Free Cookie Policy Generator for WordPress Site — US Compliant

🇺🇸 Key US Requirements

The United States has a sectoral approach to data privacy — no single federal law covers all businesses, but multiple laws apply depending on your industry and the data you collect. Key federal laws include COPPA (children's data), HIPAA (health data), GLBA (financial data), and CAN-SPAM (email marketing). FTC enforcement can result in significant penalties for deceptive data practices.

• Privacy policy must accurately describe actual data practices (FTC Act Section 5)
• COPPA compliance required if your site knowingly collects data from children under 13
• CAN-SPAM compliance for all commercial email communications
• State laws may apply: California (CCPA), Virginia (VCDPA), Colorado (CPA), and others
• "CalOPPA" requires a privacy policy for any site accessible to California residents
• HIPAA Business Associate Agreements required if handling health data

WordPress Site — Specific Considerations

WordPress sites collect data through comments, contact forms, analytics plugins, and e-commerce plugins like WooCommerce. WordPress itself stores commenter IP addresses by default. The vast plugin ecosystem means data collection can vary dramatically — each plugin may set cookies, collect user data, or send data to third-party services. Your privacy policy must reflect the actual plugins installed on your site.

Data typically collected by WordPress Site businesses: commenter name, email and IP address, contact form submissions, analytics data, WooCommerce customer and order data, login account data, plugin-specific collected data

• WordPress comment system IP address collection
• Contact form plugin data retention (WPForms, Contact Form 7)
• WooCommerce customer and order data
• Analytics plugin disclosure (MonsterInsights, Site Kit)
• Caching and CDN data processing disclosure