Privacy policies
A client of mine wants to have a contact form which requires the user to enter personal details- name, email, and such.
Does the site need to have a privacy notice available? If so, can I get a template of some sort for this? What must it mention (usage, security)?
Thanks
The Webmistress posted this at 13:01 — 7th July 2002.
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On our clients sites they all have a contact form with fields for Name, Address, Email, Telephone, etc and at the bottom of the page we just put "Any information you give us will be treated in the strictest of confidence and is never sold or passed to any other company." They get people filling in the form all the time and not one of them has ever had any problems.
Julia - if life was meant to be easy Michael Angelo would have painted the floor....
Abhishek Reddy posted this at 15:18 — 7th July 2002.
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Thanks for the reply, Julia.
I did a little bit of digging as well and found this:
http://www.wdnz.org.nz/codeofpractice.html
(Look at Point 3.)
That applies to members of the Web Designers of New Zealand organization. But I guess it's good practice to follow anyway.
I had a read through the legislation, and it basically requires a mention of what info is being collected and what it is to be used for, and contact details of the person collecting it... pretty straightforward, I guess.
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