Blog - Page 62
Legal articles in easy to understand language.
Use clickwrap on registration forms
Registration forms are used in a number of places, such as lead generation landing pages, as well as sign-up pages, getting quotes for services, event sign-ups, membership forms, competition entries, and even patient information online for medical clinics. As these forms have so many uses, they are very ubiquitous. But many of...
GDPR: EU General Data Protection Regulation
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May of 2018. This extensive privacy law is considered by some to be the world's toughest. The European Union (EU) describes the GDPR as: "an essential step to strengthening citizens' fundamental rights in the digital age and facilitating business [...]" Here's an...
CalOPPA: California Online Privacy Protection Act
The state of privacy legislation in the United States is pretty shocking: there's no overarching federal data privacy law at all. The United States lags far behind Europe and the UK, and even behind many up-and-coming economies in Southeast Asia. The primary data privacy law in the US that applies generally, rather...
Terms and Conditions for Mobile Apps
A Terms and Conditions agreement, also known as a T&C, Terms of Use or Terms of Service, is the legal backbone of the relationship between your mobile app and your users. It sets forth clauses that embody the rules, requirements, restrictions and limitations that a user must agree to in...
What's missing from your landing page: clickwrap
The typical marketing approach to landing pages is for all navigation bars to be hidden so that the call-to-action is clear and uncluttered with excess unnecessary web components (navigation, other links etc.) While this may make complete sense from a marketing perspective, this is a huge mistake from a legal perspective. Your...
Privacy Policy for landing pages
In the marketing world, landing pages are for connecting with users to either warm them up to a product or gather their information for a later contact. The common practice is to remove all unnecessary links and navigation bars from a landing page, so that users are focused towards a call-to-action,...