We created this website privacy policy template for use in relation to a wide variety of different kinds of website.

The primary purpose of a website privacy policy is to assist a website operator to comply with information disclosure obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 and related legislation. Failure to comply can lead to civil liability and criminal law penalties.

In addition to the 1998 Act, this website privacy policy template will help you to comply with elements of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Those regulations require disclosure of information about cookies. As well as general disclosures concerning cookies, the privacy policy includes optional provisions concerning cookies used by Google Analytics and by the Google AdSense behavioural advertisement system.

You should consider whether you need to take specialist legal advice on data protection. If your website collects sensitive personal information (such as information about a person's health, sexuality or political affiliations), or if your website collects personal information from children or about children, you should always take advice before using this - or indeed any other - website privacy policy template.

Website operators may need to register with the Information Commissioner's Office.

All website owners should also have an appropriate terms or use document on their websites. If you are operating an ecommerce website, you should also consider our ecommerce terms and conditions documents.

The website privacy policy includes the following clauses:

(1) What information do we collect?
(2) Cookies
(3) Using your personal information
(4) Other disclosures
(5) International data transfers
(6) Security of your personal data
(7) Policy amendments
(8) Your rights
(9) Third party websites
(10) Updating information
(11) Contact
(12) Data controller

The website privacy policy document is 6 pages long (including the cover sheet). It is provided in Word (.doc) format for easy editing. You can see the first few sections of the policy here:

Sample Privacy Policy

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