Generating Privacy Policy with Iubenda
A privacy policy is a statement or a legal document that reveals some or all the ways a party gathers, uses, exposes, and manages the client’s data. It fulfills a legal requirement to protect the client’s privacy.
Why we use privacy policy on our web site?
In most countries, It is mandatory that you disclose details related to privacy and your data processing activities by law. Failure to do so can result in massive fines, leave open to litigation and negatively affect the credibility of the website. This is the major reason to have a privacy policy across websites and mobile apps.
And also, most third-party apps and services are required to follow the law, they may expect that websites & apps meet regulatory standards. Ex: Mailchimp, Google Analytics, Google AdSense, Google Ads Remarketing, Amazon Affiliate Program, Facebook Lead Ads
Whenever processing personal user data in any way such as forms, IPs, social connect buttons and analytics services it is important to mention them in your privacy policy.
What is Iubenda?
If you’re not a legal professional, getting your website or app to be compliant with international privacy laws can be tedious and difficult. Iubenda is a web-based platform that is designed to help contractors, online businesses and anyone who runs a website to generate a complete and reliable privacy policy in the easiest and most convenient way possible. The service generates a privacy policy for your website in a matter of minutes. It’s an automatic and easy-to-use solution.
You can easily embed the generated privacy policy with your code using the following three methods.
1. Standard embedding option (widget in the footer)
The standard and our simplest integration method is the one where you include the iubenda button/link on your site. This will open the privacy policy in a modal window on your site when the link is clicked. This option is not suitable for apps.
2. Direct link option (Pro/Ultra license)
The direct link option is appropriate if you do not mind that the policy not be displayed on your site as the link displays the policy on the page on iubenda.com. This is a very useful option for app stores.
3. Direct text embedding via JavaScript or API option (Pro/Ultra license)
The direct text embedding option is the one option that will make your privacy policy look as if it were part of your own site.
How it works
From time to time third party requirements can change in response to internal or regional regulations. It’s often necessary that the policies meet the latest requirements in order to avoid interruption of service. For this reason, Iubenda uses embedding and NOT copy & paste. With this method, you can rest assured that your policy is up to date and being maintained remotely by Iubenda legal team.
Iubenda facilitates not only for generating privacy policy but also generate cookie policy and banner, terms and agreements and consent. You can use a free version or paid pro or ultra version of Iubenda. Please refer here for pricing.
Let’s have look at how to generate a privacy policy with Iubenda.
First of all, you should signup
Go to the home page and click on “Start Generating”. Now you can add services which access the data of your users
After creating the privacy policy you can simply embed it to your web site.
Benefits of using Iubenda
Simplify the process
It eliminates the annoyance of having to create a very technical privacy policy.
Large coverage
It also covers how and why you may need to generate policies for specific services such as Google AdSense and AdWords, as well as Mailchimp, Facebook, mailing lists and cookies. You can generate policies in 10 languages including English.
Remote hosting of your privacy policy
Iubenda hosts your privacy policy on their servers, which means you are able to access and update your policy from using their dashboard at any time.
Simple and robust cookie policy integration
If you own or run a website, then it’s safe to say that you know what cookies are. With just a simple click of a button, iubenda can generate the legal text and embedding code for a cookie banner and layered cookie policy. All you have to do is embed the line of code into your web pages.
You can refer Iubenda Getting Started Guide for further reference.
