The Professional Privacy Policy Generator is the most comprehensive, user-friendly privacy policy creation tool online. It has been carefully developed in order to help you comply with with the standards of several leading privacy organizations, and various state and federal laws and initiatives online, including the Federal Trade Commission Fair Information Practices, the California Online Privacy Protection Act, the CAN-SPAM Act, the Online Privacy Alliance, and the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), giving you the most accurate, informative privacy policy possible. Instructions: Please enter information about your business below as accurately and completely as possible. Once you have finished filling out the form, you will be given an option to see which privacy laws and initiatives your site is consistent with. You will then be given the option to generate your privacy policy, and a sample policy will be generated for you to review, along with simple instructions on how to add the policy to your website. As you go through the policy creator, keep in mind that everything is written as if your visitor was reading the policy directly on your website. All comments or special instructions to help you successfully complete the policy are italicized and are either green (a recommended option or important information) or red (not a recommended option).
1. What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you
register on our site
place an order
subscribe to our newsletter
respond to a survey
fill out a form
Other
Any data we request that is not required will be specified as voluntary or optional. (If there are any additional fields in any forms that a customer fills out that are voluntary or optional on your website, you must specify these fields by adding the word 'optional' next to the field in order to comply with FTC standards)
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your:(Check all that apply)
name
email address
mailing address
phone number
credit card information
social security number
other
You may, however, visit our site anonymouslyThis is part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act compliance process. See step 7 for more information)
2. What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
3. How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you
These security measures include:
Regarding the handling and processing of credit cards, all sensitive credit card data is stored in our
4. Do we use cookies?
5. Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
6. Third party links
7. Do we comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act?
If you operate a commercial web site or online service that collects personally identifiable information through the Internet about individual consumers residing in California who use or visit your website, your Privacy Policy must be California Online Privacy Protection Act compliant.
To comply with the California Online Privacy Protection Act, your website must meet all of the following criteria. If you don't meet all of the criteria, you won't qualify, and this section will not show up on your policy.
No.
Yes.
If you answered yes, to having a membership area, or an area where the customer can view or make changes to any personally identifiable information, you will need to explain how the customer may do so in the box below
The following is an example of what can be put in this box.
Note that this will be a stand alone paragraph and should contain something similar to the example inside this box. As part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act, all users of our site may make any changes to their information at anytime by logging into their control panel and going to the 'Edit Profile' page.
8. Do we comply with COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act)?
If you operate a commercial website or an online service directed at children under 13 that collects personal information from children, or if you operate a general audience web site and have actual knowledge that you are collecting personal information from children, you must comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.
9. Do we comply with the CAN-SPAM Act?.
The CAN-SPAM Act (Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003) prohibits the use of unsolicited and misleading marketing and pornography emails.
When sending any emails whatsoever for any purpose (orders, marketing, information, etc.):
10. Additional Content (Any additional policies you would like to add).
Select this box to add your own policies.
(Blank fields will not appear on the policy)
Title: Body:
11. Online Privacy Policy Only
12. Terms and Conditions (Please note, this will not show up unless you enter a url in the field below.)
Please visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability pertaining to our website at
13. Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy.
14. Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will
post those changes on this page
send an email notifying you of any changes
update the Privacy Policy modification date below
Policy changes will apply only to information collected after the date of the change. This policy was last modified on
This is part of the California Online Privacy Protection Act compliance process and must contain the 'Last Modified On' date above to comply. (See step 7 for more information)
(Make sure you check the box on 7E after completing this section.)
15. Contact Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.(This is required to be consistent with the Federal Trade Commission Fair Information Practices)