Is Real Cookie Banner GDPR compliant?

What does Real Cookie Banner do?

A German WordPress consent plugin that runs on your own server and blocks embedded services until agreement. Nothing leaves your hosting, so the banner adds no third party of its own.

Does Real Cookie Banner need consent?

No consent is needed for Real Cookie Banner on its own, because it does not store or read anything on the device beyond what is strictly necessary. That is not a free pass: it must still be named in your privacy policy, and the request itself still reveals the visitor's IP address to the provider.

GDPR Art. 13(1)(e)

Does Real Cookie Banner send data outside the EEA?

No. Real Cookie Banner keeps processing inside the EEA, which removes the third-country question entirely. You still have to name it as a recipient in your privacy policy.

GDPR Art. 44 · GDPR Art. 46

How do we detect Real Cookie Banner?

We load your page in a real browser as a first-time visitor who clicks nothing, then look at what it contacted. Real Cookie Banner is recognised by requests to devowl.io, and we report whether it merely loaded or actually sent data, and whether it set a cookie before any choice was made.