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Users love it. I get over a million monthly pageviews now. I am very happy that people like what I build. Life is good.
I do it all completely based on what people want me to do. I run user surveys all the time and talk to users directly.
One of the things nobody ever asked for - and therefore is absent on my site - is legal mumbo jumbo.
Somehow I feel that might cause problems at some point. So what should I put up?
Lately I got an email from Google saying that users of their services shall put up that annoying "This site uses cookies. Click here to get rid of this popup." message to european visitors. I don't know any local european sites that do that. But when God^Hogle says so, you better comply, right? So looks like it's time to implement geotargeting.
That probably also implies putting up a privacy policy, as the full message in that popup shall be "This site uses cookies. OK|MORE" and MORE linking to the privacy policy. If I understand it correctly.
Similar with Amazon who wants publishers to put up an "Ad Disclosure" statement on their site. It's unclear where that has to go and if you have to link it from every page and if that can go on the "About" page or on a separate "Ad Disclosure" page or whatever Amazon wants. They don't give any more info about this requirement.
And then there is the local law. Sites in my country have to carry the information who runs them, the owners address and an "easy way to contact the owner". So either email or telephone I guess.
Can these 3 things (Address, Privacy Policy, Ad Disclosure) be put on one page? Is it enough to link to that page from an "About" link on every page of the site?
Anything else that I have to put up? How do you guys handle this?