Privacy rules and security

Defining privacy rules has a direct relation to security in Bubble because these settings help you specify how and who exactly can view and manipulate data on your database. You may think that if a page is not showing data on a field, it might not be exposing it, but a lot of data can be loaded on a page even if it is now visible; this means that people with the right skills and knowledge could easily get access to your app’s data, even if you are not directly displaying it on a page. This is why privacy rules can help, because they will prevent your data from being displayed even before the page loads, protecting it from the foundation of your database. Note that privacy rules play an important part in your app security, but that is not all – some other methods and techniques can be used to make your app more secure, some settings can be configured on the workflows, and even sometimes at the page level. If you are really worried about security...