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Personalize your skill by requesting user profile data

Personalize your skill by requesting user profile data - Amazon Web Services (AWS) Tutorial

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Personalize your skill by requesting user profile data

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- [Instructor] Now that we're taking pizza orders, we've got to send them somewhere, right? Fortunately the users profile data, including things like their full name and address, is something that we can access. We just need the user's explicit permission to do so. This capability is also dependent on the user having configured their Alexa account with that data. In any case, let's take a look at how to properly request profile data for use in our skill. Step one is to go to the Build tab. Scroll all the way down on the left-hand side and click Permissions. Before we can ask the user for permission to read their data, we have to declare on this screen the things we want to ask for. We'll select Full Address and Full Name. In addition, if you ask for profile data in your skill you must have a privacy policy document when you submit the skill for certification. We'll see that later. You must use the info in the manner for…

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