If you are running an online company or blogging platform, nowadays all website owners gather confidential info from their users in order to meet them more closely. For this purpose, adding a privacy policy page is required on your WordPress website.
Now, the issue is that most novices do not know how to build a legal privacy policy page on their site, sometimes they don’t know why it’s so necessary for a website.
Taking this in mind, in this article, we will describe what is a privacy policy page, what should be included on it, and lastly how you can add this page on your WordPress Website.
So, lets begin!
A Privacy Policy is a legal statement outlining the collection and using the purpose of the information that exists between a business and its website visitors. Basically, it tells the visitors what you are doing with their personal information such as name, email address. phone number, shipping address, payment details, etc.
It is a key aspect of any online business. With the well written Privacy Policy, it helps to build trust between you and your users and also protects your business from legal issues.
In your WordPress website, sometimes you need your user information for marketing purposes or tracking business success. Some common ways we include here when your website collects user information. These are-
No, let’s know the privacy policy laws.
Well, there are two laws applied on every WordPress website: The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union (EU) and the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA).
Basically, a policy page should include everything you collect from your users information.
A simple WordPress privacy policy page should include the following informations as,
Now, the Good news is WordPress itself comes with a basic privacy policy generator that you can use on your website.
There are lots of ways you can use on WordPress to create a privacy policy page on your site.Like you can use WordPress built-in Privacy policy or can use plugin or any third party tool
Here we will describe how you can add the built in privacy policy of WordPress on your website.
Almost all the websites add their Privacy Policy page link in the footer or sidebar section on their website. To do that,
Now you need to click on the “create a new menu” from the top of the Menus page.
Next, provide a name for your navigation menu on the Menu Structure section and click Create Menu
then go to the left column and select that Page and click on the Add to Menu option. Here you can also arrange your menu item according to your needs. For more details, you can read our article about WordPress Menu/Navigation.
Once you have done,click on the Save Menu to save your changes.
Now, if you display the privacy page on the footer or sidebar then go to Appearance ► Widgets. Then, add the ‘Navigation Menu’ widget to your footer or sidebar area.
After, click on the save button to save your changes.
That’s it. Now, the privacy page displays successfully on your website.
Your transparency depends on your business success. A simple and transparent privacy policy of your site not only helps to interact with your visitors but also strengthen your site’s reputation.
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