Your website’s privacy policy is one of the most important legal protections you have on your website. If you don’t have one, get one immediately. If you do have a privacy policy, review it to make sure it accurately describes what you’re actually doing with information collected from visitors to your website.

You don’t collect information from your visitors? What about cookies? Or how about data for your advertisers? If there’s Google Adsense on your site or third party banner ads, think they’re collecting info from your visitors? if so, what are they doing with it. And do you collect e-mail addresses, credit card numbers, names, addresses, etc. as part of your ecommerce?

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