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creating online privacy policy

w3.org and p3p standard privacy policies

Summarized overview

In this article you will find information about:

  • how IE accepts / rejects cookies of sites you visit
  • p3p Standard Privacy Policies

p3p Standard Privacy policies created by W3.org and implemented by Internet Explorer

p3p is: Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (p3p)

In some instances cookies will not be accepted unless a p3p technical document is provided. The document explains what the cookie is meant to do. Based on security protocols;

  1. the intention of the cookie and
  2. user privacy setting, 

Based on these security protocols cookies are accepted or rejected.

How to write a website Privacy Policy

How to Write an Online Privacy Policy for your Website

Summarized overview

In this article you will find information about:

  • What a privacy policy is
  • Why you should have one
  • Guidelines for creating a policy
  • A sample privacy policy specific to setting cookies
  • Link to an automated policy generator

a Privacy policy is

A privacy policy is a document telling visitors to your site what information you collect and what you do with that information.  Very simply: it is a short explanation of what you are doing to observe visitors to your website.

Online Privacy Issues

Online Privacy and collecting personal data: an overview of javascript clickstream data collection.

Summarized overview

In this article you will find definitions of:

  • Anonymity
  • Merging clickstream data & personal information
  • Personal contact information
  • Personally identifiable information
  • 'Computer information'
  • Internet protocol (ip) addresses

In this article you will find discussion of:

  • Why we wrote this article
  • Collecting clickstream data
  • What is done with this data
  • Capturing email addresses
  • Tracking of individuals
  • The trade-off in privacy

Privacy issues

We receive many questions asking us about what tracking services can and can’t do, questions about ‘online profiling’, ‘digital blueprints’ and leaving a ‘data trail’. We have posted numerous articles on the site explaining what tracking services can do. In this article, we explain what tracking services, and Opentracker in particular, cannot do.

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