Arch Master Privacy Policy

1. Your models

Models are ordinary files — .archimate files saved by Archi and .xml files in the Open Group Exchange Format — that you open through the system's own file browser: Files on iPhone and iPad, Finder on Mac. Arch Master is a viewer: it reads only the file you open and never changes it. It never uploads a model, never copies one elsewhere, and never scans your storage for other files.

PNG and PDF exports and printouts go only where you send them in the system save panel or print dialog.

If you keep files in iCloud Drive, or in another provider you have connected in Files, syncing is done by that service, not by us, and is governed by its own privacy policy. The app itself performs no syncing.

2. Your settings

Your choices in Settings — the theme, the interface language, the canvas background, the minimap, whether colours from the file are used and whether shapes cast shadows — are saved on your device in standard app preferences. They are technical settings, contain nothing personal, and never leave the device. The interface language is kept as the app's language setting in the system, which is why you can also change it in system settings.

To decide when to show Apple's rating request, the app keeps three numbers in the same preferences: how many models you have opened, on how many different days, and the last version in which it asked. They never leave the device. If you rate the app in that request, the rating goes to Apple and is governed by Apple's privacy policy.

3. No network use

The app makes no network requests of any kind. Everything — opening files, drawing views, searching the model and exporting — happens on your device, with or without an internet connection. The only web link in the app, to the ArchiMate® Specification on The Open Group's website (in Settings → About, and in the Help menu on Mac), opens in your browser if you choose to follow it.

4. No analytics or tracking

There is no analytics framework, no crash-reporting service, no advertising identifier and no third-party code of any kind in the app. We do not know who you are, whether you use the app, or which models you open with it. If you choose to share crash reports or diagnostics with developers in your device's settings, Apple may pass them to us without anything that identifies you; that is governed by Apple's privacy policy.

5. Children's privacy

The app collects no personal information from anyone, including children.

6. Changes to this policy

If our practices ever change, we will update this page and revise the “Last updated” date above.

7. Contact

Questions about privacy or the app?
Email: volodymyr.sichka@gmail.com