Short answer: Slack alternatives for companies in the EU. Put the current file, the decision and the next owner in one channel. Basic is 9 USD per paid account a month, or 86 USD a year, with 25 GiB. The trial is 3 days. The iPhone and iPad app is coming soon. The encryption scope is on the security page.
An EU team should ask where the service is hosted and who the controller is. Read the shortlist, then the privacy page, before a company-wide move.
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Ask for the controller and the host
A company in the EU should ask who the controller is, where the service is hosted, and how a person requests their data. On the hosted BusyVault service the controller is BusyVault, and contact@busyvault.com is the address for that question. No street address is published. Read the privacy and GDPR pages before a company-wide move.
Shortlist first, then one project
The Slack alternatives page compares ten tools without a star rating. Use it to see who runs the server and how files are priced. Then move one project. An EU review that starts with a full cutover learns the hosting answer too late. Slack alternatives
Ask before the cutover
An EU company should know the controller, the host, and how a person asks for their data before the whole firm moves. On the hosted BusyVault service the controller is BusyVault and the address for that question is contact@busyvault.com. Enterprise self-hosting runs on your servers under a separate contract, and then the controller question changes. Read the privacy page and the GDPR page. Use the Slack alternatives list to see who runs the server and how files are priced. Then move one project. A review that starts with a full cutover learns the hosting answer too late.
One project after the questions
Controller, host, and the way a person asks for their data come before a company-wide move. Hosted BusyVault names BusyVault as controller and contact@busyvault.com as the address. Enterprise on your servers is a separate contract and can change who the controller is. Read the privacy and GDPR pages for that split. Then use the Slack alternatives page to see who runs the server and how storage is priced, without a star rating. Move one project. Keep the old export until a colleague finds the file. An EU review that starts by switching every room learns the hosting answer in the middle of the move, which is the expensive time to learn it.
Worked example for this guide
Use “Slack alternatives for companies in the EU” on one project that is already late, not as a policy for the whole company. Write the current file name, the decision and the next owner in the same channel before the day ends. A teammate who was away should find that trio without opening the call recording. If they cannot, the article has not been applied yet. Repeat the check the next morning. Count a written handover as done only when the second person opens the right file first.
Files, history and the next owner
On Slack alternatives for companies in the EU, keep the file next to the sentence that approved it. Slack documents a 1 GB cap on one upload and, on the Free plan, 90 days of visible history. Those two limits are the public facts this site already cites.
BusyVault bills storage per paid account: 25 GiB on Basic and 100 GiB on Pro. Extra storage is 0.03 USD per GiB a month after you confirm the charge. Basic is 9 USD a month or 86 USD a year. Pro is 30 USD a month or 288 USD a year. One subscription does not cover the team.
The trial is 3 days and 10 GiB. Use it to upload a real file and to search for a decision, not to announce a company-wide move. If the file does not fit or the old decision cannot be found, say so in the channel before you promise the room is the archive.
Where the app runs
BusyVault runs in the browser and can be installed from Chrome or Edge on Windows, macOS and Linux. The Android app is on Google Play and uses the same account. The iPhone and iPad app is coming soon. Enterprise customers can run BusyVault on their own servers under a separate contract. There is no public installer on this site for that path. This page does not claim SOC 2, ISO 27001 or HIPAA.
A check you can finish this week
For Slack alternatives for companies in the EU, finish four lines and stop. Line one is the project name. Line two is the channel name. Line three is where the current file lives. Line four is the next owner. Add one rule for meetings: what must be decided live, and what must be written down the same day.
Ask someone who was not on the call to find the file without help. If they open the right channel first, the structure works. If they search three threads and still ask which version is current, move the file to the channel and leave a pointer. Owners and administrators can export a BusyVault backup from workspace or channel settings. After a restore, check the text, the file references and who can open them. Keep the original files until that check passes. Product questions go to the address on the support page.