Privacy

Your plans stay yours. Full stop.

Last updated: 9 November 2026

Architektor is a free tool for drawing your house and garden. It doesn't live off advertising or off your data. Here, in plain words, is what we keep, where, and why.

• No ads, no tracking tools, no selling of data.
• One cookie only: the one that keeps you logged in.
• Your API keys are encrypted with AES-256-GCM and never come back to your browser.
• You can delete your account and all its data at any time.

What we keep

• Your account: your email address and your password, the latter only as a hash (scrypt). We never know your password in plain text.
• Your projects: plans, levels, versions, design options and the history of your conversations with the AI assistant.
• Your files: the images and PDFs you import, the aerial photos generated for your plot and your photo renders, kept in S3-compatible file storage.
• Your API keys (Anthropic for the assistant, Gemini for backup dictation and photo renders): encrypted with AES-256-GCM on the server, used only for your own requests, never sent back to the browser.
• Your share links: what you choose to show, the number of views, and the comments left by people who have the link (the name they enter and their message).
• Your feedback, if you send us any: your message and, only if you give it, your email address so we can reply.

Where your data is hosted

The app and its API run on Vercel. The database is a Postgres database hosted by Neon. Files are kept in S3-compatible object storage.

Cookies and local storage

We use one cookie only, and it's strictly necessary: a session cookie (ak_session), not readable by JavaScript, valid for 30 days. There are no advertising cookies, no analytics and no tracking pixels. That's why you don't see a consent banner.

When someone comments on a shared plan, their browser remembers the name they typed for next time. That information stays on their device.

Sharing by link

Nobody else can see a plan unless you create a share link. You choose which levels are visible (the whole plan, the utilities, the garden or the house) and whether comments are allowed. Anyone with the link can see what you've shared, so only send it to the right people. You can switch a link off at any time.

When data leaves Architektor

Some features rely on third-party services, and only when you use them:

• AI assistant: your message, the content of your plan and a snapshot of it are sent to Anthropic with your own API key. Anthropic bills you directly for this.
• Photo renders: a description of your plan and an image of it are sent to Google (Gemini) with your own API key.
• Voice dictation: it uses your browser's speech recognition. If you've added a Gemini key, the recording may be sent to Google for backup transcription.
• Address search: the address you type is passed, through our server, to OpenStreetMap's geocoding service (Nominatim).
• Aerial backgrounds: our server fetches the aerial photos from SPW (Wallonia), Digitaal Vlaanderen (Flanders and Brussels) or Esri (satellite), based on the coordinates of your plot.
• Fonts: the site loads its fonts from Google Fonts, which sends your IP address to Google.

What we don't do

We don't sell, rent or share your data with anyone for commercial purposes. We don't show ads, and we don't use your plans to train AI models.

Your rights

You can view and edit your plans at any time in the editor. In Settings, the button to delete your account and all your data permanently erases your account, projects, keys and imported files. You can also remove an API key without deleting your account.

Under the GDPR, you have the right to access, correct, delete and export your data, and the right to lodge a complaint with your country's data protection authority (in Belgium, the Data Protection Authority; in Ireland, the Data Protection Commission).