New Adsense Privacy Policy - Generic

I use a generic privacy policy, along with a Disclaimer and Terms and Conditions page, once I've finished with a site, before I put Adsense on it. Since I'm updating all the sites to include DART, I figured I'd post it here. I serve cookies on my site for tracking purposes and this Privacy Policy reflects this:

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Privacy Policy for YOUR SITE NAME HERE.com


At YOUR SITE NAME HERE.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use visit YOUR SITE NAME HERE.com, and how we safeguard your information. We never sell your personal information to third parties.

Email Addresses
We never share your email addresses with anyone.

Log Files
As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

Cookies and Web Beacons
We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here. ***http://www.networkadvertising.org/***

Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP , the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy. ***http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html***

You can chose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

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And of course where I have ***http://.com***, it's the link you need to put into the bold text.

If this doesn't cover everything they could possibly asking of us, I don't know what will.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks

 

I didn't understand this.

 

What part of it didn't you understand?

 

He is posting a generic privacy policy and also giving it away for free so that others can use it. Thanks

 

Someone posted me a site earlier that does it for you after you enter your website link.

 

thank you so much for this. i hate having to write legal blah blah so this is a great favor you are doing all of us

 

That's interesting. What's the site url. Also, for those with wp blogs there is a plugin for this, I don't know what it's called, though.

TomG.

 

here is our privacy policy:

We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our site http://xxxxxxx.com. The following discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this Web site. Our privacy policy is in plain English and will only take a few moments to read and understand.

Site Tracking
We have a simple web statistics program running that tracks how many times each page is visited. When you visit a page, information is logged that contains your domain name (aol.com, for example), date, time, and pages visited. There is no personally identifiable information. The information we collect is:

- Used to improve the content on our site

- Never shared with other organizations for commercial purposes

Currently xxxxxxxxxxx.com uses the following third-party visitor tracking tools:
- Statcounter - http://www.statcounter.com/privacy.html
- Google Analytics - http://www.google.com/intl/en_ALL/privacypolicy.html

Email Addresses
We log your email address in three situations:

- xxxxxxxxxxx.com Newsletter – We keep track of email addresses when people sign up for our newsletter. The email address you enter for the newsletter will never be sold or transferred to any other organization. You have the ability to unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. The form for subscribing and unsubscribing to the newsletter are available on this site and are included in every email that is sent out.

- Email Page to a Friend - We log each time someone uses this feature to track how many times it is used, by whom, and from what page. We do this to make sure that someone doesn't abuse the feature by sending multiple emails from the site to the same person. The information is discarded monthly and will never be sold or transferred to any other organization.

- Add Comment to a story - We keep track of email addresses when people uses this feature. We do this to make sure that someone doesn't abuse the feature. xxxxxxxxxxx.com will never divulge your name & email to anyone.

If for any reason you receive an email from us and you do not want to receive e-mail from us in the future, please let us know by sending e-mail to [/B].

Cookies
Cookies are a method of tracking information you enter on a web site using a file on your computer. We do use a cookie to log whether you've visited the site before. No personal information is written to the cookie at all. It is primarily used to save you time by automatically populating forms in our discussion forum, and other locations on the site.

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.

DoubleClick DART Cookie
- Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on your site.
- Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL - http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Advertisers
We use outside ad companies to display ads on this site. These ads may contain cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process and are collected by the ad companies, and we do not have access to this information.

Currently, xxxxxxxxxxx.com has relationships with the following third-party ad servers or ad networks:

* Kontera
http://kontera.com/?id=47
* Google, Inc.
http:/www.google.com/privacypolicy.html
* Commission Junction
http://www.cj.com/privacy.html
* ValueClick Media
http://www.valueclickmedia.com/privacy.shtml

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on xxxxxxxxxxx.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

xxxxxxxxxxx.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Links
This site contains links to other web sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other site.

How You Can Contact Us
We can be reached via our contact e-mail to [/B].

Complaints
If you feel that this site is not following its stated information policy, you may contact The DMA's Committee on Ethical Business Practices at , state or local chapters of the Better Business Bureau, The Federal Trade Commission by phone at 202.FTC-HELP (202.382.4357) or electronically at http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/complaint.htm.

 

cheers valkerie, the info and template are much appreciated. I will be using your template as the base for my policies

 

Can i copy this and use it in my site??

 

This is a great share. I am moving a new Blogger blog to a fresh domain and am looking for a high quality privacy policy. I am remaining on Blogger's hosting and so wont be able to deploy my own compact privacy policy and so I just wonder would this kindof privacy policy work perfectly?

I wont be collecting emails or anything, but just require the cookies to be tracked at all times for Adsense/affiliate sales etc. I heard that IE users usually block cookies from anything below the standard of a P2P privacy policy? Not very good with all this legal mumbo jumbo, lol. Cheers.

 

For anyone looking for an additional example of a site usage and privacy policy, please feel free to adapt mine to your own needs: My Privacy Policy. It contains references to services that some people may or may not be using, but I feel it's a pretty good framework for developing your own. Good luck with your sites .