Easy Steps to Add a Privacy Policy in Jekyll

Elevate your Jekyll site’s transparency and boost 🚀 user trust with a dedicated Privacy Policy page! This handy guide walks 🚶‍♂️ you through the simple steps of creating a policy document, adding it to your site, and linking it easily in your footer. No coding necessary! Enhance your website’s reputation ⭐ and ensure compliance with this quick and practical approach.

Most of the Jekyll sites do not include a Privacy Policy page with a link in footer.

Here’s how to do it!

1. Create Privacy Policy Page

Create privacy-policy.md at the root of your project

2. Add some contents

---
layout: page
title: Privacy Policy
permalink: /privacy-policy/
---

Generate Privacy Policy using tools like https://www.privacypolicygenerator.info

3. Add footer link

Look for _includes/footer.html in your project.

Otherwise try to identify the file where footer is defined.

Then add this link in the file at your preferred position.

<a href="/privacy-policy">Privacy Policy.</a>

4. Test your changes

Compose your jekylly site to validate and modify position of the link.

jekyll serve