The Simple Membership plugin comes with a Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy feature. This feature allows you to add a ‘Terms and Conditions‘ and a ‘Privacy Policy‘ to your Membership site. You can enable only one or both the options.
If you have enabled either of these options, your customers will need to agree to these before being able to sign up to a membership. The checkboxes and link to your terms and policy pages will appear just above the submit button on the registration page once this feature is enabled (see example below).
This feature is useful if you have conditions that you want the members to agree to before they can create a membership account. For instance, you may like to state that a member is not to share their account information with another user. Enabling a ‘Privacy Policy‘ allows you to state the manner in which you will be handling the customers private information.
Configuring the ‘Terms and Privacy Policy’ Features
Locating the ‘Terms and Conditions’ Settings
- Click on the ‘Settings‘ menu of WP Membership.
- Click the ‘Advanced Settings‘ tab once you are in the ‘General Settings‘ menu.
- You will see a section titled ‘Terms and Conditions‘. This section is where you can configure ‘Terms and Conditions‘ along with a ‘Privacy Policy‘ that your users must accept at the time of registration.
Configuring ‘Terms and Privacy Policy’
You can choose to enable both ‘Terms and Conditions’ and ‘Privacy Policy’ on your website or you may choose to only enable one of the two. Following the directions below to configure these settings for your WordPress site.
To enable ‘Terms and Conditions‘ on your site:
- Mark the ‘Enable Terms and Conditions‘ checkbox.
- Paste the URL of your ‘Terms and Conditions‘ in the field next to ‘Terms and Conditions Page URL‘.
- Ensure you ‘Save Changes‘.
To enable a ‘Privacy Policy‘ on your site:
- Mark the checkbox next to ‘Enable Privacy Policy‘.
- Enter the URL of your ‘Privacy Policy‘ page in the field next to ‘Privacy Policy Page URL‘.
- Ensure you ‘Save Changes‘.
Membership Registration with ‘Terms and Privacy Policy’ Enabled
Once you enable both of these features, two check boxes will appear at the bottom of the registration form. Your customer can click on the words ‘Terms and Conditions‘ to view your Terms and Conditions page. Clicking on the words ‘Privacy Policy‘ will take your customers to your ‘Privacy Policy‘ page. If you have enabled either ‘Terms and Conditions‘ or ‘Privacy Policy‘, the check boxes that relate to these become a mandatory part of the registration form. A customer cannot continue to register until they have marked the check boxes to agree to your terms and policies.
Example: Registration Form with Terms and Privacy Policy Enabled
Example: Mandatory Checkboxes
A customer must agree to your terms and your privacy policy before being able to register for a membership.
