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With WordPress sites and because of their dynamic nature, it has been my experience that many site owners have no idea what is happening in the background or even where 100% of their website traffic is coming from. I mean, just because you are under the impression that the only people who would be interested in the content on your site all reside in your home country does not mean that site visitors from other countries, especially from EU companies, are not visiting your site and consuming your content.
You also cannot use other sites that do not have legal pages as examples of why you should not have legal pages. Please keep in mind that anyone can create a website and make it live on the Internet. That does not necessarily mean they know all the INs and OUTs of what having a web presence entails, which is one of the reasons you should be working with qualified and professional web designers/developers if you care about having your web presence brought to life correctly.
Even if you are not proactively collecting visitor data, like email addresses for an email newsletter or selling products/services, do you know whether or not the WordPress core files, your active theme and/or plugins are or are not collecting data about your site visitors?
Just to be on the safe side to make sure you are meeting all the privacy requirements that your WordPress site is supposed to be meeting, I suggest every WordPress site have at least the following:
- Privacy Policy
- Terms of Use/Terms & Conditions
- Cookie Consent
- Cookie Policy
- California Consumer Privacy Act [CCPA]
- California Proposition 65
- South Africa POPI Act Compliance