Consider legal aspects of your mobile
Posted: Sun Dec 22, 2024 7:27 am
app from the very beginning
Our experience dictates that legal aspects are often omitted in the app development process. Meanwhile, the right path is to take them into account from the very beginning – at Product Discovery stage, while designing the User Journey Map. Why? Because it may turn out that:
it is necessary to design additional functionalities, e.g. check-boxes or space for making the license agreement available;
it is necessary to redesign some screens, e.g. when usa email address list determining which user data we collect.
Thanks to legal monitoring over an application from the very start of its creation, the lawyer, when discovering new directions of app development, is able to determine which solutions are legal and how to design them in line with the provisions of both national or European law.
It will increase the safety of the entrepreneur responsible for the contents of the application. Also, it will help to avoid the additional costs of redesigning the application after it is finished.
3. Privacy Policy & Data Protection
What legal requirements should you meet in connection with personal data protection?
Ensuring the security of processing users’ personal data is one of your fundamental legal obligations. The specific requirements depend on the country of distribution of your app. For instance, if you would like your application to be available to European users, you need to fulfill the legal requirements for applications imposed by GDPR, and if you would additionally like your app to be downloaded by users below the age of 13 in the USA, you need to meet the legal requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
The requirements also depend on what your application does. Some sectors have higher requirements for data protection, e.g. medical sectors (HIPAA). Since there are so many legal acts regulating the issues of personal data processing in applications, the safest way is to leave it to the lawyer involved in the app development process.
Our experience dictates that legal aspects are often omitted in the app development process. Meanwhile, the right path is to take them into account from the very beginning – at Product Discovery stage, while designing the User Journey Map. Why? Because it may turn out that:
it is necessary to design additional functionalities, e.g. check-boxes or space for making the license agreement available;
it is necessary to redesign some screens, e.g. when usa email address list determining which user data we collect.
Thanks to legal monitoring over an application from the very start of its creation, the lawyer, when discovering new directions of app development, is able to determine which solutions are legal and how to design them in line with the provisions of both national or European law.
It will increase the safety of the entrepreneur responsible for the contents of the application. Also, it will help to avoid the additional costs of redesigning the application after it is finished.
3. Privacy Policy & Data Protection
What legal requirements should you meet in connection with personal data protection?
Ensuring the security of processing users’ personal data is one of your fundamental legal obligations. The specific requirements depend on the country of distribution of your app. For instance, if you would like your application to be available to European users, you need to fulfill the legal requirements for applications imposed by GDPR, and if you would additionally like your app to be downloaded by users below the age of 13 in the USA, you need to meet the legal requirements of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act.
The requirements also depend on what your application does. Some sectors have higher requirements for data protection, e.g. medical sectors (HIPAA). Since there are so many legal acts regulating the issues of personal data processing in applications, the safest way is to leave it to the lawyer involved in the app development process.