How to create a privacy policy page in WordPress

A privacy policy page is a web page on a website where users and visitors can find a detailed statement on how the website or website company collects, manages and processes their personal information, such as name, address, email, gender, nationality and so on. Indicates whether such information is kept confidential or is shared with third parties (and possibly the circumstances).

In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add a privacy policy page to your WordPress website. To follow up, you will need to have a WordPress installation on your local computer or a hosting provider.

Check if you already have a privacy policy page

If you are using version 5.9 or later of WordPress, you should have the privacy policy page included by default. This may be true for other 5.x versions.

To check this, log into your WordPress admin dashboard and go to Pages> All Pages. If the privacy page is included, you will find it there.

Access to pages in the WP admin dashboard

But if you’re using an older version of WordPress, chances are it won’t be included automatically. If that’s the case for you, read on to learn how to make one from scratch.

Create a new privacy policy page in WordPress

In the sidebar, go to Settings> Privacy.

You will have two different options to create the Privacy Policy page:

You can create a new page from scratch (option 1 in the image below)

You can simply select an existing page as your privacy policy page (option 2 in the image below)

Create a new policy or use the existing page

For this tutorial, we’re going to create one from scratch. To do this, click Create to open the block editor.

Within the block editor, you will be provided with a template or draft of a privacy policy to edit. It’s important to rewrite it to fit your brand or business.

Tip: If you don’t know exactly what to write and don’t want to spend money on getting a lawyer to create one for you, there are several websites where you can generate a privacy policy for free. For example, getterms.io allows you to create a privacy policy page tailored to your business. If you intend to acquire different types of information such as cookies and emails, you will need to use one of the paid plans.

Once you’re done writing and editing your privacy policy in the editor, click To publish button in the upper right corner to publish the page. You can also schedule it to be published later or change the visibility to private if you don’t want it to be visible to users.

Change the permanent link

Often, when you create and publish a new privacy policy page (or any other page, for that matter), its URL will have a random number attached to it. Here is an example: https://mio-dominio.com/privacy-policy-2/.

However, you might want the URL to look like this instead: https://mio-dominio.com/privacy-policy/

To change the permalink, go to Settings> Permalink in the WordPress dashboard. Choose the Post name option below Common settings.

Scroll down and click on Save the changes.

Now go to Pages> All Pages and click Quick edit on the Privacy Policy page whose URL you want to update. Under QUICK EDITsimply remove the numbers from snail as I did in the following image.