I took a break from most of my other work (including my novel) to work out a privacy policy for my websites. This is something that I should have thought to create a while back, but most of my websites have not had one up till now. My main concern with creating the privacy policy, aside from making it right, was that I wanted to create something that would cover all of the different sites that I maintain. My reason for that is so that when I need to make a change to the privacy policy, I don’t want to have to go around from one site to the next for 20+ websites and update the individual privacy policies.
By creating a single central privacy policy that covers the needs of all of my websites, I am able to update a single privacy policy and know that it has been updated across the network of websites. I have not seen anything that says that privacy policies have to be based on the site that they are for, so I don’t see why there should be a problem with sites that all follow the same policy can not all link to the same policy. I even saw that in effect on a Google service that linked from the domain it was on back to the main Google privacy policy. One thing that I included on my privacy policy were button links to return the reader to whatever page from my network sent them to the policy.
My main stumbling block was in not knowing what to include in a privacy policy. I had to do a lot of looking around to see what the things usually covered. At last I ended up basing my privacy policy on those of other websites, the BBB template for a privacy policy and other resourcs on creating privacy policies.
