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Does Zendesk sign a BAA?

The answer

Signs a BAA on specific plans

Yes, with Advanced Compliance, which is included in Suite Professional, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus or bought as an add-on.

Support and chat. Checked on the vendor's own pages on .

Using Zendesk on a healthcare site? Curve Compliance keeps your ad tracking HIPAA-compliant around it, under a BAA on every plan. Book a call

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What Zendesk says

“With the purchase of Advanced Compliance, either directly or through the purchase of a plan that includes the Advanced Compliance add-on, Zendesk customers can sign a Healthcare Agreement with Zendesk.”

Source: Zendesk Help, Advanced Compliance, checked .

“Advanced Compliance lets you sign a BAA or HDS Exhibit for accounts that may store PHI, and it provides recommended security settings to support HIPAA and HDS requirements.”

Source: Zendesk Help, Advanced Compliance, checked .

What the BAA covers and excludes

Covers, in Zendesk's words:

  • On Zendesk Suite Professional or Enterprise, Zendesk lists Support, Guide, Gather, Chat and Zendesk messaging, Explore and Talk as covered services.

Excludes or limits, in Zendesk's words:

  • "You can use it only with covered services and eligible add-ons, while EAPs, Marketplace apps, and other third-party services are not covered."
  • Talk is covered "excluding Text".

What this means for ad tracking

Chat widgets load on every page and capture what visitors type, which often includes symptoms or questions about treatment. Teams also count a started chat or a booked meeting as a conversion.

A BAA with Zendesk covers the conversations Zendesk stores. It does not cover a chat event sent to Meta or Google, so that event should carry a neutral name and no message content.

Curve Compliance closes that gap: it sends the conversion itself server-side, under a BAA it signs on every plan, so your campaigns keep a conversion signal without a pixel carrying patient data. Book a call to see it on your own funnel.

A business associate agreement binds only the vendor that signs it, so each vendor that handles patient information for you needs its own.

How Curve helps

  • Curve carries the conversion signal to your ad platforms separately, under its own BAA, so you can keep Zendesk for what it does well.
  • Curve tracks conversions server-side in place of pixels, so they reach your ad platforms from Curve's server, not from the patient's browser.
  • Curve checks every event for PHI-like patterns before it goes out, and its neutral event names keep conditions and treatments out of what the platforms see.
  • Curve hashes identifiers with SHA-256 to each platform's requirements.
  • Curve adds consent management to your site, alongside the tracking.
  • Curve signs a BAA on every plan, and Curve's team does the HIPAA-compliant setup for you in about a week.

Book a call with Curve and Curve's team will walk through your tracking setup with you.

Read the full guide

For the full picture on Zendesk and patient data, read Is Zendesk HIPAA Compliant? Support Desk Rules When Patients Are Involved.

Frequently asked questions

Is Zendesk HIPAA compliant?

Yes, with Advanced Compliance, which is included in Suite Professional, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus or bought as an add-on. With a signed BAA, Zendesk can handle patient information for you, set up the way the vendor describes. The BAA does not cover ad pixels or tags on the same pages, because they send data to other companies.

Does Zendesk sign a BAA?

Yes, with Advanced Compliance, which is included in Suite Professional, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus or bought as an add-on. In Zendesk's words: “Advanced Compliance lets you sign a BAA or HDS Exhibit for accounts that may store PHI, and it provides recommended security settings to support HIPAA and HDS requirements.” We checked Zendesk's own pages on September 29, 2026.

Which Zendesk plans include a BAA?

Zendesk lists Advanced Compliance for Suite Professional, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus, and it can also be bought directly. With it, you can sign Zendesk's Healthcare Agreement.

Does a BAA with Zendesk cover my ad pixels?

No. A BAA covers the data Zendesk handles for you. A pixel sends data from the visitor's browser straight to Meta, Google or TikTok, and none of those platforms is a party to your BAA with Zendesk.

Does Curve Compliance sign a BAA?

Yes. Curve Compliance signs a BAA on every plan, and Curve's team does the HIPAA-compliant setup in about a week. Book a call to get started.

Sources

Last checked . Vendors change their plans and terms, so confirm the current terms with Zendesk before you send it patient data.

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Track ad conversions under a BAA

Curve signs a BAA on every plan. Curve's team sets up HIPAA-compliant conversion tracking for you in about a week, sending conversions server-side in place of pixels.

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