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What should I do when I receive "4.1 Your app must comply with the following privacy-related requirements"

The most of us are developer; we are technical persons, which do their stuff better than anyone. But besides this, when we are developing a Windows Client application for Windows 8 (Metro App) we don’t need to forget about the legal stuff and similar things. We don’t like them, but we need to resolve them also.
If you have an application that use internet connection, access a backend server, share data with another 3th party like Facebook, Twitter or another system than we should have a simple privacy policy in our application.
From now one this is a MUST, even if in the past was optional. If you try to submit your application without privacy policy that you will receive a big reject with the following message:
"Your app doesn't meet requirement 4.1" (Privacy)
What I recommend, is to add a privacy policy even if you don’t thing that you store, share the user data. Why? Is safest for you and you don’t need to submit the application again if you will have this problem.
What should the privacy policy should contain? Depends, internet is full with a lot of privacy policy text. You can inspire from them, but I recommend to double check the text with someone from legal department or a lawyer.
After you have the privacy policy content, all that you have to do is to publish on your website. If your application don’t have a website, that you can create a blog and publish there the privacy policy. The good part with this is that: you can make anytime an update if the privacy policy without the need to create an update for your application.
When you create your application you will need to add a link in the setting page that will open a browser with the privacy policy. This can be done in different ways. If you have a base class for your pages, that you can override the “OnNavigateTo” method. The code should look something like this:
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e)
{

    SettingsPane.GetForCurrentView().CommandsRequested += (SettingsPane sender, SettingsPaneCommandsRequestedEventArgs args) =>  
      {
        IList<SettingsCommand> commands = requestEventArgs.Request.ApplicationCommands;
        if (commands.FirstOrDefault(x => x.Id.ToString().Equals("privacyPolicyCommand",StringComparison.CurrentCultureIgnoreCase)) != null)
        {
          return;
        }

        SettingsCommand privacyPref = new SettingsCommand("privacyPolicyCommand", "Privacy Policy", (uiCommand) =>
          {
            Windows.System.Launcher.LaunchUriAsync("http://mywebsite.com/privacypolicy.html");
          });
        requestEventArgs.Request.ApplicationCommands.Add(privacyPref);
      });

}
Cool, now we have in our Settings page of each page of our application a link to our privacy policy.
Next step is to add the link to our privacy policy page in the moment when we want to want to submit our applicant. There is a small input with “Privacy policy” label at the end of the page.
I hope that you will not have any kind of problems with 4.1 requirements. Good luck.

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