Step One: Introduction to Your Privacy Page

One web page that's often overlooked when thinking about building a web site is the privacy policy page.

Usually linked to from the very bottom of the main page, this is a page that you use to inform your users about how you plan to deal with their personal information.

The privacy policy needs to contain information that specifies exactly what you (your web site) plan to do with the data you gather from your site visitors.

For example:

When someone comes onto your web site and fills out your opt-in list sign up form, what happens is that their information (name, email, etc) is stored in a customer database that belongs to the autoresponder company you use.

If you use an autoresponder company then you need to specify that in your privacy policy.

Step Two: Creating The Privacy Page

In this section we are going to use a standard privacy policy form, then customize it to suit your specific privacy policy standards.

The information in the privacy policy will be specific to the gathering of information, specifically via the opt-in form(s) on the site and the use of cookies.

Step 2.1: To create the privacy page simply copy the text in the box below by highlighting it, then choosing CTRL and C.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE We respect each site visitor's right to personal privacy. To that end, we collect and use information throughout our website only as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. This statement applies solely to information collected on this website. For each visitor to our website, our web server automatically recognizes no information regarding the domain or e-mail address. The information we collect is: * To improve the content of our site. * To notify visitors about updates. Please Note: Your information is NEVER shared with other organizations for commercial purposes. This site collects cookies. (Definition of Cookies) In order to use this website, visitors and/or members are not required to complete our registration form. During registration a user must give certain contact information, but we never sell or give away this information. It is only gathered to contact the user about services on our site for which s/he has expressed interest. It is optional for the user to provide demographic information (income level, gender, etc.), and unique identifiers (username, password, etc.). Giving additional information helps provide a more personalized experience on our site, but is not required.) Registration is not required to enter our site. We have an order form. We require information from the user on our order form. A user must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and possibly financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). If we have trouble processing an order, we use the information to contact the user. This information is used: * for shipping and billing purposes. * to fill customer´s orders. When we transfer and receive certain types of sensitive information such as financial or health information, we redirect visitors to a secure server and will notify visitors of this feature through a pop-up screen on our site. We publish a newsletter (ezine), and we never sell or share our subscribers' email addresses. We operate online surveys, and we never sell or share our subscribers' email addresses CONTACT INFORMATION If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at: Email me@mydomain.com Postal Address: Your Street Address Your City Name Your Country, Zip/Postal Code Website URL: http://www.whatever.com

Step 2.2: Now open FirstPage and choose to open the page you have saved in your "My Web Site" folder called "webpage.html"

Step 2.3: When webpage.html is open, you want to SAVE the page immediately as privacy.html

Step 2.4: Now go to the DESIGN mode in FirstPage and highlight ALL the contents on the page, then hit the DELETE key.

Resave the page as privacy.html

Step 2.5: Now hold down the CTRL key and click on the page where you want the policy to appear, then hold down CTRL and V to paste the contents in.

This is what the NON customized page should look like:

Step Three: Customize the Policy Information

Step 3.1: Now it's time to customize the privacy policy page to include your specific details where you see the bold RED font contents in the example above.

To make these changes just swap out the red bold text that says "me@mydomain.com" for the email address you want to use.

Step 3.2: Then change the Website URL to your own domain name.

Step 3.3: Finally, add your street address, city, state, zip and country so anyone who has concerns can contact you in writing.

When you are finished with the edits of the red bold fonts, save the page as privacy.html and put it into the "My Web Site" folder.

Step 3.4: Now SAVE the document in and use the filename "privacy.html".