Embed web fonts via proxy service allowed (GDPR)?

[DGTL.ONE]

Hello,

we would like to incorporate some web fonts from Adobe Fonts into our websites using our CC subscription. Unfortunately, there have been some incidents in the EU, particularly in Germany, regarding Google & Adobe Fonts being directly served from American servers. According to the licensing terms, we are not allowed to host the Adobe Fonts on our own EU servers if we want to use them on our websites.

Therefore, the question is: Are we allowed to use a web proxy that forwards the requests to Adobe Webfonts through our proxy via the "shading" process, or does this violate any guidelines? As far as I understand, nothing is directly hosted here, but only the server-side request is forwarded to Adobe to fetch the font files. However, even the technical support cannot assist me with this question.

In essence, the CSS with the web fonts would look like this:

@Blissful_help0D4E-face
{
    font-family: "font-name";
    src: url("https://euproxy.net/for/https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff2"), url("https://euproxy.net/for/ https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff"), url("https://euproxy.net/for/ https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("opentype");
    font-display: auto;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: 400;
    font-stretch: normal;
}

Instead of the original version without the "https://euproxy.net/for/" prefix:

@Blissful_help0D4E-face
{
    font-family: "font-name";
    src: url("https://euproxy.net/for/https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff2"), url("https://euproxy.net/for/ https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("woff"), url("https://euproxy.net/for/ https://use.typekit.net/af/...") format("opentype");
    font-display: auto;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: 400;
    font-stretch: normal;
}

[Tarun Saini]

Hi @DGTL.ONE,

We're sorry for the delay. Please check this community link & check the response marked as correct answer: https://community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-fonts-discussions/incorporate-font-css-into-my-own/td-p/1393349...

Regards,

Tarun

[Abambo]

What makes Germany (and I read Austria and Swiss) special is the Abmahnwelle that are part of their legal system. It would be good if Adobe could offer European hosting for their fonts, so that IP address information is simply not transferred to the US.

To be on the secure side, I would strongly recommend using Google fonts and hosting them locally. You can also buy the fonts from third-party font resellers to host them locally. That will put you on the secure side of the law for your fonts.