Is Vector GDPR compliant?

What does Vector do?

Visitor deanonymisation for sales teams, resolving anonymous traffic to companies and in some configurations to individual people. It exists precisely to identify visitors who never introduced themselves.

Does Vector need consent?

Yes. Vector is Advertising, which is never strictly necessary for a website to function. Under ePrivacy Article 5(3), and its national transpositions, storing or reading anything on the device for that purpose requires consent first, and that consent has to be as easy to refuse as it is to give.

ePrivacy Art. 5(3) · TDDDG § 25 (DE) · TKG 2021 § 165(3) (AT) · GDPR Art. 6(1)(a)

Does Vector send data outside the EEA?

Yes. Vector processes data outside the European Economic Area, so you need a transfer mechanism under Chapter V and you have to say so in your privacy policy. In practice this means standard contractual clauses, or a provider certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

GDPR Art. 44 · GDPR Art. 46

How do we detect Vector?

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