Data safety and app privacy: what the developer declared

Both stores ask the developer to say what the app does with a user's data and print the answer on the public page. Google calls it Data safety, Apple calls it App Privacy. On 6 November 2026 this desk read both for the three listings. The table quotes the declarations; the text explains what each store says about the status of those words.

The declarations, as the pages print them

One row per statement. The Play lines are the Data safety summary; the App Store lines are the label's groups with their categories.

What Google Play says its block is

The block begins with a paragraph that Google prints on every listing: “Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.” The last sentence is the one to keep in mind. The block is a declaration written by the developer and shown by the store; it is not a measurement made by Google of what the app does.

Under it the page prints four lines for the app under FXPRO GROUP LIMITED: it “this app may share these data types with third parties” — “Personal info, Financial info and 4 others” — and “this app may collect these data types” — “Personal info, Financial info and 4 others”; “Data is encrypted in transit”; and “You can request that data be deleted”. “And 4 others” is the page's own shorthand: it names two categories and counts the rest without naming them on this part of the page.

The second Play listing says something different

The page of the app titled FxPro Global: Trading Broker, published under Pro Global Ltd, prints “No data shared with third parties” and “No data collected”, with the same two lines that data is encrypted in transit and that deletion can be requested. Read literally, the two Play listings of one brand declare opposite things about collection: the first says personal and financial information may be collected and shared; the second says no data is collected or shared.

This site cannot tell whether the apps differ in what they do, whether the declarations were filled in on different assumptions or whether one is out of date. It reports the contrast, with the date, and leaves the question open. A reader who needs to know should ask the developer, through the privacy policy link on the page.

What Apple says its label is

The App Store's block opens: “The developer, Pro Global Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.” The detail view behind it adds that the information has not been verified by Apple. That is the store saying, in its own words, that the label is the developer's account of the app.

The label has three groups. Under “Data Used to Track You” it lists Identifiers, Usage Data. Under “Data Linked to You” it lists 8 categories: Financial Info, Contact Info, User Content, Identifiers, Usage Data, Sensitive Info, Diagnostics, Other Data. Under “Data Not Linked to You” it lists Diagnostics. The page's own wording for the first two groups is that the data “may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies” and “may be collected and linked to your identity”.

Reading the two stores together

Put side by side, the declarations are not identical, and they are not meant to be: the two stores ask different questions in different formats. The Play block for the first listing and the App Store label both say that financial and personal or contact information may be collected; the second Play listing says nothing is collected. The App Store label adds a group, data used to track you, that the Play block has no direct equivalent for.

What the declarations do not contain is the answer to the question a reader usually has: what happens to documents and photographs sent during an identity check, and how long they are kept. That question is answered, if at all, in the privacy policy the pages link to, and in the account documents. Neither was read here, because this site reads only public store pages and one public text file of the broker.

What a reader can do with it

Read the declaration before installing, not after. If a category on the label is something you do not want to give, the store page tells you before you have given it. Open the privacy policy the page links to; the first Play listing links one on fxpro.com. Look for what the declaration says about deletion: the Play block says that you can request that data be deleted; the lines read here do not say how.

None of this needs an account. It is the one part of an app that the stores make public before you decide, and reading it costs a few minutes.

The limits of the declaration pages

A declaration is a statement of intent by the developer at a moment in time. It is not a security audit, not a certificate and not a promise about the future; Google says the developer “may update it over time”. It also says little about the broker as a company: the legal entity that holds an account, the regulator that supervises it and the country whose courts apply are matters of the account documents, not of a store page.