Privacy policy on Facebook tab

Question

I received an e-mail from Facebook that i need to include a privacy policy in my Facebook tab. I thought privacy policy's were only needed in Facebook Apps.

Were can i find an example of a privacy policy?

Solution 1

Simply put, the reason for Facebook's strict requirements are mostly because of them wanting to demonstrate that they do everything to educate their users "we told the user to have a privacy policy". Therefore you receiving that email may not necessarily be related to you doing anything related to privacy.

In theory it's still possible to gather data from a tab/page with input forms.

iubenda has been specialising in this kind of problem with a dedicated privacy policy generator for Facebook apps and a hosting service for privacy policies built in: http://iubenda.com/facebook/

There's also a basic free version to be had for the general privacy policy here http://iubenda.com (edit: I haven't pointed out that the free version only works for web policies, as commented on by one user)

(disclosure: I work with the iubenda team to keep this being the best possible tool out there)

Solution 2

I would recommending using http://termsfeed.com/free/privacy-policy-generator in preference to http://www.freeprivacypolicy.com/free-privacy-policy-generator.php since the latter has a terms of use that includes:

Permission is granted ... for the sole purpose of placing an order with FreePrivacyPolicy.com or purchasing FreePrivacyPolicy.com products. Any other use, ... is strictly prohibited, unless authorized by FreePrivacyPolicy.com.

Sorry I couldn't send a link to their terms of use, it appeared as a javascript popup, at the end of their wizard questionaire.

Comments

[Mark de Hooge]

Do you know why tabs need to have a privacy policy? I don't see them on the tab, seems a bit useless.

[John]

Can't seem to find the basic free version. As soon as I click the "next" button on the first tab, I'm presented with purchase options.

[samwize]

I tried, and iubenda basic free version is terrible, since you must pay to add permissions such as user_about_me.

[Simon]

there are limits to the basic online web version, mostly those limits are related to e-commerce. That's how we make sure that you get a quality product, samwize, and not merely a hobby :)

[user1105951]

it's not free for iOS apps.

[DigCamara]

Just to prevent others from going to the link: it belongs to a different company now