Privacy Policy? (Quick Question)

Ok..or Not?

[andmunn]

Hello,

I'm in the proces of creating a privacy policy for my website. I was doing some searching to see what should be in there, and i find that a lot of privacy policies are merely copies of each other, for example, doing a search on:
"We use IP Addresses for statistical and system administration purposes."

Can pull up about 100 sites which essentially have the same policy? Would it be ok in this sense to copy portions of the policy, or is this in poor taste?

Where would of this policy first originated from?

I'm confused why so many people have the same thing :)
Andrew.

[tedster]

Because organizations with no privacy policiy need to rush to implement P3P, I think that many used a basic boilerplate template for their "human readable" versions. No reason not to do that in many cases, as long as the language really represents the policies you conduct business by.

Have you checked out the W3C pages?
[w3.org...]
More W3C pages on P3P [google.com]

[Saltminer]

Do a search with Google for "privacy policy template" and you'll find a lot of examples you can use.