Blog: Privacy Policy Agreements

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How the GDPR Affects Business Privacy Policies and Practices

Are your business privacy practices and Privacy Policy compliant with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? This wide-sweeping set of privacy regulations went into effect in May 2018 and its ramifications have been virtually global. GDPR Basics Here are a few of the basic facts: The GDPR is a set of regulations...

Privacy Policy for Social Login (Sign In With)

Simply put, social login is a single sign-on (SSO) technology that allows you to identify and register users on your website or app using information collected from their social media accounts. To avoid legal liability, businesses that implement social login ("sign in with" buttons or "login with" buttons) will need to...

Privacy Policies 101: The What, the Why, and the How

Legal papers are not everyone's favorite topic of discussion, especially amid the excitement of starting a new online business. Privacy Policies are, however, absolutely necessary for most any website or mobile application. This article covers the basic facts about Privacy Policies - what they are, why you need them, and what...

Privacy Policies and Language Choices

If your website or app targets users from different regions or cultures, your Privacy Policy needs to reflect that diversity by offering multiple translations to accommodate language preferences. Privacy laws don't explicitly require multilingual Privacy Policies, but they do emphasize transparency. And transparency only works when users can understand your policy...

Privacy Policy for Surveys

Surveys are useful business tools that can help you design products and services around your customers' preferences. However, surveys also collect personal information which means you must inform customers of your privacy practices and take precautions to protect data. In short, if you use surveys, you'll need a Privacy Policy. This...

Child Privacy Laws

While most jurisdictions have passed general laws concerning online privacy protection, there are still relatively few worldwide laws that deal exclusively with online privacy protection for children. In fact, only the US has a law specific to children's privacy as of now. However, if you maintain a website or app that's directed...