[Enhancement]: Request to add support for storing/displaying or linking to a Privacy Policy

[methosinhiding]

Describe the feature/enhancement

Capability Gap

• It would be great for enabling easier use of ABS in educational settings, open-source media public-hosted settings, or in GDPR-scoped countries if there were either an app-internal way to host and display the text of a Privacy Policy OR to link to an external one from within the app.
• Currently, any privacy policy would need to presented externally to the ABS UI which weakens protections for both the server administrator and the chance a user would actually see and/or read it.
• Even if stock ABS doesn't come with a boilerplate/default/predefined privacy policy it would be pretty handy to have the option of displaying a Privacy Policy or Privacy Policy link if one has been configured by the Admin.

Requested Enhancement(s):

• Add a way to either
  1. store a link to an externally-hosted privacy policy;
     or
  2. define/display an internally-hosted privacy policy (in a way not requiring that viewers be authenticated)
• Add a 'Privacy Policy' link to the pre-login screen and the main web UI (perhaps in the bottom-left corner near the version number) which points to either the user-defined Privacy Policy URL or the ABS-hosted Privacy Policy text blurb.
• Add links/views in the ABS mobile applications to the Privacy Policy

Related items which would be understandably out-of-scope:

• Populating a default privacy policy for the stock ABS installation settings
• Generating a dynamic default privacy policy based on the ABS instance's elected application/library settings

[Sapd]

I think what would be cool to have for that use case would be a "Privacy/GPDR" page in the admin section where one can has:

• A textbox with HTML support for a Privacy Policy. If filled out it could make a link at the bottom automatically, pointing to a very simple page with the content.
• The same for an Imprint
• It could contain further options, like disable IP-Adress logging or history or so.

Forum systems etc. usually have something similar.

[advplyr]

We discussed this in Discord a bit and I think the best solution is to offer the option to put your own custom message on the login page. This is something I intended on adding for a while because it can help with demo instances.

[advplyr]

Added in v2.8.0