How to Add Privacy Policy in WordPress-2>
The privacy policy is a document that is required by law. It gives information on what you will be collecting from your visitors through your website. In this article, our focus will be how to add a privacy policy to your WordPress website.
Why do you need a privacy policy on your site?
Websites collect information on their visitors in various ways. In most countries, websites are required to disclose the information that they will be collecting from their visitors and how they will use that information. Here are some of the ways in which websites collect information:
- Email address and name in the comment forms, email lists and contact forms
- Comment form cookies that remembers the email address and name of users.
- Information that is collected through user register
- Google analytics tracking
- Facebook page plugin and other social media widgets
- Advertising programs such as Google Adsene
All websites collect information from their visitors in one way or another. That is why they are required to have a privacy policy page. This page will protect you from any legal issues as well as help build trust in your customers.
What to include in your privacy policy
Prior to adding the privacy policy page, you need to know what needs to be included in the policy. The basic requirements are simple. You need to provide information on how your website will be collecting visitor information and how you will be using that information. A basic privacy policy will include the following:
- Type of information that will be collected from visitors
- Methods that will be used to collect that information. The method can include cookies, sign up forms, registration and comment forms among other ways.
- Mention of any third-party advertiser that will have access to that information
- Links to the privacy policy of every advertising program
- Info on how users can block the use of cookies and how to opt out of the third party advertisements.
- Your contact information for when visitors have questions.
There are many websites you can use to generate a privacy policy for your WordPress website. Make sure you go through the generate privacy policy and make amendments for the policy to relate to your website.
Adding the privacy policy to your website
The first step is to login to your WordPress page and go to Pages>> Add New from the admin area. The name of the new page should be ‘Privacy Policy’. Add the privacy policy as the body of the page. Make sure your contact information as well as business name is added prior to publishing the content.
Add Link to the privacy policy page
With most websites, the link to the privacy policy page is on the footer area. This means the link is available on all pages and doesn’t take space on the navigation menu.