I have some global settings that I want to store (e.g. footer text, etc). This will differ from site to site, and will sometimes be html... e.g.:

     <div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
                    <p>
                        <span itemprop="name">Company</span><br />
                        <!-- START POSTAL ADDRESS -->
                        <span itemscope itemprop="address" itemtype="http://schema.org/PostalAddress">
                            <span itemprop="streetAddress">123 Any Street</span><br />
etc...

I could, of course, hard code it into the template, but it will be far easier for the site admin to change it as content in the global settings node.

I am using a text area, but the output from model.content.footerArea01 has been automatically escaped (e.g. > instead of <)...

Is a textarea the correct datatype for this content? If so, how do I prevent it from being automatically escaped? If not, what should I use?