diff --git a/docs/html/user_guide.rst b/docs/html/user_guide.rst
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--- a/docs/html/user_guide.rst
+++ b/docs/html/user_guide.rst
@@ -342,7 +342,7 @@ pip allows you to set all command line option defaults in a standard ini
style config file.
The names and locations of the configuration files vary slightly across
-platforms. You may have per-user, per-virtualenv or site-wide (shared amongst
+platforms. You may have per-user, per-virtualenv or global (shared amongst
all users) configuration:
**Per-user**:
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ variable ``PIP_CONFIG_FILE``.
* On Unix and macOS the file is :file:`$VIRTUAL_ENV/pip.conf`
* On Windows the file is: :file:`%VIRTUAL_ENV%\\pip.ini`
-**Site-wide**:
+**Global**:
* On Unix the file may be located in :file:`/etc/pip.conf`. Alternatively
it may be in a "pip" subdirectory of any of the paths set in the
@@ -380,17 +380,19 @@ variable ``PIP_CONFIG_FILE``.
:file:`C:\\Documents and Settings\\All Users\\Application Data\\pip\\pip.ini`
* On Windows 7 and later the file is hidden, but writeable at
:file:`C:\\ProgramData\\pip\\pip.ini`
-* Site-wide configuration is not supported on Windows Vista
+* Global configuration is not supported on Windows Vista.
+
+The global configuration file is shared by all Python installations.
If multiple configuration files are found by pip then they are combined in
the following order:
-1. The site-wide file is read
+1. The global file is read
2. The per-user file is read
3. The virtualenv-specific file is read
Each file read overrides any values read from previous files, so if the
-global timeout is specified in both the site-wide file and the per-user file
+global timeout is specified in both the global file and the per-user file
then the latter value will be used.
The names of the settings are derived from the long command line option, e.g.
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