A Practical Privacy Baseline for Public Sites

Privacy work on a public site often improves when the team starts by asking a simpler question: what data do we not need to collect?

Useful baseline questions

• Which forms ask for more than the team uses?
• Which scripts make outbound requests that are no longer necessary?
• Which pages still reference tools or processes that have been removed?

Prefer less collection over more explanation

If a workflow can run with fewer fields, fewer trackers, or fewer integrations, that is usually the cleaner answer.

Keep the public story aligned

Privacy notes, contact pages, and support documentation should describe the same operating reality.