There are several regulations in the U.S. that require website owners to have a privacy policy listed on their website. Beyond that, the European Union’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) requires you to state how to use your website visitor’s data.
But I've found some of the best legal templates out there to help make sure your site is legal.
I recommend
The Contract Shop’s GDPR Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy Bundle because you’ll be covered on the privacy policy side, and the bundle includes Terms and Conditions. That will help protect your intellectual property, among other things. I’ve used templates from this shop in my own business to make sure my booty is covered.
Christina’s templates are SUPER easy to customize but are also incredibly thorough. AND they are written and reviewed by real lawyers so you know it's going to cover just about everything.
Here's what the template includes:
- What kind of information you collect and how you collect it (email addresses, browser cookies, names, etc.)
- What you do with the information you collect
- How you protect the information you collect
- When the policy was last updated
- What third parties have access to the information you collect (i.e. your hosting platform, server, ISP, employees/contractors, and so on)
- Who’s advertising on your site, and what information those advertisers have access to (and while you’re at it, it may be prudent to say something about how these are third parties with their own privacy policies and terms & conditions...)
- Visitors’ implicit consent to your privacy policy by visiting your website