If you are collecting email and other contact information, you should have a privacy statement detailing what you will do with that information. If you only plan to use it internally, i.e. mailing list, specify that.
It's not a nice thing to have; it should be a required thing. We all have gotten burned by spammers and it is nice to know that you are giving your contact info to someone reputable. Ideally, we'd be able to hold people responsible for violating the privacy policy when they do sell it to a spammer. If you don't collect information, you don't need a privacy policy. There's also a theory that Google gives extra points to sites with a privacy policy link on the home page. Now that I've said that, I'm wondering... did I just put a privacy policy on that last site... ? Time to go back and make sure. Ted http://www.tdrake.net Hi all what are the pro's and cons of offering a privacy statement? a lot of people think a site looks more "legit" with a privacy statement, do you agree? leigh ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
