Do I have to include a privacy policy even if the only network thing that my app does is purchase from the Windows Store itself? [closed]

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The rule 4.1 of the Windows Store says:

4.1 Your app must comply with the following privacy-related requirements:

4.1.1 Your app must have a privacy statement if it is network-capable

If your app has the technical ability to transmit data, you must maintain a privacy policy. You must provide access to your privacy policy in the Description page of your app, as well as in the app’s settings as displayed in the Windows Settings charm.

App capability declarations that make your app network-capable include: internetClient, internetClientServer and privateNetworkClientServer.

Your privacy policy must inform users of the personal information transmitted by your app and how that information is used, stored, secured and disclosed, and describe the controls that users have over the use and sharing of their information, how they may access their information, and it must comply with applicable laws and regulations.

In order to be able to do in-app purchases from the Windows Store itself, unless I'm mistaken you have to enable Internet capabilities.

This would mean that even if the only network-related thing I intend to do are the in-app purchases, I have to include a privacy policy anyway.

(and if this is correct, that would be understandable: if I enable Internet, the access is unrestricted, so my app could also do other things)

So, am I missing something, or is it really so (maybe instead of those permissions there are some more-specific ones)?

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Yes, whenever you are using the internet access capability, you have to give a privacy policy as users have to know why and how the connection is used.