Blog: Privacy Policy Agreements

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Privacy guidelines for health apps

It's important to be aware if your business is processing health data from users through the website or mobile app you're developing. If you are collecting health data, you'll need to comply with stricter rules when handling the personal data being processed from your users and your Privacy Policy must be...

What is Safe Harbor

In October of 1998, the European Commission's Directive on Data Protection went into effect and started to prohibit any transfer of personal data about any European citizen to any non-European Union countries that fail to meet the European Union's standard for what is considered to be adequate privacy protection. The approach...

How Not to Place "I Agree to" Checkboxes

The following are crucial factors when it comes to getting valid and enforceable agreement to your website or mobile app Terms and legal agreements: How enforceable your Terms and Conditions or Privacy Policy agreements are Where you place the "I agree to" checkbox to obtain consent and agreement, and What language is placed...

Be specific in your Privacy Policy

The current Privacy Policy of Google allows them to combine data from their different services they currently operate. For example, data collected from YouTube could be combined with data collected from Google searches. The Article 29 Working Party, which is a group of European Data Protection regulators, advised in 2012 that...

How to Get Consent for Legal Agreements

Getting consent for your legal agreements not only helps build trust with consumers, it is also an essential step in complying with applicable laws. This article explains what consent is, why it is necessary for legal agreements, when you need to get it, and how to obtain it. What is Consent? For...

Privacy Policy for Firefox OS Apps

If you're developing apps for Firefox OS, you'll need to update the "Marketplace Privacy Policy" field when submitting your app to appear in the Firefox Marketplace. Firefox OS also allows developers to have their Privacy Policy agreements hosted on the Firefox Marketplace rather than placing a link to a URL hosted...