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Small Business Website Guide is a free, independent guide to launching a small business website and its legal pages. It is published by Smart Savings Guides, a small independent editorial team that runs a group of free, plain-English guide sites. We aren't affiliated with the companies we write about unless we say so.
What we cover
- Do I Need a Cookie Consent Banner on My Website?
- Does My Website Need a Privacy Policy? GDPR, CCPA and CalOPPA Explained
- How to Start a Small Business Website, Step by Step
- Privacy Policy Generator vs Lawyer: Which Do You Need?
- Termly Review: What the Free Plan Covers, Pros and Cons
- Terms of Service Basics for Small Business Websites
- Small Business Website Legal Checklist
How we research
We start from official and primary sources: the laws themselves, regulators such as the California Privacy Protection Agency, the European Commission, the UK ICO and the FTC, and providers' own published pages for product details. Each article shows the date it was last reviewed, and articles that rely on official sources list them at the end. Our editorial policy explains how we research, fact-check and update every page.
How we make money
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What we are not
We're not a law firm and nothing here is legal advice. For anything high-stakes, talk to a lawyer licensed where you do business. We don't publish fake reviews, star ratings or testimonials, and we don't claim credentials we don't have.
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