Introduction
At ArchiRoutes, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services. Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.
Information We Collect
Personal Data
When you register for an account, we may collect personally identifiable information, including:
- Name and email address
- Username and password
- Profile information (optional: avatar, bio, location)
- Content you create (routes, reviews, photos, audio guides)
Usage Data
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate our website:
- IP address and browser type
- Device information and operating system
- Pages visited and time spent on pages
- Referring URLs and clickstream data
Location Data
With your permission, we may collect location data to provide location-based features such as nearby buildings and personalized route recommendations.
Artificial Intelligence Processing
To enhance your experience and make content accessible to a global audience, ArchiRoutes uses AI-powered services to process user-submitted content. Specifically:
- Automatic Translation: Review text you submit may be automatically translated into up to 7 languages (English, German, Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Russian) using Google Gemini AI. Translations are stored on our servers and displayed to other users.
- Audio Guide Generation: Review text may be converted into audio using Google Gemini Text-to-Speech (TTS). Generated audio files are stored in our infrastructure and made available as audio guides within the platform.
- Content Moderation: Submitted reviews may be analysed by AI to check for inappropriate or harmful content before publication.
Third-party AI provider: The above features are powered by Google Gemini API (Google LLC). By submitting a review, you acknowledge that the text of your review will be transmitted to Google's servers for processing in accordance with Google's Privacy Policy.
AI-generated translations and audio are clearly labelled within the platform. Only the textual content of your review is sent for processing — your personal data (name, email, etc.) is never included in AI requests.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect to:
- Create and manage your account
- Provide, operate, and maintain our services
- Improve, personalize, and expand our services
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you for customer service, updates, and marketing
- Process your transactions and manage your orders
- Send you newsletters and promotional materials (with your consent)
- Find and prevent fraud and security issues
Sharing Your Information
We may share your information in the following situations:
- Public Content: Content you post publicly (routes, reviews, photos) is visible to other users
- Service Providers: We may share data with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose information if required by law or in response to valid requests
- Business Transfers: Information may be transferred in connection with a merger, sale, or acquisition
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Three different things are usually lumped together under “cookies”. Here is what each of them is on this site, and which one you get to decide about.
Sign-in, and nothing else
If you create an account, our authentication provider (Supabase) stores a session cookie in your browser so that you stay signed in between pages. Without it the site cannot tell who you are, so there is no choice to make here: it is set only after you sign in, and it disappears when you sign out.
Our own page counter
We count how often a page is opened, how long it stays open and how far it is scrolled. This counter stores nothing in your browser at all. It does not keep your IP address or your browser string either: both are turned into an irreversible hash whose salt is regenerated every day, which means yesterday’s visit cannot be matched to today’s, not even by us. It tells us that a page was read; it cannot tell us by whom.
Google Analytics, only if you allow it
Google Analytics is the one that does set cookies and does recognise returning visitors, so we load it only after you say yes on the bar at the bottom of the page. Until then the script is not on the page at all. It tells us which countries and which pages people arrive for, and it connects our search statistics with the rest of the picture. Google processes that data under its own privacy policy. If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, we treat that as a no and never ask.
Change your mind
Your answer is kept in your browser, not on our servers, and you can change it here at any time. Clearing your browser storage also clears it, and we will ask again.
Data Security
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:
- Access to your personal data
- Correction of inaccurate data
- Deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
- Restriction of processing
- Data portability
- Object to processing
- Withdraw consent at any time
To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@archiroutes.com
Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these external sites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit.
Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- Email: info@archiroutes.com
- Contact Form: Visit our contact page