What do I tell Google regarding why my app requires the "background location" permission?

[andregreeff]

I'm working to update an old app designed to connect to proprietary hardware devices over BLE, which in turn attach to another proprietary hardware device to stream diagnostics data over the BLE connection to be rendered in real-time to the app UI.

There is absolutely nothing in my custom code that cares about the user's location, however this plugin requires this permission to function.

The Play Store Console prompts me with the question "Does your app meet the Location permissions policy?", followed by the options of "Yes, this app meets the Location permissions policy" or "No, this app does not meet the Location permissions policy" (which also states that the app will be removed if it does not meet the requirements). One issue here is that I cannot seem to find this "location permissions policy" anywhere, every time I search Google for it, all I get are blog posts and help articles explaining how to use "background location", none of which is relevant to my app in any way.

If I select "yes", then it prompts for three things: a description of the app purpose, a description of one app feature that needs location access, and a short video that shows the feature in action, all of which are required.

So... Now what..? How do I tell Google that I don't do anything with user location data but that it's required because of an internal dependency?