How to Create a Privacy Policy Page
Hey everyone!
A quick tutorial coming your way on a crucial aspect of your website – setting up a privacy policy page. With the ever-evolving privacy laws worldwide, like the EU's GDPR and various US regulations, having a clear and compliant privacy policy isn't just good practice; it's a requirement.
Whether you're just starting out or updating an existing site, I'll guide you through creating a standardized privacy policy page that meets these legal standards.
In this video, you'll learn:
- The Importance of a Privacy Policy: Why every website needs a compliant privacy policy page and how it affects your audience's trust and your site's legality.
- Accessing the Privacy Policy Template: I'll walk you through finding the privacy policy writing task within your Wealthy Affiliate Hub, showcasing the ease of starting with a template.
- Customizing Your Policy: Step-by-step instructions on updating the template with your website's URL, your contact information, and ensuring it reflects the specific ways you handle visitor data.
- Publishing Your Policy: Tips on how to correctly publish your privacy policy as a page (not a post) to ensure it's easily accessible but not part of your blog roll.
- Updating and Maintenance: How to keep your privacy policy current with your website's growth and changes in data handling practices.
Have questions about setting up your privacy policy, drop them in the comments below. :)
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Hi Kyle.
I was just searching if something was new in the basic as I am changing the theme.
Before I used idea, but the most important was that it is completely true, for this part of the website. It was:
Cookies and Web Beacons
Mysite.com does not use cookies.
Does this mean that I need to change the way I use cookies? Because if so, it looks like I need to buy "cookies bank" if I understand the plugin I use correctly.
You don't need to change that, unless your website is using cookies on it to store data. There are free cookie plugins that you can use if you are though.
Cookie yes is just one of many.
https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/cookie-law-info/
Thank you!
The plugin I had used because of this is no longer live.
So I needed to change and use this first. But looking at others because I can´t, at least I don´t find it, the text.
And in the text say I collect the cookies.
My Privacy Policy isn't showing as a link in my header. I've checked my menus in the Appearances tab and it's turned on. I've added the privacy policy to my menus. Still nothing. I've tried switching templates and then going back to the original one. Nothing. I'm not sure what to do.
Yeah, it could be your theme. When you create a custom menu, you want to make sure that you add that as your top navigation, and then save. If you want to share your website URL so we can have a better look at things, please do so and we will be more than happy to help you out. ;)
I recommend that you keep your menus on one line, versus flowing over into 2-3 lines. This makes the navigation experience much more comprehendible to your audience and also will put more emphasis on your content as your menu will not take up so much vertical space. You can do this with custom menus.
You can add these custom menus to organize your top menu in any way in which you like, as well as create sub-menus (for themes that will support this). You can also use these custom menus to add within your side widgets on your website (within your sidebar).
Here is a tutorial on how to create custom menus: Creating Custom Menus & Navigation I use custom menus on all of my websites (over-ride that default menu). It allows much more control and organization....both good things!
I guess I am confused. On my footer I have all of the legal disclaimers, so I have both a link to my Privacy Policy page and to the Cookies, they are not the same. In order to be GDPR compliant, you need to install a plugin that enables the popup when visitors land on your homepage and get a prompt whether they accept cookies or reject them. Both CookieBot and CookieYes charge a subscription per domain, this can be an expensive monthly payment if you have several sites, so my question here and to the community was (I posted it a month ago) what program is free to install so we can be compliant without having to pay a monthly fee eternally. This is required by Google to run ads. Please help!!!
You shouldn't have to pay for a "cookie" plugin, if you have a privacy policy in place and if you are not collecting or using cookies, or using it for tracking.
But you can get one of the free cookies plugins in wordpress, there are several available to you and you don't need a cookie pop-up in Google Ads in order to use it.
Thanks for your reply, Kyle! What I understand is that Google will not allow us to run Google Ads, formerly called AdWords, or YouTube Ads if we are advertizing our products and services globally AND we are not GDPR compliant. For this, the privacy policy is not enough, you need to pay for a fee and outsource CookieBot or CookieYet so visitors have the option to accept or reject cookies. Is there a FREE WordPress plugin that allows for this popup so I can avoid the monthly fee, it comes to a lot when the fee is only for one domain. And of course, if I am doing paid traffic I want the cookie tracking to make decisions about my offer and how I could adjust it to perform better. I didn't say the popup is on Google Ads, I said that Ads scan your website for this cookie popup so visitors are in control of whether they want to be tracked or not, so this is a popup that you copy from CookieBot and paste the code in the script of the CookieBot plugin on WordPress. The popup will appear on your website when visitors land there, NOT on the ad, but it is a requirement from Google to have it in place on your website in order to run Ads, and esp in the EU as we wouldn't be compliant. We simply select EU from the list of countries before installing. I am on the 14-day free trial but don't want to end up paying hundred of dollars for this legal requirement for years without end... I hope I have expressed myself clearer. Is there a free plugin for WP?
I'm also wondering about this, and when there will be more advanced training for those of us who do need to update our privacy policies with more detailed and specific information.
The cookie disclaimer is a must for our Google ad account to stay compliant and not get shut down. That's why I was asking here if there is a free plug in, maybe WA could negotiate one with some software provider so it gets installed automatically on WP :)
Kyle, hi there,
I hope your day is going swimmingly.
I have been progressing slowly but surely.
One burning question regarding Website Structure and Organisation, are we expected to finish posting all the sub-topics under each section (Introduction; Choosing Profitable Niches; etc.) listed adjacently (screenshot)?
I ask because, this is what I have been doing diligently, sub-topic by sub-topic (6 done so far) .
Am I doing it right?
You are not required to post any of those, those are just suggestions and ideas as to how you can build out your website framework. So they are there for guidance and you will have lots of really great ideas there, but they are not "required" pages/posts to build out, you are in full control of that. :)
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just saw that i already did a Privacy Policy when we were under the previous training. My website is still showing the old one with the wrong name. I did a new one but it didnt override the old one. Any suggestions on how i clean up this craziness i made?
No worries. To edit posts or pages on your website, you will need to log into the back office of your website. You can do this through the SiteManager (Websites => SiteManager).
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/websites
Within your back office, you will have a tab for both Posts and Pages within your main menu. (see attached). You will simply want to click on either one of those, to see a full list and to manage your respective Posts and Pages associated with your website.
Upon going into the Posts or Pages manager, you will see a list of all of them. You can edit them by "hovering" over top of the post, and then you will click on the "Edit" button. (see attached)
You can Quick Edit, Trash or View them from this hover menu. You can also click the main post or page title if you want to go into the editor.
I hope this helps you out here!