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Plugin Description
- Block EU website visitors automatically
- Reduce your European Union GDPR risk exposure
- Allow blocked users to submit Data Rights Requests (important, as you may already have captured data)
- Block traffic before loading Anlytics and other tags (important, as capturing IP in analytics counts as personal data)
- No personal data is stored for EU visitors – not even IP
- Analytics to show how many visitors have been blocked
- Optionally allow users to declare they’re not in the EU (minimising automated decisiion making compliance issues)
- Free for up to 25,000 monthly page views
How does it work?
When a user visits a page on your website, a JavaScript tag is loaded from our high speed web servers.
This JavaScript content returned is customised to your website based on your website code and visitor location (which is why it’s loaded remotely).
When loading the script, we determine the location (country) of the visitor, and return a customised piece of JavaScript code based on this.
* If a user is requesting the page from within the EU, our code will redircet them to our hosted, customisable block page. We host this page for you and don’t log EU IP addresses, making your compliance easier.
* If a user is outside of the EU, we simply log the visit and allow them to continue.
Our servers are customised to serve your bespoke content at high speed, and without logging EU visitor IP addresses or other personal data.
Is it GDPR compliant to block EU traffic?
We believe that there are pros and cons to the approach as we’ve written about in detail in our blog article on the subject. Ultimately the decision is yours, and you should seek the advice of a legal professional if you’re not sure.
Screenshots
An example of the page a blocked user will receive. The colours, logo and text on this page are customisable.
The easy to use WordPress settings screen for entering your unique website code (which we provide you with).
