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Publishers are required to update their Privacy Policy to reflect the use of "interest based advertising."
Of course, they cannot suggest any "appropriate language" for the new Privacy Policy...
:sigh:
What has?
A PP update was required exactly the same time last year.
[edited by: Scurramunga at 12:54 am (utc) on Mar. 24, 2009]
A PP update was required exactly the same time last year.
Really? I never saw that. For that matter I didn't even have any privacy policies until now and I still don't want to have any.
Really? I never saw that
Maybe you weren't an Adsense publisher back then, I don't know.
See:
[webmasterworld.com...]
The link is [google.com...] Anyhting else would never cover everything that Google might do and you may even get it wrong. Also, your privacy policy, as far as what Google might do with the data it collects, will always be up to date. Never again need to update it.
Per the email that I got yesterday, the privacy policy changes are *required* regardless of whether or not you stay opted in to interest-based advertising, and must be made by April 8th; the beta for the advertising launches April 9th.
Re the previous poster's question about what happens if your pt
rivacy policy is not updated, I would suggest absolutely nothing (no liability accepted!) will happen. After all, Google are not going to check the wording on all their Adsense partner sites. It's impossible. Maybe the top 1,000, but not for likes of small fry.
Just add a link to Google's own Privacy Policy and refer users to that (as per signor_john).
I don't think that simply linking to another website's privacy policy page (Google or otherwise) will satisfy google. That is, unless you outline the issues on your site before providing the link. Google have clearly stated that they want it to appear on our sites, have they not?
Is that good enough for Google? That's for Google to decide. But it's good enough for us, and it means we aren't assuming legal liability for the actions of our business partners (which are beyond our control and, in many cases, beyond our knowledge and understanding).
On our site, we explain that we don't gather data on individual visitors (we don't),
I used to say thatin my privacy policy too. Then I noticed a cookie with my domain name on my machine. Turns out it was Google Analytics setting that cookie as close as I can tell. Who knew, I sure didn't. And try to convince a user that we didn't know.... not a chance.
Now I say that we use GA and that they may set a cookie usin the name of our site.
I wish I understood this stuff better.
Right now I'm just hoping Jensense gets a new privacy policy template online before the eigth.
I am confident somebody with a generic in the next two weeks.
Like there isn't enough to worry about.
She did say a few days but it has been a while now.
Does anyone know if there is a generic privacy policy that will help.
[edited by: Sense_able at 12:59 pm (utc) on April 1, 2009]
Googlebot crawled one of my sites last night,and gave me a warning on the privacy.htm
301 error
Next I tell them what I keep from logs, what I do with cookies, and give them some warnings for the "web 2.0" sections.
Finally the 3rd parties sections lists the third parties (Google is one of them)
For Google Adsense I have this:
Google AdsenseGoogle Adsense requires this site to warn that Google can use cookies [google.com] and/or web beacons [google.com] to collect data in the ad serving process.
These cookies ("DART [doubleclick.com]") can be used by Google to track your visits on other web sites, gauge your interest and allow Google to deliver you ads based on that interest.
You can opt out of interest based advertising [google.com].
Read more on Google privacy policies ... [google.com]
As far as I understand the (local) law I'm not doing any of it, nor do I have any control myself, hence it's Google's problem, not mine. But in order to comply with their requirements, I've updated it as above.
I'm not a lawyer, nor an expert in the ToS, but I do hope it helps to inspire some of you.
I'm wondering if I could just put a policy up on my main corporate site and link to that or if I should put the privacy policy on each page.
Hiring a lawyer is out of the question right now as one hour of lawyer time will erase a month's worth of earnings.
Anyway, I'm probably going to go through the sites and put the same privacty policy on each site.
QUestions.
1. Should I robots.txt out the privacy policy? I'm wondering if google would not like 15 copies of the same thing across my sites.
2. Would Robotting it out still comply with google's terms?
thanks
cg
This is really frustrating..
YOU VILL HAVE EINE PRIVACY POLICY SCHELL
what are we aupposeed to say?
VE VILL NOT TELL YOU ZAT
do you have any samples?
NO
how do we know if we have it right?
ZAT IST NOT OUR PROBLEM....
shheeshs...
but I do hope it helps to inspire some of you.
Thats a good example, thanks for posting it. I think i would use advise, alert, notify though, anything but warn.
I'm just writing it once, putting some general style classes in, and plopping it into a PHP file to include on each of my sites. I have a *lot* of sites; don't want to go through this again.
Because of the way I'm set up,a php include probably won't work. Does anyone see a problem with using an iframe?
I agree with Netmeg. I don't want to have to go through all my sites just to make a small change in the privacy policy.
jensense has just posted the amended privacy policy template.
netmeg; Thanks for letting us know.
I can make her into a cyber super hero with cape and all in my 3D program.
All she has to do is ask, I at least owe her that much.
Would look spiffy on her website!
HOWEVER, semi-tongue-in-cheek, your privacy policy CAN clearly state:
We log visitor info.
Google is an Ad Partner. They collect everything Else.
Use our site at your peril.
... should work all day long.
There is no magic bullet. If you generate serious dollars on your site, get serious with a lawyer. What works in US might not work in UK or RU or CH or any other locale...and your privacy statement SHOULD COVER EVERY LOCALE. That said:
There is no doubt that Google demands advertisers/publishers post a privacy statement. And if you think about why they want YOU to be responsible for THAT...
I'm not gi-normously worried bout Jensense's template for most users. She's had it vetted.
