Google Play Developer Policies: Maintain a Product-Level Compliance Register

Build a product-level register

Create a row for each applicable policy area: user data, permissions, advertising, families, intellectual property, subscriptions or other product-specific requirements. Avoid marking unrelated policies as “passed”; use “not applicable” with a reason.

This register connects source code, Console declarations and user-visible behavior instead of treating policy as a form-filling exercise.

Read changes by effective date

A newly announced requirement may have a future enforcement date. A current deadline may apply only to particular app categories or account types. Record announcement, effective date, affected scope and required work separately.

Do not rewrite every date in your internal policy document to today without rechecking the underlying requirement. That creates the appearance of review without evidence.

Include third-party and remote behavior

Your app can display externally hosted content, serve ads through mediation or receive remote feature settings. Those choices still affect the experience you publish. Inspect the production configuration, not only the default development settings.

When replacing an SDK, check collection, permissions, supported audience, initialization and contractual responsibilities. Removing one library can leave its adapter or manifest declaration behind.

Make policy review a release gate

Require evidence for changed high-risk flows before submission. The release owner should know which declarations need updating and how the app can be reviewed without access barriers.

APKLint's Google Play Policy Checker can organize questions and detect some declared signals. It is not an official certification, and a clean checklist cannot guarantee approval.

Maintain links to the Developer Program Policies, User Data policy and sensitive-permission requirements. Keep the register concise enough to update whenever the product changes, rather than producing an impressive document nobody maintains.