Website Privacy Policy

Clients and end users (third party users) of your website will feel more comfortable if your site has a privacy policy ensuring them that their private information will remain private. Nowadays, most visitors to your website consider a privacy policy a standard that cannot be ignored by the website handling their information.

A privacy policy is important to assuring third party users of your site’s credibility, but it is also an integral part of protecting your site and your business from any legal issues that might arise. A privacy policy allows you to express your rights as the owner of a website. Privacy policies explain your copyright and trademark permissions. Privacy policies also express the reasonable limitations of the content you host on your website. In short, privacy policies show third party users that you have taken the proper steps to ensure the protection of all the data that is contained or transferred on your site.

Protecting Your Intellectual Property – Tips for IT Developers

Intellectual property, or “IP“, is the heart and soul of the tech field.

• How do you protect your intellectual property?
• Do I need to protect myself?

These are two of the most important questions you can ask yourself.

Keep Detailed Records
It is important to take an inventory of your assets. Find all of the software, instruction manuals, promotional materials, published material and web content you have produced. Once you have accounted for all of your content, make sure to date it all. There are time limits on protecting yourself from suspected copycats. These time limits are usually five to six years, depending on the type of content you are defending. That is why it is important to protect your content before the fact and also why it is important to keep track of publication dates.

File for Appropriate Copyrights, Trademarks, etc.
Once you have all of your content dated, it is important to file the appropriate claims: copyright, trademark, trade secret, etc. To start this process it is important to use the appropriate legal forms.

Once you have filed and received confirmation that your content is protected, it becomes important to keep meticulous records. Develop your own recordkeeping system to track your content and make periodic updates to both your records and filings whenever you add new content or update your existing content.