In short
- The EasyTap keyboard never sends what you type anywhere and has no connection to the developer’s servers. The only thing that can leave your device is the optional, off-by-default sync of statistics through your own iCloud account.
- The developer collects no data about you or about how you use the keyboard.
- What the keyboard remembers stays on your device. You can review it, delete it, or switch it off altogether.
- The app contains no ads, no analytics and no tracking code.
Who is responsible for your data
The EasyTap app (called Stuknij in Polish) and this website are made by Michał Stankiewicz. For anything about privacy, write to contact@stankiewiczm.eu.
The app and the keyboard
What stays on the device
To work, EasyTap keeps the following on your device:
- Settings — appearance, layout, languages, presets, quick phrases and favorite emoji.
- Corrected words — words autocorrect should leave alone because you undid its correction.
- Next-word suggestions — counts of which word followed which, kept separately for each language.
- Typing statistics — numbers alone: how many characters and words, at what time of day. Never the content of what you type.
- Remembered fields — an identifier iOS gave the text field, what the field says about itself (for example that it is for a city), and the language chosen for it. Nothing that was written in it, and nothing that leads back to an app or a person.
- Recently used emoji — the last 30 picked from the emoji panel.
- How the keyboard opened — the timing and height of the keyboard for its last 30 openings, to explain a fault in how it is drawn. No text at all. The keyboard records this only with Full Access on, and sends it nowhere.
Where your fingers touch the keys helps autocorrect guess the word you meant. Those positions are kept in memory only, until the word is finished, and are never stored.
Each of these can be switched off. The “Keyboard memory” screen shows everything the keyboard has picked up, lets you delete single entries or all of it at once, and lets you set how long it is kept (a month, three months, a year, or until you clear it).
Settings backup
On the “Presets and backup” screen you can export your settings to a file. The file also contains your quick phrases, favorite emoji and corrected words. It is made only when you ask for it, and where you save it or whom you send it to is entirely up to you.
Passwords and private mode
In password fields, one-time codes and card numbers the keyboard suggests nothing, learns nothing and counts nothing.
Private mode, switched on by hand, pauses suggestions, learning and statistics for as long as it stays on.
Full Access
iOS requires “Full Access” for a few keyboard features: vibration on key press, dictation, and showing what is on the clipboard. It also lets the keyboard save the diagnostic data described here to storage it shares with the app on the same device. EasyTap asks for it for those purposes only. With Full Access on, the keyboard still sends nothing to the developer or anyone else; the only exception is the optional iCloud sync described below.
Clipboard
The offer to paste only says what is waiting on the clipboard — a link, a number, some text — and the keyboard does not read the contents for that. The contents are read only when you turn on showing them or choose to paste, and they are not stored or sent anywhere.
Dictation
The microphone switches on only when you tap the dictation key, and switches off with it. Speech is recognized on the device alone — the recording is never sent or kept anywhere.
iCloud
Syncing statistics with iCloud is optional and off by default. When you switch it on, the counts travel between your devices through your own iCloud account, under Apple’s terms. The developer has no access to them.
Subscriptions and purchases
Payments are handled by Apple, and it is Apple that processes the data that goes with them; the developer does not receive it. The app only learns from the App Store which license you have and until when it is valid, and stores that on the device. The developer gets only aggregated sales reports from Apple, which do not make it possible to identify a particular person.
Test builds
If you test EasyTap through TestFlight, Apple may pass crash reports and any feedback you choose to send on to the developer, under the TestFlight program’s terms.
Test builds also have a tap record, which helps find faults in how touches are read. It is off by default and switched on by hand. While it is on, it writes down every touch on the keys: where and when the finger landed and what was typed, letter by letter — so don’t leave it on while typing anything confidential. The record stays on the device; you can look through it and delete it, and it leaves the device only if you copy it and send it to someone yourself. The App Store version has no tap record: the app switches it off and deletes whatever a test build left behind.
The website
This website uses no cookies, no analytics and no third-party scripts. Only the language you picked for the site is stored in your browser (localStorage) — that information never leaves your device.
Like any web server, the site’s hosting provider may record technical connection data in its logs: IP address, browser type and time of the request. These serve to keep the site running and secure.
The paste-check page, opened from the app, copies one fixed sentence to the clipboard and sends nothing anywhere.
Contact by email
If you write to the developer, your email address and the content of your message are used only to reply and deal with what you raised (basis: legitimate interest — Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Correspondence is kept for as long as the matter requires.
Your rights
To the extent the developer processes your personal data — in practice, email correspondence — you have the right to access it, correct it, have it erased, restrict its processing, receive it in a portable form and object to its processing. You may also lodge a complaint with your data protection authority; in Poland this is the President of the Personal Data Protection Office (UODO).
Data kept on your device is yours to manage in the app; deleting the app removes it from the device.
Children
EasyTap collects no personal data from anyone, children included.
Changes
If the way the app or the website works changes, this policy will be updated, and the date at the top of the page will show when.