The location of Flyertalk is not relevant as long as it has users that are located within the European Union. Please see the Wikipedia article JDiver kindly links and also this Forbes article:
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/welcom...ased-business/
Or this one from the NYU
https://wp.nyu.edu/compliance_enforc...personal-data/
Flyertalk is impacted by the GDPR as it has EU users. As such I would really appreciate if you could have a more precise answers to the questions in my OP please.