Automated Privacy Policy Generation for Your Website

Automated privacy policy generation is vital for any website. A privacy policy generator such as Termly or iubenda helps create a compliant GDPR privacy policy or CCPA privacy policy automatically. Your website collects data: registration forms, cookies, analytics pixels, payment gateway data. Each element requires a legally compliant privacy policy. Without it, you risk not only fines—up to a percentage of annual turnover under GDPR or a substantial fine under 152-FZ—but also loss of user trust. Typical lawyer fees range from $500 to $2,000, but our automated solution starts at $29/month, saving up to 80% (over $1,200 per year). Courts and regulators increasingly scrutinize the mismatch between documents and actual data processing. We solve this problem by automatically generating the document and embedding it on your site. Over 10+ years, we've helped 50+ projects avoid sanctions and save on legal fees—typical savings of 70% of the budget.

How Automatic Generation Works

Instead of hiring a lawyer, you use services like Termly, iubenda, or Cookiebot. They generate a ready-made document in 30–60 minutes based on a questionnaire about data processing purposes, services used, and jurisdictions. The document automatically updates when laws change — iubenda updates 5x faster than manual re-drafting. Average time savings: 90%. Over 200 pre-built clauses cover various jurisdictions. This approach is especially beneficial for projects operating in 3–5 jurisdictions: GDPR, CCPA, 152-FZ, and others.

Problems We Solve

Incorrect display of the policy on mobile devices, mismatched requirements across countries, difficulty of manual updates with every law change—typical client pain points. Example: an e-commerce site on Shopify received warnings from a regulator due to an outdated policy that didn't cover new trackers. We integrated iubenda with auto-update and configured a Cookiebot cookie banner. In 2 hours, the problem was solved; the client forgot about fines and warnings.

Popular Generator Comparison

Manual policy drafting takes 5 to 20 days and costs from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of rubles. Automatic generation does it in 0.5–1 day with a monthly subscription that includes automatic updates. Legal expertise is guaranteed by the service, not an individual lawyer.

How to Choose a Generator for Your Project

If your site targets Europe and the US, Termly or iubenda fully cover GDPR and CCPA. For projects with heavy cookie usage, Cookiebot is better: it scans cookies and generates a policy based on them. If you need 152-FZ compliance, the generator will need manual tweaks or a specialized solution—we help with that.

How We Set Up the Privacy Policy

We use iubenda as our flagship solution: its API allows programmatic document generation for any jurisdiction. Example configuration for a site with registration, analytics, and remarketing:

import requests

def generate_privacy_policy(site_name, site_url, owner_name, country='RU'):
    response = requests.post(
        'https://www.iubenda.com/api/privacy-policy',
        headers={'ApiKey': 'YOUR_API_KEY'},
        json={
            'subject': {
                'site_name': site_name,
                'owner': owner_name,
                'country': country
            },
            'purposes': [
                'analytics_services',
                'registration_and_authentication',
                'contacting_user',
                'remarketing_and_behavioral_targeting'
            ],
            'purposes_details': {
                'analytics_services': {
                    'services': ['google_analytics']
                }
            }
        }
    )
    return response.json()['policy_html']

Embedding via the iubenda widget is three lines of code:

<a href="//www.iubenda.com/privacy-policy/12345678"
   class="iubenda-white iubenda-noiframe iubenda-embed"
   title="Privacy Policy">Privacy Policy</a>
<script>(function (w,d) {
  var loader = function () {
    var s = d.createElement("script"), tag = d.getElementsByTagName("script")[0];
    s.src = "https://cdn.iubenda.com/iubenda.js";
    tag.parentNode.insertBefore(s,tag);
  };
  if(w.addEventListener){w.addEventListener("load", loader, false)}
  else if(w.attachEvent){w.attachEvent("onload",loader)}
  else{w.onload=loader}
})(window, document);</script>

What's Included in the Work

• Audit of current data collectors: cookies, forms, pixels, API integrations.
• Selection of the optimal generator for your jurisdictions and budget.
• Policy configuration: processing purposes, service list, contact details.
• Integration into the site: embedding HTML code or iframe, attaching a cookie banner.
• Testing display on all devices, verifying link functionality and cookie scanning.
• Handover of access to policy management, instructions for data changes.
• Documentation on the update process and notification of revision needs.

Process of Work

Time Frames

From 0.5 to 1 business day depending on complexity (number of services, cookies). Cost is calculated individually. Order privacy policy generation—protect your site legally in half a day.

Why Choose Automation?

Manual policy drafting requires constant monitoring of legal changes. Automation ensures compliance with current requirements. You get a document that updates without your involvement. This is especially important for projects with high legal responsibility—for example, medical or financial sites. Contact us for an accurate assessment and consultation on your project. Get a consultation—we'll help you choose the optimal solution.

Web Application Security: HTTPS, CSP, XSS, CSRF, WAF, DDoS Protection

A website breach rarely looks like in movies. More often it's: a bot finds an unprotected /admin/export endpoint, downloads the customer database, and closes the connection. Or: through an outdated WordPress plugin, a web shell is uploaded, and the server starts sending spam. Or quieter: an XSS in a comment field allows stealing admin session cookies, unnoticed for months. We have analyzed dozens of such cases — each vulnerability could have been fixed at the development or audit stage.

Web application security is not a single setting. It's layers of protection, each closing a separate class of attacks. Order an audit — we'll assess the project and deliver a turnkey plan within 2–4 weeks.

How do we ensure comprehensive web application security?

HTTPS and Proper TLS Configuration

HTTPS is the minimum mandatory level. But having an SSL certificate and having a properly configured TLS are different things.

In Nginx/Apache configuration we check:

• Protocols: only TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3, SSLv3 and TLS 1.0/1.1 are disabled
• Cipher suites: prefer ECDHE (Forward Secrecy), remove NULL, RC4, DES, 3DES
• HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=31536000; includeSubDomains; preload) — browser will never make insecure requests
• OCSP Stapling — speeds up certificate revocation check
• Redirect 301 from HTTP to HTTPS — both in server config and code (double redirect causes SEO weight loss)

Check: SSL Labs (ssllabs.com/ssltest) should show A or A+. If B, the configuration is weak.

Let's Encrypt + Certbot for production is standard. Automatic renewal via certbot renew in cron. Wildcard certificates for subdomains via DNS-01 challenge.

Content Security Policy: The Most Powerful and Complex Protection

CSP is an HTTP header that tells the browser which sources are allowed to load resources. A properly configured CSP completely blocks most XSS attacks, even if the vulnerability exists in the code.

The problem: breaking the site with an incorrect CSP is easy. default-src 'none' — and fonts, images, JS stop working. So we start with Content-Security-Policy-Report-Only — CSP logs violations but does not block anything. We monitor reports for 2–4 weeks, refine the policy, then switch to enforcement mode.

Example of a real policy for a site with Google Analytics, Google Fonts, and Stripe:

Content-Security-Policy:
  default-src 'self';
  script-src 'self' https://www.googletagmanager.com https://js.stripe.com 'nonce-{random}';
  style-src 'self' https://fonts.googleapis.com 'unsafe-inline';
  font-src 'self' https://fonts.gstatic.com;
  frame-src https://js.stripe.com;
  img-src 'self' data: https://www.google-analytics.com;
  connect-src 'self' https://api.stripe.com https://www.google-analytics.com;
  report-uri /csp-report;

nonce — a random string generated server-side per request. Inline scripts with the correct nonce are allowed; without nonce, they are blocked. This completely breaks XSS via <script>alert(1)</script>.

'unsafe-inline' in style-src is a compromise for inline styles. It's better to remove it by moving all styles to CSS files, but that requires refactoring.

Why XSS Remains the Most Common Vulnerability?

XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) — injection of JS code through user input. According to OWASP, XSS is in the top 3 web application vulnerabilities. Three types:

Protection: never insert user input into HTML without escaping. In PHP — htmlspecialchars() with ENT_QUOTES. In Laravel Blade templates — {{ $var }} is safe, {!! $var !!} is dangerous. In React — {variable} is safe, dangerouslySetInnerHTML is dangerous. For Rich Text — use htmlpurifier on PHP or DOMPurify in the browser.

CSRF: Protecting Forms and APIs

CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) — an attacker forces the victim's browser to send a request on their behalf. Example: a user is logged into a bank, opens a malicious page, which makes fetch('https://bank.ru/transfer?to=evil&amount=50000') — if the bank is unprotected, money is transferred.

CSRF tokens — standard protection for forms: the server generates a random token, stores it in the session, and inserts it as a hidden field in the form. On POST request, the token is verified. The attacker does not know the token. Laravel does this automatically with @csrf.

SameSite cookies — modern protection: SameSite=Strict or SameSite=Lax prevents the browser from sending cookies in cross-site requests. Works in all modern browsers.

API without sessions (JWT, Bearer tokens) — CSRF is irrelevant if the token is not stored in a cookie (but in the Authorization header or localStorage). However, localStorage is vulnerable to XSS — so for sensitive data, HttpOnly cookies with SameSite are preferable.

WAF and DDoS Protection

WAF (Web Application Firewall) filters HTTP traffic for attacks: SQL injection, XSS, path traversal, known exploit patterns. Options:

• Cloudflare WAF — cloud-based, OWASP Top 10 rules out of the box, custom rules via expressions. Managed Rules automatically block new threats.
• ModSecurity (Nginx/Apache) — self-hosted, OWASP Core Rule Set (CRS). Flexible but requires tuning and monitoring of false positives.
• AWS WAF — for infrastructure on AWS, integrates with CloudFront and ALB.

DDoS protection. Cloudflare at L3/L4/L7 is the de facto standard for most sites. Automatic mitigation of volumetric attacks, Under Attack Mode during active attacks. For critical infrastructure — Cloudflare Magic Transit or specialized solutions (Qrator, StormWall for the Russian market).

Rate Limiting at the application level — an additional layer. Laravel ThrottleRequests middleware: 60 requests per minute per IP for general endpoints, 5 for /login and /password/reset. Redis as a counter store — mandatory for horizontally scalable systems (otherwise limits are not synchronized between servers).

Other Mandatory Measures

Security headers. Besides CSP: X-Frame-Options: DENY (clickjacking protection), X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff (MIME sniffing), Referrer-Policy: strict-origin-when-cross-origin, Permissions-Policy (restrict browser API access: camera, microphone, geolocation).

SQL injection. Prepared statements everywhere. No concatenation of user input into SQL strings. ORM (Eloquent, Doctrine) protects by default. $wpdb->prepare() in WordPress is mandatory.

Dependency updates. composer audit and npm audit in CI/CD pipeline. Dependabot or Renovate for automatic PRs with updates. Critical CVEs — patch within 24 hours.

Secrets and configuration. .env — never in Git. Secrets in production — via CI/CD environment variables (GitHub Secrets, GitLab CI Variables) or HashiCorp Vault. Leak detection: git-secrets, truffleHog in pre-commit hooks.

How We Work

1. Audit — code scanning, configuration review, dependency analysis, manual business logic verification.
2. Planning — vulnerability remediation plan, stack selection (CSP, WAF, rate limiting).
3. Implementation — TLS setup, CSP configuration, headers, Rate Limiting, WAF.
4. Testing — re-penetration test, load testing, false positive check.
5. Deployment and Monitoring — enable production CSP, set up alerts, train the team.

What's Included

• Report with found vulnerabilities and recommendations (PDF + code snippets)
• Ready TLS configuration (Nginx/Apache)
• CSP policy with Report-Only and production versions
• WAF and Rate Limiting setup
• Dependency update plan
• Access to monitoring tools (Sentry, Datadog)
• 30 days of post-audit support (consultations, fixes)

Timeline and Cost

The budget is calculated individually — contact us for a project evaluation.