So, I asked questions about privacy policy and terms and conditions page, you all got all over me. Some even said “people like you harm the freelancing industry” called me clueless and stuff and yeah, I am quite clueless. Not about building and hosting a website, but legal stuff
I can’t get a job because I am in college, can’t manage everything at once
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I have hands on html css js and react, and I have some good projects too for learning purposes. And I started learning wordpress a month ago
But never really got to know about the privacy policy and other pages
I know how to generate them, but does a design portfolio need a privacy policy or any other pages?
What should I do? I want to sell websites online
I asked in the js sub and people got over me, like I did a crime, listen I can’t do a job, last time I was in an 8 hr school and was suicidal because how unusual it felt to me, not some andrew tate fan but yes.
I am totally unsure about should I quit or persist? Should I Just practice more wordpress? Maybe consult a lawyer, but I have no money, my father has.
I can get an internship though, my brother’s friend is a company owner and impressed by my js skills, but I don’t want that….
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Consult your country or state regulations / guidelines / laws on what is required. No-one here can help you, nor should you be looking for legal advice in r/wordpress.
I don’t mean to be rude, but I was able to figure out the legal implications for my sites from a couple of Google searches.
I said you do, kiddo. All sites do. All sites use data in some shape or form.
I found some websites similar to mine, and asked ChatGPT to generate something similar for my website.
If the website grows, I can hire an actual lawyer but for now I think it’s a solution that works. Hope that helps!
Firstly: Don’t listen to these gatekeepers, you’re not harming the industry, everyone has to start somewhere
Secondly: It will be easier for you to start out on your own, if you take the internship and hone your skills first – you’ll be surprised when you look back in a year or two – how much you’ve learned and how much better situated you are you go freelance
Thirdly: Learning React as you are is great, it’s widely used and appears on job specs often – just make sure you understand the underlying JS and what the React Framework is actually doing when you call useEffect and stuff like that
Lastly: You’ve got the most important things, curiosity and drive, this is great. Just apply yourself, take constructive criticism but don’t listen to assholes putting you down.
My opinion: Take the internship, work on stuff in your free time, learn and build.
You are overthinking it. Find a company that is niched in website privacy and refer your clients to them. It’s not your responsibility. You may be asked what data is being by the website but 90% of the time it’s just google analytics and there’s boilerplate language for that.
Lawyer here. You can put a standard disclaimer on your privacy page.
In WordPress you can make a specific page called a “Privacy Policy Page”. Just follow a YouTube tutorial on how to create the page. Then for the legal text on that page you can find standard ones online.
For the cookies disclaimer, this is a simple plugin. You can install it for your dashboard.
But just know that depending on your legal system, a business needs to display their general conditions on their website and refer to them on their bills. Again, you can just put standard general sales conditions on a page. The law will fill in any holes where you don’t specify. If you have some money, you can ask an IT lawyer to write you a couple texts.
u/bluesix is, as ever, right… Don’t worry too much about the policies of clients… the ‘policies’ you need are for you. Create contracts which clearly state that it’s the clients responsibility to provide legal copy, to ensure any supplied materials are owned by them and copyright free (e.g. images), and to operate their site in a lawful way.
If you were a swordsmith, it’s your job to make swords. It’s not your job to follow your customer around and make sure they don’t misuse it and hurt someone. On the other hand, you could make more money by also giving lessons in sword-craft.
Same with the site. The more you can help (by letting them know what policies, content etc. they need) – the more you can charge. It’s still their job to create those things.
On a sideways note. I worked in mental health for a long time. One of the reasons I’m a web dev is because I don’t people – they are too much. So I hear you. I find webdev, code etc. a great way to burn off excess mental noise – and it’s admirable that your striving to achieve things. But there’s a different type of pressure when working for yourself. From your posts, you sound all over the place – and I’d strongly advise you look at ways to manage your own health and anxiety before you go into business in any way.
Not only is it important for your own stability, but also because if you communicate in that scattered and over-sharing way with clients, you’ll scare them off. Poor mental health, anxiety and depression are increasingly common, partly due to the ill-health of our societies and political systems. Many of us need to account for that, it’s not an insult – just a reality. Get your head right, talk to someone, before you take on the very demanding work of having clients.