Submission Rejected stating - 5.1.1 Gender

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webloop OP

Created Feb ’20

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Hi All,

Recently my team had sumitted an educational App in which we provide help to students getting admission in best possible college for them.

but Apple Review team rejected submission stating that we have violated privacy policy section 5.1.1 - Gender (Collecting user inforamation),

then after we updated our policy for the same and also provided one section inside app dedicated to privacy policy.

After that we submitted app, Again they rejected submission for same issue.

Rejection:

From Apple

5. 1.1 Legal: Privacy - Data Collection and Storage

Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage

We noticed that your app requires users to register with personal information that is not directly relevant to your app’s core functionality. Specifically, the following fields are required but do not appear to be directly relevant to your app’s core functionality:

- Gender

Any help would be appreciated.

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Answer 1

bg2b OP

Feb ’20

You haven't provided much to go on, but whatever information you collect has to be needed for some reason. Just disclosing that you're collecting something and linking to the privacy policy in the app doesn't give you a free pass. Since most colleges nowadays are coed, maybe you don't need gender information at all. If your app, e.g., did some sort of profile and then suggested a list of colleges, you could make the list while ignoring gender. When you present the list, you perhaps have little indications already for things like public/private, in-state/out-of-state, 2-year/4-year, etc., and you could just add another indicator for those few colleges that are not coed.

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Answer 2

PBK OP

Feb ’20

You can't 'require' this field since it is really not a core functionality (in the opinion of App Review). You can make this field optional and explain why the user should fill in this field. Or you could explain to App Review why gender parsing is a core functionality of your app.

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