Issue: Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID policy and section 4.8 of the Developer Distribution Agreement
Google Play requires developers to provide a valid privacy policy when the app requests or handles sensitive user or device information. We’ve identified that your app collects and transmits the Android advertising identifier, which is subject to a privacy policy requirement. If your app collects the Android advertising ID, you must provide a valid privacy policy in both the designated field in the Play Console, and from within the app.
Even if you don’t use Advertising ID yourself and just use admob libraries, these libraries use this Advertising ID internally to show targeted Ads to your users.
If your app is removed for this reason, you can add a privacy policy to your play store listing, you can use this link to generate privacy policy: https://app-privacy-policy-generator.firebaseapp.com/ (please do consult your legal consultant as well).
You can follow these steps to generate the privacy policy
- open the link https://app-privacy-policy-generator.firebaseapp.com/
- Enter details as below, replace PuzzlersWorld with your App Name
- Select Admob and Firebase Analytics on the right
- Click on Generate button
- Copy the text and create a page in your website
Update Privacy Policy link to Play store account
- Once you have your privacy policy link
- Login to google play developer console: https://play.google.com/apps/publish/
- Select the App with issue
- Go to Store Presence -> Store listing and scroll to the bottom
- uncheck not submitting privacy policy at current time and enter your privacy policy link
- And click on Resubmit App button
- Please wait for 48 hours for Google to process the update
