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The best GDPR compliance tools

· 2 min read
Iain Cambridge

If you want to operate within the EU you need to follow the strict data privacy law, GDPR. And many of use are searching for the best GDPR compliance tools.

Some of the things you need to pay attention to with GDPR are:

  • Cookie and Localstorage usage
  • Where the data is stored
  • If processing personal data without need
  • Where the company is based.

GDPR Compliant Live Chat​

Blether​

Hosted in the EU, and only stores and processes data it needs to and doesn't use cookies.

Website: https://www.blether.chat

GDPR Compliant Cloud Hosting​

Cloud Hosting is extremely popular. However, the main providers are owned by US companies and because of FISA these are not compatiable with GDPR. The courts decided that just because the data was within the EU, US courts could still force the US company to provide the data.

Hetzner​

Based in Germany with a very basic cloud offering.

Website: https://www.hetzner.de

StackIt​

Based in Germany with a more complex cloud offering providing managed services for things such as databases, queues, etc.

Website: https://www.stackit.de/en/

GDPR Compliant Analytics​

Wanting to know how what pages are popular, where users are coming from and how many users you had are all important information

Plausible​

Owned and operated out of the EU. It uses no cookies and doesn't store personal data.

Website: https://www.plausible.io

Fathom​

Owned by a Canadian company, it sends all EU data to an EU server to hash before sending it to the US. Hosted on AWS.

Website: https://usefathom.com

Blether​

Hosted in the EU, and only stores and processes data it needs to and doesn't use cookies.

While mainly a live chat, it provides free web analytics for sites it's used on.

Website: https://www.blether.chat

GDPR Compliant Newsletters​

With newsletter gaints like MailChimp are considered illegal due to being US based, you need a GDPR compliant Newsletter provider.

Email Octopus​

Owned by a UK company. It provides

Website: https://emailoctopus.com

A UK based company that allows you to manage consent banners.

https://www.cookieyes.com/