This year, we are ensuring that you are aware of the requirement to have a comprehensive Privacy Policy in place, which can help you avoid privacy-related fines or even lawsuits, so keep reading! Please note: this is not legal advice.
Let’s start with the basics...
1. Your website is collecting personal information
Virtually all modern websites these days are collecting personal information via security, analytics and contact form features and tools.
IP Addresses - Your website utilizes tools that protect your website from cyber-attacks. These tools will collect personal information, such as the website visitor’s IP address, in order to block specific users from trying to perform potentially malicious attacks on your website. You may also be collecting IP addresses for website analytics purposes.
Names, Emails, Phone Numbers - If you have a contact form asking users to submit their contact information, that means you are collecting at least names and emails, possibly more. If you receive an email with contact details whenever someone submits a form, that means you are sharing personal information with third-party email service providers. Sharing data is a completely normal business practice, but specific disclosures may be required to be made within your Privacy Policy.
2. Websites collecting personal information should have a Privacy Policy
Personal information (names, emails, IP addresses, etc.) is regulated under multiple privacy laws such as the Australia Privacy Act. And because your website could be collecting this information from website visitors located anywhere, you may be required by multiple privacy laws to provide a website Privacy Policy that makes specific disclosures required under each law.
3. Privacy laws are changing. You’ll need to keep your Privacy Policy up to date to avoid privacy-related fines and lawsuits.
Governing bodies throughout the world are proposing changes to their privacy laws (including the Australia Privacy Act). When privacy laws change, you may be required to make new disclosures in your Privacy Policy. Therefore, you need to have a strategy to keep your Privacy Policy up to date as laws change and require new disclosures to be made.
Meet Termageddon, the Privacy Policy solution.
Termageddon allows you to generate a comprehensive Privacy Policy and they will automatically update your policies when the laws change (as well as notify you when changes are coming). And because Termageddon is a tool (not a law firm), you can create website policies at a fraction of the cost of a private attorney.
Is Termageddon comprehensive? Yes, to say the least. The company has been recognized as a trusted tech vendor three years in a row by the largest privacy organization in the world, IAPP.org. Not to mention, we use Termageddon for our own website policies and enjoy peace of mind quite a bit!
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