privacy policy

For Wiktionary's privacy policy, see wikimedia:Privacy policy.

English

Etymology

• privacy +‎ policy

Noun

privacy policy (plural privacy policies)

1. (law) 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.
   • 2021 February 22, Alex Hern, “WhatsApp to try again to change privacy policy in mid-May”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.

Coordinate terms

• public policy

Related terms

• private affairs
• political science
• policy

Translations

statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users

• Arabic: سياسة الخصوصية
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 隱私政策／隐私政策 (zh) (yǐnsī zhèngcè), 隐私政策 (zh) (yǐnsī zhèngcè), 隱私權原則／隐私权原则 (yǐnsīquán yuánzé), 隐私权原则 (yǐnsīquán yuánzé), 隱私策略／隐私策略 (yǐnsī cèlüè), 隐私策略 (yǐnsī cèlüè)

• Danish: privatlivspolitik c
• Dutch: privacybeleid n
• Finnish: yksityisyyskäytäntö, tietosuojakäytäntö, tietosuojaseloste
• French: politique de confidentialité
• Georgian: კონფიდენციალურობის პოლიტიკა (ḳonpidencialurobis ṗoliṭiḳa), კონფიდენციალობის დებულება (ḳonpidencialobis debuleba), კონფიდენციალურობის დებულება (ḳonpidencialurobis debuleba)
• German: Datenschutzrichtlinie (de)
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• Japanese: プライバシーポリシー (puraibashī porishī)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Malayalam: സ്വകാര്യതാനയം (svakāryatānayaṁ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: personvernerklæring m or f

• Portuguese: política de privacidade f
• Russian: политика конфиденциальности (politika konfidencialʹnosti)
• Spanish: política de privacidad f
• Swedish: integritetspolicy
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• privacy policy on Wikipedia.Wikipedia