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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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
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!
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!
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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
This is what happens when I try to copy-paste my website into the privacy policy:
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.