GDPR-Compliant Analytics for European Companies
You are paying for a consent management platform just to run analytics. You are not sure if your current setup would survive an audit. Grain is privacy-first by architecture, not by checkbox.
No cookies means no consent banners
Your consent banner blocks 40-60% of visitors from being tracked at all. The users who decline cookies disappear from your analytics entirely -- and they tend to be the privacy-conscious, technically savvy users you most want to understand. You are making product decisions based on a biased sample of your actual audience.
Grain uses daily-rotating, non-persistent identifiers instead of cookies. No tracking cookies means no consent requirement under the ePrivacy Directive. You see 100% of your traffic, not just the portion that clicks "Accept." Your analytics data reflects your actual user base, not a self-selected subset.
Analytics without personal data collection
Your current analytics platform collects IP addresses, stores device fingerprints, and creates persistent user profiles. Each of these triggers GDPR obligations: data processing agreements, privacy impact assessments, retention policies, and the constant risk that a data breach turns into a regulatory notification. Your legal team spends hours reviewing analytics configurations that were never designed with European law in mind.
Grain does not collect IP addresses, does not create persistent profiles, and does not store any data that qualifies as personal data under GDPR. The identifiers rotate daily and cannot be reversed to identify individuals. You get the behavioral insights you need -- page flows, conversion patterns, feature usage -- without the compliance overhead that comes with processing personal data.
Your data stays where your regulators expect it
Schrems II invalidated the Privacy Shield. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework exists but its long-term stability is uncertain. Every time you send analytics data to a US-based provider, you take on transfer risk. Your DPO flags it, your legal team writes another transfer impact assessment, and the underlying exposure never goes away.
Grain offers EU data residency with processing and storage that stays within European infrastructure. No transatlantic data transfers, no supplementary measures, no transfer impact assessments. When your DPO asks where analytics data is processed, the answer is simple and auditable.
Built to survive an audit, not just pass a checklist
GDPR compliance is not a one-time checkbox. DPAs expect you to demonstrate ongoing compliance -- legitimate interest assessments, processing records, data minimization evidence, and clear documentation of what you collect and why. Most analytics platforms leave this documentation to you, which means your compliance posture is only as strong as your last manual review.
Grain's architecture makes compliance demonstrable. Since the platform does not process personal data or use cookies, the attack surface for regulatory exposure is minimal. No DSAR requests for analytics data, no retention policies to enforce, no consent records to maintain. When an auditor asks about your analytics setup, you can show them exactly what is collected and prove that none of it identifies individuals.
Privacy-first analytics that your DPO will actually approve.
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