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What is a Privacy Policy

A privacy policy is a legal document that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses and manages a customer’s data. The exact contents of a privacy policy will depend upon the applicable law and may need to address the requirements of multiple countries or jurisdictions.

In the Internet context, this can be accomplished easily by the posting of an information practice disclosure describing an entity’s information practices on a company’s site on the Web. To be effective, such a disclosure should be clear and conspicuous, posted in a prominent location, and readily accessible from both the site’s home page and any Web page where information is collected from the consumer. It should also be unavoidable and understandable so that it gives consumers meaningful and effective notice of what will happen to the personal information they are asked to divulge.

Many critics have attacked the efficacy and legitimacy of privacy policies found on the Internet. Concerns exist about the effectiveness of industry-regulated privacy policies. For example, a 2000 FTC report Privacy Online: Fair Information Practices in the Electronic Marketplace1 found that while the vast majority of website surveyed had some manner of privacy disclosure, most did not meet the standard set in the FTC Principles. In addition, many organizations reserve the express right to unilaterally change the terms of their policies. In June 2009 the EFF website TOSback began tracking such changes on 56 popular internet services, including the monitoring the privacy policies of Amazon, Google and Facebook.

There are also questions about whether consumers understand privacy policies and whether they help consumers make more informed decisions. A 2002 report from the Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab contended that a website’s visual designs had more influence than the website’s privacy policy when consumers assessed the website’s credibility. A 2007 study by Carnegie Mellon University claimed “when not presented with prominent privacy information…” consumers were “…likely to make purchases from the vendor with the lowest price, regardless of that site’s privacy policies.” However, the same study contends where privacy information is clearly presented, consumers prefer retailers who better protect their privacy and may “pay a premium to purchase from more privacy protective websites.” Furthermore, a 2007 Berkeley study found that “75% of consumers think as long as a site has a privacy policy it means it won’t share data with third parties,” confusing the existence of a privacy policy with extensive privacy protection.

Critics also question if consumers even read privacy policies or can understand what they read. A 2001 study by the Privacy Leadership Initiative claimed only 3% of consumers read privacy policies carefully, and 64% briefly glanced at, or never read, privacy policies. One possible issue is length and complexity of policies. According to a 2008 Carnegie Mellon study the average length of a privacy policy is 2,500 words, the research and requires an average 10 minutes to read. The study cited that “Privacy policies are hard to read” and, as a result, “read infrequently”.

While there is no universal guidance for the content of specific privacy policies, a number of organizations provide example forms or online wizards which generate Privacy policies.

How to center align ads in the sidebar

Every time I insert ads into my sidebar it will either align itself to the left or right of the sidebar which looks really ugly!

There is a quick and great fix to this problem if you are using Wp-Insert to insert ads into your sidebars.

Towards the bottom of the box you can see the “Ad Box CSS Styler” section which simply lets you add CSS style to the ad.

Add “text-align:center;” to the code there and click save.  Your sidebar ads should now be center aligned.

Share your ideas on how to improve this feature here.

[keyword id='1']

[keyword id='2']

Celebrate X-mas on your website with a cool Snow Fall

Share the spirit of X-mas right on your website.

Insert this cool snow fall script on your website to entertain your website visitors this X-mas..

To insert the snow effect onto your wordpress blog without editing any files you can use Wp-Insert “Tracking Codes” section.

Copy the code in the box below into the “Insert Code in Footer” section in the Tracking Codes admin page in Wp-insert

<script src="http://www.wp-insert.blogolb.net/wp-content/uploads/xmas/snowstorm.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Based on Snowstorm script from http://www.schillmania.com/projects/snowstorm/

How to prevent ads from showing up on a particular Page(s)

“I don’t want to show ads on my Contact Page”, “How can I prevent ads from showing up on my About us page”

I have been asked these questions several times since I began working on WordPress Projects.

Wp-Insert has an easy way to accomplish just this.

Suppose I don’t want to show the ad above my page/post content on my Contact Us Page.

I head over to Wp-Insert – Manage Ads (Posts and Sidebars) page and expand the “Ad – Above Post Content” Section.

Now in the “Exclude on Posts/Page” section you can either directly enter the page/post ids of the pages/post you want to prevent the particular ad from showing up or you can click the tiny search button on the right to bring up the Post/Page picker Popup.

(If the pop-up stopped appearing after an upgrade just clear your browser cache and it should reappear. If it still doesn’t appear try deleting and then reinstalling the plugin)

Now you can pick the posts/pages using the buttons or by double clicking the page titles in the left box. Similarly to remove posts/pages from the selection you can use the icons or double click them in the right box.

Click OK. and Save the Entire page.

Preventing ads from showing op on particular pages is a feature that’s missing in many other plugins.

Some plugins which impliment them does not have the provision to control the ads indivigually.

On most occasions we would want the ads embedded inside the post only to be eliminated from a particular page or post and would want to continue showing them on other parts of the site.

Some sites have even used this feature to include page specific tracking codes.

Share your experience about this feature below.

How to insert Ads to the Left or Right of your Post Content

We often want to insert ads to the left or right of our posts ad want the text to wrap around it.

This is one of the ad positions which gives the highest CTR.

Wp-Insert allows you to do this. Just follow the tutorial on “How to insert Ads above your Post Content” to know how to insert an ad into the post content using Wp-insert and apply the same to the Ad – Left of post Content or Ad – Right of post content or even both as you wish.