Plagiarising "Privacy Policy"

[PowerUp]

Is it ethical to copy a Privacy Policy from another website and modify it to be relevant to my website?

Is there a Google duplicate content penalty for doing this?

Thanks.

[BeeDeeDubbleU]

No it is probably not ethical per se but it is often done. Obviously it's easier if you have a company lawyer. But if you don't have one then I don't see any major problem with looking at other company's' privacy policies and using them as the basis for your own. I would never copy someone else's material verbatim but this process has been going on since before the Internet.

Regarding a duplicate content penalty, why would you be concerned about this on a PP page?

[Mr Bo Jangles]

99.9276% of the Privacy Policies on the internet have been "inspired" by those from another site. And no one gives a 'fig'.

You have the authorization to proceed.

thank you

[Habtom]

... or you could generate it [dmaresponsibility.org].

[pab1953]

Habtom, what an excellent tip. Love it. I am no longer a purloiner of privacy policies! Free at last! (Of course I never inhaled.)

[Essex_boy]

Thats cool thanks

[Pepito]

Perfect. Thanks