Link url paths change from within the 'user' area I have made a block for a footer which contains 2 simple links. The html code is as follows:

&lt;div class="privacyTerms"&gt;
&lt;a href="privacy"&gt;PRIVACY-POLICY&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href="terms"&gt;TERMS &amp;amp; CONDITIONS&lt;/a&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;


The links work fine as long as i click on them while being anywhere on the website BESIDES the user profile. BUT, as soon as i try to click the links while in my user profile, instead of the URL pointing to "/privacy" or "/terms", the system appends a "/user/" path before the link. So the link becomes as follows: "/user/privacy" and "/user/terms". If i try to access it i get a Access denied. 
I cannot for the life of me! figure out why this is happening.....
What am i missing?
Drupal 7

Thanks for your help!!
Modify your href from

&lt;a href="privacy"&gt;


and 

&lt;a href="terms"&gt;


to

&lt;a href="/privacy"&gt;


and

&lt;a href="/terms"&gt;


Notice the slash. That means the path is relative to your base url instead of being relative to your current path.