Welcome at hintcatcher

Set up a reporting office in accordance with the EU Whistleblower Directive and the German Whistleblower Protection Act with just a few clicks? Yes, that works! We’ll show you how!

With the digital whistleblower system hintcatcher you can receive hints from your employees, customers and suppliers, manage risks and communicate anonymously with whistleblowers if desired. Setting up your internal reporting office as required by the EU Whistleblower Directive and the Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz is quick and easy with the Whistleblower Software hintcatcher.

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Case data hosted on secure servers in Germany

Ready to go - without complicated setup and training

Whistleblowers remain completely anonymous

Timely respond to hints and risks

Communicate anonymously with whistleblowers

Supports legal compliance

More than 35.000 employees

can already report grievances digitally using hintcatcher.

hintcatcher is used in a wide variety of industries, including:

Safety engineering & Fire protection
Ecommerce & Retail
Legal Advice & Consulting
Food & Packaging industry
Medical Institutions & Public Administration

Organizations of various sizes use hintcatcher, including:

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How the digital hintcatcher whistleblowing system works

When something goes really wrong, employees or business partners are usually the first to notice grievances.
Many of those affected feel a sense of duty to report this.
With the whistleblower software hintcatcher, your company creates trust and makes it easy for whistleblowers to securely transmit information to those responsible in your organization via the digital reporting office.

Employees or business partners discover misconduct or grievances and report them via the anonymous reporting channel

  • Fraud
  • Unethical behavior
  • Privacy deficiencies
  • Data protection violations
  • Discrimination
  • Harassment
  • Bribery
  • Corruption
  • Infringements
  • Theft of company property
  • Embezzlement

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secure two-way communication via the hintcatcher whistleblower software

hintcatcher as an external unit ensures that whistleblowers remain anonymous if requested.
Saved data is securely protected.

Those responsible in your company process incoming cases, take appropriate measures and thus protect your company from damage

  • Compliance with legal deadlines and obligations
  • Reduced risk of personal liability for managing directors & board members
  • Take appropriate actions
  • Feedback to the whistleblower
  • Clarify queries anonymously with whistleblowers
  • Audit-proof case documentation

How to protect your company and whistleblower with hintcatcher

1

Provide access to hint submission

You provide your employees and business partners with the internet address for your company’s whistleblower form. You will receive this directly with your hintcatcher whistleblower system. You can link this like any other address on your website or in your intranet and communicate it in company documents.

Provide access to hint submission
2

Whistleblowers report evidence

If someone becomes aware of unethical activities relating to your company, they can anonymously report hints to your company using the whistleblower form. Information about the incident as well as evidence such as images and files can be transmitted securely and anonymously. The whistleblower remains completely anonymous at all times - unless otherwise requested. Because secure anonymity for whistleblowers encourages them to report grievances.

Whistleblowers report evidence
3

Confirm receipt of the hint

Those responsible in your company are automatically informed of the receipt of the hint and can confirm it in order to meet the legal requirements for proof of receipt.

Confirm receipt of the hint
4

Evaluate the hint and exchange information

Those responsible in your company evaluate the information and, if necessary, enter into an anonymous dialog with the whistleblower to request further information.

Evaluate the hint and exchange information
5

Derive measures and minimize risks for your company

Your responsible persons implement measures individually tailored to the case, so that risks for your company are minimized and grievances are eliminated. The measures are documented on the spot in hintcatcher.

Derive measures and minimize risks for your company
6

Legally compliant feedback to whistleblowers

After suitable measures have been decided, your responsible person gives the whistleblower feedback on the measures taken. hintcatcher helps you to comply with this legal obligation in good time and not to miss any deadlines.

Legally compliant feedback to whistleblowers

This is what hintcatcher looks like

We designed the hintcatcher user interface to be simple and intuitive so that whistleblowers have an easy time submitting reports and caseworkers don’t have to spend hours learning a new tool.

Convince yourself! Try our free and non-binding trial version now!

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What defines the hintcatcher whistleblower system

Easy

We know that the implementation of new directives such as the EU Whistleblower Directive usually binds employees in your company whereas they are urgently needed for other important things.

Therefore, we have designed the hintcatcher whistleblower system from the ground up so that you can implement it quickly and easily in your company using its self-service configuration options, without numerous demo, consultation and training rounds with a provider.

We offer you a whistleblower management system that is ready at the push of a button - convince yourself with our free trial.

Secure

Your data is strictly protected at all times. Because no unauthorized person - not even we as provider - should gain knowledge of the information for your company.

Therefore, all reports in hintcatcher are encrypted end-to-end. This means that only the whistleblower and selected case workers in your company have access to reports.

We use servers in Germany hosted by an ISO 27001 certified hoster.

Your data is protected at all times so that you have full control.

Legally secure

With hintcatcher you have the right system at hand to successfully implement the EU Whistleblower Directive and to ensure that your company complies with the directive.

The hintcatcher system is compliant with the following directives & laws and supports you in complying with the relevant provisions:

  • EU Whistleblowing Directive 2019
  • German Whistleblower Protection Act (Hinweisgeberschutzgesetz (HinSchG))
  • Data protection laws including GDPR

With the hintcatcher whistleblower system you are ideally equipped so that your company can work in a legally secure manner.

Focused

Would you like to implement the EU Whistleblower Directive or the German Whistleblower Protection Act or introduce a whistleblower system to protect your company?

We offer you exactly the right software solution for this. With us you don’t get a complicated compliance system where you only need a fraction of it and have to do a number of consulting rounds with providers. Because we concentrate on providing you with the best and most user-friendly whistleblowing system software. Thanks to the self-service approach for the configuration and the use of modern, automated processes, you as a customer benefit not least from attractive prices.

With the hintcatcher whistleblower system, you have a focused solution that perfectly supports your company.

May we give you something to hold on to?

Would you like to have a basis for meetings in your company “in hand”?

Here we provide you with an information sheet with brief and concise summarized information on the functions and services of the digital whistleblowing system hintcatcher available as PDF document for free download.

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Simple & fair pricing

Price per month with monthly payment (net price, plus any applicable taxes). No setup fee.

LITE

39€

Popular
PLUS

59€

PREMIUM

99€

Digital whistleblower system as a cloud solution, therefore no effort for your IT
Conformity with the EU Whistleblower Directive
Unlimited number of whistleblowers (e.g. employees & business partners)
Number of Caseworkers to work on reported cases
2
5
8
Anonymity of whistleblowers guaranteed
Multilingual reporting office in x different languages
2
5
Unlimited
Anonymous two-way dialogue between whistleblower and processor
Monitoring of legal deadlines & email notifications
Case management system with audit-proof audit log
Simple setup with just a few clicks, no prior technical knowledge and no setup fee
Flexible retention policy with deletion log for compliance with data protection regulations
Online help with step-by-step instructions (knowledgebase) and online support for technical questions (via email)
Security at the highest level with end-to-end encrypted reports hosted on ISO 27001 certified German servers and GDPR compliant data protection
Corporate design and custom texts on your reporting office
Oral hint reporting by voice recording (optional)
Automatic acknowledgment of receipt for hints (optional)
File attachments for internal caseworker notes for central information management
Statistics and Analysis Dashboard with Excel Export
Custom Url upon request for your reporting office
Custom Fields for your reporting form
Advanced Spam Protection for your reporting office
You can set up your digital whistleblower system in just a few minutes!
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LITE

39€

Price per month with monthly payment (net price, plus any applicable taxes). No setup fee.

Digital whistleblower system as a cloud solution, therefore no effort for your IT

Conformity with the EU Whistleblower Directive

Unlimited number of whistleblowers (e.g. employees & business partners)

2 Caseworkers to work on reported cases

Anonymity of whistleblowers guaranteed

2 selectable languages for your reporting office

Anonymous two-way dialogue between whistleblower and processor

Monitoring of legal deadlines & email notifications

Case management system with audit-proof audit log

Simple setup with just a few clicks, no prior technical knowledge and no setup fee

Flexible retention policy with deletion log for compliance with data protection regulations

Online help with step-by-step instructions (knowledgebase) and online support for technical questions (via email)

Security at the highest level with end-to-end encrypted reports hosted on ISO 27001 certified German servers and GDPR compliant data protection

Corporate design and custom texts on your reporting office

Oral hint reporting by voice recording (optional)

Automatic acknowledgment of receipt for hints (optional)

File attachments for internal caseworker notes for central information management

Statistics and Analysis Dashboard with Excel Export

Custom Url upon request for your reporting office

Custom Fields for your reporting form

Advanced Spam Protection for your reporting office

Try now for free

You can set up your digital whistleblower system in just a few minutes!

PLUS

59€

Price per month with monthly payment (net price, plus any applicable taxes). No setup fee.

Contains all LITE features, and:

Digital whistleblower system as a cloud solution, therefore no effort for your IT

Conformity with the EU Whistleblower Directive

Unlimited number of whistleblowers (e.g. employees & business partners)

5 Caseworkers to work on reported cases

Anonymity of whistleblowers guaranteed

5 selectable languages for your reporting office

Anonymous two-way dialogue between whistleblower and processor

Monitoring of legal deadlines & email notifications

Case management system with audit-proof audit log

Simple setup with just a few clicks, no prior technical knowledge and no setup fee

Flexible retention policy with deletion log for compliance with data protection regulations

Online help with step-by-step instructions (knowledgebase) and online support for technical questions (via email)

Security at the highest level with end-to-end encrypted reports hosted on ISO 27001 certified German servers and GDPR compliant data protection

Corporate design and custom texts on your reporting office

Oral hint reporting by voice recording (optional)

Automatic acknowledgment of receipt for hints (optional)

File attachments for internal caseworker notes for central information management

Statistics and Analysis Dashboard with Excel Export

Custom Url upon request for your reporting office

Custom Fields for your reporting form

Advanced Spam Protection for your reporting office

Try now for free

You can set up your digital whistleblower system in just a few minutes!

PREMIUM

99€

Price per month with monthly payment (net price, plus any applicable taxes). No setup fee.

Contains all PLUS features, and:

Digital whistleblower system as a cloud solution, therefore no effort for your IT

Conformity with the EU Whistleblower Directive

Unlimited number of whistleblowers (e.g. employees & business partners)

8 Caseworkers to work on reported cases

Anonymity of whistleblowers guaranteed

Unlimited selectable languages for your reporting office

Anonymous two-way dialogue between whistleblower and processor

Monitoring of legal deadlines & email notifications

Case management system with audit-proof audit log

Simple setup with just a few clicks, no prior technical knowledge and no setup fee

Flexible retention policy with deletion log for compliance with data protection regulations

Online help with step-by-step instructions (knowledgebase) and online support for technical questions (via email)

Security at the highest level with end-to-end encrypted reports hosted on ISO 27001 certified German servers and GDPR compliant data protection

Corporate design and custom texts on your reporting office

Oral hint reporting by voice recording (optional)

Automatic acknowledgment of receipt for hints (optional)

File attachments for internal caseworker notes for central information management

Statistics and Analysis Dashboard with Excel Export

Custom Url upon request for your reporting office

Custom Fields for your reporting form

Advanced Spam Protection for your reporting office

Try now for free

You can set up your digital whistleblower system in just a few minutes!

Is there a free trial?

We want you to like hintcatcher 100%. That's why we offer you an uncomplicated free trial so that you can try everything by yourself before you decide to go with hintcatcher.

How long does the setup / deployment take?

hintcatcher is a cloud solution (software as a service) and therefore ready when you are. You can set it up yourself in just a few minutes and there is no additional work for your IT.

What is the contract term of a subscription?

We are convinced of hintcatcher and therefore offer you fair conditions with which you remain flexible: With hintcatcher there is no setup fee and the contract period is 1-month with a 14-day notice period to the end of the term.

What payment methods do you accept?

For easy payment processing, we accept major credit cards and SEPA Direct Debit.

Does pricing depend on the number of employees in my organization?

In contrast to other solutions, hintcatcher's pricing is independent of the number of employees in your organization. The monthly price of the desired hintcatcher plan is not influenced by your number of employees.

Are there special conditions for consultants or resellers?

We offer special partner conditions for law firms, external data protection officers and ombudsmen/ombudswomen who would like to offer their customers and clients a whistleblower solution as part of their service. Contact us with your application and we will make you an attractive offer!