How should I deal with the Facebook app privacy policy URL in developers page?

Solution 1:

This should work ( Kind of a trick to fool FB ;) )

1. Create a free privacy policy here.
2. Upload your privacy policy (the one you just created) to your google drive account.
3. Select the uploaded privacy policy file and click on Get Shareable link. Copy and paste the generated link into your facebook app's Privacy Policy URL input box and click on save changes.

Thanks ☺️

Solution 2:

This is likely the problem.

After that, I copied the note's url and pasted it to the Privacy Policy URL box. I tried to save and proceed, but than error message comes up, 'Facebook URL: Facebook URL cannot be crawled'

Instead of using a Facebook note, you're likely required to host that privacy policy yourself publicly. Given that Facebook can be a silo and hide pages whenever they like from the public web, you'd be well advised to move it to a site of yours.

This also seems to be Facebook's requirement:

Provide a publicly available and easily accessible privacy policy that explains what data you are collecting and how you will use that data.

You may use Account Information in accordance with your privacy policy and other Facebook policies. All other data may only be used outside your app after you have obtained explicit user consent.

Include your privacy policy URL in the App Dashboard.

Link to your privacy policy in any app marketplace that allows you to.

Comply with your privacy policy.

How can you do that?
There are a few options:

• host on your own site
• host on sites that allow to create public and persistent pages (just a thought, github?)
• use a dedicated tool for privacy policy creation and hosting like iubenda

Hope this helps (p.s. I work for iubenda)