Analyzing the Privacy Policy of XYZ Company: A Detailed Report

This report provides an analysis of the privacy policy of XYZ Company, focusing on key aspects of data handling and user privacy. The report outlines the types of data collected, including contact information, user-generated content, and billing details. It details how the company discloses this information, such as to third-party services and in response to legal requests. The report further examines user rights regarding accessing, modifying, and deleting their data, as well as the company's policies on third-party content and account closure. Additionally, the report addresses policy changes and contact information for user inquiries. The document aims to provide a clear understanding of how XYZ Company protects user data and ensures compliance with privacy standards, referencing relevant literature on social media privacy and data security.

Running head: PRIVACY POLICY OF XYZ COMPANY
Privacy Policy of XYZ Company
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The social media companies have attracted millions of users now days and have become
very popular places to keep contact with the old and new person. Due to this, millions of user
data are saved there on the social media websites and their company. This is why there should be
a strong privacy policy to protect and secure the personal information of the users (Ruths &
Pfeffer, 2014). This paper aims to discuss about the privacy policy of the XYZ Company for
making their privacy system strong.
The Privacy policies are applied on the user’s personal data, which is collected by the
XYZ Company. The list should be covered in the proposed privacy policies that is going to
implement in the organization for securing and protecting the information such as:
Part 1: Types of collected information
The XYZ Company collects only the following types of data when any user access to
their service:
 Contact information
 User name and password
 Work title and information related to work
 Location
 Text messages and photos
 Billing information
 Ideas or feedback sent to the company
Part 2: Disclosure of Information
The company discloses the data collected in some of the following ways such as:

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 To the third-party websites, apps which the user can connect through
 To the third-party providers which helps in assisting the provided service (Coiera,
2013)
 In connection with the corporate transaction service
 For protecting and securing the safety of the users
 In the connection with the warrant, subpoena and discovery order from the agency
of law enforcement.
Part 3: Accessing and modifying the information
The company and the users of their service will be able to access, delete or correct the
information, which the users will upload (Custers, van der Hof & Schermer, 2014). If any users
is not use the tool that is provided by the company he or she should directly contact the company
for accessing or modifying the information.
Part 4: Third part content and links
The service should consist of the links to the content that will be maintained by the third
party. The company will not have any control on that.
Part 5: Account Closure
If any users wants to stop the service the company will have to suspend the account and
delete the information which will be associated with the account.
Part 6: Privacy Policy Change
When any policy will change, then the last update date will be below amended and the
new policies must be posted online (Ur & Wang, 2013).

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Part 7: Contact
If any users have any query about the privacy policy, then the users should be able to
contact with the company.
The above listed aspects are the general philosophy behind the proposed philosophy that
will help in keeping the data secure and avoiding the misuse of the information of the users. The
list is suggested as to make the privacy policy understand and easy for every user to understand
that how their information is collected how their information will be used. The users should not
face trouble while using the service or understanding the policies so that the users become able to
use the service properly by following the guidelines of the company.

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References
Coiera, E. (2013). Social networks, social media, and social diseases. Bmj, 346, f3007.
Custers, B., van der Hof, S., & Schermer, B. (2014). Privacy expectations of social media users:
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Ruths, D., & Pfeffer, J. (2014). Social media for large studies of behavior. Science, 346(6213),
1063-1064.
Ur, B., & Wang, Y. (2013, May). A cross-cultural framework for protecting user privacy in
online social media. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on World Wide
Web (pp. 755-762). ACM.