Does GDPR apply to my cold email if I only email US compa…

If your recipients are genuinely in the US, GDPR, an EU regulation protecting people in the EU, doesn't govern those sends. US B2B cold email runs under CAN-SPAM: honest headers, identification, physical address, working opt-out.

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If your recipients are genuinely in the US, GDPR, an EU regulation protecting people in the EU, doesn't govern those sends. US B2B cold email runs under CAN-SPAM: honest headers, identification, physical address, working opt-out.

The practical caution: lists leak across borders. A 'US company' contact may sit in a Dublin office; scraped lists especially mix geographies. If EU residents may plausibly be on the list, either scrub by geography or meet the higher bar (legitimate-interest analysis, easy objection) for everyone.

Our lawyer-line applies: this is the widely-published shape of the rules, not legal advice. A volume outreach program touching international lists is worth one billed hour of real counsel.

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