We all need a privacy policy on our sites, but on the list of things we want to tackle, it ranks near the bottom.
Our clients don't know what to put in there, either. As developers, we create a Privacy Policy page node and then tell the client to go figure out privacy themselves.
Services are starting to require mention in privacy policies as part of their terms of service.
Users, when they bother to read it at all, have to read and understand a new policy for every site they use.
Wouldn't it be nice if there were a better way to set up and manage a privacy policy? Wouldn't it be nice if there were some default policy snippets we could string together to form our policy? We didn't invent cookies, and 99% of the time we're not doing anything new or interesting with analytics or comments or anti-spam services, but their use should be disclosed.
Meet the Privacy Policy module.
This module creates a default page with a list of privacy policy bullet points that are grouped in sections like "General" or "Analytics" or "Marketing." In addition to the policy text, each item can include a icon and a name. Other modules can add items to the list via hook_privacy_policy
.