Google still uses the advertising ID even when “hasUserConsent” = false.
Although non-personalized ads don’t use cookies or mobile ad identifiers for ad targeting, they do still use cookies or mobile ad identifiers for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.
From this link at the bottom:
https://support.google.com/admob/answer/7676680?hl=en&ref_topic=2745287
Where do you guys host your privacy policy URL? I know there are privacy policy generator sites. But where would you host it?
Also, is it sufficient to just have a simple message box pop up at the game start (one-time only) that displays the privacy policy along with an ‘OK’ button?
Currently, I am switching over to the free plan from Termly.com. They host it and have a wizard. 25K view limit and 2 edits per month. I have a link on the app that goes to the url.
What is termly.com? It looks like a parked domain.
Can’t I just put the privacy policy on my Wordpress site, in a single post? I’m just looking for a quick solution.
OK I’ll check it out. Thank you.
i think it took me a total of 10 minutes to set it up. click, click, click… and then login with Google. The hardest part was finding where to copy the link from.
Do they provide a link along with the policy text?
And you also had to put it in your app, right?
You don’t have to put in your app. Just in the Policy URL box for the store and then resubmit. You don’t even need to update the binary. Yes they provide the URL.
Interesting. Did you need a different policy per app (with specific wording mentioning the app) or are you using a generic one for all your apps?
A generic one for all. It says “Apps” in the URL.
If you have a Wordpress site, I would create a “page” instead of a “post”. Page’s are a little more permanent and you get a URL like:
instead of
http://yoursite.com/blog/2018/09/14/privacy-policy
If it’s a page, it can easily be added to your website’s menu too.
There are plenty of free web hosting sites like WIX. I have a web hosting account at hosts4geeks.com which lets me also have https:// addresses at no extra charge. It’s about $7 USD per month for pretty much unlimited everything.
As for putting a privacy policy in your app, if you have a settings screen you can just drop a display.newText() with a tap handler that will do a system.openURL() to your privacy policy. If it’s a kids app you may need to hide it behind a parental gate.
FWIW, any ad plugin is going to use the Android Advertising ID.
Rob
I read another solution is to create privacy policy .pdf and upload to google drive than share the google drive link on your Google Play page. I will try that tomorrow and report if it works.
Looks like Apple requires a privacy policy as well. In the app as well as the listing:
https://www.macrumors.com/2018/08/31/all-app-store-apps-to-require-privacy-policy/
Did you guys get away with having the privacy policy only in the listing (instead of also within the app) for Google Play and/or Apple?
Looks like it’s going to be a long night…
So I added a privacy policy as a new page in my Wordpress site (which my domain already forwards to), and then I linked the URL into all my app listings for Google Play, iOS and Amazon. The two apps that were removed have now been reinstated on Google Play, just by adding the URL in the store listing and submitting (no new APK was uploaded).
But I will work on getting the in-app privacy policy button implemented in the apps themselves. I’ve already got it done on a couple apps, not hard at all. As Rob suggested, just make it go directly to the URL instead of opening a new overlay or whatever.
BTW the private policy generator I used is at: https://app-privacy-policy-generator.firebaseapp.com