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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TIP: If using a PC (don't know about the Mac), to complete the Policy Privacy, hold Ctrl+F.
A Find command bar will open. Type in YOUR and 7 YOURs [for YOUR SITE], will be highlighted.
Go on and replace without having to search in a haystack of words.
Do the same for the email and name replacement.
While you do that, the scroll bar on the right hand side will show lines in relation with their placement in the document. So, you will know when the words you searched for are finished replacing.
I hope this helped. :-)
My mind played games on me, Kyle just explained the Private Policy is not a post, lo and behold, I posted it.
Now, I had to delete the post to redo everything - only to find the Private Policy is missing from where I found it.
There I rush to Undo Delete, copy the Private Policy, paste it and publish in the (I think now) rightful place, then went back to delete post.
WHEW! ;-)
I am struggling.
I have used templates to recreate my privacy policy. I am still having trouble pasting my website name into the template.
In your video, can you click on the website name in the policy document after pasting it?
I pasted it as plain text so I cannot click on it. It is not blue and not underlined, as you typically see.
Thanks.
It should be straightforward. Click Website -> Site Content => Templates (on the left) -> Scroll Down to Default Privacy Policy => Create with AI
AI Author will create your draft. You simply switch the Name to your website in ALL LOCATIONS. I believe there are 6 + your email address for a contact.
Then double-check to ensure that you have this created as a PAGE, not a post.
Hit publish.
Any questions? Feel free to ask.
MrDon
Two things are happening here.
You are trying to create a privacy policy and adding links to the page at the same time.
Let's back up and do this one at a time.
1. Put your Website name in the 6 spots within the drafted Privacy Policy. Take a look at the image below and you will see one of mine. This is as simple as it gets.
Then, add the links.
2. If you want to (and I didn't) highlight the yourwebsite.com that you added in Step 1 and then add the URLs to the privacy policy page,
*Note it appears you pasted the link before publishing. When you "hover" over the link, it will ask you if you want to edit the link or unlink/remove it altogether. At this point, you want to remove it.
Hope this helps.
I completed the privacy policy and did not highlight my website entries. Maybe later I will. As you said, you did not do so yourself. Thanks.
I picked the exact wrong time to start with Wealthy Affiliates.
We've had a house full of guests for almost 3 weeks now. The last just left a short time ago.
That was the Thanksgiving crowd. Now we're gearing up for Christmas.
Gotta get a bunch done before the next wave comes.
Ken,
The holidays are an extremely busy time of year and it happens every year!
The best way to carve out some time for yourself with with a Content Creation Calendar.
Need a hand in creating one?
I created one in about 5 minutes with the help of AI. It is currently on my niche blog. I have yet to post it here, but as the holidays inundate us, I will put this on my "To-Do" list and have it created for WA.
MrDon
The Amazing Niche Master
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Hi Kyle!
I've been researching privacy policies for my new website and I was wondering about the need to set up a cookie opt-out check box. I see these everywhere, and our WA privacy policies say that we set cookies, but we don't tell our readers what they are or give them an option to opt out.
Can you recommend a plugin or other free tool?
Hi, Marsha.
There are many tools available.
Keep digging. It is part of the journey.
Easy answers will not serve you well in the long term.
Have a look at my "Privacy Policy."
It took years to put together in compliance with.
Stay sharp. Live long and prosper.
Kindest regards,
@PMindra.