itmc-business-os

Content Rating & Data Safety — Answer Key

This is a copy-paste answer key for the two Play Console forms that must be filled in by hand (see PUBLISHING.md — there’s no API for either). It’s based on what’s actually true about this app: no accounts, no network calls, no ads, no analytics, no crash reporting, and no data leaves the device (everything is stored locally via sqflite). Google’s exact question wording shifts over time, so treat this as “the underlying answer,” and match it to whatever phrasing is on screen when you get there — the logic doesn’t change even if the wording does.

If you later add anything to this app that changes these facts — an ad network, Firebase Analytics/Crashlytics, a backend, cloud sync, sign-in — revisit this doc before your next release. The answers below are only correct for the app as it exists today (local-only estimator/invoicing).

Content rating questionnaire (IARC)

Play Console → your app → Policy → App content → Content ratings.

• Category: Productivity / Business / Utility app (not a game).
• Violence: No, none of any kind.
• Sexual content: No.
• Profanity / crude humor: No.
• Controlled substances (tobacco, alcohol, drugs — depicted or referenced): No.
• Gambling (real-money or simulated): No.
• User-generated content / can users interact or exchange content with each other: No — there is no chat, no multiplayer, no shared/public content of any kind. Each install’s data is private to that device.
• Location sharing: No — the app never accesses or shares location.
• Personal information sharing: No — nothing is shared, since nothing leaves the device.
• Digital purchases: No, unless you’ve added in-app purchases (this boilerplate has none).
• Miscellaneous / scary or intense content: No.

Answering “No” to the interactive/objectionable-content questions typically resolves to the lowest rating tier (e.g. “Everyone” / PEGI 3) automatically — IARC computes the rating from these answers, you don’t pick it directly.

Data safety form

Play Console → your app → Policy → App content → Data safety.

• “Does your app collect or share any of the required user data types?” → No. This is the key question — answering “No” here skips almost everything below, since the form is only asking about data that leaves the device or gets shared with anyone.
• If it separately asks about specific categories (location, personal info, financial info, health & fitness, messages, photos/videos, audio, files & docs, calendar, contacts, app activity, web browsing, device/other IDs): none collected, none shared, for all of them.
• “Is all of the user data collected by your app encrypted in transit?” → Not applicable / no data is transmitted, so there’s no transit to encrypt. If the form forces a Yes/No here regardless, “Yes” is defensible since nothing is ever sent in plaintext (nothing is sent, period) — but this only comes up if you answered “collects data” somewhere, which you shouldn’t have.
• “Do you provide a way for users to request data deletion?” → Users can delete all their data themselves at any time by uninstalling the app, or by deleting individual clients/estimates/invoices in-app. There is no server-side data to delete because none exists.
• Privacy policy URL: the GitHub Pages URL from docs/privacy-policy.md — set this up per PUBLISHING.md step 1 before you get to this form.

Target audience & content

• Target age group: Business/productivity tool for adults running a service business — select 18+ (or your actual target range), not “designed for children.” This also means you should answer No to any “designed for or appealing to children” style question, and the Families Policy / Ads-for-children sections won’t apply.

Ads declaration

Play Console → App content → Ads.

• “Does your app contain ads?” → No. No ad SDK/network is integrated in this app.

Health apps declaration

Play Console → App content → Health apps.

• This app doesn’t collect, store, or display any health or fitness data (no steps, workouts, medical records, symptoms, etc.) — it’s a business/invoicing tool. Answer No / select that your app is not a health app, or skip this declaration if Play Console doesn’t force an answer for apps outside the health category.

App category & store settings

• Category: Business (Play Console → Store settings → App category).
• Store listing (default, en-US): should already show the title, descriptions, icon, feature graphic, and screenshots pushed by Fastlane (fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/) — open it once and confirm it looks complete/saved rather than showing a “missing information” warning. If anything looks missing, it’s the automation’s job to have filled it, not something to type in by hand — check fastlane/metadata/android/en-US/ matches what you expect and re-run a release if not.