Configure your App Privacy
App Privacy:
Since your app collects user data, you must disclose its privacy practices and data collection methods.
Check out Apple guide for more data collection information.
- Privacy Policy: Go to the App Privacy section, then click “Edit”.
Add your Privacy Policy URL link. Make sure to include the below points in your own privacy policy or create something similar by adjusting your own information, such as the company name, email, date, and so on.
Don't forget to add these policies points to your privacy policy page as Apple will reject your app if you didn't provide information on how you collect information from users.
Then click “Get Started” to begin adding all data types you collect from users:
Mark “Yes, we collect data from this app”, click “Next”.
Contact Info: If your app collects or shares a user's name, email address, phone number, physical address, etc.
Using these modules/features necessitates this policy:
Store/Payment Gateways
User profile => The user name is mandatory, and the rest depends on your choice for extra fields.
Login & Signup methods
Health & Fitness: If your app collects or shares health/fitness info.
Financial Info: This part is related to any payment that takes place in your app.
Using these modules/features necessitates this policy:
Store/Payment Gateways
Location: If your app collects or shares location.
Using these modules/features necessitates this policy:
Map search
Active channels/My channels/Channel List
My Groups/Chat Group/Group List
Store/Payment Gateways
Messenger
Video/Audio Calling
- Sensitive Info: If your app collects sensitive content.
Contacts: If your app collect or share contacts.
Using these modules/features necessitates this policy:
Contacts
Call Log
Active channels/My channels/Channel List
My Groups/Chat Group/Group List
Messenger
Video/Audio Calling
- User Content: If your app collects photos, videos, audios, or voice messages and requests media in customer support chats or channels.
Other User Content is Optional according to what extra content you collect as an app owner.
Using these modules/eatures necessitates this policy:
Active channels/My channels/Channel List
My Groups/Chat Group/Group List
Messenger
Video/Audio Calling
- Browsing History, Search History: you can skip this part.
Identifiers: mark “User ID” and “Device ID”.
Using these modules/features necessitates this policy:
User profile => The user name is mandatory, and the rest depends on your choice for extra fields.
Purchases: If your app has purchase transactions.
Using these modules/features necessitates this policy:
Store/Payment Gateways
Usage Data: You can skip this part.
Diagnostics: [MANDATORY] mark "Crash Data".
Other Data: You can skip this part.
Then click "Save".
Then you need to set up the data you selected:
- Contact Info: [Names- Email Address - Phone Number - Physical Address - Other User Contact Info]
Click “Set Up Name”.
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“Yes, names collected from this app are linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use names for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
[Mark the same answers for any type of Contact Info]
Financial Info: [Payment Info]
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“Yes, payment info collected from this app is linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use payment info for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
Location: [Precise Location - Coarse Location]
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“No, precise location collected from this app is not linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use the precise location for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
[Mark the same answers for Coarse Location]
Contacts:
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“Yes, contacts collected from this app are linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use contacts for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
User Content: [Photos or Videos - Audio Data - Customer Support]
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“No, photos or videos collected from this app are not linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use photos or videos for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
[Mark the same answers for any type of User Content]
Purchases:
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“No, purchase history data collected from this app is not linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use purchase history data for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
Identifiers: [User ID - Device ID]
[MANDATORY]
For User ID set up you add, mark “App functionality”,
“Yes, user IDs collected from this app are linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use user IDs for tracking purposes”,
and click “Save”.
[MANDATORY]
For Device ID set up you add, mark “App functionality”,
“No, device IDs collected from this app are not linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use device IDs for tracking purposes”,
and click “Publish”.
Diagnostics: [Crash Data]
[MANDATORY]
Mark “App functionality”,
“No, crash data collected from this app is not linked to the user’s identity”,
“No, we do not use crash data for tracking purposes”,
and click “Publish”.
And finally, click “Publish”.
Now Apple will take a walk through your app to review and check that every setting up you made matches your app. Make sure you monitor your mailbox as Apple will notify you by warning you with errors if there's a missing step, such as choosing countries you want to release your app in.
Once reviewed, your app will be published automatically.
If you choose to manually release your version, you'll have to click 'Release This Version' manually. That means that Apple has reviewed your app and agreed to submit it to their store.
Updated 12 months ago