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Just now when I logged in I got a new "Google AdSenseTM Online Standard Terms and Conditions" page from AdSense
Privacy notices are a complete waste of time. They don't prove anything and they don't guarantee the site's owners are going to abide by them. They're not self-regulating. I've never had a privacy policy page on any of my sites in the last ten years. Frankly, it hasn't stopping millions of visitors from viewing millions of pages.
True, but some programs will exclude your site if it doesn't have a privacy policy. AdSense isn't the first to require this. It's easier to just copy and paste a generic privacy policy. There are free ones out there if you just search for it. If you feel like being rebelious, you can leave the company name as "[insert_company_name_here]" and it would probably serve it purpose.
In fact, my guess is that within a week, dozens of those AdSense How-to blogs will have a free sample privacy policy that's written with this update in mind.
should i then be concerned about Duplicate Content as well ? using this generic privacy content text?
thanks
mike
There are sites that have the same copyright notice, "About" links, etc. on the bottom of each of thousands of pages. Adding a "Privacy" link shouldn't create any problems.
You haven't been 950'd, have you?
Bingo! Potentialgeek nailed it. Before anyone supposes that G wouldn't penalize repetive footer links TO ANYTHING, they should review the long, long 950 thread in the search forum. Doesn't matter if it makes sense to you, that's the way it is.
And how did some us get out of 950 purgatory? We removed those repetitive footer or sidebar links that were on every page.
How 'ya gonna do that if its required? We need a creative solution.
I also note that different countries are being given different terms and conditions by Google.
The problem some of us have is that the T&C we are presented with are in the language of our country and not the language we have chosen for our Google interface. When we find the T&C in English, this may not apply to the country we reside in.
You haven't been 950'd, have you?
If I lived or died according to the whims of Google I guess I would have to worry about such things.
Unless it's been removed sometime in the past couple of years, there's a paragraph or two in Google's guidelines for webmasters that basically says you should build your site for visitors and as if search engines did not exist. That's what I do and it has served me well.
FarmBoy
You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.
Ok, I am not a lawyer. What in the world do they want me to write? Can somebody post a sample? Also, what does the last phrase mean?
Ok, I am not a lawyer. What in the world do they want me to write?
That question is actually the focus of quite a few posts in this thread. My guess is that if you wait about a week, there will be dozens of AdSense compliant sample privacy policies available from the various AdSense blogs out there. It would be even better if Google would publish an official version. But it's possible that they, like many of the rest of us, are waiting for Jen to publish one so we can copy and paste it onto our sites.
Ann
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Strangely the entire text of the T+C was in a different language (not English). There was no otpion to change the text to English.
Same for me. Great having to agree to a legal contract in a language that you don't speak. I asked AdSense support if they could provide me with an English copy of the text but haven't heard from them yet.
