The phrase "a private document" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a document that is intended for limited access or confidentiality.
Example: "Please ensure that a private document is stored securely to prevent unauthorized access."
Alternatives: "a confidential document" or "a personal document".
Michael Jackson reportedly used one in his living trust, a private document that disposed of most of his assets.
It was both a private document of their passion and une enterprise de seduction, designed to ensnare--her word--a highly sophisticated man.
'He went to the public library and sat down to await his death,' Casserley wrote in a private document prepared for Hills's solicitor, Janet Dalton.
But in a private document, he considered all possible ways of applying torque to a wheel, and deduced the correct principle.
The complaint, which a Coach spokeswoman said was considered a private document by the Japanese commission, tells which department stores were purportedly threatened, she said.
The dossier wasn't something he felt he could revise and publish; it was a private document and, because it was strictly factual, it was more a catalogue than a memoir.
The documents captured in the surveillance effort — including confidential letters to at least a half-dozen Congressional offices and oversight committees, drafts of legal filings and grievances, and personal e-mails — were posted on a public Web site, apparently by mistake, by a private document-handling contractor that works for the F.D.A.
Granted, it would only share these files with contacts you'd previously interacted with, and not the entire world, but this did little to ameliorate the issue – in some cases it would be better to share a supposedly private document with a stranger than a coworker.
Crucially, they have also avoided the airing of any private documents that might have emerged in an open court case.
"This can be made to look like a scandal only because the private document was not phrased as carefully as it would have been, had it been intended for public discussion," he wrote in a response published by The Guardian.
The company has hired Allen & Company to represent them in the transaction, and has been distributing a private placement document to potential investors.
