Sub-processors
Last updated 10 November 2026
To run Halo Benefits we use the companies below. Each one handles some of the information your employer and you give us, in the place and for the purpose shown. We do not sell your information. Apart from your employer and the benefit providers it chooses, we do not share it with anyone not on this page.
Your employer decides what information is used and why. Halo Benefits uses it only on your employer's instructions, as set out in our privacy notice.
Companies we use
| Company | What they do, and what they see | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare, Inc. | Serves the Halo Benefits web app, routes traffic to our API, and provides DNS. Sees: The pages you load and what you type into them while it passes through. Your session is held in an encrypted cookie in your browser, not stored by Cloudflare. | Where: Cloudflare's global network: pages are served from the location nearest you |
| Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL (AWS) | Runs our API, sends the service's emails and holds our encrypted backups. Sees: Everything the app stores and shows. | Where: London, United Kingdom |
| Google Cloud EMEA Limited (Google Vertex AI) | Runs the AI for Halo AI features, such as the benefits adviser and reading benefit documents. Google Gemini answers first. If Gemini is busy or down, Claude, made by Anthropic, answers instead. A few features use only Claude. Sees: The text each request needs. For the adviser: the question, with email addresses and long numbers removed, and that employee's own benefit facts. For a pay exchange check, these include pay and pension figures. Never their name or contact details. Google's terms say it does not use customer content to train its models. | Where: Gemini: London, United Kingdom. Claude: European Union. |
| PingCAP, Inc. (TiDB Cloud) | Hosts our database. Sees: Everything the service stores: employer details, HR admin names and emails, employee records, benefit options, prices and choices, and the audit log. Encrypted in transit and at rest. | Where: Frankfurt, Germany |
| Okta, Inc. (Auth0) | Signs people in with one-time codes sent by email. There are no passwords. Sees: Your email address, when you sign in, and the device and network details Auth0 records for security. | Where: United Kingdom |
| Datadog, Inc. | Keeps the sign-in service's security logs, so we can spot and look into unusual sign-in activity. Sees: Your email address, the network (IP) address and browser details of each sign-in, and when it happened. Nothing from your Halo record. | Where: European Union (Datadog's EU site) |
| Customer.io, Inc. | Sends the one-time sign-in codes by email for our sign-in service. Sees: Your email address, the sign-in code and whether the email was delivered. Nothing from your Halo record. | Where: European Union |
| Apple Inc. and Google LLC | Deliver notifications to the Halo Benefits phone app, only if you allow notifications. Sees: A device token and the short notification text. Notifications carry no names, pay amounts or benefit choices. | Where: Their worldwide services |
| Deepgram, Inc. | Turns a spoken question into words, and an answer into speech, for the voice concierge. Sees: The sound of one question, or the text of one answer. Never your name, employer or Halo record. We ask Deepgram on every request not to use it to improve its models. | Where: European Union |
| Twilio Inc. | Carries phone calls to the Halo Benefits phone line. Sees: Your phone number and the sound of the call while it lasts, plus the call record (numbers, time and length). Calls are not recorded. | Where: United States |
| PostHog Inc. | Counts how people use our website and app, such as which pages they open. This helps us make them better. Sees: The pages you open and the buttons you press, with an internal reference number instead of your name. Never your email, pay, benefit choices or health details. Network addresses are removed. No cookies unless you accept them. | Where: Frankfurt, Germany (PostHog's EU service) |
| GitHub, Inc. (Microsoft) | Holds our source code and runs our automated checks. Sees: None of your information. Our checks use made-up data only. | Where: United States |
Added before they are used
These companies are for features that are not live yet. They are listed now so employers have 30 days' notice before any is switched on.
| Company | What they do, and what they see | Where |
|---|---|---|
| StackOne Technologies Limited | Connects your employer's HR system (for example Workday, HiBob, Personio or BambooHR) to Halo, read only, if your employer chooses to connect it this way. Sees: The staff details your employer allows from its HR system: name, work email, employee ID, start and leaving dates, job and department, and pay only if your employer maps it. Your employer's HR system sign-in is held by StackOne, not Halo. | Where: Ireland (StackOne's EU region). StackOne's agreement keeps processing in the UK and the European Economic Area. |
| Fizz Benefits Limited | Supplies the gift cards and vouchers for Thrive thank-you gifts. Sees: The product, its value and a reference number. Never your name, email address or pay. | Where: United Kingdom (to be confirmed before use) |
Optional notification channels
Used only if your employer connects Microsoft Teams or Slack. Neither receives benefit details, salary or employee names.
| Company | What they do, and what they see | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Microsoft Corporation | Delivers notifications through the Halo Teams bot in your employer's Microsoft tenant. Sees: Your sign-in email for matching, account and conversation references, a short general message and a Halo link. | Where: The locations your employer's Microsoft service uses, which may include the United States |
| Slack Technologies, LLC (Salesforce) | Delivers direct messages and admin summaries in your employer's Slack workspace. Sees: Your sign-in email for matching, account and conversation references, a short general message and a Halo link. | Where: The workspace's data residency settings for some data; other processing in the United States |
Who we share with
Halo Workplace Nurseries (halown.com) is a separate Halo group company that decides for itself how it uses what it receives. If your employer offers its workplace nursery benefit and you choose to continue there, we send it your first name, work email and a reference number. We never send it your salary, grade, location, date of birth, address or anything about anyone else.
Information outside the UK
The UK recognises the European Union, where our database, Deepgram, Customer.io and Datadog's EU site are, as protecting personal information to UK standards. For companies in the United States:
| Company | Safeguard |
|---|---|
| Okta (Auth0), Twilio, Cloudflare, Amazon Web Services, Google (including Google Cloud), Microsoft, Slack, Datadog | Certified to the UK Extension of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (the UK-US data bridge). Their data processing agreements also carry the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. |
| Customer.io | The UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses in its data processing agreement; also certified to the UK Extension. |
| PingCAP (TiDB Cloud) | Certified to the UK Extension, for any access from outside the EU. |
| PostHog | The Standard Contractual Clauses in its data processing agreement, for any access from outside the EU. |
| Apple | Notifications carry only a device token and a short general message, with no personal details. |
Changes to this list
We tell employer administrators by email at least 30 days before we add a company, and we update the date at the top of this page. For questions, see how to contact us in our privacy notice.
