If you’re using Google AdSense on your website, you must display a privacy policy.

In general, it’s good to have a privacy policy, anyway. Here’s the easiest way to add one to your Branford Magazine website.

1. Visit SERPrank.com to auto-generate your privacy policy. It’s easy… check the appropriate boxes, add your domain name and — presto! — you’ll have a privacy policy to copy-and-paste.

2. Copy that text and paste it into the “Visual” tab as a new Post or Page at your website.

If it’s a Page and your pages are listed somewhere on all of your webpages, your work is finished. Otherwise, here are some options.

2a. Add the URL of your privacy policy page or post in your list of links in the sidebar… if you have a list of links in your sidebar.

2b. Or, add the URL of your privacy policy in your footer. That’s what I’ve done for most of my websites.

First, to go your WordPress dashboard and click on Appearance > Editor. There, click on “Footer” in the right column of that page. Your footer.php will open in the center panel.

Add the URL of your privacy policy anywhere in the footer text. You’ll make it a link with code that looks like this <a href=”XXX”>Privacy policy</a>, where “XXX” is your privacy policy URL.

You can see how I’ve done this in the screenshot (from my Sites that Soar website), below. (Click on the image to see it larger.) I add the privacy policy link immediately after the theme credits.

2c. Finally, save the footer.php file, and return to your usual work on your website.