Save Your Adsense Account: Put Up That Privacy Policy
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Google is known to be pretty strict with making sure that all Adsense publishers remain conformant to their policies. I’m not very old in this game but had read and heard enough (about google shutting down Adsense accounts without even warning) that I made sure to read their terms and conditions thoroughly. What got my attention was the very last line in the policy:
AdSense publishers must have and abide by a privacy policy that discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information as a result of ad serving on your website.
Now why I wrote this post was that though almost every site I visit has adsense ads, but only a very miniscule fraction of them is abiding with this condition. Maybe they don’t know this because on my search, I came to know that this clause was added to google’s policy around March this year. I don’t know how much fuss is google is going to create over this but I’d rather be safe than sorry. Especially when it takes only a few minutes to create your privacy policy. To create yours with a few clicks, I came across a simple online template here: Adsense Privacy Policy Generator. I too used it (with a few modifications) to create my own privacy policy. You are free to use it to create your own.
© Shantanu Goel | Save Your Adsense Account: Put Up That Privacy Policy
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This post has 2 comments
November 5th, 2008
nice post shantanu, will update all the privacy policy for all the blogs with reference to urs, thanks
March 15th, 2009
Very nice information. Thanks for this.