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Plain-language privacy notice, standard German GDPR DPA available on request, self-serve export + delete.

GDPR isn't a checkbox - it's a posture. If you're moving off ClickUp because their AVV / DPA is opaque, Production Board is what a clean alternative looks like: subprocessor list of two (Stripe + mail relay), self-serve export + delete from account settings, and a standard German GDPR DPA on request when your procurement team needs one.
ClickUp ships a board, a list, a doc, a chat, a goal-tracker, a time-tracker, a form-builder, and a few more things in one tab. Production Board ships exactly one thing: a production-shaped board, fast, with phases + durations + live updates. The trade is real: ClickUp wins on surface area; we win on the speed of doing the actual production work.
GDPR posture
Three things matter under GDPR for a tool like this: (1) lawful basis for processing, (2) data subject rights (export, delete, port), and (3) the auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag / DPA chain. Production Board treats them as engineering invariants, not legal optics. Lawful basis is the contract you sign with us. Subject rights are self-serve from your account settings - no support ticket required. The subprocessor list has two entries (Stripe + mail relay). A standard German GDPR DPA is available on request from /sales whenever your procurement team needs one - we don't charge for it and don't gate it behind a plan tier. Where ClickUp sits on each of these is the rest of this page.
| Ours Production Board | Theirs ClickUp | |
|---|---|---|
Boards + kanban | ||
Production phases + durations | DIY | |
Docs + wiki | ||
Chat + comments | Comments only | |
Time tracking | ||
Hosted in Germany | ||
Setup time | An afternoon | A weekend |
GDPR questions
Free plan, no credit card. We host in Germany. Export + delete are self-serve.
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