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thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:30 AM@fresh-football-47124 can you help please? It is really important for us to properly pass the review
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fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:33 AM
Hi Bohdan - I'm not sure what is required with the Data Safety Statement
fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:33 AM
the SDK is the only thing that will be in your app
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thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:35 AMIt works flawlessly from the tech standpoint (and thank you for that, the solution is robust and scalable) but Google is really sensitive when it comes to operating with any kind of user-centric data and/or PII, so they require to properly declare what kind of data we're analyzing and storing when it comes to user activity. Let me get you some screenshots for context
thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:41 AMBasically it looks like this.
Here's a link with summary of the policy - https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/11416267?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform=Android
thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:42 AMMy question is whether we don't need to declare anything special, just the type of data we generally collect for experiments? (As seen on screenshots). And if the Growthbook instance is self-hosted, does that mean we're not sharing any data with 3rd party (i.e., GrowthBook servers in this context)?
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fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:46 AM
The SDKs don't collect any data by default
fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:47 AM
they will track what data you have defined in the "trackingCallback"
fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:47 AM
but that data goes to you
fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:47 AM
(if you're using the experimentation part, if you're just feature flagging, then no data is needed to be sent anywhere)
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thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:48 AMYes, we have implemented GrowthBook as a primary solution for A/B testing first and foremost 🙂
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fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:49 AM
okay- so your tracking callback usually will track some sort of user identifier (user id or anon id typically) and what experiment and what variant they are in... that's all we need. It is possible to pass more data, but you would be in control of that
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thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:51 AMGot it. The question is how to properly convey that logic to Google though haha. Even in a "bare minimum" use-case, do we technically pass over some data to 3rd party (speaking in their terms)?
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fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:51 AM
no, no data is passed to a third party
fresh-football-47124
08/05/2025, 7:52 AM
unless you are that third party
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thousands-activity-913
08/05/2025, 7:52 AMGot it, we're sole owners of the application so definitely not 3rd party. Thank you so much for your help
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