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Can I prepare a website Privacy Policy without a lawyer?

January 4, 2010 at 2:26 pm Comments disabled

Photo of shredded paper, symbolizing a website privacy policy

Startup entrepreneurs always are looking for ways to save money. A question that I receive from time to time: Is it possible to prepare a website Privacy Policy without a lawyer’s help?

Simply copying another company’s Privacy Policy is a mistake, because two companies rarely want to handle all privacy matters exactly the same way. However, there are quite a few website Privacy Policy Generators (PPGs) online. Just do a Google search for “privacy policy generator”.

The user provides answers to a series of questions. Based on the user’s answers, the PPG provides recommended text for a website Privacy Policy.

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Dana Shultz is a retired lawyer located in Northern California's San Francisco Bay Area (in the East Bay, near Oakland) who has in-depth knowledge of law, business, technology, and the needs of startup and early-stage companies.

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