How to Create, Edit, & Delete a Privacy Policy
A privacy policy explains how your organization collects, uses, shares, and protects information, helping to build trust and transparency with people. This article provides instructions on how to create, edit, and delete a custom privacy policy using Concord.
Concord makes it easy for you to create a privacy policy by providing:
- A Guided User-Friendly Interface: Our intuitive policy generator interface guides you through the process of creating your policy in minutes.
- Customizable Content: Easily edit and design your policies to align with your brand, voice, and specific policy requirements.
- Seamless Integration: Export your Privacy Policy to PDF, HTML, markdown, or plain text and easily add it to your website.
Creating a New Privacy Policy
From the Concord Admin UI, click on Policies in the left navigation and click on Add Policy in the upper right corner of the page.
On the Policy Type page, select Privacy Policy.
On the Add Privacy Policy page, you can add the following policy details:
Policy Details
- Internal name for the privacy policy
- Internal description of the privacy policy
- Status of this policy (Active or Draft)
Company Details
- Company name associated with the policy
- Effective date of the policy
- Website URL associated with the privacy policy (include http:// or https://)
Data Collection & Processing
- User behavior, usage statistics, device or browser data
- If you will provide a separate cookie policy on your website(s)
- Collection of personal and/or sensitive information
- Sharing of personal information
- Sharing with third parties
- Data storage locations
- User rights
- Regional Privacy Laws
- Disclosures for specific regional privacy laws like GDPR or US State Privacy Laws
- Contact Details
- Privacy Officer email and phone number
Click Submit to generate a preview of your privacy policy.
On the Edit Privacy Policy preview page, you can easily edit and design each policy to align with your company’s brand, voice, and specific policy requirements. Click Save to save your changes to the policy.
Export your privacy policy to PDF, HTML, markdown, or plain text and easily add it to your website.
Edit Policy, Edit Details, & Deleting Policy
- Once you’ve created and saved a policy, you can easily edit the policy content, edit the policy details, or delete a policy that is no longer needed.
- The Edit Policy option takes you to the Edit Privacy Policy page where you can easily edit and design each policy to align with your company’s brand, voice, and specific policy requirements. You can also access the policy by clicking on the Name of the policy on the left hand side of the Policies table.
- The Edit Details option allows you to edit the Name, Description, and/or Status of a policy
- The Delete Policy option allows you to delete the associated privacy policy.
