"privacy policy" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: privacy policies [plural]
Etymology: * privacy + policy Etymology templates: {{compound|en|privacy|policy}} privacy + policy Head templates: {{en-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. Categories (topical): Law Related terms: private affairs, political science, policy Coordinate_terms: public policy Translations (statement detailing policies that an organization uses to collect information about users): سياسة الخصوصية (Arabic), 隱私政策 (Chinese Mandarin), 隐私政策 (yǐnsī zhèngcè) (Chinese Mandarin), 隱私權原則 (Chinese Mandarin), 隐私权原则 (yǐnsīquán yuánzé) (Chinese Mandarin), 隱私策略 (Chinese Mandarin), 隐私策略 (yǐnsī cèlüè) (Chinese Mandarin), privatlivspolitik [common-gender] (Danish), privacybeleid [neuter] (Dutch), yksityisyyskäytäntö (Finnish), tietosuojakäytäntö (Finnish), tietosuojaseloste (Finnish), politique de confidentialité (French), კონფიდენციალურობის პოლიტიკა (ḳonpidencialurobis ṗoliṭiḳa) (Georgian), კონფიდენციალობის დებულება (ḳonpidencialobis debuleba) (Georgian), კონფიდენციალურობის დებულება (ḳonpidencialurobis debuleba) (Georgian), Datenschutzrichtlinie (German), Datenschutzerklärung [feminine] (German), プライバシーポリシー (puraibashī porishī) (Japanese), സ്വകാര്യതാനയം (svakāryatānayaṁ) (Malayalam), personvernerklæring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), política de privacidade [feminine] (Portuguese), политика конфиденциальности (politika konfidencialʹnosti) (Russian), política de privacidad [feminine] (Spanish), integritetspolicy (Swedish), patakaran sa pagkapribado (Tagalog)

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.