Took it a little easier than normal last week, spending quite a lot of my free time celebrating our independence by joining my son in blowing some things up and setting other things ablaze. The 4th definitely brings out the inner child in me! Nevertheless, I did manage to get some work done:

• Started doing what I do with the reports my outsourcer returned to me, and managed to set up 45 landing pages. The other 35 will be done this week, and then I will work to blast away at ‘em.
• Working ahead on my online class before we take off for vacation in a couple weeks. I still will probably have to do a little work on the road, but hoping I’ll be able to finish it up while riding through a bit of emptiness. If it takes much more than that, it just ain’t getting done, I’m on vacation. I’m at that point in life that what kind of grade I get in class really matters all that much anyway…
• Did some work building out a couple long neglected domains. I’ve been playing around with a trial of Market Samurai and the Nanocontext concept, and realized I have a couple domains with some pretty substantial Adsense potential.

Oh, and for a great bit of thought on independence, check out the inimitable Johnny B. Truant’s latest post! Hell, check out all of Johnny’s stuff — makes for some inspirational if irreverent reads. My favorite type…

[What is this all about?]

If you are running Adsense on any of your sites, you likely recently agreed to some new terms and conditions. And for most, I’ll bet you didn’t actually read through all those terms and conditions, now did you?

One change in particular warrants a little of your attention that I imagine the vast majority of sites are in violation of:

You must have and abide by an appropriate privacy policy that clearly discloses that third parties may be placing and reading cookies on your users’ browser, or using web beacons to collect information, in the course of ads being served on your website. Your privacy policy should also include information about user options for cookie management.

photo credit: Air Force One

Jensense put together a quick template of a privacy policy that should do the trick. Being that I prefer to automate everything I can, I threw together an even quicker version that it doesn’t even require you to change the domain name in the template for each of your sites. Just upload to your site, put a link to it in your template (maybe call that link ‘Privacy Policy‘?), and you’re done.

If you’d like a copy: Save & rename this file to privacy.php. After all, no need to risk your Adsense account over something that can be remedied this easily!