Facebook is overhauling the presentation of its privacy policy, claiming it wants to make it easier to understand for its users.
The world's most popular social networking site is putting its 500 million plus users to good use too, asking them for feedback on the best way to present the information.
"Many websites' privacy policies are challenging for people to understand because they are often written for regulators and privacy advocates, not the majority of people who actually use those websites," the company said in a blog post on the site governance section.
"Our own privacy policy has been criticised as being "5830 words of legalese" and "longer than the US constitution without the amendments." Okay, you're right. We agree that privacy policies can and should be more easily understood, and that inspired us to try something different."
The blog continued to say it planned to make privacy policies "easy to understand," "visual and interactive" and "relevant" to the questions users wanted answered.
To this end, Facebook has designed a new page with targeted headings, aiming to aid users find the information they need, as well as a tool putting them in the place of an advertiser so they can see how the ad targeting process works.
Once users have had a look around, there is a feedback form to send back their thoughts to the designers instantly.
The privacy policies themselves have not changed, according to the blog, but in the company's "effort to simplify" some new elements have been added to make "concepts clearer."
This new way of viewing privacy policy is not set in stone but Facebook concluded it would "consider making it our official policy" if feedback was positive.
