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Enter your domain...

Then

"Before generating a privacy policy you must register or login".

(a) that's irritating - if you're going to demand registration do it as the very very first thing so I know. I don't care if all I've entered is a domain name.

(b) ironically I can't see your privacy policy to see what you might do with the e-mail address I'm giving you.

And then I seem to be able to cancel the registration login and continue anyway and generally arghhh it's all a bit horrible.

Pity, seems like a nice service.

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The privacy policy is shown right after clicking on the registration button, before we process the information. Your point is absolutely right anyway.

About skipping the registration, you can easily do it by clicking the 'x' on the registration box :)

Thanks for the feedback :)

Ah, and if you skip it on the first page, you must still sign up at the next one. If you have any other feedback anyway, let me know :)

It looks like a nice service, it was just a few rough edges in the first 60 seconds that put my back up.

Make it clear registration is required (or not - am still not clear how long I can duck it for - I'd actually say if it's needed make me do it straight away so I'm clear on that) and show the privacy policy up front and it's would be nice.

Out of interest why do you demand registration? Not being argumentative, just curious.

The reason why we decided to require a registration on the first page is that many visitors started playing with the generator and had no way to register (and to stay up to date) before completing the second step.

This caused confusion and many left the website right after reaching the first step.

So we decided to place the registration on the first generation page, something we did very quickly two days before the launch (happened one week ago). The fact that it was a quick&dirty move caused part of the issues that you suggested to fix :)

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