privacy software data-ownership
I need to know if I need a privacy policy for a computer app
<p>make computer apps using Winforms and such the apps that i make are computer side only nothing gets stored off the computer nothing gets moved anywhere else lets say i have an app that needs your email and it just saves it inside the app itself after the user enters it without ever leaving or sending that information anywhere but in the computer itself would this require a privacy policy</p>

<p>So your privacy rules are &quot;nothing ever leaves the computer, and the only private information stored is the user's email address which is stored inside the application&quot;. So that's what goes into your privacy policy.</p>
<p>Normally a privacy policy would be viewable on your website, but you can also just add a menu item &quot;View Privacy Policy&quot; into your application, where you display the privacy policy.</p>
<p>As others mentioned in comments, what exactly is going on with that email address? If it isn't used, why is it stored? So I suppose you use it somehow. Put that into your privacy policy. &quot;Your email address is recorded so you can receive an email when a new version of the application becomes available&quot;, just as an example what could go into your privacy policy. If that's your only use obviously.</p>
