Create a Simple Privacy Policy for Your Blog {Example Included}
If you are
looking into monetarizing your Blog, you will want to cover yourself legally
from all of the possible angles that may impact you. For instance you’ll want
to make sure that you have a Disclosure Policy that covers your rights as a blogger and advertiser to
your readers.
As well as a
Disclosure Policy you’ll also need a Privacy Policy that covers your use of cookies and log files that your blog is using to
capture information from your users to customize their advertising experience.
Why is this
important? It shoes your readers what you are doing with your reader’s
information. Personally, I think by having one it shows your audience that you
care about them and their information they give you.
It is
important to note, that many third party advertisers do require that you
have a Privacy Policy that clearly outlines and explains what information that
you (and they) collect and how it will used on your blog.
Here are
two popular services that require you to have one:
Google
Adsense
Did you
know that Google Adsense requires you to have an active Privacy
Policy that states your use of their system?
This is one
of the most frequently overlooked requirements when using Google Adsense and
it’s been alleged that more than a few prominent blogs have had their account cancelled
due to the fact that they simply forgot (or didn’t read the fine print) have a
Privacy Policy.
It’s not
worth losing all that advertising revenue simply because you somehow overlooked
it Google makes it quite simple and has outlined explicitly what is required of
you:
Third party
vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior
visits to your website.
Amazon
Affiliates
Amazon is another
very popular service that
requires you to fully disclose your use of
their service on your blog.
Other Third
Party Services
It is
amazing how many other third party advertising, affiliate, and ad-serving
systems out there that it isn’t thinkable to list them all out but the point is:
If you’re selling advertisements or using affiliate programs to monetize your
blog you’ll need to create a Privacy Policy that is accurate, updated, and
readily available to your readers.
So next
thing you need to do is to create a Privacy Policy.
A Simple
Privacy Policy Sample
The most
simple Privacy Policy out there is this one:
This blog
does not share personal information with third parties nor do we store any
information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize
your content and reading experience through the use of cookies.
You can turn
off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings.
We are not
responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites
without our permission.
This privacy
policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on Month, Day,
Year. If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly here:
xxxx@xxxx.com.
Feel free to use this
sample, and adapt it to your needs, but make sure that your Privacy Policy
includes: contact details, when it was updated last, and the word Cookie.
Good luck
and have fun advertising and monetizing your blog!
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