Privacy policy generator

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The primary purpose of data protection law is to protect individuals from the exploitation of their personal data by others. The definition of personal data is very broad, and includes such commonplace information as names, personal addresses and some email addresses (e.g. joe.bloggs@hotmail.com). Most websites will therefore collect some personal data from individuals, and many websites will collect a great deal.

In dealing with personal data, website owners should take steps to ensure that they comply with data protection law. Relevant laws include the Data Protection Act 1998 and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. One means of complying with some of the disclosure requirements of data protection law is to publish a privacy policy.

A privacy policy will typically include provisions covering the types of personal information that are collected, the purposes for which the information may be used, the persons to whom the information may be disclosed, the security measures used to protect the data from unauthorised disclosure, the transfer of personal data outside the EEA, the statutory rights of individual data subjects, and so on.

Our privacy policy generator is designed to assist with the creation of a privacy policy.

The generator consists of a four page online questionnaire about your or your organisation's use of personal data collected from your website. The generator's output is an HTML file, from which you must extract the relevant HTML text, and paste this into the privacy policy page on your website.

Generators make the production of professional-looking legal documents easy. However, you must not assume that, just because you have used a generator, the output of the generator will enable you to comply with your legal obligations. You must check the output thoroughly. If you are in any doubt, you should consult an IT lawyer or other data protection expert.

Use of the privacy policy generator is subject to the terms of our document licence. This includes a requirement that you retain the credit and links in the privacy policy, unless you purchase a licence to use the document without the credit and links.