Terms of use and privacy policy for my wordpress.com blog?

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  missouricountrygal · Member · Sep 10, 2014 at 5:58 pm

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  Do I need a privacy policy and a terms of use for my blog?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  honeysilvas · Member · Sep 10, 2014 at 8:22 pm

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  Hi,

  You are not required to have a privacy policy or terms of use on your blog but you can certainly add one if you like.

  Hope that helps!

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  timethief · Member · Sep 10, 2014 at 8:28 pm

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  I think it’s essential to provide an About page with an effective blog description, and contact information.

  It’s just as important to define what is allowed and not allowed in terms of copyright, commenting, and guest posting policy. These can be done on a single page or on multiple pages.

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  missouricountrygal · Member · Sep 10, 2014 at 8:34 pm

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  Thanks for the feedback. Is there any stock language that I might use? I know there is some stock language for WordPress.org users, but those plugins don’t work on WordPress.com sites?

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  timethief · Member · Sep 10, 2014 at 8:39 pm

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  No there isn’t any off the shelf documentation. I created my own polices and where appropriate on the very bottom I credited the policies of others ( with their permission) where I relied on them.