A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data.
A privacy policy is a simple set of statements that lets website visitors know what kind of information is being collected and what the website intends to do with that information. The issue of privacy is of much concern to many visitors. It's possible to gather personal information using various online forms, and what happens after that may raise suspicions about potential violations of privacy or misuse of personal information.