Privacy Policy for Keyboard

April 22, 2024

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Last modified: April 15, 2024

Afghan Keyboard (the “Project”) is a privacy-respecting keyboard. This privacy policy exists to give you a better understanding of what personal data must be accessed and/or locally stored at a minimum to even provide you with a keyboard service.

Data access and usage

This Project’s core commitment is to access and store as little personal data as possible while still delivering a good personalized experience. Any personal data that is accessed or stored is exclusively
kept locally either in-memory or in the private app data directory and is never shared with anyone.

What personal data does Afghan Keyboard access and why?

Any time you focus on a text field and Afghan Keyboard is the default input method editor (the “IME”), Afghan Keyboard has access to the full contents of that text field. It will monitor and store a small window around the cursor in memory to keep track of the current state and to improve performance.
Additionally, as a default, IME Afghan Keyboard has access to the system clipboard and actively keeps track of the latest primary clipboard item to provide you with clipboard features. Furthermore, Afghan Keyboard has access to the system user dictionary, only reading the actual contents though if either spell checking, suggestions or glide typing is enabled.

Unless otherwise stated in the next section, any accessed personal data is only stored temporarily in memory and will get discarded once the text field loses focus or once the keyboard process ends.

What personal data does Afghan Keyboard store and why?

Some features require personal data to be persisted locally on disk to be reused later on.

This applies to:

Spell checking, suggestions and glide typing

To be able to automatically create personalized dictionaries and to provide dynamic suggestions based on your previous input Afghan Keyboard needs to monitor your typing behavior, learn from it and save the results locally. Typing behaviour tracking is fully stopped if the keyboard is in incognito mode or if no feature is enabled that requires this option.

Clipboard history To be able to store and show multiple clipboard items Afghan Keyboard stores clipboard items in a local database. The database is only maintained and used if the clipboard history feature is enabled.

Does any of the stored personal data leave the device

No. Any personal data that is persisted is stored locally and never leaves your device.

Updates to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to periodically review and update this policy. Changes to this policy will be announced publicly and will be linked in the corresponding changelog of the version the new policy takes effect. Continued use of Afghan Keyboard will be deemed acceptance of such changes.

Contact
If you have additional questions, comments or concerns regarding this privacy policy, please contact info@sunzala.com