--- title: App Privacy Policy Generator url: https://tools.usappteam.com/tools/app-privacy-policy-generator/ date: 2026-07-29 --- # App Privacy Policy Generator A free browser tool that turns a short questionnaire into a complete, ready-to-host privacy policy for an iOS, Android or web app — and then translates the same answers into the exact selections Apple's App Privacy questionnaire and Google Play's Data safety form expect. Everything runs as JavaScript in the visitor's own tab: nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and there is no signup or email gate. ## How to use it 1. Enter the app name, company or developer name, contact email, optional website, and effective date. 2. Choose platforms (iOS, Android, web) and say whether the app has user accounts. 3. Tick every category of personal data the app collects: name, email, phone, postal address, photos, precise or approximate location, contacts, health data, payment information, usage and analytics data, device identifiers, crash logs. 4. Tick the third-party services actually bundled: Sign in with Apple, Google Sign-In, Firebase, Google Analytics, Crashlytics, Stripe, RevenueCat, AdMob, the Meta SDK, Sentry, push notifications. 5. Answer the sharing, selling, children-under-13 and region questions, then set retention and the deletion route. 6. Read the live preview, then copy as plain text or HTML, or download .html or .md. 7. Switch to the Store form cheat sheet tab before filling in App Store Connect and the Play Console. ## What the generated policy contains Introduction and who publishes the app; information we collect (only the ticked categories, written as prose); how we use it, with the purposes derived from the ticked data and SDKs; legal bases for processing (GDPR only); third-party services, each named individually with a one-line description of what it processes and a link to its own privacy policy; how we share information, including an explicit statement on selling and cross-context behavioural advertising; retention period and deletion route; security, including a PCI note when payment data is collected; general privacy rights; additional GDPR rights; additional CCPA/CPRA rights; children's privacy, switching to a COPPA-specific block when the app is directed at under-13s; international data transfers, with Standard Contractual Clauses language when GDPR is ticked; changes to the policy; and contact details. Sections appear only when the answers call for them. Ticking nothing under "what the app collects" produces a genuine no-collection policy rather than a template full of hedges. ## What Apple and Google actually require **A privacy policy URL is mandatory on both stores.** Apple requires one in App Store Connect under App Information for every app, including free apps that collect no data. Google requires one in the Play Console under App content. The URL must be publicly reachable without a login, must not redirect to an app or a paywall, and must stay live — both stores fetch it automatically and flag dead links. **Apple's App Privacy "nutrition label."** In App Store Connect you first answer whether you or your third-party partners collect data. If yes, you declare each data type from Apple's fixed taxonomy — Contact Info, Health & Fitness, Financial Info, Location, Sensitive Info, Contacts, User Content, Browsing History, Search History, Identifiers, Purchases, Usage Data, Diagnostics, Other Data. For every type you also declare the purpose (App Functionality, Analytics, Product Personalization, Third-Party Advertising, Developer's Advertising, Other), whether it is **linked to the user's identity**, and whether it is **used for tracking**. Data collected by an SDK you bundle counts as data you collect. **What counts as tracking.** Apple defines tracking as linking data from your app with data collected by other companies' apps, websites or offline properties for targeted advertising or advertising measurement, or sharing data with a data broker. Bundling AdMob or the Meta SDK almost always means tracking. If you declare tracking you must call App Tracking Transparency and receive permission before accessing the advertising identifier; declaring tracking without ever showing the prompt is a common rejection. Analytics used only inside your own app is not tracking. **Google Play's Data safety section.** Play uses its own taxonomy — Personal info, Financial info, Health and fitness, Messages, Photos and videos, Audio, Files and docs, Calendar, Contacts, App activity, Web browsing, App info and performance, Device or other IDs. For each type you declare whether it is collected, whether it is **shared**, whether collection is required or optional, and the purposes. On Play, "shared" means transferred to a separate company for that company's own use; sending data to a provider that processes it only on your instructions is not sharing, but an ad network targeting ads with your identifiers is. You must also answer whether all data is encrypted in transit and whether users can request deletion. Apps with accounts additionally need a public account-deletion URL. **Where the two forms disagree, you get rejected.** The most common cause is a policy that says one thing and a store form that says another — for example a policy that never mentions analytics next to a Data safety form declaring App interactions. Fill both from the same source of truth. ## Where to host the policy URL A page on your own domain is best — `yourdomain.com/privacy` — because it survives app rebrands and never expires. With no site yet, a GitHub Pages page, a published Notion page, or a Google Sites page all satisfy both stores. Use the same URL in App Store Connect, in the Play Console, and in the app's own settings screen, and keep the effective date current whenever you change the document. ## Questions **Does Apple require a privacy policy URL?** Yes, for every app on the App Store, without exception. **Is this legal advice?** No. It is a starting template generated from your answers. Have a lawyer review it before launch. **Is anything uploaded?** No. The generator runs entirely in the browser tab; nothing is sent anywhere or saved. **Do I need to redo this after adding an SDK?** Yes — a new SDK changes what leaves the device, which changes the policy and both store forms. ## About US APP Team US APP Team builds custom mobile apps for founders and small businesses — idea to live on the App Store and Google Play, done for you, fixed price, and you own everything including the code. Store submission, the privacy forms above included, is part of the launch work. Start a brief at https://usappteam.com/app-brief or book a call at https://usappteam.com/book-call