Privacy Policy Change Notice

A Privacy Policy Change Notice is a document that is used for a website or mobile application to send to its users when it has made (or is about to make) updates or changes to its Privacy Policy.

Many times, a website or mobile app needs to make changes to its Privacy Policy as a result of a new or updated law, because the business model has changed or shifted, or in response to user requests. There can be other reasons changes are made to a Privacy Policy, as well. When significant changes are made to the way a website or mobile app handles its user data, the users need to be informed.

Due to the fact that the original Privacy Policy document is a large document, containing all of the required information about the website or mobile app owners' identity and all the specific categories of data that are processed, the Privacy Policy Change Notice is simple. Its sole purpose is to inform users about the categories of data processing that have changed.

How to use this document

This is a relatively simple document that just contains the required information to be given to users, in a well-drafted format. Here, details of the name and URL of the website or the name of the mobile app will be entered. Then, the document asks about information about the new Privacy Policy, such as when it will go live and where it will be posted.

Finally, for the bulk of the document, details on the specific changes will be entered. In this document, users should be given not only clear information about the changes, but also the reasons why changes have been made to the Privacy Policy, in as much as detail as possible.

After this document is filled out, it is a good idea to have it be emailed to users as well as published somewhere prominently on the website or mobile app. Users need every opportunity to be informed of how their data will be processed and how it has changed, so the more conspicuous the Privacy Policy Change Notice can be, the better.

Applicable law

Although there is not one set of laws or regulations outlining what must be contained in a Privacy Policy Change Notice, website and mobile app disclosures are broadly governed under U.S. Common Law and the advertising and privacy laws of the Federal Trade Commission, as well as the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, for those companies which may process the data of EU citizens.

How to modify the template

You fill out a form. The document is created before your eyes as you respond to the questions.

At the end, you receive it in Word and PDF formats. You can modify it and reuse it.