It is must for every blog/website to include a privacy policy in order to publish Google adsense ads. Not only for publishing ads but also privacy policy is needed to ensure the visitors that you consider their privacy. Many newbies search in the internet about what is privacy policy, how to write the privacy policy and how to add the privacy policy. So ,if you are one such newbie then you have landed at the right place. In this post I will let you know in detail about adding a privacy policy page for your blog/website. Let's get started...
First, write a privacy policy explaining about how and what data is collected from visitors. It you don't know how to write a privacy policy, no need to worry, create it from online privacy policy generators. Copy the generated privacy policy text into notepad and simply follow below steps.
step 1:
Create a new post with title "Privacy Policy", copy and paste the generated privacy policy in the compose section.
step 2:
Publish the post. Make sure that the post is scheduled with a date earlier than all the posts in the blog (eg: 01/01/1970) so that it doesn't appear on the home(main) page.
step 3:
View the post and copy the url of the post from the address bar of your browser.
step 4:
Go to the Blogger Dashboard--> Layout--> Add Gadget--> Html/javascript.
step 5:
Type "Privacy Policy" in the title section of the gadget and add the following code in the content section
<a href="http://your-post-url.com">Privacy Policy</a>
step 6:
Replace "http://your-post-url.com" with the url of your blog's Privacy Policy post. Click 'Save' to add the link. That's it you are done with it!!!
Alternate Way...
Instead of adding the privacy policy as a post by scheduling the date, you can add privacy policy as a page to your blog/website. Let's see how this can be done..
step 1:
Go to Dashboard--> Pages--> New page--> Blank Page.
step 2:
Type the title of the page as "Privacy Policy" and paste the generated privacy policy text in the compose section.
step 3:
Publish the page and from the 'Show page as' menu select 'Side links' or 'Top tabs' to set the position of the privacy policy page(link) or manually link the page to your blog by selecting 'Don't show' option.
Related Reading: What is Privacy Policy? How to write the Privacy Policy?
