China Mobile, the world’s largest mobile operator, has made available its “Provisional Management Methods for Mobile Application Market (Mobile Market) Developers” guide, providing details of its app store management regime, Marbridge Daily reports. The Chinese giant said that it will share the de facto-standard 70 percent of revenue with developers, while also providing clear guidelines on which practices are acceptable for Mobile Market apps, and which are not.

According to the report, the document clearly states that apps must not compromise user privacy or handset security. If applications need to change personal settings or system configurations, or set themselves to run at start-up, this must be made clear to users. This requirement also applies to apps that involve sending SMS messages, modifying ringing tones, changing network settings, or using location data. It was also noted that “without user confirmation, applications may not read, copy, forward, edit, disseminate, or delete any files or data stored on handsets, aggregate, transmit, or otherwise use users’ private data, or use push messages to send unsolicited messages, phishing messages, or spam.”