Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID Policy and Section 4.8

Violation of Usage of Android Advertising ID Policy and Section 4.8

Violation of usage of Android Advertising ID Policy and Section 4.8, this is very important thing, if you violate this policy section your app will remove from play store and you will be get notified by the support team as in the below mail notification image.

Violation of usage of Android Advertising ID Policy and Section 4.8 ?

If you are a Developer, you may got mail from  play store team that your app is removed from the play store due to policy violation section 4.8.

Violation of usage of Android Advertising ID Policy and Section 4.8 - Solution

You can solve this issue in  two ways.

1. Add a Privacy Policy URL 

Create a privacy policy for your app, it should be available in internet(Your website). Once you ready with privacy 
policy you have set link to the same in two place. Configure privacy policy link in the app and redirect to the privacy policy URL.

Then go to the "Android Play Store Developer console"  as showing in the picture below. You can simply create privacy policy from the below link for free.

https://app-privacy-policy-generator.firebaseapp.com/

Google Play Store listing

When your app is ready, in addition to the app’s internal link, you’ll have to include a link to your privacy policy on the Google Play Store. Here’s how to meet this requirement:

Go to your Google Play Console
Select an app
Select “Store presence > Store listing”
Under “Privacy Policy”, enter or paste the privacy policy link 
Save your changes

Once you published new release with privacy policy, you can confirm by checking from play store. Go to play store find your app from play store, go to bottom of the same page, as shown in the figure below.This will make sure that you have your privacy policy linked under “Additional information > Developer” on the Google Play Store:

2. Disable AD ID 

This is the simple method, but the problem is you will not be able to do analytics like Google Analytics once you disable the Advertising ID.

You fix the policy violation simply pasting the below code into your manifest.xml file under the application tag.

<meta-data android:name="google_analytics_adid_collection_enabled" android:value="false" />

Once you done one of the above method, Just release new version and upload to play store again. Enjoy. Thank You  

How to do.. ? Watch this Video, below.