Sample Privacy Policy! (As required by Google Adsense)

I should have read that.. i was too quick to select i agree and hit OK button.... now i m trying to find one to read the whole thing...

 

This is a pain to implement if you have multiple websites. Thankfully, php file usage make some of this less arduous. Still I have a lot of additions and changes to make over multiple domains.

This reminds me of how the government regulates businesses. There always seems to be some new set of paperwork to file or redo.

I much rather be working on new content...

 

The privacy policy of google adsense was updated last feb. 25.

 

Here is a great PP I have found from tothepc.com

*iv added in a couple of snippets here and there

 

by the way, i am using a privacy policy template of Weblogs. inc

 

It is posted here:
google.com/adsense/localized-terms

And the part of this new Google terms that references the need for publishers to post a privacy policy are under item 1:

Anyone know of other changes to this policy?

 

Read the post on www.jensense.com regarding all policy changes.

 

Do you have to have a privacy policy if you do not use cookies or collect any data? My web host does collect the hit data in cpanel, would that count as data. I usually look at collecting email address and other personal info as collecting data.

 

It's google adsense that is using cookies and/or web beacons to collect data.
So yes you must.

 

I saw this link for making the Privacy Policy. If a person was to use the following template, would it be OK with Adsense?

http://www.tothepc.com/privacy-policy

Privacy Policy:

We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site www.tothepc.com . The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site.

Log Files
Like most standard Web site servers we use log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Newsletter
If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter (powered by Feedburner), we ask for contact information such as name and email address. Out of respect for our users privacy we provide a way to opt-out of these communications.

Cookies
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s computer tied to information about the user. Our site don’t use cookies. However, Some of our business partners use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies, once we have given permission for them to set cookies for advertising.

Links
This Web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Advertisers
We use outside ad companies to display ads on our site. These ads may contain cookies and are collected by our ad companies, and we do not have access to this information. We work with the ad companies: Google Adsense. Please check their websites for respective privacy policies.

Contact Information
If users have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: tothepc[at]yahoo[dot]com

 

Thaaaaanks...Candy...Very helpful
can i put it in my site...?
if it okay...should be in every page or only index page of the site..
thaaaaaaaaaaaaanks...

 

It's reasonable to make a dedicated page for privacy policy and link to it from all site pages with AdSense installed.

 

I think a lot of crap publishers will be banned for not implementing a PP on their sites. I don't think many publishers will even know about this stuff, most of them haven't read the tos.

 

this is new for me...thanks for the tutorial..

 

just an FYI, I didn't know about the PP requirement until a few months back and when I added it to my site I noticed an increase in earning from ads - maybe a coincidence, but I doubt it...

 

Anyone with a template of the new PP requirements?

 

coincidence...

 

Just add the few lines that they told you to add.

 

I doubt your doubting...since a PP is required, if they knew that it was missing before you may not have your account now!

 

I just logged into adsense and found out about this myself and the deadline is April 8th 2009, You can choose to participate or not google says by going into your settings and allowing interest based advertising or not ,but if you don't allow it you will still have to update your privacy policy to show information about googles cookie program.Here's what they said and I quote.

"As a result of this announcement, your privacy policy will now need to reflect the use of interest-based advertising. Please review the information at h**ps://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=100557 to ensure that your site's privacy policies are up-to-date, and make any necessary changes by April 8, 2009. Because publisher sites and laws vary across countries, we're unfortunately unable to suggest specific privacy policy language."