[spaky]

Minuum co-founder here:

Please check out our data collection policy at http://minuum.com/data/ . We actually wrote a fair amount of it ourselves to try and reduce the “legalese” aspect. Hopefully, as you suggest, we can work to increase transparence more in the future.

As someone below mention the key reason we introduced network access was to enable language packs.

We also collect some analytics, but it's limited to data which is inherently anonymous. We really want to build an amazing keyboard that people will want to use every day so it’s critical we be able to answer basic questions like “Is the keyboard installed?” and “Was it used today?”. Otherwise we couldn't validate our design decision.

As stated in our data collection policy, if we ever want to collect anonymized typing statistics or other data related to what you type, that would be strictly opt-in and we would be as transparent as possible about it.

And yes, as others mentioned, we only access contact information if you use the import contacts feature in the settings.