacts on individuals: ☐ yes ☒ no ☐ n/a\*
*   Processing via an AI tool available with the Product ☒ yes ☐ no
    *   The AI feature is deactivated by default: ☐ yes ☒ no
    *   The AI feature processes Personal Data: ☐ yes ☒ no
    *   The AI feature processes sensitive Personal Data ☐ yes ☒ no
    *   The Customer can control what data the AI tool processes: ☒ yes ☐ no

\* (n/a = not applicable)  
\*\* (optional; depends on the Customer’s configuration of the system, the connection to other systems, and the categories chosen by the Customer to be collected from Third Party Users).

### 2\. Details of Personal Data being processed

**Categories of Personal Data** 

**Categories of Data Subjects**

**Purpose of**  
**Processing**

**Categories**  
**of Data Recipients**

**Needed**  
**for Core**  
**Features**

**Processing**  
**Location**

**Acquia Inc.**  
**acts as**  
**Processor**

Through the configuration, design, and administration of  
its own Drupal application, Customer, in its sole discretion, determines and controls the categories of personal data collected by their Drupal Application and, thus, provided to Acquia for processing. These may be individual identifiers, contact details, online identifiers, network activity, location data, and any sensitive data categories.

Through the configuration, design, and administration of its own Drupal application, Customer in its sole discretion determines  
and controls the categories of data subjects collected by their Drupal Application. Primarily, these would be Customer’s site  
administrators and end-users, such as visitors to Customer’s website.

Provision of the Services by Acquia to Customer

Site administrators; Acquia  
Service Providers and Subprocess  
ors;

Yes

US-East\*\*\*  
EU-Central\*\*\*

Yes

\*\*\* Alternative data centre locations are not supported at this time.

**3\. Privacy Enhancements**

**Objective**

**Technology / Measure**

**Data at Rest**

**Data in Transit**

Anonymization and Pseudonymization

Data anonymization at Customer level optional for Customer

Partial  
(Individual  
CMS accounts  
excluded)

Partial (Individual  
CMS accounts  
excluded)

Data confidentiality

Access control measures

Encryption at customer level

Encryption at Acquia level

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Data integrity

Anti-tampering technology (see Security Annex)

Yes

Yes

Data availability including restoring availability, restoring access to personal data, and data resilience

Business continuity and disaster recovery measures (see Security Annex)

Yes

N/A

Regular testing, assessing and evaluating of TOMs

Regular security and process reviews (see also Security Annex)

Yes

N/A

### 4\. Certifications

Working toward SOC2 Type 2

### 5\. Data Subject Rights

Through the Product’s administration console and through the Customer’s own Drupal application, the Customer may manage, update, retrieve, and erase individual Personal Data.

### 6\. (Personal) Data Retention Cycles

The retention of data in the Product is managed by the Customer and may be stored during the entire term of the Services. Latest 90 days after the end of the contractual term of the Services, Acquia will purge any customer data in the Services including personal data from its systems.

### 7\. Sub-Processing

The specific list of Acquia’s sub-processors is available from: www.acquia.com/about-us/legal/subprocessors. Any current Acquia customer with a data processing agreement in place with Acquia may subscribe to receive notifications of new or changed sub-processors through the above website.

### 8\. Description of the technical and organisational security measures implemented by the data importer in accordance with Clauses 4(d) and 5(c) (or document/legislation attached)

Data importer has implemented and will maintain appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for the protection of the security, confidentiality and integrity of Personal Data uploaded to the Services, as described in the Acquia Security Annex (available from https://www.acquia.com/sites/default/files/legal/acquia-security-annex.pdf) applicable to the specific Services purchased by data exporter, as updated from time to time, and made available by data importer upon request. The data exporter is wholly responsible for implementing and maintaining security and data administration within any data exporter applications, configuration settings, or log settings used by data exporter in conjunction with the Services.