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Creating your privacy policy

To create your privacy policy, you'll need to enter the following information:

  1. General settings
  2. Company information
  3. Data handling information

Once you've entered this information, you can copy an HTML snippet and inject it into your privacy policy page.

Click the Generate Privacy Policy button to begin the questionnaire that creates your privacy policy. The following sections of this guide walk you through each step of the process.

General settings

On the first screen you'll need to name your privacy policy and choose a few general settings:

  1. In the Policy Name field, enter a name.
  2. In the Select language field, select the languages in which you want the privacy policy to be displayed. (In the free version only one language is available.)
  3. In the Legal framework section, select the legal framework that you want to use.
    • To select the CCPA, you must also select US State Privacy Laws, which provide a broader framework for U.S. privacy regulations, while the CCPA focuses specifically on California.

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Company information

On the next screen, enter your company's contact information:

  • Company name
  • Contact email
  • Phone number
  • Website URL
  • Whether you have a Data Protection Officer (DPO) ↗ and their email address

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Data handling information

Lastly, enter information about how your organization handles information. These details are the most important part of your privacy policy:

  • The products and services your organisation provides.
  • Whether you collect user data, and which types.
    • Selecting My Company collects device data will display additional fields:
      • Personal Data Types, Purposes for data collection and Data location storage ↗
  • The data protection measures ↗ you have in place.
    • If you use any data protection measures, a new field will appear, where you can select the data protection measures you are using.
  • Whether you share personal user data and with whom.
    • If you share personal data with third-party service providers, a new question will appear:
      • Do you use the Usercentrics CMP?
        • If yes → show current CMP-listed services
        • If no → you can add your services from a predefined list or enter them manually.
  • A link to your cookie policy ↗ page.
  • Whether you transfer data outside of the EEA ↗
  • Whether your website has an age requirement ↗, and what that requirement is.
  • Whether you ask for consent for direct marketing, which types of direct marketing, and whether you have a mechanism to withdraw consent.
  • Within what timeframe can users expect to be notified of data breaches, and how are these notifications made ↗.
  • Whether you want to notify users of privacy policy updates, and whether they will need to renew their consent in this case.

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Your finished privacy policy

Your privacy policy is now finished and ready to be implemented on your website:

  1. Copy the script tag provided below and paste it into the** <head> section of your website.
  2. Make sure that it is placed before any third-party scripts that require user consent.
  3. Copy the <div> element and insert it at the exact location on your webpage where you want the privacy policy to be displayed.

The content of your generated privacy policy will automatically be updated if you make changes to it in the future, you won't have to update the snippet after you've implemented it on your page.

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If you're not ready to inject the snippet immediately, or if someone else needs to do it for you, you can copy the snippet from the Privacy Policy Generator overview page by clicking the button on the right side of the privacy policy.

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If you are a Pro user, you can click the three dots and select Edit to modify your privacy policy:

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