Privacy Policy 
A Privacy Policy is usually included on a web site to explain how the web site / company deals with the privacy of it's users. If the web site uses cookies to gain information about users or has people's information because they have a members service, it is then useful to a privacy policy to inform users how they deal with this information. Of course not all web sites collect information about it's users, so not all web sites include a privacy policy.
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