Privacy Policy Template: What’s on your website?
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?
Some online business owners use a privacy policy template if they can’t afford to retain an Internet lawyer to draft customized privacy policies for their websites.
What’s a privacy policy template? It’s a form, typically generated by a computer software program, that covers most major privacy issues faced by online entrepreneurs.
If you do use website legal forms software to create your privacy policy, be sure to use a program that (a) is up-to-date, and (b) includes forms that were professionally prepared by an Internet lawyer. The big issue that one sees with most software is that the information is old and outdated. There are marketers selling website legal forms software that’s 5-6 years old. U.S. Internet law has changed a lot in that time frame, particularly privacy policy requirements. These old software programs have gaping holes in the types of protection every website owner would want in a privacy policy.
In short, you should seriously consider having your website protected by customized privacy policy prepared by a qualified Internet attorney.
The next best thing (if you can’t afford the legal fees), is to use a software program like Website Legal Forms Generator to protect yourself.
About the Author
With an advanced international law degree from Georgetown University and more than 15 years of real world legal experience, Attorney Mike Young is President of the Internet Ethics Council and creator of Website Legal Forms Generator software. He helps entrepreneurs protect and grow their businesses online.
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