Ahasa Keyboard — Privacy Policy
In one sentence: nothing you type leaves your phone.
සිංහල: ඔබ ටයිප් කරන කිසිවක් දුරකථනයෙන් පිටතට නොයයි. යෙදුම ගිණුම්, විශ්ලේෂණ හෝ දැන්වීම් භාවිත නොකරයි. අන්තර්ජාලය යොදා ගන්නේ පුවත් සිරස්තල ගෙන ඒමට පමණි — ඔබ පුවත් ක්රියාත්මක කර ඇති විට පමණි.
தமிழ்: நீங்கள் தட்டச்சு செய்வது எதுவும் தொலைபேசியை விட்டு வெளியே செல்லாது. செயலி கணக்குகள், பகுப்பாய்வு அல்லது விளம்பரங்களைப் பயன்படுத்துவதில்லை. இணையம் செய்தித் தலைப்புகளைப் பெற மட்டுமே — செய்திகளை நீங்கள் இயக்கியிருக்கும்போது மட்டுமே — பயன்படுகிறது.
1. What the keyboard does with what you type
Ahasa Keyboard is an input method (a keyboard). Everything it does with your keystrokes — turning Singlish or Tanglish into Sinhala or Tamil, suggesting words, predicting the next word — happens on your phone. Your keystrokes, the text you compose and the suggestions you pick are never sent to us or to anyone else.
The keyboard does not read, store or transmit passwords or e-mail addresses: fields of those kinds open in plain English mode and nothing typed in them is learned.
2. Information stored on your phone
| What | Why | Where, and how to remove it |
|---|---|---|
| Words you type that are not in the built-in dictionary, and which word followed which | So the keyboard can suggest them to you later | In the app’s private storage on your phone only. Settings → “Forget learned words” deletes them; switching off “Learn my words” stops it. Uninstalling the app removes everything. |
| Your settings (languages, typing method, theme, options) | To remember your choices | App’s private storage; removed on uninstall. |
| Drawings made on the board | So a signature or sketch stays on the board until you wipe it | App’s private storage; the Wipe button removes them. A copy is handed to another app only when you press Insert, Send, Copy or Save. |
| Recent emoji | Quick access in the emoji panel | App’s private storage. |
| Cached news headlines | So headlines show without a connection | App cache; cleared automatically and when headlines are switched off or the app is uninstalled. |
3. Internet use — headlines only
The app has the Internet permission for a single purpose: fetching news headlines for the ticker in the suggestion bar. While headlines are switched on, the app periodically downloads an RSS feed — by default Ada Derana’s Sinhala, Tamil or English feed (adaderana.lk), or another feed URL you enter in settings. Like any web request, this reveals your IP address and standard request details to the operator of that feed; we do not receive them. The request contains nothing you have typed. Tapping a headline opens it in your browser, where the publisher’s own privacy policy applies.
You can switch headlines off at any time (news list → Hide headlines, or in settings); the app then makes no network requests at all.
4. The board and pictures
When you press Insert, Send, Copy or Save on the board, the drawing is turned into a picture and handed to the app you are typing in, to the app’s share screen, to the clipboard, or to your Pictures folder — only because you asked for it, and only to the place you chose. Those apps then handle the picture under their own policies.
5. Permissions
| Permission | Used for |
|---|---|
| INTERNET | Fetching the headline feed (section 3). Nothing else. |
| VIBRATE | Key-press feedback, if you keep it on. |
| Package visibility (queries for apps that accept shared pictures) | So the board can offer “Send via …” for the app you are typing in. No list of your apps is collected or sent anywhere. |
The app does not request access to your contacts, location, camera, microphone, photos, files or accounts.
6. Data we collect
None. Ahasa Keyboard has no user accounts, no analytics, no crash-reporting service, no advertising and no third-party SDKs. We do not collect, store or share personal data, and we have nothing to sell or hand over.
7. Children
The app is a general-purpose keyboard and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone, including children.
8. Changes to this policy
If the app ever changes what it does with your data, we will update this page and the app’s listing before the change takes effect, and the effective date above will change.
9. Contact
Colombo Dreams · colombodreams.info@gmail.com · colombodreams.com · ahasa.space/keyboard