Privacy policy for Keyboard Launcher Pro
Last updated: 21 September 2026
Keyboard Launcher Pro is a home screen replacement for Android, published by illuminati Apps, Swansea, United Kingdom. This policy covers the app itself. It is short because the app does very little with your information, and everything in it can be checked against the permission list on the app’s store page.
The short version
There is no account, no sign-in and no analytics. Nothing you type into the launcher, and nothing it reads from your phone, is sent to us. We do not have a server that could receive it. The only thing that ever leaves your phone by itself is a weather lookup, and the only thing that leaves it at your instruction is a backup file whose location you choose.
What stays on your phone
All of it, unless a section below says otherwise.
- Your notes, to-dos and events, and anything you type into the command line, are stored in a database inside the app’s own private storage.
- Your contacts. The launcher reads your contacts so that typing a name can call or message that person. It reads them when you type and does not copy them anywhere.
- Your calendars. The launcher reads the calendars already on your phone to fill the day timeline and the events screen, and writes events back to them when you create one.
- Your notifications. The Hub screen is fed by Android’s notification access. Notifications are held in the app’s own storage so you can search them, and are deleted on the schedule you set in settings.
- Your settings, wallpaper and home screen layout.
None of this is transmitted, sold, shared or used for advertising. There is no advertising in the app.
The one thing that always leaves your phone
The weather. If you have the weather showing, the launcher sends an approximate latitude and longitude to the Open-Meteo API (open-meteo.com) to get a forecast back. No account, no identifier and nothing about you is sent with it, and Open-Meteo is not told who is asking.
To get that position the app asks for approximate location only, never precise location. It takes one coarse fix, uses it, and stores the resulting town name and coordinates on your phone so it does not have to ask again. If you would rather not share a position at all, you can type a town name in settings instead, and only that name is sent to Open-Meteo to look up its coordinates. If you never turn the weather on, neither of these ever happens.
Handing things to the apps you already use
When you write a message or an email, place a call, set an alarm or a timer, search the web or ask your assistant, the launcher hands what you typed to the app you already use for that and steps out of the way. It has no account of its own for any of them, it never asks you for a password to any of them, and nothing passes through us on the way. What happens next is between you and that app, under that app’s own privacy policy.
The thing that leaves only if you ask it to
Backup. The backup is a single file, encrypted with a passphrase you choose, written to a location you pick. Where it goes is your decision. We have no copy and, without your passphrase, no way to read one.
The accessibility service
Two optional features, pulling down from the home screen and the screen off tile, work through an Android accessibility service. You are shown what it does and asked to agree before it can be switched on.
It reads nothing. The service is declared with no accessibility event types at all and without permission to retrieve window content, so Android never sends it anything about what is on your screen, in this app or any other, and it is not able to ask. It exists to perform three global actions: open the notification shade, open the quick settings panel, and lock the screen. No data is collected, stored or shared through it, and nothing it does leaves your phone.
You can turn it off at any time in Android settings, under accessibility, without uninstalling the launcher.
Permissions, and why each one is there
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Contacts | So typing a name can reach that person. Read on demand, never copied. |
| Calendar | To show your real diary and to write events you create. |
| Notification access | To show your notifications on the Hub screen. |
| Approximate location | One coarse fix for the weather, only if you use the weather. |
| Internet | The weather lookup, and nothing else. It is the only thing in the launcher that uses the network. |
| Set alarm | To hand an alarm you typed to your own clock app. |
| Set wallpaper | To set the wallpaper you choose in settings. |
| Biometric | To put private notes behind your fingerprint. Handled by Android; the app never sees a fingerprint. |
| Accessibility service (optional) | The notification pull-down and the screen off tile. See above. |
The launcher does not ask for your text messages, your call log, your microphone, your camera, your photos, your files, or the full list of apps on your phone.
Children
The app is not directed at children and collects nothing from anyone, including children.
Changes
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it, and anything that materially affects what leaves your phone will be called out in the release notes.
Contact
Questions, or a request about your information, to: adamjamesrees@gmail.com
illuminati Apps, Swansea, United Kingdom.