P3P Recipient Definitions
P3P defines a number of recipients for data. The following are
the definitions of those recipients, taken directly from the P3P specification.
- Ourselves and/or our agents
(
<ours>
)
- An agent in this instance
is defined as a third party that processes data only on behalf of the
service provider for the completion of the stated purposes. (e.g., the
service provider and its printing bureau which prints address labels and
does nothing further with the information.)
- Delivery services
(
<delivery>
)
- Legal entities performing delivery services
that may use data for purposes other than completion of the stated
purpose. This should also be used for delivery services whose data
practices are unknown. If the delivery services are bound to only
use the data for purposes of delivering the product(s) requested by
the user, then they are covered by "Ourselves and/or our agents".
- Other organizations following our practices
(
<same>
)
- Legal
entities who use the data on their own behalf under equable practices.
(e.g., consider a service provider that grants the user access to
collected personal information, and also provides it to a partner who
uses it once but discards it. Since the recipient, who has otherwise
similar practices, cannot grant the user access to information that it
discarded, they are considered to have equable practices.)
- Other organizations following different practices
(
<other-recipient>
)
- Legal
entities that are constrained by and accountable to the original service
provider, but may use the data in a way not specified in the service
provider's practices (e.g., the service provider collects data that is
shared with a partner who may use it for other purposes. However, it is
in the service provider's interest to ensure that the data is not used
in a way that would be considered abusive to the users' and its own
interests.)
- Unrelated third parties
(
<unrelated>
)
- Legal entities whose data
usage practices are not known by the original service provider.
- General public
(
<public>
)
- Public forums such as bulletin boards,
public directories, or commercial CD-ROM directories.