Privacy requirements
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This section covers privacy and data requirements.
1 Policies
2 External access
These requirements pertain to the usage of third-party services.
3 External calls
- Game MUST NOT make external calls to any URLs or services, except where
explicitly required to comply with other Technical Requirements (i.e., to
call APIs owned by Google or YouTube).
- Game MUST NOT attempt to circumvent external call prevention.
4 User data
These requirements pertain to the access and handling of user data.
4.1 Clipboard
- Game MUST NOT access the user's clipboard, unless it is in response to a
player's explicit paste action.
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Last updated 2024-08-22 UTC.
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