Add a Legal Policy to Your Website or Landing Page

When you build a website or landing page, you may be required by applicable law to display a privacy policy, cookie statement, terms of use, or other policies. This can be important if you collect signup, payment, or tracking information from your visitors.

In this article, you'll learn how to create and share a legal policy on your website or landing page.

Before you start

• Make sure you’re familiar with how the website feature works in Mailchimp.
• Mailchimp cannot provide legal advice to its users. This includes specific guidance on when a policy is required or what it should say. If you need assistance, please consider contacting your legal counsel.

Create a legal policy page

To create a legal policy page for your website, follow these steps.

1. Click the Website icon.
   
2. Click Website.
   
3. On the website dashboard, click Edit Site.
   
4. In the Manage Site menu, click Pages.
   
5. Click Add Page.
   
6. Type in the name of the new page.
   
   The name you enter in this field will be used to create the default URL for this page.
7. If you plan to add your policy to the footer of your web pages, uncheck Add to navigation to avoid creating an extra link in the navigation menu.
8. Click Add.
9. Click on your new Privacy Policy page.
   
10. Add your policy information and design the page as needed.
11. Click Done.
    
12. When you’re ready to add this content to your website, click Publish.
    
    If you'd like to save without publishing, click Finish Later.

Add a legal policy link to a page footer

After you create a legal policy page, you can link to it from other pages on your website, as well as any landing pages hosted on the same domain.

You can add this link anywhere in your layout, but we recommend the footer section because it’s designed to contain trademarks and other fine print.

On your website

To add a legal policy link to the footer section of your website, follow these steps.

1. Click the Website icon.
   
2. Click Website.
   
3. On the website dashboard, click Edit Site.
   
4. In the Manage Site menu, click Pages.
   
5. Click the page you want to edit.
   
6. Scroll to the Footer section of your web page.
7. In the text area, type Privacy Policy and highlight it with your cursor.
   
8. Click the link icon.
   
9. In the Add a link pop-up modal, type in the URL for your privacy policy and click Insert.
   
   For example, if you named the page Privacy Policy, the default URL will be the domain you're using with your website followed by privacy-policy.
10. When you’re ready to add this content to your website, click Publish.
    

Nice job. Now visitors can access your legal policy from any page on your website.

On your landing page

To add a legal policy link to the footer section of your landing page, follow these steps.

1. Click the Campaigns icon.
   
2. Click All campaigns.
   
3. Click the drop-down menu next to the landing page you want to work with and choose Edit.
   
4. Click Edit Design.
   
5. Scroll to the Footer section of your layout.
6. Drag and drop a Text content block into the Footer section.
7. On the Content tab of the Text block, type Privacy Policy and highlight it with your cursor.
8. Click the link icon.
9. In the Insert or Edit Link pop-up, type in the URL for your privacy policy and click Insert.
   For example, if you named the page Privacy Policy, the default URL will be the domain you're using with your website followed by privacy-policy.
10. Click Save & Close.
11. Continue to edit your landing page as needed, then publish your changes.

Good work. Now landing page visitors can access your legal policy.