A Busy Day - Privacy Policy Find
I have had a busy day today, website taking shape. WA & Jaaxy reviews. done Yeah.
I updated my social media plugins to include share and follow, and found the one I chose recommended updating your privacy policy to include details of the social media platforms as they do track the IP address.
This is what they recommend and I have added my own first and last paragraph. Do you think it is better to be safe than sorry, or is it overkill?
Social Sharing
We use social sharing buttons and full details of the main platforms and their individual privacy policies are as follows.
We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Faceb... Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share official buttons
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
GooglePlus, GooglePlus Share official buttons
We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy:
Recent Comments
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I can't work out how to adjust this post, so will rewrite it with the information that I have worked on.
When I click the Facebook link, I get a notification that the page is not available and is probably a broken link.
I did not set up the links, the idea was about the wording of the page
This is the privacy page the plugin recommended be added to our own privacy page.
No worries, appreciate it.
I just wish we had an answer as to whether we should put all this crap into our privacy page. Smart alec politicians make all these darn rules and don't hang around long enough to fix up the mess they leave the rest of us in.
Hi Betsy,
It doesn't matter what their policy is, Rosie is letting folks know in advance by copying the policy and adding it to her site's.
At least that is my take away. Your mileage may vary.
John
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You are kind to share and may one day I be able to understand. Kudos to you
this is all about the GDPR regulations that apply to websites that have the potential to reach European countries. I have updated it in my post called Social Media GDPR Compliance.
Thank you so very much!