In order to create clones of your favorite apps and allow you to have many accounts, Parallel App runs copies of your cloned app in separate instances of Android. Each of these separate Android environments needs to meet the permissions required by the cloned apps in order to run them properly.
These permissions are based on the requirements of the app(s) you're cloning; the good news is that Parallel App app in no way leverages any of these permissions for itself.
Then why is Parallel App asking for a permission I know this app doesn't require?
You may be seeing a permission request for something you don't believe is related to the app you're cloning, and you might be right! When configuring the Parallel App app, we have to ensure the right permissions are requested and enabled to support all of the most commonly used apps.
This means that even if you're using say, Clash of Clans for example, you may still see a request for access to your contacts even though Clash of Clans doesn't require access to your contacts to run. This is because some of the most commonly used apps in Parallel App include things like WhatsApp, Facebook, Wechat, and Instagram which do require access to your contacts to perform many of their basic functions and we have to accommodate that.
What if I don't want to grant that permission?
You absolutely have a right to not allow any of the requested permissions, and many of the cloned apps Parallel App supports may be able to run decently well without them, but we've also found that having any of these common permissions disabled can cause odd issues in the duplicate Android environments that may make your user experience less enjoyable. These functionality issues are easily fixed with those permissions enabled, but it's totally up to you!