The privacy notice on embedded forms

When someone fills in a Marketli widget on your website (a booking form, contact or enquiry form, referral form, or the chat window's leave-your-details form), they are handing over personal details: their name, email address, often a phone number and a message. Privacy rules in most places expect people to be told, at the point they type those details in, who is collecting them and where to learn more.

So every form-bearing Marketli widget shows a short muted line directly above its submit button. Out of the box it reads:

Your details are collected by {your business name} and processed by Marketli so they can respond to you. See how your information is handled.

You do not need to do anything to get this line; it is built in. Display-only widgets, like the testimonial video carousel, collect nothing and show nothing.

Linking your privacy policy

If you have a privacy policy page, link it and the sentence ends with "See how your information is handled in the privacy policy", where "privacy policy" opens your page in a new tab.

There are two ways to set it, and you only need one:

1. Once, for every embed: store your policy URL against your company (your Marketli contact can set this today; it lives in your company's widget settings). Every widget embedded with your company slug picks it up.
2. From the page itself: add data-privacy-policy-url="https://yoursite.com/privacy" to the embed script tag, next to the attributes you already use. This wins over the company-level setting. Websites built by Marketli pass their privacy page automatically.

The link must be an https address. Anything else is ignored and the sentence simply ends at "handled." rather than pointing anywhere broken.

Customising the wording

If your licensee or compliance team requires specific wording, you can replace the default sentence:

• Company-wide, via the same widget settings as the policy URL, or
• Per page, with data-privacy-notice="Your custom wording here." on the embed script tag.

Custom wording is plain text only, up to 300 characters. Anything that looks like markup is stripped, and if the text ends up empty or too long, the widget falls back to the built-in sentence. When a policy URL is also set, a "Privacy policy" link is shown right after your custom text.

Good to know

• The notice never blocks a submission. It is information, not a checkbox; your forms behave exactly as before.
• It follows your widget branding. The line renders in the widget's muted text style, so it sits quietly under your colours and font.
• The business name comes from your company profile. If a form ever renders without company context, the line says "this business" instead.