Data Safety vs Privacy Policy: What's the Difference?
The Data Safety section is a structured, user-visible declaration inside Play Console (data types, purposes, sharing flags). The privacy policy is the full hosted legal document. They must describe the same app — contradictions between them are a classic rejection trigger.
The Data Safety section: structured and visible
Users see it on your store listing: which data types you collect and share, for what purposes. It's a form with fixed questions, answered per data type. Generate it from your binary with the Data Safety generator and learn the answering method in the Data Safety section guide.
The privacy policy: complete and hosted
The policy carries everything the form can't: contact identity, retention periods, deletion procedures, children's provisions, and the full third-party picture. It lives at a public URL referenced from both store settings and the Data Safety section itself — requirements in the privacy requirements guide.
The consistency rule
If your policy mentions crash reporting but your Data Safety form says no diagnostics collected, reviewers see a contradiction and reject. Generate both from the same reviewed profile — our privacy policy generator drafts from your Data Safety data — and they stay consistent by construction.
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Consistent documents, one review pass.