GDPR for US Companies: Does It Apply to You and What Do You Need to Do?

GDPR doesn't care where your company is based. If you have visitors or customers in the EU, it applies to you — no matter how small your business. The Short Answer Yes. GDPR applies to any organization that processes personal data of people in the EU, regardless of where the company is located. This is Article 3 of the regulation — the territorial scope provision — and it was written this way deliberately. If your website is accessible from Europe and you collect any data from EU visitors — analytics, email sign-ups, contact forms, session recordings — GDPR applies. The location of your servers doesn't matter. Your company's incorporation doesn't matter. What matters is whether you're processing personal data of EU residents. "Personal data" is broad. It includes names, email addresses, IP addresses, cookie identifiers, and any information that can identify a specific person. If you're running Google Analytics, you're processing personal data of every visitor — including EU ones. The "