Being open and upfront about your privacy practices is not only best practice (and in some cases, required by applicable law), but may help with member sign ups. Privacy conscious individuals might be hesitant to join websites that don’t have a Privacy Policy publicly posted, so you may be interested in posting a Privacy Policy to explicitly inform visitors and/or members what information you may be collecting from them, why you are collecting this information and how you will treat this information. While we’re not in a position to offer legal advice, here are some topics that you may want to cover in your custom Privacy Policy:
- What personal information you’re collecting. For example, if you choose to collect IP address information using third party products, you must inform your visitors and members of this.
- Why you’re collecting this information. This is especially important if you’re asking for or collecting anything particularly sensitive.
- How this information will be handled. This includes how it will be used and whether or not it will be disclosed. If you plan on disclosing this information to any third parties, you should make this clear.
- How your members can view, update or remove the information they’ve provided to you. Most of this can probably be done through their account on your network, which you can point out.
- How visitors and members may contact you with questions or issues. You may want to create and post a specific email address to field these questions or issues, such as privacy@yourdomain.com.
Please note that any custom privacy policy must not conflict with or supersede our own Ning Privacy Policy.
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