Website Privacy: Your Privacy Policy Makes Promises But Does Your Website Keep Them?
Many organizations publish privacy policies that do not reflect what their websites actually do, because compliance teams often lack full visibility into the third-party tools running on their sites, what data those tools collect, and where that data goes.
Why this matters: Your privacy policy is a legal promise to every person who visits your site. If hidden trackers or third-party scripts are doing things that policy does not mention, that promise is broken before anyone reads it. This is not just a legal exposure problem. Real people are sharing information based on what you told them you would do with it. Knowing what your own website collects is a baseline. If your team cannot answer that question, the policy is fiction.
Who should care: Healthcare professionals · Privacy officers · Compliance · Lawyers · General readers · Policy
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