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Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 18, 2026
Architect (formerly “The Architect”) is built on a simple principle: your private thoughts should stay private. Your journal entries are encrypted on your device before they ever leave it. We cannot read them. This policy explains exactly what we collect, what we don’t, and why.

What we collect

What we do NOT collect

Encryption

All journal entries and mentor responses are encrypted on your device using AES-256 before being transmitted to our servers. The encryption key is generated randomly on your device and we never receive it in readable form. We store only encrypted data — we cannot decrypt it, and there is no admin view of your content.

You control a recovery key that allows you to access your encrypted history from other devices. If you lose your recovery key and your session expires, your encrypted history cannot be recovered — by design.

AI processing

When you submit a journal entry, its text is sent in readable form to our AI model provider to generate your mentor response, and to build your mentor’s memory of it, which is encrypted the same way. When memory is on, what you’re writing may be sent as you type, so your mentor can find related past entries; it’s never stored. This processing is transient — under our data processing agreement, the provider does not store your data or train on it. The plaintext is never logged, cached, or stored on our servers in readable form. That is why we call your journal encrypted at rest rather than end-to-end: stored, it is unreadable to us; the model reads it only for the moment it takes to write your reply or to build that memory.

If you attach photos, they are stored in a private Supabase Storage bucket and accessed only via time-limited signed URLs. Photos are shown to our AI model provider for visual context only while your reply is being written, then the signed URLs expire.

If you use voice features, the same principle applies — processing is transient and not used to train models. Voice notes are transcribed by a speech-recognition provider. When you tap Listen, or talk with your mentor in the Sitting, the text of your mentor’s reply — which can quote what you wrote — is sent to a voice provider solely to generate the spoken audio. As with everything else, none of it is stored on our servers in readable form.

A list of the service providers we use is available on request: hello@architectapp.ai.

Data retention

Your encrypted journal entries are retained as long as your account is active. If you delete your account, all associated data (entries, profile, usage logs) is permanently deleted from our systems. There is no soft-delete or recovery period after account deletion.

Your rights

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the product evolves. Significant changes will be communicated via email or in-app notification. The “last updated” date at the top reflects the most recent revision.

Contact

For privacy questions or data requests, contact us at hello@architectapp.ai.

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