5+1 Free Online Privacy/Disclosure Policy Generators

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A privacy policy(the PBF privacy policy), is a document that clearly explains what information a particular website will collect from its users, and how will it use it. It is a bond of trust between the user and the website.

A disclosure, policy, on the other hand, clearly states who the content of the blog is from, and what their aims with it are. Often when there are advertisements on a blog, a disclosure policy also alerts the user of the presence of advertisements. A good example is the Blogging Bits disclosure policy

But, creating these policies isn’t exactly cake, meaning to say, not every blogger likes to go into mind baffling details(think ‘Terms and Conditions’ ), and so many blogs simply don’t have a privacy or disclosure policy on them.

Why?

If your blog is a personal or niche oriented, you might not need a privacy policy. But large business blogs/sites offering services(which require sign ups) do really need a privacy policy, and a good one at that.

Having a working privacy policy and disclosure policy indicates professionalism, and shows the blogger or company is serious about user rights.

The Tools

Here are some (free) online privacy policy generators, or rather wizards, that ask simple questions about your site, and then generate a privacy or disclosure policy. Let’s start with the Privacy Policy ones first.

1: DMA Generator

The DMA has a very helpful online privacy policy generator, which also contains a guide on creating a privacy policy, and a very detailed wizard. Highly Recommended.

2: Free Privacy Policy Generator

The Free Privacy Policy Generator is an easy-to-follow and user friendly privacy policy generator. It offers tips and advice at several steps during the privacy policy creation process. Recommended.

3: Privacy Policy Generator for Internet Merchants

The Privacy Policy Generator for Internet Merchants is to the point and easy to use.

4: Privacy Policy Generator

The Privacy Policy Generator collects only a few items from you as inputs and generates a ready-to-use privacy policy instantly!

5:About.com Privacy Policy Generator

About has a Javascript based Privacy Policy Generator, that is based on a template, and so it asks very little from you, and combines your answers with the template to produce a good for use privacy policy.

DisclosurePolicy.org Disclosure Policy Generator

The disclosure policy generator at DisclosurePolicy.org is a step by step (consists of 6 steps), generator, which takes input from you and churns out a ready to use disclosure policy. About the best disclosure policy generator around on the internet.

Do you have any tools that could make it into this list? Please do share them!

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