Have a privacy policy or get your Adsense account banned!

  26 Feb 2008 by ReviewSaurus | ,

adsense-banned In the recent change in the Terms and conditions of the Adsense, it becomes necessary for publishers to specify that cookies are used by Google to collect data in the ad serving process.

So, if you don’t have a privacy policy then go ahead and create one, as Google is quite strict in ensuring that publishers follow their rules else they an the accounts. Taken from Google Adsense blog :

We’ve also added some specific requirements that make it necessary for publishers to post and abide by a transparent privacy policy that users see. According to this policy, publishers must notify their users of the use of cookies and/or web beacons to collect data in the ad serving process.

Off I go! Even I’ve to create a privacy policy for myself and ensure that my account doesn’t get banned.

Update : I’ve created the privacy policy for me. DMA has an excellent online privacy policy generator and I’ve use this form and with in 5 min. my privacy policy was ready.

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14 Responses so far

  1. Nirmal February 26, 2008 9:23 pm

    I already have a privacy policy in the disclaimer page located in the footer.

  2. Madhur Kapoor February 26, 2008 9:48 pm

    Thanks for informing me buddy. I will create one right away.

  3. Joel February 27, 2008 6:06 am

    Good that you mentioned…I didnt read it fully when I accepted in the hurry…I will have to update mine as well…

  4. Sree February 27, 2008 2:22 pm

    Thank you, I updated privacy policy of teck.in accordingly.

  5. Sumesh February 27, 2008 2:26 pm

    Funny, Burst (whom I applied for a few days back) need a privacy policy and I created it. Now I don’t have to worry :D

  6. Jim Karter February 27, 2008 2:37 pm

    I have worked on and and found the main difference. Here is the report at http://www.jimkarter.com/2008-02-27-new-google-adsense-policy-change.html

  7. Venkat February 27, 2008 2:42 pm

    Thanks for the info, getting my privacy policy ready.

  8. Ashfame February 27, 2008 3:53 pm

    Thanks for informing. I am gonna have one for me too.

  9. Rakshitk February 27, 2008 9:49 pm

    Hey, thanks for the information buddy. In a few days time I am going to install google ads, I suppose, it is going to be very helpful.
    :-)

  10. Brown Baron February 27, 2008 10:46 pm

    I suspect a lot of people using Google Ads on their blogs do not know about this new requirement. Stumbled to get the word out.

  11. Davinder February 27, 2008 11:02 pm

    Hey… thnx for the info. Mine is ready http://www.tothepc.com/privacy-policy/

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  13. Techblissonline Dot Com February 28, 2008 5:57 pm

    yep I too created it for burst sometime back and i did use this excellent tool…

  14. Mike March 2, 2008 12:53 am

    I was not aware of privacy policy being made a mandatory thing for adsense and i would not have known if i would have skipped this article which i fortunately didn’t :)

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