The Policy center displays all of the current enforcements on your apps. Enforcements can either block all advertising (for example, "Ad serving disabled") or restrict which advertisers can bid on your inventory (for example, "Restricted demand").
You may receive enforcements due to various issues with your content:
- Policy violations that must be fixed. Policy violations are enforced with either "Ad serving disabled" or "Restricted demand".
- Publisher restrictions are not policy violations so you don't need to change your content or ad requests. However, content with publisher restrictions receive "Restricted demand".
- Filter and download policy violations and publisher restrictions
- App-level enforcements
- Policy center FAQs
Filter and download policy violations and publisher restrictions
You can use the filter and download options in the Policy center to help you find and manage policy violations and publisher restrictions:
- Click filter
to only see certain apps or to only see certain enforcement dates.
- Click download
to download a CSV file of all pages or sections with violations for all apps or individual apps.
App-level enforcements
If you've received a notification about your app, check below to find out more about the issue and what action you need to take.
Policy violation
If the "Must fix" column says "Yes", one of your apps, app sections or pages is not currently in compliance with the Program policies and, as a result, an enforcement has been taken. When the action is taken on a page, then the page is violating policy. When the action is taken on a app or app section, then there are multiple pages within the app or app section that are violating policy. When this occurs, you need to check your entire app or app section and make changes to bring it into compliance with our policies.
After you address the policy violations on your app, app section, or pages, you may request a review. Alternatively, if you want to stop serving ads on the policy violating apps, app sections or pages, you can remove the Ad Manager ad code from those apps, app sections or pages. The policy violations will be automatically removed from the Policy center within 7-10 days.
Publisher restriction
If the “Must fix” column says "No", it means that your app has content that falls under the Google Publisher Restrictions. While you can choose to monetize this type of content, you will likely receive reduced advertising as not all ad sources will be able to bid on it.
If you address any of the publisher restrictions on your app, app section, or pages, you may request a review. Alternatively, if you want to stop serving ads on the pages, you can remove the Ad Manager ad code from your pages and they will be automatically removed from the Policy center within 7-10 days.
Requesting a review
After you've made the required changes for a policy violation and/or the optional changes for a publisher restriction, you may request a review of your app. Note that there's a monthly limit on the number of reviews you can request. If you’re requesting a review because you’ve fixed issues, make sure you upload the new version of your app to a supported app store where your app is listed before you request a review.
Note: If you want ads to resume or continue serving to your app, request a review for each app with issues in your Policy center.
- Sign in to Google Ad Manager.
- Click Admin
Policy
App policy center.
- In the "Apps with policy enforcements" section, find and click the app with the enforcement.
- Click the Down arrow
to open the detailed view of the enforcement.
- Click Request review.
- Complete the form and click Request review.
We'll typically review your app within one week but sometimes it can take longer. Based on the results of the review, enforcements may be removed. If other issues are found, the Policy center and enforcement will be updated appropriately.
Google Play policy restrictions
The Google Play policy restrictions section lets you know if you have a Google Play suspension and the date it was issued. Click Fix in Google Play to learn how to fix this violation.
Learn more about the Google Play violations
Policy center FAQs
Here are the answers to some frequently asked questions about the Policy center: