Whether you’ve already generated your privacy policy or are just getting started, we’ve got the help, guides, and examples you need to get fully set up and successfully integrate your privacy policy onto your Ghost site.
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Yes, you do, and here’s why:
Under most countries’ laws, you are legally required to have a valid privacy policy in place to inform users about your data processing activities and how you use their data.
Failing to do so can result in significant penalties, the legal invalidation of the data you’ve collected (for example, email contact list), and harm your website’s reputation.
Furthermore, third parties like Ghost explicitly require you to have a privacy policy in place in line with applicable law.
When figuring out which essential services to add to your Policy, remember that your privacy policy should be individual to your particular needs and should contain, at the very least:
You can quickly generate a privacy policy with iubenda. This video will show you just how quick and easy it is to generate a Privacy and Cookie Policy with iubenda.
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Once you’ve generated your Privacy and Cookie Policy with iubenda there are two simple ways to integrate it on your Ghost:
To get started first head over to your iubenda dashboard, click on [Your website] >Privacy and Cookie Policy > Embed
Standard embedding for a widget that opens a modal at the footer click on > Add a widget to the footer and click on > COPY (next to “Privacy Policy”)
Now, head over to your Ghost account and on the bottom left click on the settings icon
Once you are in your settings scroll down to “Advanced” and select code injection
Now, scroll down until you find “Site Footer” paste your iubenda snippet in the box below and click on Save in the top right hand corner of your screen
Congratulations! You’ve just added your privacy policy widget to the footer of your website!
The direct text embedding option makes your Privacy look like it’s part of your own site. For direct text embedding (in this case, you need to create an empty page on Ghost, and paste our code there. This way the page will be populated with your policy)
Click on Embed the text in the body and under the title Privacy Policy and click on the COPY button next to the code
Now, head over to your Ghost website dashboard and click on Pages
From here, you can either edit a pre-existing “Privacy” page or add a new page
Next, give your page the title “Privacy and Cookie Policy”, click on the + button and select HTML
Paste your iubenda snippet in the box and click on Update in the top right hand corner
Click on the box in the corner of the screen to edit the page further and to view your page
And you’re done! You now have a Privacy and Cookie Policy that looks as if it is a part of your own site.
💡Not sure what privacy documents you need for your Ghost? Do this quick quiz to see which laws apply to you and your business.
