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GDPR is a confusing regulation and regulators themselves seem confused about it. It keeps on changing and there's a lot of conflicting information. Generally speaking any such regulation has to be discussed between the business owner and a lawyer. A web designer should never take responsibility on giving their clients legal advice, and GDPR is legal stuff for sure.
But the implantation of GDPR compliance falls in the hands of a web designer so it makes sense for a web designer to get some understanding of the framework. I’d start by reading these two sources to get a rough idea on what’s going on:
Note, it’s not going to be very easy to understand. You’ll need some patience. Again, this is a marriage of EU law with quite a technical aspect of data processing and tracking on the web. Not the most straightforward of the topics. But from the dozens of articles and explanations that I’ve read, these two sources broke it down the best so far.
From those pages what you need to understand is the type of cookies your site is using. By default, a generic Webflow site doesn't use any cookies and doesn’t track your site visitors. So there’s nothing you need to do to bring your site into compliance, it already is!
Until, you install a third party scripts from Google Ads, Facebook, or any other tool. Then it’s highly likely that those scripts are saving cookies on the user’s computer.
Depending on the cookie type that is being used, you'll either need to use a Cookie Notice or a Cookie Consent. To understand what sort of cookies are being used read the above article https://gdpr.eu/cookies. And pay attention to the part which describes cookies based on their purpose. That’s the important stuff.