Seismor Board collects no data, and cannot transmit any. The app is built without permission to access the internet, so there is no server to send your typing to and no way for the app to reach one. Everything it remembers stays in private storage on your device.
Why this matters for a keyboard
A keyboard sees everything you type, including passwords, messages, card numbers
and addresses. That is why this app is built the way it is: rather than promising
not to send your keystrokes anywhere, it ships without the ability to do so. The
INTERNET permission is explicitly removed from the app's manifest, so
it is absent even if a third-party library tries to add it.
What the app stores, and where
To work as a keyboard, the app keeps a few things on your device. None of it leaves the device, and none of it is visible to us or to other apps.
- Words you have taught it, so your own vocabulary is suggested next time. This list is capped, and the words you use least are dropped first.
- Recently used emoji, so the ones you actually use come first.
- Your settings — theme, accent colour, haptics, and whether the space bar completes the highlighted word.
All of this is written to app-private storage, which Android makes unreadable to other applications. Learned words are deliberately not written to Android's shared personal dictionary, because that is readable by any app holding the right permission.
Word suggestions themselves come from a dictionary bundled inside the app. Nothing is fetched or looked up while you type.
There is no clipboard history, no typing history, no voice input and no search of any kind. The app never records the order in which you typed things, which app you were typing into, or when.
Fields where the keyboard stops learning
Some things should never be remembered at all. The keyboard detects the kind of field you are typing into and switches suggestions and learning off entirely for password fields, fields marked as no-suggestion, and email, URL, number and phone fields. An address, a one-time code, a card number or a phone number therefore never enters the personal dictionary in the first place.
Autofill and password managers
If you use a password manager or Android's autofill, its suggestions appear as chips in the keyboard's suggestion strip. This is the one place the keyboard shows content that came from somewhere else, so it is worth being precise about it.
- Those chips are drawn by the Android system, in a separate process. The keyboard hosts them; it cannot read what they say, and they cannot read the keyboard.
- The keyboard sends the autofill provider nothing about what you type. It supplies only presentation details — how large a chip may be, and which colours to draw it in, so the chip matches your theme.
- Tapping a chip is handled by the provider you chose, under its own privacy policy. No network is involved on our side, and the autofill library the app uses is bundled locally.
Hosting these chips is also what stops Android from covering your keys with its own floating autofill window.
Permissions
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
VIBRATE |
Haptic feedback when you press a key. This is the only permission the app requests. |
There is no camera, microphone, contacts, location or storage permission, and no network permission of any kind.
Sharing and third parties
Nothing is shared, because nothing is collected. The app contains no analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising libraries, no Google Play Services and no third-party services. There are no in-app purchases, no subscriptions and no accounts — the app never asks for a name, an email address or a phone number. We do not sell, rent or disclose personal information, and there is none for us to hold.
Paying for the app
Seismor Board is a paid app, bought once per Google account for a lifetime licence. The purchase is handled entirely by Google Play. We never see your card details, your billing address or your name, and the app itself contains no payment or billing code. What Google does with the transaction is covered by Google's own privacy policy, not this one.
The app also contains no licence check. Having no network permission, it could not verify a licence with a server even if we wanted it to — so there is no sign-in, no activation, and nothing that reports back that you are entitled to type.
Backups
The app opts out of Android's backup system. Your learned words and settings are not copied to Google Drive and are not carried across in a device-to-device transfer. They exist on the phone you typed them on.
Keeping and deleting your data
Data stays on your device until you remove it. The app's settings screen has a Clear learned words button that empties the personal dictionary immediately. To remove everything else as well — emoji recents and settings — clear the app's storage under Android Settings. Uninstalling the app deletes everything it has stored. Because we never receive any of it, there is nothing for you to request from us and nothing for us to delete on your behalf.
What we declare on Google Play
Google Play asks every developer to complete a Data safety form. Ours says the app collects no data and shares no data, and that no data is transmitted off the device. That declaration matches this policy because the app has no means of sending anything anywhere.
Children
The app is suitable for all ages, and it collects no personal information from anyone, of any age. It shows no advertising, contains no purchases, and cannot display content fetched from the internet, because it cannot reach the internet. We do not knowingly collect information from children because we do not collect information from anybody.
Security
The app relies on Android's application sandbox, which prevents other apps from reading its private storage. Since no data is transmitted, there is no transmission to intercept and no server holding your information. Releases are signed by us, so Android will only install an update that came from Seismor.
Your rights
Laws such as South Africa's POPIA, the EU and UK GDPR, and similar rules elsewhere give you rights to see, correct, export or delete the personal information a company holds about you. We hold none, so there is nothing for us to look up, correct or erase. The data the app keeps is on your device, under your control, and you can delete it at any time as described above. You may still contact us with any question about this, and you have the right to complain to your data protection authority — in South Africa, the Information Regulator.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new effective date. Should a future version of the app ever collect or transmit data — which is not planned — that change would be described here before it shipped.
Contact
Questions about this policy: privacy@seismor.com
Seismor (Pty) Ltd, South Africa.