This is a quick post today: I’ve been asked about setting up legal statements (Privacy, Affiliate, Return, TOS) frequently recently, so I created this post for folks like you to refer to as needed.
Website Legal Pages: A Necessary Evil
Attorneys are expensive and can be cost-prohibitive for sole-prop website owners. However, you must still have essential “legalese” on your website. Some statements are required by law, and others are to protect you and your business.
More importantly, having these pages and statements available and visible on your website adds trust and credibility, which is essential for growing your enterprise. These policies contribute to the legitimacy of your marketing efforts and, ultimately, your brand.
So, what if you could create attorney-level legal policies for your website with a simple plugin? Enter WP Legal Pages Pro*. Over the years, I’ve used this plugin intermittently for various sites to auto-generate legal pages that I can customize to my needs. It doesn’t get any easier than this.
Legal Pages that You Need on Your Website
Even if you have a blog or a small estore, it is essential to have the basics in place to clarify how you run your website. A few of the basics are:
Privacy & Cookie Policies (GDPR, ePrivacy)
Affiliate Disclosure Statement
Returns & Refunds Policy
External Linking Policy
Website Terms & Conditions, Terms of Service
Newsletter Policy
Facebook Privacy Policy
Anti-Spam Policy (CASL compliant)
Wouldn’t it be nice to create and manage your custom legal templates? But what about law and rule changes? WPLPP helps you stay in compliance by regularly updating you. Additionally, the latest policy changes are updated according to your type of business.
You enter your legal business details, and this plugin automatically populates policies based on the applicable legal guidelines for your website.
WP Legal Pro Features
Privacy Policy: Covers websites or apps that collect and store user data and run Google AdSense Ads and Google AdWords. Helps comply with GDPR and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act).
Cookie Consent Popups: Works with GDPR Cookie Consent.
Cookie Bar Banner: Add a banner in the footer for cookie consent. You can also customize the cookie bar’s style, content, and button styles.
Amazon Affiliate Disclosure: Covers websites and apps that engage in affiliate promotion of Amazon products.
Affiliate Agreement: Covers websites and apps that run affiliate programs.
Affiliate Disclosure: Covers websites and apps that engage in affiliate promotion of products and services.
Impressum: An Impressum is a statement of ownership and authorship that typically contains information such as the name of the website owner, valid contact details, supervising authority, and other relevant information. It is legally required on all commercial websites published in German-speaking countries (Germany, Austria, and Switzerland).
Terms and Conditions: Integrates with WooCommerce Terms & Conditions and Easy Digital Downloads stores.
California Privacy Policy (CCPA): Covers websites and apps that sell to California customers.
Children’s Online Privacy Policy (COPPA): Covers websites and apps whose audience is children (< 13 years of age)
Medical Disclaimers: This applies to websites and apps that offer free medical information, such as those provided by healthcare providers or blogs offering medical advice.
Create a Refund Policy: This covers refunds for sales of products and services for e-commerce stores.
Newsletter Subscription Policy: Covers websites and apps that run newsletter subscriptions.
External Links Policy: This policy covers policies for links to or from external websites that are not owned or controlled by you.
Returns & Refunds Policy: This policy covers returns and refunds for your products and services on popular e-commerce platforms, including WooCommerce and Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) stores.
Digital Goods Refund Policy: Covers refunds for downloadable or streaming products and services.
Facebook Privacy Policy: This is the Privacy Policy for Facebook Apps, Running Facebook Ads, App Developers, and using Facebook Login or other widgets on your website.
Earnings Disclaimer: Covers websites and apps that promote products, services, strategies, and programs to help users make money.
Anti Spam Policy: Covers websites & apps that provide mass email or other messaging services.
Age Verification is applicable for vaping or adult-content websites. It allows only users aged 18 and above to access website content after obtaining consent.
Forced Consent on Page/Post: Force website visitors to agree to your terms, privacy policy, etc. This can be used on both WordPress pages and posts.
Compatibility: Compatible with the latest version of WordPress, WooCommerce, Easy Digital Downloads (EDD) & PHP.
Modify legal pages after auto-generation based on your business needs.
GDPR Privacy Policy
GDPR Cookie Policy
Terms of Service
Terms & Conditions
Amazon Affiliate Disclosure
Privacy Policy Wizards
Linking Policy
Blog Comments Policy
Affiliate Agreement
Affiliate Marketing Disclosures
External Links Policy
DoubleClick DART Cookie Policy
Returns & Refunds
Digital Goods Refunds
Impressum
Anti-Spam Policy (CASL Compliant)
Privacy Policy for Facebook Apps
Earnings Disclaimer
Medical Disclaimers
General Disclaimers
FTC Disclaimer Widgets
FTC Testimonials Disclosure
California Privacy Rights Policy
CCPA (California Consumers Privacy Act)
DMCA Policy
Children’s Online Privacy Policy (COPPA)
Newsletter Subscription Policy
Refund Policy
FTC Disclosure Statement
Be Your Own “Legal Beagle”
To be clear, I’m not an attorney—nor do I play one on TV. However, running important policy statements by an attorney is always a wise approach.
However, if you’re just starting and need to get the legal basics covered and in place, the WP Legal Pages Pro plugin is a solution worth considering, especially for the basic policy pages that every website needs.
Then, when you are rich and famous, you can hire a fancy-schmancy attorney to take care of all this for you!
At your service,
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