Privacy policy

Effective 2026-11-05

This policy explains what information is stored or shared when you use Phonokey, a special-character keyboard site (the “site”), where it is kept, and who receives it.

1. Information we collect

The site has no accounts or sign-in, and the text you type is never sent to our servers. When you send an error report, we receive the information below. Site delivery and API security also involve processing IP addresses, as explained in section 3.

• What we receive: your report, an e-mail address for our reply (optional), the page you reported from and your interface language
• Why: to check and fix the problem and, if you left an address, to reply
• You can report without an e-mail address, but then we cannot reply.

2. Information stored only in your browser

For convenience, the site keeps the following in your browser's storage. It stays on your device and is never sent to us.

• Local storage: interface language; settings such as font, text size, shortcut key and whether IPA keyboard sound is enabled; the keyboard tab you last used; whether rare symbols are hidden; favorite and recently used keyboards. Text and names you explicitly save to the shelf also stay in local storage. Delete them from the shelf or clear this site’s browser data. Remove saved text after using a shared device.
• Session storage: the text you are typing and the cursor position, so a reload does not lose your work (cleared when you close the tab)

You can delete this at any time by clearing this site's data (cookies and site data) in your browser settings.

3. Third-party services

The site relies on the following services, which may receive your IP address and browser information:

• Google Fonts (Google LLC): loading font files sends your IP address and browser details to Google. Google Privacy Policy
• Cloudflare Web Analytics (Cloudflare, Inc.): counts visits — page address, referring site, browser and device type, country and page load speed. It uses no cookies and does not identify you or follow you across other sites. Cloudflare Privacy Policy
• Anonymous usage counts (Cloudflare Workers Analytics Engine): we count how many times buttons, shortcuts and copying are used on each keyboard — numbers only. The aggregate records do not contain your text, IP address, cookies or visitor identifiers.
• API rate limits (Cloudflare Workers): IP addresses are passed to Cloudflare’s rate-limiting service to limit excessive report and usage requests in one-minute windows. These rate-limit records are not included in usage aggregates or report emails.
• Web hosting: the servers delivering the site may keep access logs (IP address, time, requested page, browser details) for security and reliable operation.
• Error reports: reports pass through Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc.) and are delivered to and kept in our mailbox (Gmail, Google LLC).
• Google AdSense (Google LLC, when ads are shown): Google and its partners may use cookies or advertising identifiers to show ads based on your visits to this and other sites. See how Google uses advertising cookies.

This information is handled under each provider's own privacy policy and may be transferred outside your country (for example to the United States).

4. Cookies and personalised ads

We set no cookies of our own. You can refuse or remove third-party advertising cookies by:

• blocking or deleting cookies in your browser settings;
• turning off personalised ads in Google Ad Settings;
• opting out of partner networks at aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.eu.

The site currently displays no Google AdSense ads and has no advertising consent dialog. Before introducing ads, we will prepare a Google-certified consent management platform and a way to change consent choices for the applicable regions, and update this policy. Refusing cookies or advertising consent does not prevent typing or copying characters.

5. Sharing

We use Cloudflare and Gmail, described in section 3, to deliver and store reports. We do not sell or publish report contents. Information handled by external services is governed by their policies.

6. Retention

Browser-stored information remains on your device until you delete it (the text you are typing, until you close the tab). Error-report e-mails are deleted within one year after the report is handled, or immediately on request.

7. Your rights

You can clear the site's data and refuse cookies and personalised ads at any time. Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR), you may also have rights to access, correct or erase data held about you and to complain to a data protection authority. Contact us with any questions.

8. Children

The site does not knowingly collect personal information from children.

9. Contact

• Responsible person: the site operator
• E-mail: hktybori2000@gmail.com

10. Changes

We may update this policy when the law or the site changes. Updates are posted on this page with a new effective date.