Effective Date: October 2025

1. Preamble: Our Commitment to Trust

At Archot 🔥, we recognize that privacy is the foundation of trust in the digital architectural discourse. This Privacy Policy outlines how Archot 🔥 collects, uses, maintains, and protects information collected from users. By visiting our platform, you acknowledge and agree to the practices described in this policy. Our website address is: https://archot.com.

2. Intellectual Property & Content Disclaimer

Archot 🔥 operates primarily as a curatorial publishing platform dedicated to documenting the evolution of architecture and design.

  • Publisher Role: We explicitly state that Archot 🔥 does not claim proprietary rights to the external projects, photographic materials, technical drawings, or multimedia content featured in our articles, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
  • Rights of Owners: All intellectual property rights, copyrights, and credits remain strictly with their respective creators, architects, and photographers. Our role is solely that of a disseminator of knowledge.
  • User Responsibility: While we strive for accuracy, it is the responsibility of the user to verify the authenticity and rights associated with any third-party content before use.

3. Comments & Community Interaction

When visitors leave comments on Archot 🔥, we collect the data shown in the comments form, alongside the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection and maintain the integrity of our scholarly community.

An anonymized string created from your email address (hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your contribution.

4. Media & Digital Assets

If you are a contributor uploading images to Archot 🔥, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website. We strongly advise stripping metadata to protect the privacy of the project locations and individuals.

5. Cookies & User Experience

To enhance your experience on Archot 🔥, we utilize cookies:

  • Comment Convenience: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again. These cookies last for one year.
  • Authentication: If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
  • Session Management: When you log in, we set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login persists for two weeks.

6. Embedded Content from External Sources

Articles on Archot 🔥 may include embedded content (e.g., videos, architectural diagrams, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

7. Data Retention & Security

  • Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows Archot 🔥 to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
  • Registered Users: For users that register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

8. Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on Archot 🔥, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

9. Automated Spam Detection

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service to ensure the quality of discourse on Archot 🔥.

For any privacy-related inquiries, please contact us at: info@archot.com