Hi, I have had my Google Play account unfairly banned for life. The reasons given for termination:
*REASON FOR TERMINATION*: Prior violations of the Developer Program Policies > <https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html> and Developer > Distribution Agreement > <http://www.android.com/us/developer-distribution-agreement.html> by this > or associated accounts as outlined in previous emails sent to the > registered email address(es) of the Publisher account(s). No other information given. The only other warning I had was over 2 years ago: We wanted to let you know that your app(s) listed below statically link > against a version of OpenSSL that has multiple security vulnerabilities for > users. Please migrate your app(s) to an updated version of OpenSSL by > 7/7/15. Starting on this date, Google Play will *block publishing of any > new apps and updates that use unsupported versions of OpenSSL*. I was using the Adobe Air SDK for an old project I didnt care much about, I was also travelling the world at the time so forgot about it. I have appealed the account termination but received this: After reviewing your appeal, we’ve confirmed our initial decision and will > not be reinstating your developer account. > Your Google Play Developer account has been *terminated due to > multiple violations of the Developer Program Policies by an > associated Google Play developer account.* We’ve reviewed and confirmed > this association. I received no other information about my reason for a ban. I replied asking for more information I received this from "Bruce": As much as I would like to help, I’m not able to provide any more > information. In our previous email, I made sure to include all the > information available to me. Unfortunately, we've confirmed our initial > decision and will not be reinstating your developer account. So I still have no idea why I am banned. I have games on my account that I worked really hard on over many many years and to have those totally without warning or notice is totally unfair and against everything I thought Google was about Don't Be Evil As a freelance apps and games developer my entire livelihood has been severely damaged by this. I may NEVER again upload my existing apps and games. I may NEVER again create any app for the Google Play store. I have contacted two friends who work in Google they have both been given the party line: use the appeals <https://support.google.com/googleplay/android-developer/troubleshooter/2993242?hl=en&ref_topic=3453554> page. Well I have done that and it has gotten me no where. I have no where else left to go. Can anyone here help? Mike http://www.mikecann.co.uk/ @mikeysee <http://twitter.com/mikeysee> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/android-developers. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/android-developers/a4ed67cc-7449-4b18-8790-b38837c11909%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
