Privacy Policy

Ayko Translation Plus

Effective Date: October 21, 2026

👋 Introduction

Welcome to Ayko Translation Plus! This Privacy Policy explains what information the Ayko Translation Plus app (including the Ayko keyboard) collects, how it is used, who it is shared with, and the choices you have.

You do not need an account to use Ayko Translation Plus. We do not keep your translations on our own servers — the content you translate is sent to Google's Gemini service only to produce your translation.

📊 Information We Collect

Content you choose to translate:

  • Text: text you type, paste, or select for translation, including text you translate with the Ayko keyboard.
  • Voice and audio: voice recordings you make for voice or conversation translation, and audio files you upload.
  • Images and files: photos you take or choose, and text or subtitle files you upload for translation.

This content is sent to the Google Gemini API to produce the translation (and, if you turn it on, the spoken translation). We do not store it on our servers.

Collected automatically by services in the app:

  • Device and other identifiers: the advertising ID and other device identifiers (used by Google AdMob), and a Firebase installation ID and push-notification token (used by Firebase Cloud Messaging).
  • Approximate location: estimated from your IP address by Google AdMob for ads. We never collect your precise location.
  • App interactions and diagnostics: how you interact with ads, and technical information such as crash and performance data, collected by Google AdMob.
  • App integrity signals: information that confirms you are using the genuine app on a genuine device (Firebase App Check with Google Play Integrity or Apple App Attest).

Information you give us yourself:

  • Your own API key (optional): if you add your own Google AI Studio API key, it is stored securely on your device and used only to send your translations to Google.
  • Device ID (optional): the app creates an ID shown in Settings. It stays on your device and reaches us only if you send it to us yourself (for example, to request free access).
  • Emails: anything you send when you contact us.

We do not collect your name, contacts, precise location, or payment information.

📱 Information Stored Only on Your Device

  • Your translation history — you can delete single translations or clear it all in the app
  • Saved audio of spoken translations, so they replay instantly
  • Your settings, your remaining translation requests, and your own API key (if you added one)

This information is not uploaded to us. It is removed when you delete it in the app, clear the app's data, or uninstall the app.

⌨️ The Ayko Keyboard

  • The keyboard sends text only when you tap translate, and only the text you chose to translate. That text goes to the Google Gemini API for translation.
  • The keyboard does not record, store, or send anything else you type, such as passwords or messages you do not translate.
  • On iPhone, the keyboard needs "Full Access" only so it can connect to the internet to translate.

🎯 How We Use Information

  • To translate your text, voice, images, and files, and to play translations aloud
  • To show ads, including rewarded ads that give you more requests
  • To send you notifications, if you allow them
  • To keep the app secure and prevent fraud, abuse, and invalid ad traffic
  • To answer you when you contact us

🤝 Third-Party Services

We use the following services from Google. They receive data only to provide their service to the app, under their own terms and privacy policies:

  • Google Gemini API: translates the content you choose to translate and creates spoken translations. Google processes this content under the Gemini API Additional Terms, which decide how long Google keeps it and whether it may be used to improve Google's services. Please do not translate sensitive personal information.
  • Google AdMob: shows ads. AdMob collects the advertising ID and device identifiers, approximate location from your IP address, ad interactions, and diagnostics, for ads, measurement, and fraud prevention, and may personalize ads based on your choices. See How Google uses information from apps that use its services.
  • Firebase Cloud Messaging: delivers notifications using a Firebase installation ID and push token.
  • Firebase App Check: helps confirm requests come from the genuine app, using Google Play Integrity (Android) or Apple App Attest (iOS).

The app also downloads its settings from our own server. No personal information is sent in that request, although the hosting provider may log technical data such as your IP address.

Google's privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy

🔗 Sharing of Information

  • We do not sell your personal information.
  • Information is shared only with the service providers listed above, to run the app (translation, ads, notifications, and security).
  • We may disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the rights and safety of our users and the app.

🔒 Data Security and Retention

  • All data is encrypted in transit (HTTPS/TLS).
  • We do not keep the content you translate on our servers.
  • Your own API key and your request balance are kept in your device's secure storage.
  • Data held by Google is kept according to Google's own terms and policies.

🎁 Translation Requests and Ads

  • Each translation uses one translation request
  • You can get more requests by watching rewarded ads
  • The app has no paid purchases and never asks for payment details

👤 Your Choices and Rights

  • Ads: you can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalized ads, in your device settings.
  • Notifications: you can turn them off at any time in your device settings.
  • History: you can delete your translation history in the app at any time.
  • Access and deletion: you can ask us what data we hold about you or ask us to delete it by emailing us. See How to Delete Your Data below.

🗑️ How to Delete Your Data

Ayko Translation Plus has no accounts, and we do not keep your translations on our servers. Here is how to delete each kind of data.

1. Data on your device

  • To delete your translation history, open Translation History in the app and tap Clear History.
  • To delete everything the app stores (history, saved audio, settings, your API key, your request balance, and your Device ID), uninstall the app. On Android you can also go to Settings → Apps → Ayko Translation Plus → Storage → Clear storage.

2. Data we hold

  • We only hold the emails you send us and, if you sent it to us, your Device ID (kept in our free-access list).
  • To delete it, email taha@tahasardar.com with the subject "Delete my data". If you sent us your Device ID before, include it (Settings → Your Device ID).
  • Within 30 days we delete your emails, remove your Device ID, and reply to confirm. If your Device ID had free access, that access ends. We keep nothing, unless the law requires us to.

3. Data held by Google

  • Advertising ID: reset or delete it in your device settings (on Android: Settings → Google → Ads).
  • Content you translated is processed by the Google Gemini API and kept by Google under the Gemini API Additional Terms. We cannot delete it from Google's systems.
  • Your Firebase installation ID and push token are removed from your device when you uninstall the app.

👶 Children's Privacy

Ayko Translation Plus is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

🔄 Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post the new policy on this page and update the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

📧 Contact Us

If you have any questions or requests about this Privacy Policy or your data, please contact us:

📧 taha@tahasardar.com