Working Draft

Date: Apr. 15, 2001
Link: http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P-preferences
Source Author or Organization: W3C

P3P is designed to inform users about the privacy policies of web services. The privacy policy enumerates the data elements that the service proposes to collect and explains how each will be used, with whom the data may be shared, and how long the data will be retained. Using the described APPEL language, a user can express preferences in a set of preference-rules called a ruleset, which can then be used make automated or semi-automated decisions regarding the acceptability of machine-readable privacy policies from P3P enabled Web sites.