Blocks submissionApp Store

A VPN app uses NEVPNManager, declares data use on a screen first, and commits to sell nothing

The question The executable carries VPN code. Does it use NEVPNManager? Is the developer an organisation? Does a screen before any purchase or use say what data is collected and how it is used? Does the privacy policy commit to never selling, using or disclosing data to third parties? Are licence details in the review notes where required?

A person or a model answers it from the app's texts and screens; the answer is kept only while the facts it saw are unchanged.

Applies when signal:vpn

Checked from built, not yet uploaded, on a test track, submitted and in review, published

The rule, in our words

• App Review Guidelines: A VPN app must use NEVPNManager, come from an organisation-enrolled developer, declare on a screen before any purchase or use what data is collected and how it is used, never sell, use or disclose data to third parties and say so in its privacy policy, obey local law, and give licence details in the review notes where a territory requires one.

Okkok never stores the stores' text. Each item above is our paraphrase, and the link is the page it rests on, verified unchanged by fingerprint on every run.

The other store

• Apple requires a data-declaration screen before any purchase or use and a no-disclosure promise in the privacy policy; Google requires encryption, listing documentation and no traffic manipulation. partial
• none. same
• none on the principle that network tunnelling must be the app's declared purpose. same

Check your app

pip install git+https://github.com/petresandu-cloud/okkok
okkok audit path/to/app

The report names this rule as apple.5.4.vpn and says what to do, who does it, where, and how it knows.