Slack Community Forum App
Slack Community Forum is the best spot to ask questions, share ideas and swap stories with other Slack Community members.The Slack Community Forum app brings all the goodness of the community into Slack, so you can:• Get notified about topics, people and groups you’re following• Stay up to date on your Slack Community Forum mentions• Take action on a discussion directly from Slack using quick reply• Search the community for answers to your questions, filtering by topic and group• Receive notifications for badges you’ve earned through community contributions
Permissions
Slack Community Forum App will be able to view:
Slack Community Forum App will be able to do:
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General
Developer
Slack
Company headquarters location
United States
Privacy & data governance
Data retention policy
User contributions within the Slack Community are retained indefinitely. Individual account data is retained for as long the user has an account on Slack Community. For account deletion review the ‘Data archival/removal policy’. section.
Data archiving and removal policy
Upon account deletion, all Slack Community profile data will be deleted. However, posts or any contributions the account holder made within the community will remain and will be attributed to an anonymous user such as ‘deactivated-user-12345’.
Data storage policy
N/A
Data hosting details
Cloud Storage
Data hosting company
See subprocessor page: https://slack.com/slack-subprocessors
App/service has sub-processors
yes
Guidelines for sub-processors
Certifications & compliance
SOC attestation
ISO/IEC-27001 certification
ISO/IEC-27017 attestation
ISO/IEC-27018 attestation
CSA Star level
Privacy Shield notice
GDPR commitment
Data deletion request procedure
Users have an option to delete their account from within the Slack Community under the ‘My Settings’. Upon account deletion, all Slack Community profile data will be deleted. However, posts or any contributions the account holder made within the community will remain and will be attributed to an anonymous user such as ‘deactivated-user-12345’.
HIPAA compliant
yes
While this app may offer HIPAA compliance, Slack does not have a business associate agreement with any third-party application providers, including those in the Slack App Directory, so you are responsible for validating the provider's compliance and executing an appropriate agreement before enabling.
Security
Supports Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)
no
Has a dedicated security team
yes
Contact for security issues
info@slackcommunity.com
Has a vulnerability disclosure program
no
Has a bug bounty program
no
Requires third party authorization/connections
yes
Third party services used by this app
This Slack App integrates with Salesforce to retrieve Community Content as part of the search request made from within the app.
Uses token rotation
no