AI Providers used by DEON
Last updated: December 6, 2025
This page provides transparency about the AI service providers integrated into DEON ("AI Providers").
DEON GmbH & Co. KG ("DEON") works with carefully selected AI providers to offer optional AI-powered features within the DEON platform. These providers process user inputs and generated outputs only when AI features are explicitly enabled by users or their organizations (opt-in).
DEON ensures that all processing complies with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and, where applicable, the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (Regulation (EU) 2024/1689).
Current AI Providers
OpenAI, LLC
- Headquarters: 3180 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110, United States
- Service: OpenAI API (GPT models)
- Purpose: Text generation, summarization, translation, and analysis.
- Data usage: Processing is done solely to provide the requested output. No training of models with customer data.
- Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) & Data Processing Agreement (Art. 28 GDPR).
- Safeguards: EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
Google LLC
- Headquarters: 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States
- Service: Google Generative Language API (Gemini models)
- Purpose: Text generation, summarization, translation, and analysis.
- Data usage: Google states in its API terms that input/output data via the paid Enterprise/API versions are not used to train their base models.
- Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) & Data Processing Agreement (Art. 28 GDPR).
- Safeguards: EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and/or EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
Data Protection Responsibilities
- Controller: DEON GmbH & Co. KG, Ella-Kay-Str. 22c, 10405 Berlin, Germany
- Processor: OpenAI, L.L.C. (USA); Google LLC (USA)
- Supervisory Authority: Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (BlnBDI)
Friedrichstr. 219, 10969 Berlin, Germany
https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de
Future AI Providers
DEON may add or replace AI providers (e.g., European or open-source models like Mistral AI).
Each provider is listed on this page with the same transparency regarding:
- Company details,
- Purpose of processing,
- Country of processing,
- Safeguards for international transfers (SCCs or adequacy decisions) and
- Information on data storage.
Users and organizations always retain control over the opt-in/opt-out functionality in DEON.
No data is sent to an AI provider unless AI features are actively enabled.
Contact
In case of questions regarding data protection and AI processing in DEON, please contact:
datenschutz@deon.de