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achiral
achiral

Reputation: 601

iOS - App privacy issue

I am in the process of developing an iPad application for work and have been instructed to provide the following:

"The user must enter their email address to use the FULL application. They must also agree to the terms and conditions, which allows the application to send us the information they enter and give us permission to contact them about that information. If the user does not agree to this, he or she may use a LIMITED version of the application for free."

Does this raise any obvious privacy issues? I understand Apple doesn't like applications to force the sharing of personal information, but if it is optional can that information be used however the developer likes (so long as it is articulated to the user)?

Kind regards

Upvotes: 1

Views: 286

Answers (2)

Jack Humphries
Jack Humphries

Reputation: 13267

You will definitely have problems with Apple. They will reject apps that require users to share information in order use the app (especially if the app features do not depend on an email), and apps that require users to "set them up." If you make the email address optional and allow all users to access the all features of the app, you will not have a problem.

Upvotes: 1

Rajan Balana
Rajan Balana

Reputation: 3815

I did the same thing in one of my App, earlier what I did was I forced user to register before using the app. Apple Rejected it and they said registration should be optional and some of the features should be there for the users to be used in your app without registration.

Then I changed my app model to same like yours, I made registration for specific features and in the registration I collect email address and other type of data.

Apple do not have any problem with that. You have to provide a demo account for your App, so that Apple Review team can test it completely.

Thanks, Hope that experience helps :)

Upvotes: 1

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