is there a way to disable background location permission?

google has repeatedly rejected our application due to the fact that we have access to background location that we aren't using, we've updated the privacy policy, added a modal prompt to tell user we are going to be using background location (even when we are not ), app was still rejected, went through the console and came across this set of permission

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android.permission.ACCESS_BACKGROUND_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION
android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION

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currently looking for a way to fix this