Do You Seriously Warrant an Online Privacy Policy?

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I am asked a lot about whetheror not a particular website wants an online privacy policy or not. My answer to all those different websites is the same : for the love of little puppies, yes. No matter what your subject matter or nature of your internet site, whatever if you’re making an attempt to Make Money Online or not, you need to have a privacy policy.

NOTE : Now before I am getting into this any further I must make one thing very CLEAR I’m not Alawyer and thus don’t take anything I post here as legal advice. You are on your own there so if you’re undecided then check with a counsel.

The reason why you need one, as I mentioned in the title of this post, is to cover your ass. With all the stories and talk about the FTC and the changes that are coming you don’t need to be unready for the sudden.

A web privacy policy states the terms under which your website handles the personal information that it obtains from anyone who visits your site. What that implies for you is that, because you had a posted policy, nobody can come to you after visiting your internetsite and protest that you misused their information or didnt inform them about how their info was going to be used.

You may think that you dont need a privacy policy because your website isnt hosted in a state or country that has any laws that protect shopper privacy on the web. But youre not basically guarded by that if a user who does live in one of those places takes offense to the way their info was employed, and you didnt divulge that it would happen in your privacy policy, then you might be responsible.

Yes, I know, what are the chances of that going down to your website, but you never know. And honestly, putting a link to a privacy policy on your homepage is not that hard to do, and it covers any possibility of responsibility, so why wouldnt you do it?

So if you dont have a privacy policy in place , you need to get one now. While you’ll be able to find heaps of different examples of privacy policies from all over the web, do not just copy one from another site and paste in your company name over theirs. You need to make certain that you privacy policy covers you for precisely the way in which you use the info of the users who come to your internet site.

Heres what your privacy policy needs to incorporate :

Your contact information so people can contact you if they have any questions about the privacy policy.
An explanation of how you will communicate any changes to the privacy policy to your users if/when it happens.
An explanation of how you use that information you collect from your users.
An explanation of what kind of information you collect from people who visit your site.

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