Adsense Publishers now need a Privacy Policy on their sites!

March 5th, 2008 by

Ted

This email is for all www.10-sites-a-month.com customers. This is a public service announcement and no purchase is required.

PLEASE READ SO YOU DO NOT LOSE YOUR ADSENSE ACCOUNT!!!!

Recently, Google has changed their TOS for adsense publishers. They are now requiring you to have a privacy policy on any website that displays adsense ads.

For XSitePro users, this will be easy to accommodate. Load your website into XSitePRo and go to the OTHER tab and select PRIVACY STATEMENT. Click the box to include the privacy statement link on your site footer and also include it on your sitemap so Google can find it easily.

Save your changes and publish your site.

The privacy policy autogenerated by XSitePro is sufficient without editing.

Those of you that do not have XSitePro, consult your HTML editor documentation to see if there is a Privacy Page wizard in your program or you will have to manually create one and add a link to it on every page you are displaying adsense ads.

All new sites offered by www.10-sites-a-month after March 1, 2008 will automatically have this privaacy statement included.

Here are the changes straight from Google if you care to verify!

https://www.google.com/adsense/localized-terms

See Section 1. and reference the last couple sentences.

Here are a few resources for free privacy policies courtesy of Linda Cummings:

1.) http://www.oecd.org
2.) http://www.the-dma.org/privacy/creating.shtmlhttp://www.com
3.) http://www.privacyalliance.org/

No sense paying an attorney!