Vendor and Subprocessor List for TeachPie
This list documents the currently up-to-date subprocessors and key technical service providers used by TeachPie, depending on the contract and features, in a separate, continuously updated attachment. The applicable version is the one most recently published with its status date or the current list attached to the institutional contract.
Optional named providers are only relevant if the respective feature is enabled in the specific use case or the service is used under the specific contract.
New or replacement service providers are added only after technical, data protection and contractual reviews. Statutory or contractual rights to information, notification and, where applicable, objection remain unaffected.
| Provider | Role / purpose | Typical data categories | Region / Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hetzner / TeachPie core infrastructure | Hosting of the core platform, databases, object storage, authentication and central security features | Account data, content and teaching data, usage data, files, audit artifacts | Germany |
| Microsoft Azure AI Foundry | Generative text, lesson, learning assistance, analysis, and grading features; image generation for teaching materials | Prompts, chat histories, provided text and document excerpts, images of the learning surface and uploaded images, structured context data | Germany; image generation EU |
| Microsoft Azure Speech / Azure OpenAI | Speech recognition and text-to-speech | Voice recordings for transcription, text to be synthesized | EU |
| Google Gemini Embedding | Embeddings (vector representations) for semantic search | Text and page images from uploaded documents, texts from materials and curricula, search queries | EU |
| Amazon SES | Transactional email delivery | Email address, sending metadata, content fragments of system messages | Germany |
| Stripe | Payment processing and billing processes only for contracts or self-service subscriptions handled through Stripe | Invoice, reference and payment status data | EU; not applicable for school licenses paid by invoice outside Stripe |
| Google / Microsoft SSO | Optional single sign-on methods | Identity and profile data for authentication and account assignment | Only active when the respective third-party sign-in is used; the region depends on the selected identity provider and its account configuration |