Webuser Forums: Privacy Statement Templates?

The bases to cover:
1. What personal and/or non-personal information is collected and how? How will that information be used? How will you protect personal data? I devote a special page linked at every other page which covers everything.

2. Use of tracking scripts in forms, counters and use of cookies. I recommend if you collect email addresses, etc, on forms, you place a one line reminder of at the page where they will click Send, and give them an opportunity to change their mind. That's what I do at my domain - transparency is everything in building up a trust relationship.

3. Copyrights in content. Establish your own copyright, and any restrictions or permissions in use of your original material. Also do make sure you acknowledge the copyright and give credit to third parties whose property you are using. Something like "except where stated that copyright belongs to a third party" then give a suitable one line copyright credit and site link at the pages where such takes place.

4. I also establish the competent jurisdiction which applies in all disputes or legal proceedings (in my case the English courts and the laws of England. I recommend you do the same, and make sure you include the statement that anyone entering the site accepts and agrees to that exclusive jurisdiction by doing so.

Above all... Keep it simple! Unless you are a lawyer don't try on the pseudo-legal talk, it shows. People will much more appreciate simple langauge and clarity, so they can easily understand what is being declared.

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