One of the vital pages you’ll need to create is a privacy policy for your website.
Usual occurrences like writing a blog posts that attract visitors, commenting on blogs and social media, purchasing and selling on blogs, offering services, getting visitors to your blog are all ways by which visitors interact with a blog.
Other ways are when visitors’ information is entered in a contact form, through collecting email addresses using a form, or a plugin that performs that function.
Even if you are not collecting emails on your blog it is right to have the privacy policy page, as a blog processes information in so many ways.
It is a necessity put in place to protect both blog owner and visitors to the blog from lawsuits and other complaints.
In most countries worldwide, websites owners are required to have a privacy policy page. Such regulations keep coming up day in and out, making such a policy page a requirement.
What is a Privacy Policy Page?
The privacy policy page shows how a client’s data is gathered, used, disclosed and managed on a site.
Why the need for a privacy policy?
- It shows your authenticity
- It is the right thing to do
- Other third-party sites you use, are also using such policies; and require it for them
- to be able to work with you
- Creates transparency between the visitor and yourself
- Reveals any references to children in the blog
Disclosures
Disclaimers are the are legal requirements in a blog post that make the intentions of the blog or post transparent
to the visitor; for example,
- Where you earn a commission should your visitor click a link and make a purchase
- Where you get paid or receive compensation from blog posts
Disclaimers
The disclaimers information on a blog relates to any content that you will not want to be held responsible for.
For example, in cases of adverse effect or failure to achieve expectations as a result of taking advise from the blog.
This can be a paragraph or sentence in a blog post with a link to the disclaimers page.
Such laws, though unwritten, is implied in some offline day to day transactions.
Private Policy Statement Template
Creating a privacy policy statement is not difficult these days. Free templates, sample privacy policy and blog privacy generators are available online. You can write your own privacy policy by copying from a sample template and making changes to it, by adding your website url, contact address etc. where necessary. In addition, study the privacy policies of other websites in your niche and see what you can use from it to create your own.
You can alternatively hire a lawyer to write one for you. Or you can purchase an already written template bundle for your use.
All three statements can be written on a single page.
Depending on the needs of your website, other pages to create for your website in addition to the privacy policy, are Terms of Use and Frequently Asked Questions pages.
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