As a developer of an application open for public use, it is a best practice to offer your own privacy policy on your website or within your application. At the very least, you must be clear about how you will use your users' account data and/or take actions on their behalf. This is mirrored in our Developer Principles within the API Terms of Service [1]: Don't Surprise Users.
Of course, there are applications that interface with Twitter's API without being open to public usage. Twitter's privacy policy [2] states that public account data is distributed through the service via the API. Brian Sutorius Twitter API Policy [1] http://dev.twitter.com/pages/api_terms [2] http://twitter.com/privacy On Sep 11, 2:54 am, Hermi <aherma...@gmail.com> wrote: > The Twitter Privacy Policy says that 'developers must clearly disclose > what they will be doing with data collected from users". > > Does anyone know how this works in practice with Twitter data? Do I > need to include a privacy policy on my website telling saying that I > use personal data from Twitter users? What if the Twitter users don't > even know I am using their data and they never look at my website? > > If anyone knows the answer thanks! -- Twitter developer documentation and resources: http://dev.twitter.com/doc API updates via Twitter: http://twitter.com/twitterapi Issues/Enhancements Tracker: http://code.google.com/p/twitter-api/issues/list Change your membership to this group: http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk?hl=en
