How to use create Privacy Policy page on your website or wordpress blog using wordpress privacy policy plugin.
If you have a website, it is very common that you should add a privacy policy page you can either do it manually or using privacy policy plugin, if you use WordPress.
Especially if you want to monetize your blog using Google Adsense, this page is a must. Otherwise, your account can be terminated.
If you scroll down to my footer, you will see my privace policy page, so you will see the live demo of this tutorial.
You can actually add this without using any privacy policy plugins, look for a website which has the similar page, and modify a bit.
Use WordPress easy privacy policy plugin.
In this tutorial, we are going to use a privacy policy plugin created by Kevin Sparrow, that you can download from dashboard or WordPress plugin site.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-privacy-policy/
How to install this easy privacy policy plugin?
Let’s begin, it is very simple!
1. In your WordPress dashboard → Plugins → Add New.
2. Type in “easy privacy policy” then click search.
It should be the first of the lists.
3. Click install now, and then activate it.
4. Go to Settings → Easy Privacy Policy.
5. You can modify all the options if you like, but the most important is, you change your email address a bit. This is because, we want to prevent spam bots detects any email addresses in our sites, and send us junk emails or spams.
Example: youremail@email.com → changed to: youremail [at] email.com
Video Tutorial:
I personally deactivate and delete this easy wordpress privacy policy plugin after the page is created.
wow it is an amazing one, i never know about it
Oh i thought other blogger friends already know this Praveen.
Thanks for commenting.
Wow! i didn’t even know about this yet…This is so much easier thanks for the tip
Hey Kevin,
I hope it will be useful for you, thanks for leaving a comment.
Great resource, sharing it with my network! Thanks for uncovering that easy plugin.
Thanks for leaving a comment Barbara.
Hey Kimi,
I actully had a Privacy-Policy page on my blog since day 1, its very important to use one as you said if you want to monetize your blog.
However if you want to minimize the plugins you use, you can just create a single page (not a post) and put within it the required Privacy Policy information you need for every element of your website.
Great plugin, thanks for sharing Kimi. 🙂
Hey Sayed,
Great idea.
I actually did what you suggest though. I disable and deleted the plugin after creating my privacy policy page.
Before installing this plugin, i did have my own Privacy Policy page, but with the plugin it is more complete and more nice.
Thanks for stopping by and your awesome suggestions.
Hi Kimi, I have published my Own privacy policy page instead of using this plugin. Anyways, Thanks for sharing info about this useful plugin.
Sathish
I did the same too Sathish, however with this plugin it is more professional, and touching about “adsense cookies” too.
In the post, i mentioned, after creating the page, i removed the plugin.
Thanks for commenting.
This plugin is especially needed for those running Adsense – even though I personally think its a nonsense
Hey Peter,
Agree with you, i used to create my own privacy policy page, but since i discovered the plugin, it generates easily and more professional.
Thanks for stopping by.
Great.. I always used this plugin to generate my privacy policy! Its very important to have a privacy policy.. Many people including WOT check it before rating our web site. Even adsense requires a privacy policy in our sites!
Exactly Pubudu,
I have heard if we have a blog with Google adsense without privacy policy page, it is more likely one day we will be banned 🙁
Thanks for commenting.
Hey, this is damn easy to create that page. I created that page manually for my ICT Trends blog. But this will help me for SEO MMO Tips where I’ve not set up Policy Page yet.
The policy page is perfect, covering everything for most of the standard blogs.
I liked your voice and the calmness with which you’ve presented the tutorial is really awesome.
Suresh,
Yes, it is very so easy to create a privacy policy just one click of a button.
Thanks for the compliment about my voice, you should watch my older videos, they have my terrible voice LOL
Take care.
PS: please delete my double comment in your blog LOL
Hi Kimi, nice post.
I don’t have privacy policy on my Practical SEO blog but I have it on several other blogs of mine, maybe I should add it to PS as well. But I think I will stick to the old fashioned methods, it’s not like I need any technical knowledge to create a privacy policy page.
I sue dozen of plugins and I love them, but a plugin for something like this is a bit too much. We are not incompetent, and I am all for useful plugins and making my life as a blogger easier, but I really don’t see a point to this plugin.
This is just my opinion, hope you don’t mind me sharing it 🙂
Hey Zarko,
I am trying to use less plugins at the moment, but i found this plugin can be very useful for those who need it.
Imagin, people that are not “fluent” in English, including me, this plugin will make our work more easier.
Thanks for leaving a comment and stopping by Zarko!
great point, like I said, I can’t imagine why people would need this plugin, and I couldn’t. But now that you mentioned that it can help people who are not fluent in English I changed my mind 🙂
Didn’t even cross my mind 🙁
Be thankful that you have a fluent English 😛
Thanks for stopping by Zarko.
i think a privacy policy page is really an important thing for a blog to have and if you are probably using Adsense then it is a must. I think it also helps the people to trust the blog owner that their personal data is not being breached. And I actually love this plugin because it makes the whole process of adding a privacy policy page a lot easier
Hi Alex,
I absolutely agree with you, this plugin saves us time just by one click of the mouse, and we will have privacy page alive.
Thanks for leaving a comment.
Cheers.
the voice is so sweet
Thanks for this–i have tried it out and it works
Hey, thanks a lot, this is a super easy way to create the private policy. I was not known of this private policy before and got my adsense banned for 3 times 🙁
I am expecting some more adsense tips to avoid banning from you.
Cheers!
I am sorry, its to avoid banning from google adsense program lol
Thanks for the info, Kimi! This is still a very relevant topic today and your post is applicable today.
i will look into this plugin and use it on my sites.
My question for you is this – although I see you have a privacy policy page set up, I do not see it anywhere in your menu structure (i.e., visible from your home page). Did I miss it? Or, do you not have it for some reason? Was it deleted after you found out something new since you originally wrote this post?
Thanks!
Be Well.
Paul.
Hello Paul!
The plugin is unfortunately taken down from wordpress plugins directory..
I have the Privacy Policy in the second menu structure which is placed in my footer.
I probably should make the color more visible.
Thanks for stopping by and leaving a comment
Kind regards,
Kimi
Whoops! I did not see it down there!
Thanks for the update, Kim. Do you know of a replacement plugin?
Thanks.
Paul.
Hi Paul,
No, I don’t know any plugin replacement until today.
Will update the post once I know though
Best wishes
Kimi
Hi, I went to wordpress and try to search for this plugin. However couldnt find it except for WP Policies 1.0. I find that WP Policies is not so user friendly or easy compare to the demo you shown. Can you tell me where I can get this plugin since wordpress had deleted that plugin from their directories. Is it possible for you to sent me the plugin to my email account?Thanks
Hello Valerie,
This plugin is unfortunately deleted from plugin directory in wordpress website, and I don’t have the plugin, because once I created mine, I deleted it years ago.
However, there is another alternative, you can generate “privacy policy page” online using this site: http://www.serprank.com/privacy-policy-generator/
I hope this helps
Kimi.
Hi Kim,
Thanks. I will give it a try.Appreciate it.
i didn’t know there is a plugin for privacy policy. earlier i used onlineprivacy policy creator. thanks for the information. is there any plugin for disclaimer and contact us page.?
Hi Pankaj,
There are some actually, I forgot what they are, because it’s already long time ago I looked for them, but none of them is good in my opinion.
Kimi.
Hi, I went to wordpress and try to search for this plugin. However couldnt find it except for WP Policies 1.0. I find that WP Policies is not so user friendly or easy compare to the demo you shown. Can you tell me where I can get this plugin since wordpress had deleted that plugin from their directories. Is it possible for you to sent me the plugin to my email account?Thanks
Hello,
I’m looking for a plugin which create a all wp legal pages, not only privacy page. Is such plugin found?
Not as far as I know.
Can i use this kinds of plugin in all websites????
how it is useful???
Can u rec me some other plugin because ease privacy policy is not available anymore… ?