Subprocessors
This is the current list of third parties Faktolumo engages to provide the RTFC service - the sub-processors referenced in the Data Processing Agreement and the Privacy Policy.
A provider only appears here if RTFC is actually configured to use it; several rows below are optional integrations that stay entirely inactive until an operator sets the corresponding API key or feature flag - see the notes column.
AI / LLM inference
Used to extract claims from a transcript and to research and draft a verdict for each claim. Model selection is brokered by our own routing layer; RTFC never sends content to a provider outside that layer.
| Provider | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Groq | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | Contractually does not train on submitted data |
| Mistral AI | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | Does not train on submitted data on the paid tier (not the free/trial tier) |
| OVHcloud | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | EU-based; contractually does not train on submitted data |
| Scaleway | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | EU-based; contractually does not train on submitted data |
| OpenRouter | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | Routed only through Zero-Data-Retention-compliant providers |
| Requesty | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | Routed only through Zero-Data-Retention-compliant providers |
| Nous Research (Nous Portal) | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | Does not train on submitted data while Privacy Mode is enabled on our account |
| DeepSeek | Claim extraction and/or verdict research | Used only for verdict research, not raw transcript extraction; based in China - see international transfers in the Privacy Policy |
Speech-to-text
Used to transcribe submitted audio into text.
| Provider | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Deepgram | Audio transcription | US-based |
| ElevenLabs | Audio transcription | US-based |
| OVHcloud | Audio transcription | EU-based; contractually does not train on submitted data |
| Scaleway | Audio transcription | EU-based; contractually does not train on submitted data |
| Mistral AI | Audio transcription | Does not train on submitted data on the paid tier (not the free/trial tier) |
Search and content retrieval
Used to find, and where licensed fetch, the web sources a verdict cites. Selection is brokered by our own routing layer.
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Brave Search | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| Exa | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| Tavily | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| Serper | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| Mojeek | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| Decodo | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| You.com | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| Parallel AI | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| staan | Web search results and, where licensed, full page content |
| DuckDuckGo | Web search results, via a self-hosted proxy |
Optional public legal-data lookups
Used only for claims about EU or UK law, and only to look up publicly available legislation and case law - no customer content is sent beyond a short search query.
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| EUR-Lex / Publications Office of the EU | EU legislation and case-law lookup (always available, no key required) |
| lex-api.com | EU legislation and case-law lookup - fallback for the row above; only active if a paid API key is configured |
| legislation.gov.uk (UK i.AI) | UK legislation lookup; only active if enabled |
Network / egress infrastructure
Used only when downloading audio from a customer-shared public video URL (for example a TikTok or Instagram link), to route that fetch through non-datacenter network egress.
| Provider | Purpose | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| ProtonVPN | Non-datacenter network egress for public-video audio downloads | - |
| Bright Data | Non-datacenter network egress for public-video audio downloads | Configured but not yet in live use |
For brand checks Bright Data's scraping and unlocker services also read the public listing of a creator's account (public posts, captions, hashtags) and public pages. No customer content is sent to Bright Data; it receives the public URL or handle being read.
Payments
Stripe processes subscription billing, invoicing, tax calculation and payment card data. Faktolumo never stores payment card details itself. See Stripe's own privacy policy and subprocessor list.
Transactional email
Transactional email (account, verification and quota notifications) for the hosted RTFC service is delivered through Brevo (Sendinblue SAS), an EU-based transactional email provider. It receives only the recipient address and the message body, whose content is limited to the notification itself. A self-hosted RTFC deployment configures its own SMTP relay and is not bound to this provider. Payment receipts and invoices are emailed by Stripe, not through this relay.
Updates to this list
We update this page when a sub-processor is added or removed. See the DPA for the objection process on a new sub-processor.