Virtually every website needs a privacy policy. It is mandated for sites that collect personal information such as names, emails, phone numbers, physical addresses, IP addresses, etc.

You might not realize it, but your site is likely collecting some of this information through features such as contact forms, email newsletter sign-up forms, analytics (e.g. Google Analytics), advertising (e.g. Meta Pixel) and more.

Because this information is protected by dozens of different international, national, and state privacy laws, your website needs comprehensive privacy policies. As is the case with cookie consent banners, privacy policies must comply with laws from other locations if you could have visitors from those locations.

It is possible to reduce the amount of detail in your policies by pinpointing only the requirements you are subject to, but this would likely be a time consuming and error-prone effort.

We recommend erring on the side of caution. Address as many potential areas about your organization’s handling of personal, private information as possible.

Additionally, though you may not be legally required to have additional documents such as disclaimer and terms of service policies, we recommend including them for additional protection.

For our clients, we are deploying a privacy policy generation and management platform from Termageddon, a leading company in the space.