Privacy Policy Intended For Websites: What You Need To Consider

Your internet site privacy policy helps visitors to your website comprehend the sort of information that you are getting from them, how you are using that info, and how they can get in touch with you to speak about privacy issues. This generates confidence with your site visitors that their valuable info will probably be [...]

Affiliate Marketing Emails: How to Disclose Your Affiliate Status

Did you know that because of the new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) guidelines going into effect, affiliate marketers will need to disclose to recipients that affiliate links are in emails sent marketing a product or service for an affiliate program? That’s in addition to having the right website legal forms on your sites.
Internet attorney Mike [...]

FTC Guidelines: How Will They Affect Your Website Legal Forms?

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) new guidelines are causing a stir in the Internet marketing community because most website owners and affiliate marketers simply don’t know how to interpret the guides.
Will it change blogging and affiliate marketing as we know it?
What about about your website’s legal forms, testimonials, endorsements, earnings claims, and compensation?
What’s new?
How [...]

Internet Privacy: Behavioral Targeted Ads And Your Customers

Do your customers want to receive web advertising tailored to their interests?  Well, it depends on who you ask and how you ask the question.
According to a study released by the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology at the University of California Berkeley School of Law and the Annenberg School for Communication at the University [...]

Privacy Policy Updates

If your online business or Internet law changes so that you need to update your website’s privacy policy, what do you do? Let your visitors know that you’re updating your privacy policy terms and the date when the changes will go into effect. If you have a list, you may wish to e-mail your subscribers [...]

Personally Identifiable Information: What Your Website Needs

If you’re collecting personally identifiable information from visitors to your website (such as names, e-mails, and other personal data), you’re going to want to include a clear privacy policy that describes exactly what you’re doing.
The main purpose of a website privacy policy is to reassure visitors that you’re not going to abuse information they provide [...]

Internet Privacy: Sharing Your Website Data With Third Parties

Did you know that many websites collect data from you and share it with third parties?
This can include your name, e-mail address, purchasing habits, etc. This is why it is important to carefully review a website’s privacy policy and terms of use legal documents before providing personal information.
This isn’t a unique situation. Major social networking [...]

Privacy Policy: Congress May Radically Change Internet Advertising

The Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology and the Internet is writing a Web privacy bill that should have broad bipartisan support because it curbs many of the privacy abuses in Internet advertising. If enacted into law, expect the bill to do three things for website privacy policy.
1. Transparency. Website [...]

Internet Privacy: Facebook Dumps Beacon Tracking Tool

Facebook learned a tough lesson with its Beacon tracking tool because it allowed tracking of your activities on other websites and disclosure of that information to your Facebook friends. For example, if you bought something that might embarrass you if publicly known, Beacon could track the purchase and let others know you made the purchase.
To [...]

Legal Disclaimer: Why You Should Have One On Your Website

When you sell products or services on your website that customers can use to make money, you’ll want to protect yourself with a particular type of legal disclaimer called an earnings disclaimer.
An earnings disclaimer is important for your online business because some of your customers will have unrealistic expectations about how much money they can [...]

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