100 GDPR Compliance resources for developers

A lightweight, open-source alternative to Google Analytics that does not use cookies and is fully GDPR compliant out of the box. Self-hosting via Docker ensures data never leaves your infrastructure.

Use Fathom's 'EU Isolation' feature to ensure that all data from EU visitors is processed on servers located within the European Union, bypassing Schrems II concerns.

An open-source, privacy-focused analytics tool you can point to your own Supabase or RDS instance. It collects no personally identifiable information (PII) and bypasses the need for a consent banner.

Deploy PostHog on your own VPC to keep event data internal. Use their 'Anonymize IP' configuration to avoid collecting PII during session recording.

A self-hosted, Node.js-based analytics tool that uses a unique ID system instead of cookies. Ideal for developers who want a GraphQL API for their analytics data.

A simple analytics service that provides a robust API for exporting data, facilitating easy compliance with Data Portability requests.

A server-side analytics library for Go and Python that allows you to track events without any client-side scripts, mitigating fingerprinting risks.

When using Tinybird for real-time analytics, implement their TTL (Time To Live) settings on Data Sources to automatically purge user data after a set period.

A modern, cookie-less analytics tool that tracks visitors without tracking individuals. It ignores DNT headers because it doesn't track across sites.

A lightweight tracking solution hosted in the EU (Germany). It uses proprietary technology to track unique visitors without storing IP addresses or using cookies.

When initializing a Supabase project, select the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) region to ensure all PostgreSQL data and Auth metadata remain within the EU jurisdiction.

Sign Clerk's DPA and use their 'Data Residency' features to ensure user authentication logs and metadata are stored in EU data centers.

Configure Kinde to store all user identity data in their Ireland or Frankfurt regions. Use their 'Organization' features to isolate data by geographic location.

For enterprise requirements, deploy Auth0 on a private cloud instance located in the EU to satisfy strict data sovereignty requirements.

Use Neon's serverless Postgres and pin your compute and storage to the AWS Frankfurt or Ireland regions to comply with data localization needs.

When using Redis for session management, specifically provision clusters in 'eu-west-1' or 'eu-central-1' to avoid cross-border session data transfers.

Implement Lambda@Edge to detect user location and route requests to EU-specific API endpoints, ensuring EU data never hits US-based processing logic.

Utilize PlanetScale's region-specific database branches to ensure that production data for EU customers is physically located in EU-based AWS or GCP regions.

Configure Stripe to store customer data in the EU. Ensure your integration uses the 'eu' specific endpoints where available for processing.

Implement RLS policies that restrict data access based on a 'region' column, preventing accidental cross-region data leakage in multi-tenant apps.

Structure your schema with proper foreign key constraints using ON DELETE CASCADE to ensure that deleting a user record automatically purges all associated PII.

Configure S3 bucket lifecycle rules to automatically delete application logs containing IP addresses or user IDs after 30 days to comply with data minimization.

Automate Right to Erasure by calling the Segment Personas Delete API, which propagates the deletion request to all connected downstream tools.

Integrate the Intercom 'Delete a User' endpoint into your application's 'Delete Account' workflow to ensure support chat history is removed.

Use the Stripe 'Redact' endpoint to remove sensitive personal information from customer objects while keeping financial records for tax compliance.

When a user exercises their right to object, programmatically add their email to the Mailgun suppression list to prevent any further outbound marketing.

Programmatically create deletion tasks in Mixpanel using their API to remove specific $user_ids from all historical event data.

Enforce strict TTLs on all Redis keys containing PII (like temporary verification codes) to ensure data is not stored longer than necessary.

Trigger the Customer.io 'Suppress and Delete' API call during user offboarding to remove them from all marketing journeys and delete their profile.

Implement a 'deleted_at' column but pair it with a background worker (e.g., using pg_cron) that performs a hard purge after a 14-day 'grace period'.