Privacy Policy Compliance Tool
Original Source: http://forum.powweb.com/showthread.php?t=74886
It's not Powweb that must conform to International Privacy Law, but you by doing 2 things:
1.) Create a web page for your customers to read that explains what info is collected and what that info is used for, who has access and how long the info is kept.
2.) Create a set of Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) files for the browser to download and compare to the user's security settings. If you do not have these files, your web site may not be accessible to some browser security settings, networks, directories and firewalls.
You can create the user readable web page yourself, but you will need a special tool to create the set of P3P xml files. Most of these programs cost about $40. This one is the only free tool still available (to my knowledge) and is a few years old, but will still create the file types that are still supported. Just follow the steps and install these (3) files in a directory named /w3c.
You will also need to install a META tag in the
section of your index page mark-up that tells the browser where to look for these files:Code:
- <link rel="P3Pv1" href="/w3c/p3p.xml">
It is also highly recommended to prepend a header file with the Compact Policy (CP) code since Internet Explorer needs this to determine security compliance. Create a .php file containing the following, name it policy.php and install in /php directory:
Code:
- <?php header('P3P: policyref="http://yourdomain.com/w3c/p3p.xml", CP="## ### ## ### ##"');?>
Code:
- auto_prepend_file = /home/users/web/####/pow.######/htdocs/php/policy.php
You can validate your P3P files for any errors with this tool.
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