Privacy Policy

 # Privacy — Redfleet Keyboard

_Last updated: 2026-10-06 · Contact: redfleetstudios@gmail.com_

**What you type stays on your device.** This describes exactly what the app does in v1.0.1.

## Typing

- The keyboard processes typing locally. Typed text, passwords, messages and codes are never

  uploaded, logged, or sent to analytics.

- Layouts, word lists (12 languages), Chinese candidate dictionaries and 60+ fonts are built into

  the app and work offline. The keyboard does **not** learn from, store or build a dictionary of

  what you type.

- **Premium English fonts:** 100 extra fonts are not bundled. When you open or unlock one, the app

  downloads it (or a small preview of it) from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com / fonts.gstatic.com).

  Only the font's name is sent; Google receives your IP address like any web request. Nothing you type

  is involved, and the keyboard itself never goes online.

- Incognito (▦ Tools) additionally pauses clipboard history, recent emoji and usage counts.

- The keyboard reads a few characters before the cursor only to find the word being typed

  (for suggestions and shortcuts). That text is not stored.

## Private fields

In password fields and any field that sets `IME_FLAG_NO_PERSONALIZED_LEARNING`: no suggestions,

no clipboard history recording, no shortcut expansion, no emoji-usage counting.

## Stored on the device only

Settings; themes you create and favourite; Fan Mode phrases, packs and categories; favourite

emoji; usage counters (how often a phrase/emoji was used — not where); clipboard history if

enabled (unpinned items auto-delete after 24 h; clips Android marks sensitive are never saved).

All in app-private storage, excluded from Android cloud backup and device-to-device transfer

(`data_extraction_rules.xml`, `allowBackup=false`). Uninstalling removes everything.

## Advertising

The companion app (not the keyboard) shows Google AdMob ads. This is the only reason the app

holds the `INTERNET` permission. AdMob may collect device identifiers such as the advertising ID

and coarse device data to serve and measure ads, per Google's policies

(https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites). Consent is requested through Google's

User Messaging Platform where required (EEA, UK, some US states) and can be changed in

Settings › Ad privacy options. The ads SDK is initialised only in the app's own screens and

never receives anything typed with the keyboard.

**Rewarded ads.** Some themes and fonts are unlocked by watching one short video ad, always after

you tap "Watch ad" (you can choose "Not now"). Unlocks are stored on this device only; if no ad can

be loaded, the item is unlocked anyway. A fresh install starts with the default free items.

## Translator and Greeting Builder

Translation runs on the device with Google ML Kit. The translation engine is downloaded once from

Google Play the first time you open the translator, and the first time a language is used its model

(about 30 MB) is downloaded from Google; the text being translated is never uploaded. Language

detection runs in Google Play services on the device. Greeting

cards and the photos you add stay on your phone until you save or share them yourself.

## Analytics (release builds)

Google Analytics for Firebase counts, in aggregate, which features are used — for example

"a language was switched", "a font was applied", "Fan Mode was opened". Every event is a fixed

name with no parameters, so nothing typed, no phrase, clipboard text or message can be attached.

Firebase also receives standard app-instance data (an app-instance ID, device model, OS and app

version, country) per https://firebase.google.com/support/privacy. Debug builds never send data.

## Not collected

No account, name, email, phone number, contacts, location, or crash reporting.

## Android's warning

Android warns that any third-party keyboard "may be able to collect all the text you type".

That notice is shown for every keyboard; Redfleet Keyboard is built not to, as described above.

## Children

Not directed at children under 13. Ads are served under AdMob's policies.

## Changes

Any future online feature (for example the AI interfaces reserved in `domain/ai/`) will be

opt-in, and this policy and the in-app Privacy screen will be updated **before** it ships.