privacy policy

Noun

privacy policy (plural privacy policies)

1. A statement detailing policies that an organization or party uses to collect or hide information about an end user or customer of the organization, particularly where it concerns private information.
   • Of those apps without privacy policies, 76 percent shared sensitive information with third parties, and of those with privacy policies, 79 percent shared data while only about half admitted doing so in their published disclosures. In other words, privacy policies are more aptly referred to as...2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 8, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
   • In January, viral posts – ironically, widely spread on WhatsApp – claimed the privacy policy gave the service the right to read users’ messages and hand the information over to its parent company, Facebook.2021 February 22, Alex Hern, “WhatsApp to try again to change privacy policy in mid-May”, in The Guardian