Do your websites collect personal information?
Today’s modern websites are built to provide a great user experience and motivate prospective customers to reach out and inquire about what you offer. This is done using contact forms, website analytics, and more.
Contact forms typically require users to provide personal information such as their name, email address, and phone number. And when a website uses analytics or security tools, it may also capture a visitor’s IP address, which can be considered personally identifiable information (PII). This information may then be shared with third-party analytics and security providers.
These are just a few examples of how websites collect and share personally identifiable information.
Penalties for non-compliance with privacy laws
The collection of personal information is regulated under multiple privacy laws. For example, in the US, four state privacy laws can apply to businesses, regardless of location, and fines for non-compliance start at $2,500 per “infringement” (per website visitor).
Each of these privacy laws has specific disclosure requirements that must be added to your Privacy Policy to be compliant.
What is a Privacy Policy
The Privacy Policy helps website owners comply with privacy laws by providing specific disclosure requirements such as how their website collects, uses, and discloses personally identifiable information and more.
Keep your Privacy Policy up to date to avoid fines or potential lawsuits
On top of that, over two dozen privacy bills have been proposed on a state level, each with its own unique disclosure requirements and penalties for not complying.
Some of these bills will enable citizens to sue businesses (of any size or location) for collecting their personally identifiable information without an up-to-date and compliant Privacy Policy.
Due to the ever-changing nature of privacy laws, we recommend that you not only have a comprehensive Privacy Policy in place but also develop a strategy to keep your policies up to date when these laws are amended or when new laws are implemented.
Termageddon generates & updates policies with required disclosures
Termageddon is a website policies generator that can automatically update your policies over time.
After creating an account with Termageddon, it will take you through a series of questions to determine which laws you need to make disclosures for, and will then generate your Privacy Policy based on those applicable laws and your business details.
Termageddon is $10/month or $99/year (with reseller and affiliate programs for web design agencies), and each license includes:
- Privacy Policy
- Cookie Policy and Consent Solution
- Terms of Service
- Disclaimer
Currently, Termageddon serves businesses formed in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Over the next year, additional countries will deploy (and you can contact them and ask to be put on a list for when they launch your specific country).
Web Agencies: Check out this special offer
As a former agency owner (and former MainWP customer), cofounder Hans wanted to ensure Termageddon would suit the needs of both web agencies and their clients.
That is why Termageddon has an agency partner program, where web agencies receive a complimentary set of policies for their own website in the hopes they love the product and consider recommending Termageddon to their clients through its reseller and affiliate programs.
And for a limited time, Termageedon is giving all MainWP users two complimentary licenses!
MainWP and Termageddon, unite!
Termageddon for MainWP is a Free Extension developed by the team Termageddon. Using this Extension, you can quickly generate and customize privacy policies for all your Child Sites, saving time and effort.
Furthermore, it ensures that your client sites stay up to date with any changes or updates to privacy laws and regulations since Termageddon pushes updates with new disclosure requirements to the policy pages.
On the “Updates Overview” widget of the MainWP Dashboard, you’ll also notice Termageddon showing the number of Child Sites that need policy updates.
Follow these implementation steps to get set up with Termageddon on MainWP today!
