P3P Policy Editor Help

The main editor window consists of three panes. The Data Elements pane shows all of the data elements and data sets that you can declare in your policy. Data is declared when you move it into a group in the Groups pane. In both panes, you can right-click an object to display a menu of actions that can be performed on that object.

The Your Policy pane displays the results of changes you have made in the editor. If you make a change in the policy that is not reflected in the bottom pane, click the Refresh icon to ensure you have the latest view.

Data Elements

This pane displays data sets and data elements that you can use in your policy. You can use the base data elements and categories provided by the editor or create new data elements. After you find or create a data element that describes the kind of data you want to declare in your policy, move the element to a group in the Groups pane of the editor. You can also move an entire data set into a group.

Data Elements Tool bar

Move Moves a selected data set or data element into a selected group. Only enabled when both the source data and the target group are selected.
Create Data Set Creates a new data set in the All Data Elements tree.
Create Data Element Creates a new data element for the selected data set. Only enabled when a data set that you created is selected (that is, not one of the base data sets or categories).
Cut Cuts a selected data element into the editor's clipboard to be pasted into another data set.
Copy Copies a selected data element into the editor's clipboard to be pasted into another data set or group.
Paste Pastes the contents of the editor's clipboard into a selected data set.
Delete Immediately removes a selected data set or data element without a confirmation prompt.
Properties Displays the properties of a selected data element or data set.

Groups

This pane shows the data that is declared in your policy. All data must be in one or more data groups. You can create as many groups as necessary for your policy.

Groups Tool bar

Up Arrow Moves the selected data group up or the selected data element up in the group.
Down Arrow Moves the selected data group down or the selected data element down in the group.
Data Group Creates a new data group.
Cut Cuts a selected data element into the editor's clipboard to be pasted into another data group.
Copy Copies a selected data element into the editor's clipboard to be pasted into another data group.
Paste Pastes the contents of the editor's clipboard into a selected data group.
Delete Immediately removes a selected data group without a confirmation prompt.
Properties Displays the properties of a selected data group.

Your Policy

This pane shows different views of your policy. The policy cannot be changed in any of the tabs; they are simply for displaying the policy.

Your Policy tabs

Policy Elements
Displays data elements that have been declared in the policy (members of a data group). The columns can be moved by dragging them by the heading to the left or right and they can be resized by dragging the border. The Purpose and Recipient properties are set for the data group to which the policy element belongs. The Optional property can be set for each element within a group. See declaring data for instructions about changing these properties.
HTML Policy
Displays an HTML-formatted text version of your policy. Changes can be applied to this tab only by changing a policy element or a global property. You can, however, save the HTML in a file that you can change in another editor. Changes to that file do not affect what is displayed in the HTML tab.
XML Policy
Displays your privacy policy as formatted in XML according to the P3P specification. This XML is written to disk when you save your changes to a policy.
Compact Policy
Displays a summarized version of the policy. Compact policies are a performance optimization that allow user agents to make quick, synchronous decisions about applying the policy. In P3P 1.0, compact policies contain policy information related only to cookies collected at the site. The display lists the entries which will go into the compact policy and describes each one. To save the compact policy, click File --> Save Compact Policy As from the menu bar.
Errors
Displays policy errors and warnings.

Your Policy tool bar

Refresh Refreshes the display in the tabs according to any changes you have made.
Copy Copies text selected from the HTML Policy, XML Policy, Errors or Compact Policy tabs into the system clipboard.
Properties Displays the global properties of your policy.

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