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Privacy please (for your website)

Published 1 day ago • 2 min read

Hi friends 👋🏻

This week, a reminder about online privacy laws and a tool recommendation to make compliance easy!

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ICYMI here are a couple of recent editions!

Disclaimer before we get into the details: I’m not an attorney, and this is not legal advice. Consult an actual, licensed attorney in your jurisdiction!

Here are a few quick teasers (and skip to the end for a great value-for-money solution for all of this):

Do we need a privacy policy? Almost definitely yes.

Even if your website only collects names and email addresses on a contact form, you need a privacy policy. If you have a donation form, you need a privacy policy. If you use Google Analytics, you need a privacy policy.

Can we just copy and paste someone else’s policy? Sorry, that’s not a good idea.

Please don’t just copy another organization’s policy and switch out the org name and website address.

Your Privacy Policy needs to specify exactly what data you collect and why, where you process it, who has access to it, and a whole lot more.

If we created one 10 years ago we’re good, right? No, sorry.

There are new privacy laws coming into effect all the time. If the data your website collects, or the third-party tools you use, have changed, you may need to update your policy.

Ready for a solution?

I recommend the privacy policy solution developed by Termageddon to my clients. Indeed, a Termageddon-managed privacy policy is active on every website I've launched so far this year.

Termageddon is co-owned by a licensed attorney who also serves as the Chair of the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee. The company is the longest-running Privacy Policy generator listed as a vendor by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

They offer a per-website license that provides a privacy policy that updates automatically as new privacy laws come into effect, and the team will alert you as new laws pass so you can stay in compliance.

Your Termageddon license also provides additional legal policies for your website, including legal disclaimers, terms and conditions, a cookie policy, AND a cookie consent management platform (cookie banner).

If your privacy policy needs a refresh and you're worried about compliance, this is a really efficient way to stay on top of a rapidly-changing legal landscape.

Get a 10% discount on your first year of service by signing up using this link.

Check the link below to get more details about how to generate a compliant website privacy policy, and why you need one.

​Access the guide here ➡️

Until next time ✨

— Ed Harris (your digital strategy guide)

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