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title: "Your Privacy Notice Checklist"
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excerpt: "Many organizations are updating their privacy notices before GDPR enforcement begins May 25. The Trust Bridge created this eight-point checklist for establishing transparency and consent with individuals."
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**1. Use straightforward language** and speak with your voice.

**2. Identify yourself,** then decide what personal information you want to hold and what you want to do with it.

**3. Explain to the user** that you take data responsibilities very seriously and have confidence in how you handle personal data.

**4. Show how users can consent** to data use(s) and give the option of a separate unticked opt-in box for any direct marketing.

**5. Explain what you will do** with the data and also what you will not do with the data (e.g., share it with others).

**6. Explain what to do** if they wish to have data corrected or deleted and give a clear contact point for any queries.

**7. Provide details for how to complain** to you and also to any supervisory body.

**8. Keep your notice under review** and update it regularly.

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[Tim Ebner](https://associationsnow.com/author/tim-ebner/)

Tim Ebner is communications director and press secretary at the American Forest & Paper Association in Washington, DC. He is a member of ASAE’s Communication Professionals Advisory Council and a former Associations Now senior editor.

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