Wikipedia defines a Privacy Policy as “a legal document that is dealing with the information related to customers and merchants’ private profiles“. A Privacy Policy can be described as a statement that outlines the website’s Policy on gathering and using information about a visitor to its site.
Every website tries to create its own flexible and understandable privacy policy. Having privacy policy is quite necessary today due to a great amount of people who try to disclose secret personal information and use it for professional purposes.
How to write an effective Privacy Policy
The points to be covered when writing an effective Privacy Policy are:
- The nature of information that is collected
- To what purpose the information thus collected will be used?
- Names of people to whom the information will be disclosed
- How the information will be protected?
- Undertaking that the information will not be shared with third parties
- Specific assurance that the server and other online operations of the site are secure and the nature of security arrangements available
- How personal Information is stored?
- Are cookies used? If so, cookies-specific details
- Choices available to visitors regarding deletion/deactivating personal information submitted
- Changes in the site’s Privacy Policy