Obtaining `contact_email` from order API endpoint on basic plan with private app

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Hello Shopify,

I’m trying to create a store on the Basic plan to retail my digital products. I already have an in-house automated delivery system and I’ve been playing around the order API to get order details however, contact_email is not returned, which is essential for this to work. This is my shortened code snippet:

        access_token = os.getenv("SHOPIFY_ACCESS_TOKEN")
        api_url = os.getenv("SHOPIFY_API_URL")

        headers = {
            "X-Shopify-Access-Token": access_token,
            "Content-Type": "application/json",
        }
        endpoint = "orders.json?status=any&fields=order_number,created_at,total_price,financial_status,line_items,contact_email"
        
        response = requests.get(f"{api_url}/{endpoint}", headers=headers)

I’m not intending to distribute this app on the App Store so am just wondering why I can’t access my own order data? Is this something reserved for higher plans?