privacy policy
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.30 in modern English
30
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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.
Example Sentences
- "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 surveillance policies, and that is what I suggest we call them."
- "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."