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Required by law

A "Privacy Policy" agreement is required by law if you're collecting personal data from users, regardless of the platform used (website, mobile app, desktop app etc.)

Personal data is any kind of data that can identify an individual: email address, first and last name, billing and shipping address, credit card information, and so on.

Use this agreement everywhere:

Web sites
WordPress blogs (or any other platforms: Joomla, Drupal)
E-commerce stores
Mobile apps: iOS, Android or Windows Phone
Facebook apps
Desktop apps
SaaS app
Digital products or digital services

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For ecommerce stores

Including a Privacy Policy agreement for your ecommerce store is not only required by law, but it also builds trust with your customers and ensures that you stay in line with your legal obligations.

If you already have this agreement for your store, make sure to follow these tips:

Disclose what kind of personal information you're collecting from your customers
Disclose how the collected information may be shared or disclosed with third parties your store might be using (Google Analytics, Google AdWords etc.)
Inform how customers can review and change the information collected on them
Make sure to include the policy's effective date
If you don't have the agreeement yet, use the Generator to create it.


For iOS, Android or Windows Phone

You'll need the Privacy Policy agreement even if you don't collect any personal data yourself through the mobile app you're building, but instead use third party tools such as:

Google Analytics Mobile
Flurry
Firebase
Mixpanel
And so on
If you use at least one third party tool that might collect personal data through your mobile app, you need this agreement in place.

Each app store also requires you to have this agreement in place before submitting the mobile app. Read more about their specific requirements:

Requirements from Apple App Store
Requirements from Google Play Store
Requirements from Microsoft Windows Phone Store

For SaaS businesses

Most SaaS businesses need to collect at least 2 types of personal information from users: email address and payment information. This makes a Privacy Policy agreement mandatory for SaaS businesses.

Alal brothers: YouTube pranksters sorry for drive-by shooting video

THREE Melbourne brothers, known as the Jalal brothers, who caused outrage after they fired a fake AK-47 at a young girl, filmed fake abductions and suicide bomb stunts are in police custody.

Victoria Police said in a statement to news.com.au that Counter Terrorism Command detectives executed a warrant this morning in the Melbourne suburb of South Morang.

“The warrants relate to an ongoing operation. Three men presented themselves at the Crime Command Police Complex around 8.35 this morning,” the statement read. “The men, aged 20, 18 and 16 are currently in custody assisting with inquiries.”

While it is unclear if the brothers will be charged, Victoria Police Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton told 3AW he believed criminal offences were committed, including assault, imitation firearms and, if the boys made money from their videos, proceeds of crime.

It appears the brothers took themselves to police after doing the rounds on breakfast TV this morning.

They first appeared on Today when they admitted to host Karl Stefanovic that they went too far and promised to “tone it down a bit”.

The pranksters, who pretended to shoot the weapon out of a car while dressed in white robes, attracted a storm of criticism with Stefanovic questioning the trio over their antics.

The brothers admitted they had gone too far with their latest stunt and “were a bit stupid”.

Speaking on the breakfast show, the brothers apologised if they had offended anyone but did say they had permission from the father featured in the video to post it online.

“Now I love satire and some of your stuff is edgy, but you did get that one wrong, right?,” Stefanovic asked the brothers.

“Nup,” Max answered before Arman corrected him with “yes”.

“I mean, yep,” Max said before telling Stefanovic, “I can hardly hear you”.

When asked what their own parents thought about the prank videos, the trio were less forthcoming.

Max, the eldest brother who did most of the talking on behalf of the trio, answered: “No comment on our parents”.

Stefanovic then asked if they were in big trouble, to which they answered yes.

“I think people would be pleased to hear that,” he said.

The Today host, well known for his sense of humour, admitted there was some satirical genius in what the boys created but he hoped they had learned their lesson.

 

Japan's Sharp decides to accept Foxconn takeover offer: source

 

By Makiko Yamazaki

TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s Sharp Corp <6753.T> on Thursday agreed to a takeover by Taiwan’s Foxconn, a source familiar with the matter said, in what would be the largest acquisition by a foreign company in Japan’s insular technology sector.

The Taiwanese firm, known formally as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co <2317.TW>, has offered to invest 659 billion yen ($5.9 billion) in Sharp, sources have previously said.

Sharp’s board earlier concluded a two-day meeting to discuss whether to accept an offer by the world’s largest contract electronics manufacturer over a rescue by a state-backed investment fund.

The source, who was not authorized to speak on the matter, declined to be identified. A Sharp spokesman declined to comment. Foxconn also declined to comment.

Shares in the ailing electronics maker briefly rose over 5 percent but pared gains to last trade flat.

Century-old Sharp was once a highly profitable manufacturer of premium TVs and a favored screen supplier to Apple. But it has struggled in recent years as massive investments in advanced LCD plants backfired amid price competition with Asian rivals.

The deal comes after five years of courting by Foxconn founder Terry Gou, who sees ownership of Sharp as a way to better compete with Asian rivals such as Samsung Electronics Co <005930.KS>.

Sharp’s liquid crystal display (LCD) panel technology is expected to help consolidate Foxconn’s position as the world’s biggest assembler of Apple Inc’s <AAPL.O> iPhones and iPads.

For Sharp, Foxconn’s ample funds will help stabilize its finances while the Taiwanese company’s global sales channels could help improve sales.

(Reporting by Makiko Yamazaki; Editing by Edwina Gibbs)

Zuckerberg, the professional nappy-changer

Berlin - Facebook founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg, whose first child was born in November, boasted that he could change a nappy in 20 seconds.

“I am competitive guy, I time myself to get and better, and I got down to 20 seconds,” the 31-year-old told an audience in Berlin where he was receiving an award from German publisher Axel Springer.

“The trick is to slide the new diaper under the old one,” he added.

Zuckerberg's Facebook page, which is “followed” by more than 43 million people, regularly features pictures of him with his wife Priscilla Chan, baby daughter Maxima and pet dog Beast. He has also posted a photo of him changing nappies.

Despite his massive wealth, Zuckerberg - depicted in the Hollywood drama The Social Network as a socially challenged computer geek - still turns up at the office in a T-shirt, jeans and sneakers, topped off by his trademark hooded sweatshirt.

Touching on his famously dressed-down style he added: “I have coloured ones (t-shirts) too but I wear them only the weekend.”

As they announced the birth of their daughter in December, Zuckerberg and his wife said they would give away 99 percent of their shares in Facebook - valued at some $45-billion - in a philanthropy initiative “to improve the lives of all those coming into this world”.

 

Cape Town - An alleged car thief has been hospitalised after he was shot in the leg by a policeman outside the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Thursday.

Police spokeswoman Noloyiso Rwexana said the suspect, aged 25, was caught while allegedly trying to steal a car in the Cape Town CBD at about 10:50am.

Police attempted to make an arrest in Albertus Street when the incident took place.

“Police were attempting to arrest a suspect, a fight broke out and the suspect stabbed a police official.

“The suspect was then shot and wounded by a police official,” Rwexana said.

Hishaam Mohamed, the regional head of the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development, said the suspect had been walking bare-chested on Albertus Street with a big unconcealed knife.

The man was then pursued by two detectives dressed in plain clothes. At the corner of Albertus and Parade streets the knife-wielding suspect ran towards one of the detectives.

“On arrival, paramedics found the man slumped up against a stop sign. Assessments showed that the man had sustained a gunshot wound to his thigh and was in a serious condition.”

Meiring said paramedics treated the man and provided him with advanced life support interventions.

He was transported to New Somerset West Hospital.

 

Global economy will suffer 'a shock' if Britain leaves EU, G20 warns

Finance ministers from major economies agree the risk of 'Brexit' poses dangers for international stability

The global economy will suffer “a shock” if Britain votes to leave the European Union, the world’s 20 leading nations have warned.

In a joint statement, finance ministers from the G20 group of major economies unanimously agreed that the risk of “Brexit” posed dangers for international stability.

 

In what will be seen as a coded attack on Boris Johnson, who is campaigning to leave, he added that the leaving the EU would not be “some amusing adventure” but a serious threat to Britain and the world.

“Here at the G20, finance leaders and central bank governors of the world's biggest economies have raised serious concerns about the risks posed by a UK exit from the EU"

George Osborne

Speaking in Shanghai, the Chancellor said: “Here at the G20, finance leaders and central bank governors of the world's biggest economies have raised serious concerns about the risks posed by a UK exit from the EU.

"They have concluded unanimously today that what they call the shock of a potential UK vote to leave is among the biggest economic dangers this year. If that's their assessment of the impact on the world economy, imagine what it would do to the UK.

• EU referendum: David Cameron will not delay in pulling Britain out of EU if voters back Brexit, No10 vows

 

"This isn't some amusing adventure into the unknown. A British exit would hurt people's jobs, livelihoods and living standards - it's deadly serious," he said.

"It's my responsibility as Chancellor to make it clear to people what the economic risks are - and that we are stronger, safer and better off remaining in a reformed EU."

Reports from Shanghai suggested that Mr Osborne’s team were instrumental in ensuring that Brexit was included in the final summit communique.

The Italian Finance Minister, Pier Carlo Padoan, said that a decision by Britain to leave the EU would have negative global consequences.

"We would classify a UK exit from the EU as a powerful geopolitical shock, a negative shock," he said.

 

Private clinics accused of cashing in on meningitis jab

Medical centres said to be exploiting parents’ desperation by hiking prices, amid a worldwide shortages of the vaccine Bexsero

Private clinics have been accused of “cashing in” on the increased demand for meningitis vaccinations by charging up to £750 for a child’s treatment.

This is more than 12 times the cost of the same three-dose course on the NHS, which is around £60.

Parliament are expected to discuss reversing a controversial decisionto limit the meningitis B vaccine to babies under nine months after MPs acknowledged that a record-breaking online petition had to be "taken seriously".

The petition, which has been signed by more than 800,000 people maing it the most signed in parliamentary history, calls for all children under the age of 11 to be given the vaccine.

It follows the death of two-year-old Faye Burdett, from Maidstone, Kent, who died on Valentine's Day after fighting the infection for 11 days. Her story, told by her mother Jenny, has been widely shared on social media.

 

Separately, Matt Dawson, the former England rugby union captain, revealed that his toddler son has survived meningitis after "two weeks of hell".

The BBC Question of Sport star shared a series of heartbreaking images charting his child's recovery with his more than 250,000 Twitter followers.

Now private medical centres are accused of exploiting parents’ desperation - and worldwide shortages of the vaccine Bexsero - by increasing the price of vaccinations.

Demand for the vaccine has reached such levels that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) says it cannot keep up with orders.

The NHS programme will be unaffected, but private clinics in the UK have been advising parents that they cannot start any new courses of the vaccine.

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The clinic said that the new batch of vaccines were more expensive for them to buy, adding: “We appreciate this price is higher than the usual price and if you wish to remain on the waiting list until the summer stocks are released, we will then be returning to the previous price."

GSK said in a statement "Due to unexpected global demand for Bexsero during 2015, we are experiencing supply constraints during the first half of this year.”

"Due to unexpected global demand for Bexsero during 2015, we are experiencing supply constraints during the first half of this year"

GlaxoSmithKline

Sue Davie, head of the charity Meningitis Now, told The Daily Mail: "It would clearly be wrong for anyone to profiteer from this situation. This vaccine should not only be available to those who can afford it."

Ian Liddell-Grainger, a member of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Child Health and Vaccine Preventable Diseases, said: "For clinics to profiteer on something which is affecting people's health and lives is disgraceful.

"People's lives are being played with. To charge £250 a dose really is disgusting. I will bring this up in Parliament if I can."