Overview

You notice an update for your Android app with a rejection error related to "Violates our personal and sensitive information policy and section 4.8 of the Developer Distribution Agreement." on your Google Developer Console. This article explains why this occurs and how you can resolve this issue by republishing your Android app. 

Diagnosis

In the Google Developer Console, while you uploaded your app's APK file onto the Google Play Store, you received the following rejection message due to a policy violation:

After review, <app_name>, has been removed from Google Play because it violates our personal and sensitive information policy and section 4.8 of the Developer Distribution Agreement. This app won’t be available to users until you submit a compliant update. 

Google generally remove apps from their play store if the app does not meet their latest requirements. The above error usually occurs when a privacy policy URL was not found in the app and happens when the app has not been recently published (in the last 3-6 months)

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Solution

Follow the steps provided in the Solution part of the Updating The Google Store Listing With The Your App's Privacy Policy URL KB article.

It is also a good practice to republish your Android app so it is updated to the latest code.

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Testing

The APK upload process completes successfully without any errors.

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