What Adapty means for your app's privacy disclosures

Adapty is subscription and payment infrastructure. What it involves, whether it needs the tracking prompt, what goes on the App Store labels and the Play Data safety form, and the rejection it is usually behind.

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What Adapty actually does

Subscription infrastructure with paywall testing and revenue analytics together.

What its job necessarily involves

These follow from what the thing is for, so they are true whichever version you installed:

What to open and check in Adapty

The settings below decide what the honest answer on the forms is, and they are specific to this SDK rather than to its category:

Adapty does not need the tracking prompt

Taking money is not tracking. So Adapty does not on its own require App Tracking Transparency. That is a statement about this SDK, not about your app: add one ad network or one attribution tool and the prompt applies to everything.

Adapty in Europe: runs on necessity

You cannot deliver the service without it, so Adapty generally rests on the contract with your user rather than on consent. Say plainly in the policy that it is a processor, what it does, and where it runs.

Adapty in California: probably not a sale

Adapty does its job for you rather than for its own commercial purposes, which normally keeps it a service provider rather than a sale. That depends on your contract saying so, and the standard terms usually do.

Adapty on the App Store privacy labels

Apple asks what your app collects, and your app collects whatever its SDKs collect. Adapty is generally declared under App Functionality, alongside whatever the rest of your app does for its own reasons.

Adapty on the Google Play Data safety form

The form asks two things the labels do not: whether data is shared with anyone else, and whether it is encrypted in transit. For this SDK the honest answer is usually collected but not shared, because it processes on your behalf.

Check Adapty's own privacy manifest for Adapty

Since 2024 Apple has required third-party SDKs on its list to ship a signed privacy manifest declaring what they collect and which sensitive APIs they use, and your app's combined manifest is built from them. That file is the authoritative answer for Adapty, it comes from Adapty, and it changes when they ship.

The rejection Adapty is usually behind

Connecting an attribution source moved the integration into advertising and nothing downstream was updated.

What to put in the privacy policy about Adapty

Keeping it true after launch

A legal page stops being true the moment the product moves past it, usually by adding a payment provider, an analytics SDK or a sign-in. No store re-checks your pages against your build, so the drift is yours to notice.

Common questions

Do I need a privacy policy just because I use Adapty?

Yes, and you needed one anyway. Both stores ask for the URL before a listing goes live, whatever the app does. The SDK changes what the policy has to say, not whether you need one.

Does Adapty put me over the line into tracking?

Not by itself. The question is always about your app as a whole, so it is the other things you installed that decide the answer.

Does removing the SDK fix a rejection?

Usually yes and it is the fastest route, but only if you also correct the labels and the form. Reviewers compare what you declared against what the binary contains, and a stale declaration fails on its own.