Day: January 5, 2022

Many of you probably already heard of the girl, Jenny, who quit her job in a rather public way – through photos and a dry erase board. Despite the laughter of the situation and afterward finding out it was an elaborate hoax, average individuals should take warning of what they do online.

Type in the query “Facebook firing” in Google. Go ahead I’ll wait. Surprised at the amount of people terminated because of their actions on a social networking site? I sure as Hell was. Firings of individuals posting on Twitter or Facebook has happened multiple times. Lots of average people being canned for what they thought was personal ranting.

People feel comfortable posting any type of content, believing that their message is only viewable to close friends and family. Sadly, those posts are the equivalent of a sandwich board and megaphone on a street corner. As a business it’s important to also monitor what your employees are doing online. An unhappy customer expressing his/her concerns is bad enough, but no matter how you look at it, negative comments from an employee just look horrible.

The line between what is private and what is public online is getting increasingly blurry. Therefore I’m going to throw this out Real Talk style. Below I’m going to outline what you, as an individual and as a business, should do to protect yourself in the digital jungle.

For the Individual:

So you’ve had a tough day at Crappy Job, Inc and decide to go home and release a little steam on the ole Facebook. Sadly there might be consequences depending on the context and perceived intent of any posting you do. Don’t think your job is worth monitoring? Everyone from business professionals to waitresses have been fired. So what steps can you take to

The name of the game these days when it comes to getting traffic to your website and making a real go on the net with your business is legitimacy. Gone are the days when you could throw together a website that looked and operated as if it were home made, and end up earning money or making a living with your online endeavors.

Web shoppers are much savvier than they were 4 or 5 years ago and with all the scams and so-called deals running on the net today, consumers are more able to spot fraud and business that just doesn’t look right. But beyond that, the buying public also wants to be comfortable with the entities they’re doing business with online. One of the ways to make your customers feel that way is to have all your ducks in a row and include a privacy policy on your site.

Your privacy policy will tell visitors to your site what information is being collected by you as the webmaster and what you intend to do with it. It may also tell your visitors how the information is being collected, how it is being protected and whether or not you will be sharing this information with any third parties. It is a good policy on your part to assure your customers that any data collected is for their benefit, to make future visits to your site more convenient for them and that you will keep the data you have on them only for your use.

Privacy data on your visitors is usually collected in the form of cookies and can be used to present choices and advertising for customers based on previous activity on your site. If you assure your customers of this fact, it can go a long way in

Most websites now include a reference to a privacy policy, a written statement that describes how a website collects and utilizes personally-identifiable information about its visitors. The inclusion of such a policy is often mandated by law or by interested third parties, such as advertisers. For example, the state of California requires that you display a privacy policy on your site if you collect personal information about California residents. Similarly, Google requires participants in its AdSense advertising network to include privacy information on any site that displays AdSense advertisements. If you don’t already have a privacy policy on your website, it’s something you’ll be adding to it soon enough. Let’s go over some of the basics.

A privacy policy is meant to inform the visitor to a site about what personal information it collects about its users and what it does with that information. As such, the policy should be easily accessible to new users of a site – a link in the header or footer of the home page is often the best choice. It’s also advisable to link to it from the “about” page of the site. Some sites don’t have a separate page for the policy, but rather include it as a section within another page, such as the general terms of use for the site. It needs to be easily found, however, no matter where it is on the site.

You may think you don’t need such a policy, but you’re wrong. Every web server collects some basic information about its users, even if the website owner doesn’t do anything with it. This information includes the IP address of the visitor (which can identify the visitor’s general location in many cases, thanks to reverse IP lookup databases), the visitor’s language preferences, what kind of browser they