The Platform for Privacy Preferences Project (P3P) is a specification from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) that enables Web sites to post their privacy practices in a machine-readable format (that is, a format that can be interpreted by user agents, such as Web browsers or proxy servers). P3P user agents can inform users about a site's data collection practices and allow users to either accept or reject data transfer based on their own preferences. This also frees users from having to read the privacy policies at every site they visit.
A Web site publishes its privacy policy in an XML format in accordance with the P3P specification. The P3P Policy Editor is a visual tool for creating a privacy policy that conforms to the W3C specification. The editor also creates an HTML-formatted, human-readable version of the policy. Use this version to review your policy to ensure that it is consistent with your organization's stated privacy practices.
For more information on deploying your P3P policies, as well as information which will help you with creating the policies, see the W3C's P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.
For more information about P3P and the latest specification, visit the W3C Web site at http://www.w3.org/P3P/ . This version of the P3P editor is based on the P3P 1.0 Recommendation dated 16 April 2002. This Recommendation is available on the web at http://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/.