There have been some questions from developers recently about what types of content are permitted in Ovi Store and I wanted to share our guidelines with you. These are the guidelines that are posted in our web based publishing tool and support page for registered Ovi Publishers:

The following items are examples of prohibited content:

• Paid content that circumvents Nokia's billing platform
• Content containing copyrighted material you are not authorized to use
• Content containing nudity, pornography or sexually explicit material
• Content with graphic or gratuitous violence
• Content containing ethnic propaganda or other offensive material which attacks or demeans a group or an individual
• Content disparaging governments or politicians
• Content showing minors in an exploitative or abusive light
• Content showing cruelty to animals
• Content showing distressing content
• Content that encourages illegal, dangerous or harmful activities
• Content that contains viruses or harmful code
• Content that links to websites that contain illegal or inappropriate material
• Content promoting drugs or drug paraphernalia
• Content promoting tobacco or tobacco-related products
• Content promoting prostitution
• Content and related policies that disrespects a user's right of privacy

In addition, please keep the following privacy guidelines in mind if your content accesses an end-user's location information:

• Provide users with clear and understandable notice about how their location information will be collected, used, disclosed and protected
• Provide users with tools that enable them to determine and control whether, when, and with whom their information is shared
• Provide, as appropriate, parental controls and child protection tools for users under 18 years of age and their parents or guardians
• Adhere to industry standards regarding the transmission, storage, and access to sensitive personal information like location information

Also please be aware, for content published for use on the AT&T network and devices, here are some tips that can ensure your application meets their requirements:

• Applications should use less than 10Mb per user/per month
• The provider should manage socket connections effectively, which means the maximum time should be 30 minutes
• Additionally, the provider should use ports appropriately or register non-standard use of ports with IANA
• Provider should leave a reasonable length of time before re-trying a request to allow for network latency
• Applications should send no more than 20 messages an hour

Leave any comments if you still have questions.