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Legal & Policies

The Privacy Policy is what most govts. pay most attention to and have direct laws governing the same.

These are the pages which disclose your nature of collecting, using, storing as well as safe-keeping the personal information of users.

The govt. regulations differ for each country and region, so what information can or can’t be collected too differ for each country.

Some countries make it mandatory for you to have an “opt out” button, with some others it may be optional.

Just like it’s not mandatory under CalOPPA to respond to a “Do not track” request, however if your company/site/app does or doesn’t respond to those requests has to be mentioned in the Privacy Policy.

The Australian Privacy Act of 1988 has 13 core Principals governing its Privacy policies, while the UK DPA has 8.

Some laws even dictate the placement, visibility and other such factors regarding the Privacy Policies.

What I’m trying to establish here is, these policies aren’t just articles that you can churn up yourself and put up for display, they do have to be done the right way.

Terms and Conditions
These are less govt-controlled and more like an agreement of terms before a user can use your website/app.

It may consist of anything you want your visitor to know about the nature of your products, delivery, quality or anything else.

It also consists of what you expect from the visitor/user/customer in certain scenarios.

Having a T&C primarily helps you avoid unwanted pleasantries and keep things transparent between you and the visitor.

Disclaimer
There’s a ton of information and/or products on any given website. The Disclaimer helps you limit your legal liability in case something goes wrong or is misinterpreted.

It’s also a legal requirement to be used when selling most third-party products to customers, announcing your gains if the sale happens.

Refund Policy
Ah, you already know what this is even if you don’t own a website or product, don’t you?

It states the circumstances under which a company will refund a purchase. The amount of refund, time required for the refund and everything else is included in the Refund policy.

Cookie Policy and Consent Banner
After the GDPR being passed in May last year, this is something that requires serious attention from Website and App owners on the internet.

Cookie Policy is what outlines your nature of storing, using, and sharing user cookies. The way the cookies are stored and everything else related to the Cookies.

The consent banner is the newest addition. It’s a banner displayed on sites which has to outline your cookie policy actively without needing users to manually find or stumble upon it.

Here’s an example from WebsitePolicies of what a Cookie Consent Banner is. This too can be created in seconds using WebsitePolicies.

Security
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to do necessary actions.

Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.