Paw Keys includes an iPhone and iPad app, a custom keyboard, and this marketing website. This policy explains how each handles information.
The app and keyboard
Paw Keys has no accounts, advertising, analytics, or tracking SDKs. The app and keyboard do not send your typing, paw photos, or usage data to the developer or to a server.
What you type
Correction, word suggestions, custom dictionary matching, and emoji search run on your device. Paw Keys uses bundled dictionaries, Apple’s on-device spell checker, and the supplementary lexicon provided by iOS. The keyboard does not make network requests or keep a history of your typing or emoji searches. Words you explicitly add to the custom dictionary are saved locally.
When you type in another app, the text is entered into that app. How that app saves or shares the text is covered by its own privacy policy. The Paw Keys playground and Typing tester hold practice text and timers in memory; Paw Keys does not save a practice history or upload it.
Photos and the camera
Photo matching is optional and available in the companion app. You can choose an image with Apple’s photo picker or grant camera permission to take a picture. Paw Keys processes the selected picture on your device to suggest fur and paw jelly colors. You can adjust these with the Fur and Jelly markers.
Paw Keys keeps the picture in memory while the photo-matching screen is open. It does not save the picture to its files or your photo library, and does not upload it. Tapping Use saves the selected colors as keyboard preferences, not the picture. Existing photos in your library and any library syncing are managed by Apple and your device settings. You can change camera permission in iOS Settings.
Preferences saved on your device
Paw Keys saves the choices needed to remember your keyboard:
- Fur, paw jelly, number-row colors, and appearance.
- Layout, languages, swipe shortcuts, correction preferences, sounds, volume, and haptic settings.
- Words you explicitly save in the custom dictionary.
- Recently used emoji and preferred skin tones.
These preferences are stored locally. Paw Keys does not maintain a server copy. You can remove saved words in Custom dictionary and reset colors with Restore paw colors.
Full Access
iOS offers an optional Allow Full Access setting for third-party keyboards. Paw Keys uses it to share colors and preferences between the app and keyboard through an App Group on your device. Full Access also allows key sounds when typing in other apps.
Typing, correction, and emoji search work without Full Access. You can hold 123 to customize inside the keyboard. Paw Keys does not transmit typing over the network with or without Full Access.
This website
This website is hosted on Vercel. Delivering and protecting the website requires processing technical request information, which can include an IP address, the requested URL, browser and device information, and request times. This hosting data is separate from the Paw Keys app’s typing and photos. We do not add advertising or analytics scripts to the website.
Text entered in the website’s interactive keyboard demo stays in the page’s memory. It is not sent to us and clears when you reload the page. More information about our hosting provider is available in Vercel’s Privacy Notice.
If you contact support
If you contact us, we receive the message, any attachments you choose to include, and the contact information needed to reply. We use that information to respond and investigate the issue. Please share only the information relevant to your request. Links to the App Store or other external services take you to services with their own privacy practices.
Changes to this policy
Updates will be posted on this page with a new date so you can review the current policy.
Contact
Questions about Paw Keys or this policy? Email support@samuelkim.dev.