Metadata rejected (children app with Admob)

Hello, I received a rejection with the following wording:


Thank you for providing this information.

Upon further review, we found that your app does not comply with the following guidelines:

Guideline 1.3 - Safety - Kids Category

We noticed that you have not provided any publicly documented practices and policies for third-party contextual advertising in your Kids Category app.


To resolve this issue:

• Review guideline 1.3 of the App Store Review Guidelines

• Provide us with your publicly documented practices and policies for third-party contextual advertising in your Kids Category app, if you haven't done so already

• Be sure your documented advertising practices and policies include human review of ad creatives for age appropriateness


Since I do not know English well, it is difficult for me to understand what needs to be done, please help.

As I understand it, I need to change the privacy policy file?

Do I need to add it to the application itself, or do I need to change it only on my site?

What exactly needs to be written there, can someone have a ready-made text?

In my application, I use Unity + Admob (interstitial advertising) and nothing else, my application is for children.

If you can help me please do it, thanks 🙂

The guidelines are here:

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#kids-category


They include section 1.3 which states:

Apps in the Kids Category should not include ... third-party advertising. ... Third-party contextual advertising may also be permitted in limited cases provided that the services have publicly documented practices and policies for Kids Category apps that include human review of ad creatives for age appropriateness.


Your app seems to violate the first sentence above. But the second sentence allows an exception. App Review is assuming you fit into that exception and is asking for that documentation from your ad provider. I do not know if Admob satisfies that exception. If it exists, App Review is asking for you to send that documentation to them, not to include it in the app. If it does not exists then you must remove the ads to stay in the Kids Category.

Thanks for the answer, I know that in Admob it’s possible to remove categories for adults, but I don’t know in what form to provide documentation, will I need to send a screenshot that I have disabled extra categories (for adults)? But in general, as I understand it, making games for children with ads for iOS is not the best option 😐

I think that you may have a problem.


Disabling ads 'for adults' is a far cry from "..include human review of ad creatives for age appropriateness". These are kids. You want to exclude lots of ads beyond just those 'for adults'.


Check the documentation for your ad provider and see if they have a 'kids category'. If they do, they have a URL that provides that description. Include that URL in the notes to App Review.

I found how to set this in Admob using code, here are two links (G category for children 4+):

https://support.google.com/admob/answer/7562142?hl=en

https://developers.google.com/admob/unity/targeting


I will need to say in review that I have set the desired rating of advertisements and just send them these links?

Hello,
Have you solved the problem, and how did you solve it?
Have you solved the problem, and how did you solve it?Thanks

https://support.google.com/admob/answer/7562142?hl=en https://developers.google.com/admob/unity/targeting

this links will not work. issue will be in same state.

Metadata rejected (children app with Admob)
 
 
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