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Google deleted my developer account without warning or much explanation. What can I do?
<p>I haven't received any prior warning in fact from Google and suddenly received the following message:</p>
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<p>This is a notification that your Google Play Publisher account has been terminated.</p>
<p>REASON FOR TERMINATION: Prior violations of the Developer Program
Policies and Developer Distribution Agreement by this or associated
accounts as outlined in previous emails sent to the registered email
address(es) of the Publisher account(s).</p>
<p>Google Play Publisher suspensions are associated with developers, and
may span multiple account registrations and related Google services.</p>
<p>You can visit the Developer Policy Centre to better understand how we
enforce Developer Program Policies. If you’ve reviewed the policy and
feel this termination may have been in error, please reach out to our
policy support team.</p>
<p>Do not attempt to register a new developer account. We will not be
restoring your account at this time.</p>
<p>The Google Play Team</p>
</blockquote>
<p>This was my only developer account to my knowledge. There is a free mp3 app from a friend who asked me to publish it in my account, which I didn’t check properly. I am assuming that created this termination since it happened only after publishing that app. This sudden termination comes as a shock and Google's decision seem very rude to me</p>
<p>Any idea what can I do?</p>

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  <p>"There is a free mp3 app from a friend who asked me to publish it in
  my account, which I didnt check properly."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>You violated Google's policies by uploading an App that you did not have full control over and/or was not developed by you. As well, the App possibly violated Google's policies in terms of violating licensing for code libraries that were included, had code included in the App that was malicious or violated privacy, or was otherwise not compliant with Google's terms.</p>

<p>Google's policies are legal contracts which you agree to when you open an account. You reserve the right to end the contract by deleting your account. They reserve the right to end the contract when their policies are not followed. See <a href="https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy/</a></p>

<blockquote>
  <p>"This sudden termination comes as a shock and Google's decision seem
  very rude to me."</p>
</blockquote>

<p>You may think it is rude, but Google is fully within its rights to terminate your account because you violated their terms. It matters little that you did not get the previous warning emails from Google; you are responsible for monitoring the account email for policy updates.</p>

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  <p><em>If you’ve reviewed the policy and feel this termination may have been in error, please reach out to our policy support team.</em></p>
</blockquote>

<p>Try that; you might attempt to explain that it was honest error on your side.</p>
