Bardo Android – Privacy Policy & Terms of Service

Last Updated: October 24, 2026
Effective Date: October 24, 2026

What changed: Bardo Marketplace no longer supports template publishing and now covers themes only. Themes contain design parameters, not free text, so Marketplace submissions are no longer sent to OpenAI or any other third-party AI service for moderation. This version also documents Echo, an experimental sound-based data transfer technology, regional availability of TypexAI Cloud and Bardo Marketplace (currently available everywhere, with the ability to restrict them by country or region if needed), and updates the sections on data processing, moderation, international transfers, third-party services, and children accordingly.

Marketplace moderation. Themes and widgets published to Bardo Marketplace are subject to special moderation by TypexAI. Our moderators can view any published theme or widget, delete material that breaks these terms, and restrict or terminate the accounts responsible for violations. See Section 7.3.

At TypexAI, transparency is a core part of how Bardo Android is designed. We believe users should clearly understand how the app works, what data is processed, what remains under the user's control, and where responsibility begins and ends.

This document serves as both the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service for Bardo Android, including Bardo Marketplace, TypexAI Cloud, and the other features described below. By using the Bardo Android application, you agree to these terms.

1. Local-First Design and Encryption

Bardo Android is built around a privacy-first, local-first philosophy. By default, you create, store, and manage your notes, lists, and related content on your device. The app works without an account and without a network connection.

Cloud sync is optional. Nothing leaves your device for sync until you turn it on and choose a provider: TypexAI Cloud, your own Supabase server, or a WebDAV server. Section 6 explains how each option works.

TypexAI does not use your private note content for advertising, profiling, telemetry, or general analytics. If you use TypexAI Cloud, Bardo Android encrypts your notes on your device before upload, and TypexAI stores only encrypted data that it cannot read.

Where encryption is used within Bardo Android, it is designed to protect user content before it becomes accessible to anyone else. In practice, this means that your private data is intended to remain under your control, not under the control of TypexAI.

Bardo Android is designed so that private content is not routinely readable by TypexAI. If certain protected data becomes inaccessible because of forgotten passwords, lost recovery codes, or lost decryption material, that access may be permanently unrecoverable.

Bardo Marketplace works differently, because publishing there is a public act. Themes you publish become visible to everyone and are stored unencrypted on TypexAI servers. Section 7 covers this in detail.

2. Limited Server-Side Processing

Bardo Android uses TypexAI infrastructure only for specific purposes:

  • security protection and abuse prevention;
  • TypexAI Cloud encrypted sync, if you use it;
  • Bardo Marketplace, if you browse, download, rate, or publish themes;
  • verification of Bardo Plus purchases;
  • basic service reliability.

TypexAI servers do not read, analyze, or profile your private note content. The only note data TypexAI stores on your behalf is the encrypted data you choose to sync through TypexAI Cloud.

Communication with TypexAI infrastructure is protected using encrypted connections (HTTPS/TLS) and reasonable technical security measures.

3. Data Minimization

TypexAI follows a principle of strict data minimization. We do not collect more information than is reasonably necessary to operate Bardo Android and the features you choose to use.

Depending on the features you use, this may include:

  • app or device-related technical information necessary for compatibility and security;
  • basic operational metadata, such as timestamps, version information, or security-related logs;
  • encrypted note data and sync metadata, only if you use TypexAI Cloud;
  • your Marketplace nickname, the themes you publish, and related ratings and statistics, only if you use Bardo Marketplace;
  • purchase verification data provided by Google Play, only if you buy Bardo Plus.

We do not treat your private note content as general-purpose business data, and we do not use your private content for advertising profiling.

4. No Analytics or Tracking

Bardo Android does not include usage analytics, telemetry, advertising SDKs, or tracking tools. The app does not send TypexAI reports about which features you use, how often you open it, or what you do inside it.

Google Play may provide TypexAI with aggregated statistics, such as install counts, ratings, and crash reports from users who allow Google to share diagnostic data. Google collects this data under its own policies, and it does not include your note content.

Bardo Marketplace keeps install counts, view counts, and ratings for published themes. These are public counters attached to each item, described in Section 7.2, and they do not track what you do in the app.

5. Legal Bases for Processing

For users in the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, TypexAI processes personal data on the following legal bases:

  • performance of a contract, for TypexAI Cloud, Bardo Marketplace, and Bardo Plus;
  • legitimate interests, for security, abuse prevention, content moderation, and service reliability;
  • legal obligation, where we must respond to lawful requests from authorities or act on illegal content.

6. Cloud Sync

Bardo Android offers three optional ways to sync your notes between devices. You can use Bardo Android without any of them.

6.1 TypexAI Cloud

TypexAI Cloud is the sync service operated by TypexAI and included with Bardo Plus.

Bardo Android encrypts your notes, lists, and related content on your device before sending them to TypexAI Cloud. The keys needed to decrypt this data stay on your devices. TypexAI stores only encrypted data and cannot read your note content.

To operate the service, TypexAI Cloud stores:

  • your encrypted note data;
  • an account identifier and the authentication data needed to connect your devices;
  • sync metadata, such as item identifiers, timestamps, data sizes, and device sync state;
  • the status of your Bardo Plus entitlement.

TypexAI uses this data only to provide sync. We do not analyze it, sell it, or share it with anyone except the hosting providers that store it on our behalf.

Because TypexAI cannot decrypt your data, TypexAI cannot restore your notes if you lose your encryption keys or passwords. Keep them somewhere safe.

You can stop syncing at any time in the app settings, and you can delete your TypexAI Cloud data. When you delete it, TypexAI removes it from active systems within 30 days. If your Bardo Plus subscription ends, TypexAI may delete your TypexAI Cloud data after a grace period. In both cases, notes stored on your device stay on your device.

6.2 Your Own Supabase Server

You can connect Bardo Android to a Supabase project that you create and control. In this setup:

  • you enter your Supabase project URL and API key in Bardo Android, and the app stores them only on your device;
  • Bardo Android sends your notes directly from your device to your Supabase project;
  • TypexAI does not receive, store, or have access to your Supabase credentials or the data you sync there.

TypexAI is not a party to this sync and does not process your synced data. You control that data, and you are responsible for:

  • securing your Supabase project, including access keys and row-level security rules;
  • backups of the data stored in your project;
  • the costs, limits, and terms of your Supabase account.

Anyone with administrative access to your Supabase project may be able to read the data stored there, unless Bardo Android encrypted it before upload. Protect your project accordingly.

Supabase is a third-party service. Your agreement with Supabase governs your use of it, and TypexAI is not responsible for its availability, security, or data handling.

6.3 WebDAV Sync

You can also sync with a WebDAV server of your choice. The same principles apply as with your own Supabase server: Bardo Android stores the server address and credentials only on your device, sends data directly to your server, and TypexAI has no access to that data. You are responsible for the security and reliability of your WebDAV server and for the terms of whoever operates it.

6.4 Regional Availability

At the date of this version, TypexAI Cloud is available in all countries where Bardo Android is distributed.

TypexAI has built the technical ability to restrict or block access to TypexAI Cloud separately, country by country or region by region. We may use it if legal requirements, legal uncertainty, or government action in a jurisdiction make it unsafe or unlawful for us to keep offering the service there. We may apply a restriction at any time and, where practical, we will announce it in advance. Restricting access does not affect the notes stored on your device, and the rest of Bardo Android continues to work without an account.

7. Bardo Marketplace

Bardo Marketplace is available to Bardo Android users on both Free and Plus plans, subject to regional availability described in Section 7.9. It lets you browse, download, and rate themes and widgets created by other users, and publish your own.

Template publishing is no longer part of Bardo Marketplace, and templates previously published there have been removed. Marketplace now covers themes and widgets.

We built the marketplace around three things: your privacy, compliance with these terms, and the safety of everything that gets published.

7.1 Accounts

You can browse and download without an account. To publish, you create an account by choosing a nickname. We do not ask for an email address, password, phone number, or real name, and nothing links the account to your identity.

Your nickname is public. Other users see it next to your themes. Do not use your real name or other personal information as your nickname. The nickname is the only free text you can enter in Bardo Marketplace, and TypexAI may reject, change, or remove nicknames that break these terms.

Your account lives on your device only. If you uninstall Bardo Android or clear its data, you lose the account permanently. TypexAI cannot recover or transfer it, because we have no way to verify who owns it. Write your nickname down if it matters to you.

7.2 What We Store

When you use Bardo Marketplace, TypexAI stores:

  • your nickname and an internal account identifier;
  • the themes you publish, including their design parameters and previews;
  • publication dates and technical validation results;
  • install counts, view counts, and ratings for each published theme;
  • daily publishing counters used to enforce the limit in Section 7.5.

Published themes are stored unencrypted on TypexAI servers. This allows them to be displayed to other users and reviewed, and published items are public by nature.

Like any web server, marketplace servers observe the IP address of incoming requests. TypexAI may keep IP addresses in security logs for a limited period to fight abuse, flooding, and illegal content. We do not use them to build profiles.

Install and view counts are aggregate numbers. Creators see statistics only for their own published work.

7.3 Safety Checks and Review

A theme consists of design parameters, such as colors and other visual settings, chosen from the options Bardo Android provides. You cannot enter free text, images, or code into a theme. Because of this, TypexAI does not send Marketplace submissions to OpenAI or to any other third-party AI or moderation service.

TypexAI instead relies on the following:

  • automated technical validation on TypexAI servers, which checks that every submitted theme uses only allowed fields and values and rejects anything else;
  • the publishing limit described in Section 7.5;
  • special moderation by TypexAI staff: our moderators may view any published theme or widget, delete any material that breaks these terms, and restrict or terminate the accounts responsible for violations;
  • reports from users, described in Section 7.7.

If we find child sexual abuse material or content that suggests a threat to someone's life or safety, we block it, preserve the relevant data, and report it to law enforcement or to organizations authorized to receive such reports, as required or permitted by law. We terminate the account involved.

Bardo Android never sends your private notes to any moderation or review process.

7.4 No Third-Party Processing of Marketplace Submissions

Marketplace data is processed on TypexAI infrastructure and by the hosting providers that store it on our behalf. TypexAI does not share your nickname, account identifier, or published themes with any third-party AI service.

7.5 Publishing Limits

One account can publish up to 100 themes per day. The limit keeps the marketplace clean and stops automated flooding. Normal use will never come close to it.

7.6 Content Rules and License

You may publish only themes that you created or have the right to share. You may not use Bardo Marketplace to:

  • publish a theme, or choose a nickname, that contains or is designed to convey illegal, hateful, harassing, threatening, or sexual content, or content involving minors;
  • spam, advertise, scam, or mislead other users;
  • impersonate other people or organizations;
  • infringe copyright, trademarks, or other rights;
  • try to bypass validation, review, or publishing limits;
  • publish anything else that is illegal in your country or in the European Union.

You keep ownership of what you publish. By publishing a theme, you grant TypexAI a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to host, store, display, review, and distribute it through Bardo Marketplace. You also grant other Bardo users a non-exclusive license to download it and use it within Bardo.

Other users create the themes in the marketplace. TypexAI provides them as is and does not guarantee their quality or suitability for your purposes.

7.7 Reporting, Removal, and Appeals

If you find a theme or nickname that breaks these rules or the law, report it to legal@typexai.dev with the item name, the creator's nickname, and a short explanation. We review every report and remove content that breaks these terms or the law.

When TypexAI rejects or removes your content, Bardo Android shows you a notice with the reason where technically possible. If you think we made a mistake, write to support@typexai.dev with your nickname and the item name, and a person will review the decision.

TypexAI may delete material and restrict or terminate marketplace accounts that publish prohibited content or try to bypass validation or publishing limits.

Copyright holders can send takedown requests to dmca@typexai.dev.

7.8 Deleting Your Account

You can delete your marketplace account at any time in the app by entering your nickname. When you do, TypexAI deletes your account and removes the themes you published from the marketplace.

Copies that other users already downloaded stay on their devices, and TypexAI cannot remove them. TypexAI may keep records related to removed illegal content or reported abuse where the law requires it.

7.9 Regional Availability

At the date of this version, Bardo Marketplace is available in all countries where Bardo Android is distributed.

TypexAI has built the technical ability to restrict or block access to Bardo Marketplace, or to limit publishing only, separately, country by country or region by region. We may use it if legal requirements, legal uncertainty, or government action in a jurisdiction make it unsafe or unlawful for us to keep offering the service there. We may apply a restriction at any time and, where practical, we will announce it in advance. Restricting access does not affect the themes already installed on your device.

8. Bardo Plus and Payments

Bardo Plus is an optional paid plan with monthly and lifetime options. Google Play processes all payments, and TypexAI never receives your card number or payment details.

To confirm your purchase and unlock Plus features, TypexAI receives purchase verification data from Google Play, such as a purchase token, product identifier, and subscription status. Google's privacy policy governs the data Google collects during payment.

You can manage or cancel your subscription in Google Play. Refunds follow Google Play's refund policies and applicable consumer law.

9. User Responsibility for Passwords, Keys, and Access

By using Bardo Android, you acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for maintaining the confidentiality and security of your passwords, recovery codes, encryption keys, and any other access mechanisms associated with the app. This includes the encryption keys for TypexAI Cloud, the credentials for your own Supabase or WebDAV server, and your Bardo Marketplace account.

In the vast majority of software products, including privacy-oriented applications, end-user terms generally place responsibility for password and key retention on the user. Bardo Android follows the same principle.

If you lose access to your passwords, recovery codes, or decryption material, TypexAI may be unable to restore access to your protected data. This is not a support limitation alone; it may be a technical limitation inherent to how the product is designed.

Accordingly:

  • TypexAI does not guarantee recovery of inaccessible user data;
  • TypexAI is not responsible for data loss resulting from forgotten passwords, lost keys, lost recovery codes, or other user-side access failures;
  • you are responsible for securely storing any passwords, keys, or recovery information provided or generated by the app.

10. Data Loss and Recovery Limitations

Because Bardo Android is designed to prioritize user control and privacy, there may be situations where protected content cannot be restored once access is lost.

This means that if you forget or lose the passwords, recovery codes, or keys required to unlock protected areas or encrypted content, TypexAI may have no technical means to recover that content for you. The same applies to encrypted data stored in TypexAI Cloud and to Bardo Marketplace accounts lost after uninstalling the app or clearing its data.

By using Bardo Android, you understand and accept this architectural limitation.

11. Data Retention

Your notes and related content in Bardo Android are stored on your device. If you use TypexAI Cloud, TypexAI keeps your encrypted data until you delete it, or until your Bardo Plus subscription ends and the grace period described in Section 6.1 passes. Backups may keep deleted data for up to 30 days before they are overwritten.

Data you sync to your own Supabase or WebDAV server stays there for as long as you keep it. TypexAI has no control over it.

TypexAI keeps published marketplace themes until you delete them or your account, or until TypexAI removes them. Aggregate statistics may remain in anonymized form.

You are responsible for backups, exports, and any copies you make outside the app. Uninstalling Bardo Android or clearing app data may permanently delete local content that is not otherwise saved by you. Where Bardo Android offers automatic deletion of items in the trash, items deleted that way cannot be restored.

Limited security or operational records may be processed and retained only for as long as reasonably necessary for fraud prevention, legal compliance, service reliability, or dispute handling.

12. AI Features

If you choose to use AI-related features within Bardo Android, your use of those features may involve interaction with third-party AI services selected by you or made available through the app.

Certain AI-related features may operate locally, while others may depend on external providers depending on the product configuration at the time of use.

You are responsible for reviewing and understanding any external provider terms that apply to the AI services you choose to use.

TypexAI does not use any AI service to process Bardo Marketplace submissions, as described in Section 7.3. AI features inside the app process only the content you choose to use them with.

13. Experimental Technologies: DarkCode and Echo

DarkCode and Echo are experimental data encoding and transfer technologies associated with the Bardo ecosystem. DarkCode transfers data visually, and Echo transfers data by sound between devices. They are intended for research, testing, offline transfer, and lawful productivity-related use only.

13.1 Echo

Echo converts data into sound that one device plays and another device receives. To send and receive data, Echo uses your device's speaker and microphone. Bardo Android asks for microphone permission when you use Echo to receive data, and you can refuse or revoke the permission in your device settings, which only disables receiving with Echo.

Echo processes audio on your device. Bardo Android does not record, store, or send to TypexAI or to any third party the audio picked up by the microphone. Sound is a broadcast medium: anyone near the sending device may be able to hear and capture the transmission. If you transfer sensitive content with Echo, you are responsible for protecting it, for example by encrypting it first and by choosing a private place.

13.2 General Terms for DarkCode and Echo

DarkCode and Echo may be incomplete, limited, unstable, inaccurate in some scenarios (including because of noise, distance, device hardware, or image quality), unavailable in certain app versions, or modified or removed at any time without notice.

Any public references to DarkCode or Echo, including research pages, prototype materials, repositories, or demonstrations, should not be interpreted as a guarantee of commercial readiness, general availability, reliability, fitness for a particular purpose, or long-term support.

Where DarkCode or Echo is used together with encryption or protected transfer workflows, users remain solely responsible for how they use that functionality and for preserving any passwords, keys, or related access material.

TypexAI reserves the right to restrict, delay, modify, limit, or withhold broader release of DarkCode, Echo, or related decoding functionality where necessary for safety, abuse prevention, technical reasons, legal reasons, or product integrity.

14. Acceptable Use

Bardo Android is provided as a neutral software tool for note-taking, organization, and related productivity purposes.

You agree not to use Bardo Android, DarkCode, Echo, Bardo Marketplace, TypexAI Cloud, or any related functionality for unlawful, harmful, fraudulent, abusive, deceptive, evasive, or unauthorized purposes.

This includes, without limitation, using the app or related technologies to store, encode, conceal, transfer, or manage content connected to illegal activity, attempts to evade lawful restrictions, malicious conduct, harassment, fraud, or the distribution of unlawful material.

The content rules in Section 7.6 apply to everything you publish to Bardo Marketplace.

TypexAI reserves the right to suspend, restrict, or terminate access to features where misuse, abuse, security risk, or violation of these terms is reasonably suspected.

You remain solely responsible for the content you create, store, import, export, publish, or manage through the application.

15. Third-Party Infrastructure and Services

Bardo Android relies on third-party providers for limited operational purposes:

  • server hosting providers, which host TypexAI infrastructure, including encrypted TypexAI Cloud data and Bardo Marketplace;
  • Google Play, for app distribution and Bardo Plus payments.

These providers process data only in connection with the limited purposes described in this policy. This does not mean that TypexAI stores your private note content on those services in readable form.

Supabase projects and WebDAV servers you connect yourself are your own providers, not TypexAI's. TypexAI does not select them, pay for them, or have access to them.

16. International Data Transfers

Some hosting providers may process data outside the European Economic Area. Where this happens, TypexAI relies on appropriate safeguards, such as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission.

17. Your Rights

If you are in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, you have the right to:

  • access the personal data TypexAI holds about you;
  • correct inaccurate data;
  • request deletion of your data;
  • restrict or object to processing;
  • receive your data in a portable format;
  • withdraw consent at any time, where processing is based on consent.

You can delete most of your data yourself in the app: delete your TypexAI Cloud data or your marketplace account. For other requests, write to legal@typexai.dev. We respond within one month.

Nickname-based marketplace accounts are not linked to your identity. For that reason, TypexAI may be unable to find data that relates to you, or to verify that a marketplace account belongs to you. For marketplace requests, include your nickname, and we may ask you to confirm the request from the app.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority, such as the Estonian Data Protection Inspectorate (Andmekaitse Inspektsioon) or the authority in your country.

18. Children

Bardo Android is not directed at children under 13. You must be at least 13, or older if the law of your country requires it, to publish in Bardo Marketplace or use TypexAI Cloud. TypexAI does not verify your age, because we choose not to collect identity or age data from you. Bardo Marketplace contains no free-text user content other than nicknames, and publishing does not require sharing personal information. If you believe a child has provided personal data to TypexAI, contact legal@typexai.dev and we will delete it.

19. Limitation of Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, TypexAI, its creators, affiliates, and contributors shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising from or relating to:

  • your use of Bardo Android;
  • your inability to access Bardo Android or certain content;
  • loss of passwords, recovery codes, or encryption keys;
  • corruption, deletion, or permanent inaccessibility of data;
  • user error, device failure, third-party platform issues, or misuse of the app;
  • availability or interruption of TypexAI Cloud, or of Supabase, WebDAV, or other third-party services you choose to connect;
  • regional restrictions on TypexAI Cloud or Bardo Marketplace;
  • themes or other content published by other users in Bardo Marketplace;
  • the accuracy, reliability, or security of data transferred with DarkCode or Echo;
  • review or removal decisions, including the rejection or removal of content.

This limitation applies even if TypexAI has been advised of the possibility of such damages.

20. No Guarantee of Universal Recovery or Intervention

You understand that TypexAI is not obligated, and may not be technically capable, to recover, unlock, reconstruct, or otherwise restore protected user content.

Nothing in this policy or in the Bardo Android experience should be interpreted as a promise that lost access can always be reversed.

21. Changes to These Terms

TypexAI may update this Privacy Policy and Terms of Service from time to time in order to reflect Bardo Android product changes, legal requirements, security improvements, operational updates, or changes to TypexAI Cloud or Bardo Marketplace.

When changes are made, the updated version will be published with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Contact Us

If you have questions regarding this policy, please contact:

  • Support: support@typexai.dev
  • Legal and privacy requests: legal@typexai.dev
  • Marketplace content reports: legal@typexai.dev
  • Partnerships: partners@typexai.dev
  • Copyright / DMCA: dmca@typexai.dev

legal@typexai.dev also serves as the point of contact for users and authorities under the EU Digital Services Act. We accept communications in English.

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