Regional Data Hosting Policy

Zendesk’s Regional Data Hosting Policy explains where Zendesk Service Data can be Hosted for entitled customers. Entitled customers include standalone purchasers of the Data Center Location Add-On and purchasers of a Suite that includes the Data Center Location Add-On. If Customer is not entitled to regional hosting or has not enabled it by selecting a region of choice, Zendesk makes no commitments on the Hosting location of Customer's Service Data. For purposes of this policy, “Hosting/Hosted” means the storing, hosting, or replicating of Service Data, including for archival, backup, and logging purposes (subject to the exceptions noted herein).

All other capitalized terms not defined herein will have the meaning set forth in the Zendesk Customer Agreement or as otherwise agreed by the parties.

Zendesk may modify this policy at any time by updating this page, which Customers may "Follow" to receive notice of changes.

Covered Functionality

The following functionality (“Covered Functionality”) are eligible for regional data hosting:

Ticketing System Functionality: means Zendesk Support, help desk functionality, and email support functionality available within the Zendesk Suite.

Messaging Functionality: means modern conversational functionality within Zendesk, including Zendesk Messaging on both native and social channels and Sunshine Conversations, but excluding Zendesk Chat.

Live Chat Functionality: means Zendesk Chat and all legacy conversational functionality available within the Zendesk Suite relating to Chat (whether or not used in Agent Workspace), but excludes Zendesk Messaging.

Help Center Functionality: means Zendesk Guide and help center functionality available within Zendesk Suite.

Community Forum Functionality: means Zendesk Gather and community forum functionality available within Zendesk Suite.

Voice: means Zendesk Voice available within Zendesk Suite.

Contact Center: means Zendesk Contact Center or Zendesk Contact Center - Innovation Services available within a Contact Center Add-On.

Platform Functionality: means custom objects and legacy Sunshine functionality available within Zendesk Suite.

Analytics Functionality: means Zendesk Explore and reporting and analytics functionality available within Zendesk Suite.

Zendesk WFM: means workforce management functionality available within a Zendesk WFM Add-on.

Zendesk QA: means quality assurance functionality available within a Zendesk Quality Assurance (QA) or Workforce Engagement Management (WEM) Add-on.

AI agents: means AI agent functionality available within the AI agents Add-on.

The Data Center Location Add-on does not apply to or cover any other Zendesk Services or functionality, or to any beta or Early Access Program offerings. Please refer to the Data Center Location add-on documentation for other information about the scope of this offering.

Where Service Data in Covered Functionality Can Be Hosted

The table below provides the geographical region(s) where certain types of Service Data within Covered Functionality can be Hosted.

Ticketing System Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Ticket, User and Attachment Data | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region (i.e., the United States, the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, Japan (Tokyo or Osaka), or Australia)
Email filter improvement data | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the EEA only
Legacy Insights functionality (analytics within Zendesk Support no longer available to new customers) | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the US only

Messaging Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
User Data, Conversations, and Attachments | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Note: Only Accounts created with Messaging or Sunshine Conversations enabled after April 17, 2023, support data locality. Zendesk does not yet support transfers of existing Messaging or Sunshine Conversations accounts to other supported regions. Messaging and Sunshine Conversations accounts created before this date are hosted in the US, so only such customers based in the US will have full data locality support on Messaging. Until Zendesk supports account transfers, customers with longstanding Messaging or Sunshine Conversations accounts requiring hosting support in other regions outside the US will need to delete their existing Sunshine Conversations instance and create a new one.

Live Chat Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Chat Data & Chat User Data | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region
Chat Avatars and Attachments in Agent Workspace Accounts | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region
Authenticated Visitors Feature | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the EEA only
Chat History, Transcripts, Conversions, and Analytics CSV Exports | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the EEA only
Chat Avatars, Attachments in non-Agent Workspace Accounts | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the EEA only
Real-time Monitor (Real-time monitoring capabilities and APIs within Zendesk Chat) | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the EEA only
Chat email reports | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the US only

Help Center Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Help Center Content, Content Block Attachments and Images, Images, Themes, and Attachments | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Community Forum Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Community Forum Content, Images, Themes, and Community Badges | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Voice

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Voice Data | Available to be Hosted in the US, EEA, or AU
Text Data | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the US only

Note: If you opt to host Voice data outside of the United States, then you will not be able to use external numbers as the caller id when making outbound calls. If your account is moved from one region to another, then historical Voice data (e.g. call recordings) will not be migrated between regions. Exceptions to data isolation will occur as necessary to investigate issues of fraud and abuse.

Contact Center

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Voice Data | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Analytics Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Application Data and Connector Data | Available to be hosted in the EEA or US. UK, JP, and AU are not covered. EEA hosting is available for customers hosted in the UK, and US hosting is available for customers based in JP or AU
Email Campaign Data | Not covered. Available to be Hosted by Zendesk’s third-party service provider, SendGrid, in the US only
Real-Time Monitoring Data | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Note: Account moves for Real-Time Monitoring functionality will result in existing Real-Time Monitoring Data being deleted in the original Zendesk account region, and Real-Time Monitoring Data being Hosted in the new account region.

Platform Functionality

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Custom objects | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region
Legacy Sunshine Custom Objects | Not covered. Available to be Hosted in the US only

Zendesk WFM

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Zendesk WFM User Inputs | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region
Labels | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region
Service Phone Numbers | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Note: Zendesk does not yet support transfers of existing Zendesk WFM accounts to other supported regions.

Zendesk QA

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Zendesk QA Data | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Note: Only accounts created with Zendesk QA enabled on or after November 17, 2025 support data Hosting locality. Existing Zendesk QA accounts created before this date will remain outside the scope of data Hosting locality. Zendesk does not yet support transfers of existing Zendesk QA accounts to other supported regions.

AI agents

Service Data Type | Hosting Options
Account Entity Data, User Interaction Data, Bot Training Data, and Configuration Data | Available to be Hosted in any Zendesk region

Note: Only AI agents accounts created on or after March 10, 2026 support data Hosting locality. Existing AI agents accounts created before this date support Hosting locality in the EEA (Belgium) or US only. Zendesk does not yet support transfers of existing AI agents accounts to other supported regions.

Additional Secondary Service Data Exceptions Applicable to UK, JP, and AU

Secondary Service Data cannot be Hosted in the United Kingdom, Japan, and Australia regions. “Secondary Service Data” means Service Data used to operate and run the Service that is not Hosted in the primary data stores where Service Data is hosted and served to users, specifically as described in the table below. Secondary Service Data includes an exact replica of Service Data that is used for platform-wide services.

Datastore | Exception

Production troubleshooting logs

Not available to be Hosted in the UK, JP, and AU

Contact Center - Innovation Services: Available to be Hosted in the US

Platform and ML Analytics Data | Not available to be Hosted in the UK, JP, and AU
Workflow and Taxonomy Data | Available to be Hosted in the US

Zendesk Services Not Covered

For clarity, the following Zendesk services are not included in Covered Functionality:

Zendesk QA (Klaus) accounts created before November 17, 2025

Zendesk Sell

Zendesk Sunshine user profiles and events

Forethought AI Agents

Any other functionality not explicitly included as Covered Functionality in this Regional Data Hosting Policy

Definitions

Ticket Data: includes ticket comments, tags, custom fields and audit events.

User Data: includes identities, hashed passwords and names for both Agents and End-Users and client IDs for social channels.

Attachments: includes files attached to tickets or articles.

Insights: includes all data within the legacy Insights functionality

Archived Screencasts: includes recorded screencasts stored in deprecated screencast functionality within Ticketing System Functionality.

Chat Data: includes all historical chats and associated metadata, unauthenticated visitors, and chat account settings.

Chat User Data: includes identities for Agents and visitors, excluding such data for authenticated visitors.

Conversations: the content of conversations within Zendesk messaging or Sunshine Conversations.

Custom objects: data stored using the current version of custom objects, available to all eligible customers. Learn more.

Legacy Sunshine Custom Objects: data stored using legacy version of custom objects no longer available for new customers. Learn more.

Authenticated Visitors Feature: Ability to authenticate visitors using JWT on the widgets and Web SDK. Learn more.

Chat Avatars and Attachments in Agent Workspace Accounts: Chat badges, concierge icons, and Chat attachments (from Agent to visitor or visitor to Agent) on accounts with Agent Workspace enabled.

Chat Avatars, Attachments in non-Agent Workspace Accounts: Same as above, in accounts without Agent Workspace enabled.

Chat History, Transcripts, Conversions, and Analytics CSV Exports: All CSV exports requested from Chat dashboard.

Real Time Monitor & Real Time APIs: Real time metrics dashboard inside the Chat dashboard and APIs describing account/department/agent performance. Learn more.

Chat email reports: All transactional and feature emails sent from Chat infrastructure: Chat analytics reports, email piping, the email chat transcript option in Web Widget, and sharing exports via email from the Chat dashboard.

Help Center Content: includes data posted on a Customer's Help Center such as articles and any comments thereto.

Community Forum Content: includes data posted on a Customer's Community Forum Account such as posts and any comments thereto.

Community Badges: Identification of people in a community forum. Learn more.

Content Block Attachments and Images: includes files and images attached or included within the Content Block functionality.

Images: includes image files attached to articles, posts, or comments in Help Center Functionality and Community Forum Functionality.

Themes: includes theming assets, such as images, backgrounds, fonts, and script files.

Application Data: includes data that is stored as part of the Analytics Functionality, such as accounts, users, and metric/query/dashboard metadata.

Connector Data: includes data that is ingested into Analytics Functionality from other Zendesk Services and functionality as part of the Zendesk integration (such as Suite or Support).

Email Campaign Data: includes email addresses of recipients receiving dashboard emails within Analytics Functionality and content of the emails themselves.

Production troubleshooting logs: Log exceptions and production log data used internally for troubleshooting purposes.

Platform and ML Analytics Data: Replica of Service Data used by Zendesk internally for trend analysis and training of machine learning models.

Zendesk WFM User Inputs: includes Customer profile information, authentication information, and user inputs and interactions within Zendesk WFM.

Labels: Labels and categories defined by Customer in Zendesk and ingested by Zendesk WFM including ticket tags, custom fields, Voice group names, Chat department names, and Chat/Support skill names.

Service Phone Numbers: includes Customer's service phone numbers ingested by Zendesk WFM.

Text Data: within Zendesk’s native texting functionality (Zendesk Text), the content of SMS messages and the numbers themselves.

Voice Data: includes data from Zendesk’s native calling functionality (Zendesk Voice) or Contact Center, call logs, call recordings, and voicemail recordings.

Workflow and Taxonomy Data: includes free text fields entered by Customer in Zendesk related to customizing workflows or organizational taxonomy, such as group names, brand names, bot names, ticket labels, custom intent categories and labels, and custom object titles.