Privacy Statement for the Information Rights Management feature in Office

This article describes where to find the Privacy Statement for the Information Rights Management (IRM) feature in 2007 Microsoft Office Suites and in Microsoft Office 2003.

Office 2003

Microsoft Office Professional Edition 2003 provides the IRM feature to help organizations and employees protect and have more control over digital information.

The IRM feature in Office Professional Edition 2003 can help to protect sensitive internal business information, such as confidential planning documents or financial reports. You can set policies that wield more control over who can open, copy, print, or forward information that is created in Microsoft Office Word 2003, Microsoft Office Excel 2003, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003, and Microsoft Office Outlook 2003.

To read the Privacy Statement for Microsoft Office Online, including IRM, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

2007 Office suites

You can find the Privacy Statement through the 2007 Office interface.

To read the Privacy Statement for Microsoft Office Online, including IRM, use one of the following methods:

Method 1

1. Click the Microsoft Office Button.
2. Click OfficeProgram Options, where OfficeProgram is the name of the Office program that you are using.
3. In the left pane, click Trust Center.
4. Under Protecting your privacy, click one of the following links:
   • Microsoft Office Online privacy statement
   • Show the Microsoft Office Word privacy statement

Method 2 (Microsoft Office OneNote)

On the Help menu, click Privacy Statement.

Method 3 (Microsoft Office InfoPath)

1. On the Help menu, click Privacy Options.
2. Click Read our privacy statement.