Apple's Privacy Manifest files¶
Introduction¶
Apple's new privacy requirements center around documenting the data collected by your app, referred to as the Privacy Manifest. This manifest provides details on the data categories collected by your app and third-party SDKs, along with the purposes behind data collection.
Third-party SDKs must include a privacy manifest file named PrivacyInfo.xcprivacy. This property list records the data types collected and the reasons for using corresponding APIs.
Do I need to update the manifest when integrating with Usercentrics SDK?¶
No, we do not collect any data deemed by Apple as significant for inclusion in the manifest.
Although, Apple mandates the use of the required reason API, as detailed on their developer documentation page.
Usercentrics incorporates the PrivacyManifest into our Core SDK, ensuring that no additional steps are necessary for customers to submit their apps to the App Store.
The APIs being used by Usercentrics SDKs are:
mach_absolute_time- Reason: 35F9.1 - Access the system boot time in order to measure the amount of time that has elapsed between events that occurred within the app or to perform calculations to enable timers.
NSUserDefaults- Reason: CA92.1 - Access user defaults to read and write information that is only accessible to the app itself.
stat- Reason: C617.1 - Access the timestamps, size, or other metadata of files inside the app container, app group container, or the app’s CloudKit container.
More information¶
Data collection practices are organized into categories like Contact Info, Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Location, Sensitive Info, Contacts, User Content, Browsing History, Identifiers, Purchases, Usage Data, Diagnostics, and Other Data Types, each encompassing specific data types.
The reasons for data collection that require reporting fall into the following purposed: Third-Party Advertising, Developer’s Advertising or Marketing, Analytics, Product Personalization, App Functionality and Other Purposes.
We recommend to follow Apple guidelines and privacy policies. You can find more information in their public documentation.