{"id":1446,"date":"2010-03-12T05:55:01","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T10:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/?p=1446"},"modified":"2010-03-05T19:08:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T00:08:13","slug":"should-you-have-a-privacy-policy-on-your-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2010\/03\/12\/should-you-have-a-privacy-policy-on-your-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Should You Have a Privacy Policy on Your Website?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer is unequivocally YES you should have a privacy policy on your website.<\/p>\n

There are several reasons why every business owner should make sure that this is one of the pages they include in their website.<\/p>\n

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  1. If you advertise on any Pay Per Click platform, the spiders which measure quality score will be reviewing your website looking for this file.<\/li>\n
  2. If you link out to any websites from your website, you need to cover yourself legally and make sure that visitors know you cannot control what those other sites do from installing malware, to showing photos you may not approve of, or sharing comments or points of view you don’t share.<\/li>\n
  3. In our litigious society, it is unfortunate that you have to also cover your proverbial “butt” by having that hated legalese language that makes you “law suit resistant”.<\/li>\n
  4. Additionally it also helps your readers to know what you do with their email addresses and information. Do you share the information to third parties, do you sell their email to spammers? It is by far better to be transparent in regards to what you do to build confidence and a relationship built on trust with your readers.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, if you don’t have a privacy policy<\/a>, here is mine<\/a> as an example for you to review. You may want to consider creating one that is similar to help keep your business “covered”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The answer is unequivocally YES you should have a privacy policy on your website. There are several reasons why every business owner should make sure that this is one of the pages they include in their website. If you advertise on any Pay Per Click platform, the spiders which measure quality score will be reviewing your website looking for this file. If you link out to any websites from your website, you need to cover yourself legally and make sure that visitors know you cannot control what those other sites do from installing malware, to showing photos you may not approve of, or sharing comments or points of view you don’t share. In our litigious society, it is unfortunate that you have to also cover your proverbial “butt” by having that hated legalese language that makes you “law suit resistant”. Additionally it also helps your readers to know what you do with their email addresses and information. Do you share the information to third parties, do you sell their email to spammers? It is by far better to be transparent in regards to what you do to build confidence and a relationship built on trust with your readers. So, if you don’t have a privacy policy, here is mine as an example for you to review. You may want to consider creating one that is similar to help keep your business “covered”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[435],"class_list":["post-1446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-web-design","tag-web-design"],"yoast_head":"\nShould You Have a Privacy Policy on Your Website? | The Web Authority<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mccordweb.com\/weblogs\/2010\/03\/12\/should-you-have-a-privacy-policy-on-your-website\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Should You Have a Privacy Policy on Your Website? | The Web Authority\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The answer is unequivocally YES you should have a privacy policy on your website. 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