Add privacy policy link to forms protected via textual analysis

+1

I can only guess that it might have been skipped, because paid subscribers may want to not have such a promotional link. But then again, I see no reason why it shouldn't be configurable for all users and default to "on".

It is good marketing for Mollom, but more importantly, it is probably the right thing to do from a privacy point of view -- we should probably link to the Mollom web service privacy policy?

I'm OK with this as long as it's optional. After all, the Mollom service agreement (for the free service), states, in part:

You agree that you are the controller of the personal data being processed, and that it is your responsibility to duly inform your website visitors, and to obtain appropriate consent from them to allow us to process the personal data as set forth above.

As a guideline, you will at least publish a message that informs visitors that "by posting a message, you accept that your message and other personal details about you will be analyzed and stored for anti-spam and quality monitoring purposes, in accordance with Mollom's privacy policy", accompanied by a link to either our Web Service Privacy Policy or your own privacy policy (provided your privacy policy duly informs your website visitors about the privacy aspects of the Service).

There are many ways these notices can be handled, depending on the site. Forcing one particular way would be...not nice. If I've chosen to provide information and link to my privacy policy, I don't necessarily want a second notice pointing to Mollom's policy directly on my form.

Personally, I happen to go overboard and link to my own policy, and Mollom's.

Here we go.

I spent quite some time on the wording + description of the administrative setting to enable/disable, so I think that should be fine.

However, the actual notice about privacy appearing in protected forms feels, reads, and looks quite lengthy. Not sure whether it has to be that long.

Screenshots:

Shortened to:

"By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy."

Great. Committed to D6. Let's port to D7.

Let's make it valid for XHTML Strict.

Committed.

And the port to HEAD.

thank god, I have tabs in my patch

Without tabs. And with -url suffixes for t() tokens.

Separate issue: We want to eliminate that @mollom-site-manager-add-url token. I've already shortened that description in a previous patch, but it looks like we can shorten it even more. :)

Same string changes for D6.

erm, sorry, seems I was too fast for my diff viewer. A JS behavior name change got lost. (HEAD)

Committed to CVS HEAD. Marking fixed.

We missed the patch in #13 for 6.x.

Committed #13.

When a user reads:
"By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy."
He might get worried because he doesn't know what Mollow is at all.

Maybe:
"By submitting this form, you accept the Mollom privacy policy (anti-spam and quality monitoring)"

And so, the user gets the idea of the anti-spam service, and doesn't worry that much.

Thank you very much for this GREAT module.

Moved @Diego Herranz's suggestion in #19 into #1410818: Clarify privacy policy link