Data collection
We do not collect personal data from the app or keyboard extension for analytics, advertising, marketing, account creation, or profiling. Hardware Keyboard: Companion contains no third-party advertising or analytics SDK.
Typing and Local learning
Typing context can be processed on device to provide suggestions, autocorrect, and keyboard behavior. Local learning may retain learned words or phrases, accepted and rejected corrections, custom text rules, and motor-calibration signals. This information stays in the app’s local containers and is not sent to the developer.
You can remove personalization through Reset Autocorrect Learning in the companion app. Sensitive and secure text fields are excluded from learning and iOS may replace third-party keyboards with the system keyboard in those fields.
Companion app and App Group
The companion app and keyboard extension share configuration through Apple’s on-device App Group container. Shared information includes theme, layout, keymap, behavior preferences, extension readiness, and local keyboard state needed for the product to work.
iCloud Settings Sync
iCloud Settings Sync is optional. When enabled, it synchronizes keyboard settings only—not typed text, typing history, or local learning evidence. Apple operates the iCloud service under your Apple account and Apple’s privacy terms.
Hardware keyboard events
Hardware-keyboard reading is opt-in and session-scoped. The app processes key events locally to drive keyboard features. Privacy-safe diagnostic state may describe event source or counts without storing typed-text payloads. Secure-input protections still apply.
Clipboard
The companion app may read the current clipboard string only when you explicitly use a clipboard-based key or snippet action. The keyboard extension does not monitor pasteboard changes or silently auto-save clipboard contents.
Purchases
In-app purchases are processed by Apple. HWC receives the entitlement information required to unlock purchased features; the developer does not receive your payment-card details.
Retention and control
Local settings and learning remain until you reset them, remove them in the app, or delete the app, subject to any settings you chose to sync with iCloud. HWC has no developer-operated server containing your typing data.
Changes and contact
If product data practices materially change, this policy will be updated before the corresponding release. Questions: support@hwkc.tech.