Hi, I received this email today.
REASON FOR WARNING: Violation of the spam provisions of the Content Policy. Please refer to the spam policy help article for more information.
• Do not use irrelevant, misleading, or excessive keywords in apps descriptions, titles, or metadata.
I cannot afford to buy a lawyer to check my app for the legal issues. And it’s really hard to figure out what I am doing wrong.
Any advice could be helpful.
Basically my app shows counter badge for the unread Gmail messages.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellevsoft.unreadgmailbadgefree
- Do I have to remove ‘Gmail’ from my title?
- Do I have to remove any use of word ‘Gmail’ from my description?
- Adding “This app is not affiliated with Google or Google Gmail, nor endorsed by Google.” in the description would help?
- I do have ‘TAG’ words for other languages (none for English):
Few examples:
(French) Tag: Gmail Non lu, Compteur Gmail non lu, Gmail Non lus, Badges Gmail non lus
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellevsoft.unreadgmailbadgefree&hl=fr
(Russian) Tag: Новая Gmail иконка, Иконка Gmail
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellevsoft.unreadgmailbadgefree&hl=ru
(Portuguese) Tag: Gmail Não Lido, Indicador Gmail Não Lidos, Contador de Gmail Não Lidos
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellevsoft.unreadgmailbadgefree&hl=pt
(Korean) Tag: 지메일, 카운터, 이메일, 배지, 뱃지, 배찌, 빼지, 빼찌, 뺏지, 뺏찌, 뱃찌
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellevsoft.unreadgmailbadgefree&hl=ko
(Chinese) Tag: Gmail未读邮件, Gmail未读邮件计数
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ellevsoft.unreadgmailbadgefree&hl=zh
Is this why?
#3 and #4 I will change for sure.
#1 and #2, I am scared not to change, but also worry how could any user know that my app is related to Gmail if it is not described as one.
Thanks in advance.