11 Points that must be included in your privacy policy



1. Your privacy policy should clearly state that the email addresses or other information given by the readers who post comments or subscribe to RSS feed are not sold or traded. The information is kept private and is completely safe with you. This increases trust and encourages more readers to participate in blog.
2. Next thing to include in your policy is that it is not responsible for privacy polices of other sites or blogs that you link to.
3. Keep the privacy policy free of legal jargons so that anyone can read and understand the policy.
4. Keep the policy clearly visible in the blog, so that anyone can find it easily and go through it.
5. Reserve the right to change the policy with yourself.
6. Reserve the right to contact the readers who subscribe to RSS feed or put comment to on your blog articles.
7. Reserve the right to have information about the readers, like their location, IP address, time spent, page views, etc. which are essential for your blog optimization.
8. If you want to target a specific audience or your blog nature doesn’t allow all types of audiences, clearly mention so in your policy. Say for instance you blog is only suitable for adult readers, mention that readers must be 18 years or more to access the blog.
9. Clearly mention that the information on the blog are copyrighted and cannot be utilized or shared in any form which include print, media, electronic etc. without a prior permission from the author.
10. If you invite other authors to write on your blog, either put a disclaimer that the opinions are of the author and you or other authors necessarily does not subscribe to the same opinion or scrutinize the article from different authors before publishing them.
11. If you are writing about financials or equity markets or about investments, put a disclaimer that you may have similar interests or disown the responsibility of the consequences that may happen based on the advices posted in your blog.


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