Privacy Policy Generator

Termly’s privacy policy generator helps you create a privacy policy in just minutes. You only need to spend a few minutes answering some questions about your business, and our generator will generate your privacy policy instantly.

We regularly update our privacy policy generator and keep it up to date as new laws are passed.

You can keep tabs on our updates here: Privacy Policy Generator Release Notes.

A privacy policy — also referred to as a privacy notice — is a legal document that explains how a company or website collects, uses, and shares personal information.

The most important thing a privacy policy does is inform your users how you collect, use, and manage their personal data.

Other common names for a privacy policy include:

• Privacy Notice
• Privacy Statement
• Privacy Disclosure
• Privacy Agreement

Privacy policies not only satisfy legal requirements, but they also signal to your users that you respect them enough to disclose how you collect, manage, and use their data.

Not having a privacy policy can make you seem untrustworthy.

However, you only need a privacy policy if you actually collect or process data through the use of cookies, analytics software, forms, etc.

Yes, privacy policies are required by most data privacy laws, including the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA).

Each law impacts the contents of a privacy policy in different ways.

But most require your policy to include information about what data your business collects, what you do with that data, whether it’s shared or sold to third parties, and the rights users have over that data and how they can exercise them.

Privacy laws may apply to businesses even when they’re not located in the region where the law was enacted, such as the GDPR and CalOPPA, which impact businesses worldwide, not just those in California or Europe.

The contents of privacy policies vary depending on which laws apply, but here’s a broad list of common clauses and details a privacy policy includes:

• An introduction paragraph and table of contents
• What personal data you collect
• Why you collect the data
• How the data is collected
• If the data is shared or sold to any third parties
• What rights users have over their data
• How they can act on those rights
• Your use of cookies and other trackers
• If you handle children’s data
• If you collect sensitive personal information
• Your data retention period
• Information about international data transfers, if applicable
• Contact info for your Data Protection Officer, if applicable
• Company contact details

You’ll need to keep the following questions in mind when creating your policy:

• What types of data do you collect? Email addresses, contact information, and payment information are commonly collected. Be sure to evaluate all the data you collect, whether for marketing, newsletters, order information, or more.
• Why do you collect the data? Are you collecting any data you don’t need? Describing the purpose for data collection is a critical part of your privacy policy.
• Where and how do you store collected data? Some data privacy laws limit how long you can keep personal information. You’ll also want to consider the security of your data storage.

Our generator walks you through the steps and ensures you don’t forget anything when creating a privacy policy.

No, you should not use an AI or LLM like ChatGPT to make your privacy policy (or any other legal policy). This is very risky and could expose you to legal issues, and it would take up more of your time and effort than using a generator.

Privacy policies require extremely specific details about your business and how it collects, processes, and uses personal information from visitors.

To get an AI to create a comprehensive policy, you would need to create an extraordinarily complex, specific prompt and spend lots of time reviewing every detail it outputs to ensure it doesn’t hallucinate, provide false information, or misrepresent your business.

It is easier and more reliable to use tools like Termly’s Privacy Policy Generator instead, which were intentionally created by legal teams and data privacy experts to directly address specific data privacy laws and the various business requirements.

No, you can’t copy someone else’s privacy policy. Doing so will put your business or website at legal risk. Privacy policies are protected by copyright, so copying someone else’s policy is a legal violation. More importantly, your privacy policy needs to be tailored to your website to comply with data privacy laws and provide users with accurate information.

In addition, you cannot copy and paste a privacy policy. Using another company’s privacy policy without permission is copyright infringement and illegal. Your privacy policy needs to be specific to your business and explain how your website or app collects user data.

Put your privacy policy in easy-to-find areas on your website. Some common places to put a privacy policy include:

• Website footer
• Main menu
• Checkout page
• Sign-up page
• Within other legal policies

You should put your policy in multiple of the above locations. Linking your privacy policy on your site ensures users can find it and that you remain compliant with privacy laws. Our generator offers multiple embed options to help you easily add a policy to your website.