Privacy policy published
Why it matters
A missing privacy policy is not just an oversight — it is a legal violation under GDPR Article 13 (disclosure at point of collection), CCPA §1798.100 (right to know), and NIST 800-53 rev5 PT-1 (Privacy Policies, Agreements, and Processing). FedRAMP rev5 PT-1 requires agencies and their cloud providers to maintain and publish privacy notices. Users have no way to exercise data access, correction, or deletion rights without a published policy describing those rights. Regulators in California and the EU routinely issue fines for absent or incomplete policies even when no breach has occurred.
Severity rationale
Low as a code-level severity because the absence of a privacy policy does not create a technical exploit path, but the legal and regulatory exposure is material and enforcement is routine.
Remediation
Publish a privacy policy at /privacy and link it from the footer on every page. At minimum cover the six sections required by GDPR Art. 13 and CCPA §1798.100.
# Privacy Policy
## What We Collect
- Account data: email, name, role
- Usage data: pages visited, actions performed, audit submissions
- Technical data: IP address (hashed), browser type, timestamps
## How We Use It
To operate the service, improve reliability, and comply with legal obligations.
## Who We Share It With
Subprocessors only (list them: Supabase, Vercel, Stripe) — no sale of data.
## Your Rights
Access, correction, deletion, and portability requests: privacy@yourcompany.com
## Retention
Account data retained while active; deleted within 30 days of account closure.
Audit logs retained 90 days.
## Contact
privacy@yourcompany.com
Have counsel review the final policy. Add a <link rel="privacy-policy" href="/privacy"> tag to your root layout's <head> for machine-discoverability.
DetectionPro
The detection method for this pattern is part of AuditBuffet Pro.
The full method (what to look for, pass and fail conditions, and how results get reported) ships inside the FISMA/FedRAMP Readiness Audit. The pattern definition, severity rationale, and remediation remain openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0.
External references
- nist:rev5 · PT-1 — Policy and Procedures for PII Processing
- gdpr · Art. 13 — Information to be provided where personal data collected from data subject
- fedramp:rev5 · PT-1 — FedRAMP PT-1 — privacy policy publication
- ccpa · §1798.100 — Right to know — notice at collection
Taxons
History
- 2026-04-18·v1.0.0·Initial import from gov-fisma-fedramp·automated