Version 1 — in effect 28 October 2026. En français
This document says what Archea undertakes to do, what it will not do, and what we ask of you in return. It goes with the privacy policy, which says what becomes of your data; the two are meant to be read together.
Archea is a private journal, and nothing else. Your pages are yours, we cannot read them, and you can leave at any time, taking what you have written with you.
In return, we ask you not to mistake a voice for a clinician, and not to use Archea to reach anybody else.
Rhincodon Development OÜ (registration in progress), a company incorporated under Estonian law.
Until registration is complete, Archea is published by Sam Henrotay, independent developer, who remains the person you deal with. On the day of registration, the two lines above will be filled in and the version number at the top of the page will change: you will therefore know the exact date on which the publisher changed.
Archea is not yet on the App Store. These terms are published now because it is in the hands of its first testers, and because a document written the day before release is a document written badly.
Archea is a notebook. You write in it; four voices answer, and a reading can be asked for on a dream or on your week. All of that is writing, not a health service.
Archea is not care, not therapy, and not a diagnosis. The voices are not professionals, do not know you, and replace nobody. Nothing they write is medical, psychological, legal or financial advice, and nothing should be acted on as such.
If you are going through something serious, speak to a professional or to someone close to you. Archea will not know that things are bad, warns nobody, and monitors nothing.
If you are in immediate danger, call your country's emergency number — 112 in the European Union, 911 in the United States and Canada. For mental distress, 988 in the United States and Canada, 116 123 in the United Kingdom and Ireland, 13 11 14 in Australia. Archea calls nobody on your behalf and has no way of doing so.
An account is needed to write in Archea, because that is what lets you find your pages again on another device. You come in by email address, by Apple or by Google, and you choose a secret phrase.
That phrase is not one password among others: it is what the encryption key is derived from. What we keep of it, and what we do not, is written in the privacy policy. What these terms add comes to one sentence: keeping that phrase is yours to do, as is what gets written from your account.
Your encrypted pages become permanently unreadable, by us included. There is no recovery procedure, and there cannot be one: if we could reopen your journal, somebody else could ask us to. Pages left on a device that is already open stay readable there, and Settings → Take my pages with me gets them out.
You keep every right you have over what you write. We claim no licence over your pages, we do not publish them, we use them for nothing — and the question would be poorly put, since we cannot read them.
One exception only, and you are the one who triggers it: what you send to a voice, the dream you have read, the week's pages you entrust to the Mirror. What becomes of those texts — where they go, to whom, for how long — is written in the privacy policy, and we do not repeat it here, so that there is only one place for it to be kept current.
What these terms add is an undertaking: none of those three sendings happens without your permission, given separately, after reading what leaves and what does not. A permission is withdrawn in the settings, and on the day what leaves changes, the screen comes back to ask you again.
The voices' answers, the dream readings and the Mirror are produced by a language model, from what you wrote. They are neither checked by a human nor guaranteed accurate.
What you decide after reading an answer is yours, and we do not answer for it.
Archea is free today and contains no in-app purchase, no advertising, no tracker.
Speaking to a voice and having a dream read cost money every time. Hence an allowance: two hundred exchanges a month, reset on the first day of the month. The application tells you what is left before it runs out, and never in the middle of a sentence. Writing in your journal, re-reading, taking your pages with you: none of that is counted.
It would necessarily go through Apple, would be announced before it existed, and these terms would change first, not after. What has already been written will never become paid to read.
If we find one of those uses, we may suspend access to the voices, or to the account. We cannot read your pages to check, all the same: what we see are volumes and rhythms.
Archea is for adults only. By using it, you declare that you are eighteen or over. We do not knowingly open an account for a minor, and we close any we find.
This is not a formality. Archea has you write about yourself, and returns readings that an adult can hold at a distance. We are neither equipped nor qualified to accompany a minor through that, and no parental consent would change it: we would rather say so than set out a procedure we could not honour.
Archea is being built. Screens will change, voices will be refined, some features will disappear if they turn out to be worth nothing. Updates arrive without being asked for, and that is what makes it possible to fix a fault the day it is found.
The service may be interrupted — an outage, maintenance, a host. Your pages stay on your phone throughout, and that is why they are written there first. Were Archea to close for good, we would tell you at least thirty days beforehand, and Take my pages with me would work to the end.
You can delete your account at any time, from Settings → No going back. What the server held is erased for good, with no possibility of restoration — that is what the name of that screen means. Take your pages with you first if you want them.
Archea is provided as it is. We do our best to make it work and to keep your pages readable, but we guarantee neither the absence of faults, nor continuous availability, nor the accuracy of what a voice writes.
As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect damage, nor for data lost through the loss of your secret phrase, nor for decisions taken after reading an answer. Nothing in this paragraph takes away the rights your country's law gives you as a consumer, and we do not exclude our liability for gross negligence or for personal injury.
Archea is distributed through the App Store, and Apple requires certain things to be said in black and white:
These terms are governed by Estonian law, that of the company named at the head of this document — Estonia being in the European Union, the GDPR applies there directly. Until registration, they bind Sam Henrotay, and the version that follows will say so.
If you are a consumer in the European Union, you keep the right to bring proceedings before the courts of your country of residence, and that country's consumer law continues to apply.
This document carries a version number and a date at the top of the page. That is not archivist's vanity: it is what makes it possible to know, later, exactly which text you had in front of you.
The version that binds you is the one in force at the moment you agreed. We keep previous versions and will send you a copy on request, at info@archea.page.
Any change will carry a new number and a new date. A change touching the price, what leaves your phone, or what we undertake to do, will be announced in the application before it takes effect — and for what leaves, the permission screen comes back to ask you again, because each permission keeps the version of the facts it was given on.