Privacy Policy Generator
Free tool · by Daniel HaketTick what your site actually does — analytics, newsletter, payments, affiliate links — and get a clean, plain-language privacy policy to copy or download. A solid starting draft, honestly labelled: template, not legal advice.
Honest disclaimer: this is a general template, not legal advice. Privacy law differs per country (GDPR, CCPA and others) and per business — have a professional review it for anything beyond a simple site.
What this free tool is great for: a quick, one-off job with no signup — it runs entirely in your browser, so nothing leaves your device and there's nothing to manage.
Its honest limit: it produces a one-off output — it won't store, track, brand or manage them at scale, and it can't tell you what happens after you share it.
Why every site needs a privacy policy — yes, yours too
The moment your website does anything beyond serving static text — analytics, a contact form, a newsletter box, affiliate cookies — you're processing personal data, and privacy law in most of the world expects you to tell people about it. The GDPR in Europe, the CCPA family in the US and their siblings elsewhere all converge on the same baseline: say what you collect, why, and what rights people have. Beyond the legal floor there's a trust floor: a missing or obviously-copied policy reads as carelessness to exactly the visitors you want to convert. This generator produces a clean, plain-language starting document from what your site actually does — with the honest caveat, repeated below, that a template is a starting point, not legal advice.
What a decent policy must actually cover
Strip away the legalese and every workable privacy policy answers six questions. Who are you, and how can people reach you? What data do you collect — named concretely, not "various information"? Why do you collect each piece (the purpose)? Who else touches it — your analytics provider, email tool, payment processor? How long do you keep it, and how is it protected? And what rights does the reader have — access, correction, deletion, complaint — and how do they exercise them? The generator walks exactly these questions, which is why it asks what your site does rather than dumping one bloated boilerplate on everyone: a policy that mentions payments you don't take is as wrong as one that omits the newsletter you do send.
Plain language beats legalese — and regulators agree
The instinct is to make a policy sound as lawyerly as possible, on the theory that formality equals protection. Modern privacy law points the other way: the GDPR explicitly requires information to be provided in "clear and plain language," and regulators have criticised walls of jargon nobody can parse. A readable policy is also simply better marketing — the rare visitor who actually clicks your privacy link is usually deciding whether to trust you with an email address or an order, and understandable honesty closes that deal better than impenetrable boilerplate. Write (and generate) the policy you'd want to read: short sections, concrete nouns, no pretending to be a law firm.
The parts people forget
Four omissions show up on small-business sites constantly. Affiliate links: if partners set attribution cookies via your links, that's third-party data processing worth a sentence — disclosure builds trust anyway, as our whole ecosystem demonstrates. Embedded content: YouTube videos, social widgets and map embeds load third-party code that may set cookies; if you use them, say so. The newsletter tool: your email platform processes subscriber data on your behalf, which belongs under "who else touches it." And the contact form: even a simple name-email-message form is personal data with a purpose and a retention question. None of these need paragraphs — a sentence each — but their absence is what makes a policy inaccurate rather than merely short.
Cookie banners and consent: adjacent, not identical
A privacy policy describes what you do; consent mechanisms ask permission to do some of it. In the EU and UK, non-essential cookies — analytics, advertising — generally require consent before they fire, which is a banner-and-settings job your policy references but can't replace. The clean setup: a policy that describes each category of cookie honestly, a banner that actually blocks non-essential ones until consent, and no dark patterns pushing "accept all." If your stack is a simple site with privacy-friendly analytics, your consent story can be refreshingly small; if you run advertising, take consent seriously, because that's where enforcement actually happens.
When a template is enough — and when it isn't
Honesty about scope: a generated template fits the common case of a small site or SaaS with standard ingredients — analytics, forms, a newsletter, maybe payments through a mainstream processor. It is not sufficient when your data practices carry real risk or complexity: health, financial or children's data; large-scale tracking or profiling; selling data; operating across regimes with conflicting requirements; or anything where a regulator or enterprise customer will scrutinise your compliance. In those cases the policy is one artifact of a compliance posture — records of processing, data-processing agreements, sometimes a DPO — and a professional should shape it. Use the template to be honestly covered for the simple reality most sites live in, and to walk into a lawyer's office with a solid draft instead of a blank page.
Keep it true: the maintenance habit
The most common privacy-policy failure isn't a missing document — it's a stale one. You added a newsletter in March, switched analytics in June, started running ads in September, and the policy still describes the site from two years ago. An inaccurate policy can be worse than none, because it documents that you say one thing and do another. The fix is a calendar habit: once or twice a year, re-run your site through the same checklist this generator uses — what do we collect now, who touches it now — and regenerate or edit accordingly. The "last updated" date at the top isn't decoration; it's the signal that someone is actually keeping the document honest — to visitors, and to any regulator who ever looks.
A policy is one piece of a legal business — where doola does more
A privacy policy covers one obligation of running something real on the internet. The rest of the stack — forming an actual legal entity, an EIN, tax filings, annual compliance, the paperwork that makes your business investable and bankable — is a bigger, ongoing job that templates don't solve. That's where doola does more: formation, tax and compliance handled as a service, so the legal foundation under your site is as solid as the policy on it. Generate your policy here and keep it honest; when the business itself needs legal existence and upkeep, use professionals who do exactly that all day.
Frequently asked questions
Is this privacy policy legally valid?
It's a solid plain-language starting template covering the standard ingredients (analytics, cookies, forms, newsletter, payments, affiliate links). Privacy law differs per country and business — for anything beyond a simple site, have a professional review it. It is not legal advice.
Does this cover GDPR and CCPA?
The template follows the shared baseline those laws converge on: what you collect, why, who else touches it, retention, and user rights. Regime-specific extras (like CCPA's 'do not sell' mechanics or a records-of-processing register) may still apply to you.
Do I also need a cookie banner?
A policy describes what you do; consent asks permission. In the EU/UK, non-essential cookies (analytics, ads) generally need consent before they fire — that's a banner/settings job the policy references but can't replace.
Is my company data stored anywhere?
No — the policy is assembled in your browser from your inputs and downloaded directly. Nothing you type is transmitted or saved by us.
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