Handle Privacy the Plain Way

✓ How To Do It

1. List everything your site collects. Forms, phone calls, call tracking, analytics, maps, chat and any ad pixels.
2. Write a privacy page in plain words. What you collect, why, who sees it, how long you keep it, and how to ask you to delete it. Put an email and a phone number for requests.
3. Link the page in the footer of every page and next to every form.
4. Check if the California privacy law applies to you. The Attorney General page lists the thresholds, including revenue over 25 million dollars or handling the data of 100,000 or more people. Check the list yourself. A plain page is smart either way.
5. If you run ad pixels, add a cookie notice that lets people say no before the pixel fires. If you only have basic analytics, keep it simple. If you sell or share data, honor the browser signal known as Global Privacy Control, as the Attorney General page explains.
6. Before any photo goes up, look at it at full size. Look for plates, faces, house numbers, street signs, mail, computer screens, documents and children.
7. Blur or crop what you find. Do not leave it in and hope. If a customer's home or face is the point of the photo, get their written OK first.
8. Check the location data. Keep it for photos at your shop or a public place. Remove it for photos at a customer's home unless they agree.
9. Test the notice and the page on your phone.
10. Put a yearly review on the calendar.