(I actually wrote this a couple months ago, and just forgot to post it. But I spent all day in meetings and catching up on email, so it’s the only bloggy love you’re going to get today.)
Ah, privacy policies. I get sentimental thinking about our very first one. It was so short and it served us well for several years. Battelle and others noticed that we recently updated our privacy policy. To my mind, these aren’t major changes, and as Gary Price notes, we do provide the previous versions of our privacy policy so that people can easily see any updates.
In my opinion, the major addition is a layered notice to give a clear overview for people in a hurry, but also more detail for people who are interested. That seems to growing in popularity these days, especially in Europe, e.g. http://www.thestandard.com/internetnews/002774.php .
{ 10 comments… read them below or add one }
Most privacy policies could be done in exactly 7 words:
“We don’t sell or distribute your info.”
Easy.
* except to partners and trusted 3rd party services.
Good add-on, but the percentage of companies that ever do that is relatively low.
But the size of those companies is huge
Good morning Matt
I added a privacy policy note on my site, already around 1998, if I recall correctly. It was a USA banner advertising network which asked us (publishers) to add a privacy policy to our sites, or else
Maybe AdSense should require the same of its own publishers.
Have a great “plex” day
Hi Matt,
I was just reading through some forums this morning, and I ran into a few discussions about hidden divs, and the fact that since the Jagger update sites with hidden divs can get a sort of penalty for using them?
For more information about this, please visit the thread at http://www.webworkshop.net/seoforum/viewtopic.php?t=8718
Maybe you could spend an entry/article on this subject and inform us about the truth about this one? Do hidden divs get ignored and dosites decrease in strength when using them for internal linking (i.e. Menu’s)?
yeah the old europe with all its concerns. why care about cia flights and the like as long as other are sitting in the back seat
maybe the people in the states should take a more closer look at privacy, too.
oh i forgot your life on the net is much more protected than going to a store where the scanners have a satellite connection to the nsa …
we need to be more like europe with regards to privacy.
As a trend, Europe is big on privacy (what data we store) whereas America seems more bent on security (how well it’s protected).
What Adam Senour said is exactly true. Privacy is very important, however, in the black market the email database holders sell all email contacts for spam.
black market? Hah! they do it on the white market! Subscribe to a magazine called Target Marketing… It’s a monthly publication of 5 pages of articles, 15 of companies selling email addresses, and 10 of ads.
You’d be suprised at some of the companies selling your email address.