Privacy policy

Last updated 6 October 2026

The ARCHV is an independent football publication. We publish an iOS app and this website. There are no ads on either, there are no accounts, and we do not track you across other companies' apps or websites. This page says exactly what we do collect and which outside companies handle it for us, in plain words.

The app

The app has no login and no account. What it handles:

• An anonymous device id. The app generates a random identifier on your phone. It is not your hardware id and it is not linked to your name. It exists so a support message or a push opt-in can be tied to your install and nothing else.
• Daily push, if you turn it on. Opting in sends your phone's push token to our server with the anonymous id, the app version, and your phone's time zone setting (a name such as Europe/London). We store the token, the id, the app version, whether push is on, and when the app last registered, so we can send one notification a day through Apple's push service. Our server does not store the time zone at present. Turning the toggle off stops the push.
• Support messages. If you write to us through Settings, we store your message, the category you picked, the app version, and the anonymous id, along with anything you add to the conversation later. An email address is optional; if you include one, we use it only to reply to you.
• The first reply is automated. When a new support message arrives, its text, category, and app version go to Anthropic, whose Claude model writes a first reply from our help notes, or a short holding reply if a person needs to look at it. That step does not send your email address or the anonymous id.
• Messages that need the founder. If the automated step passes a message up to the founder, an email goes to his inbox through Zoho Mail, our email provider. It contains your message, its category, the app version, the automated reply, and a one-line note. Your email address is not in it.
• Anonymous usage analytics. We use PostHog to count things like opens and reads so we know what is worth writing. PostHog is a separate company that handles this data for us. It is anonymous and never used to follow you anywhere else.
• Saved stories and reading history stay on your phone. They never leave the device.

Support messages and push tokens are kept in a database that Supabase runs for us. Nothing is sold, shared for advertising, or used to build a profile of you.

The website

This site uses the same anonymous PostHog analytics, and it honours your browser's Do Not Track setting. Pages load fonts from Google Fonts, which means your browser requests those font files from Google. The partnerships form is delivered by Web3Forms, which passes your message and the details you type to us and is not used for anything else.

Android visitors to the app page see a waitlist. Joining it stores your email address, your browser's user agent (the line of text that names your browser and operating system), and the page you signed up on, in the same Supabase database. We use the address to tell you when the Android app is ready.

Deleting your data

Deleting the app removes everything stored on the device, but not what has already reached our database, such as a support conversation or a push token. If you have written to support and want that conversation and any details in it removed, ask us and we will delete it. To ask about deleting a push token, a waitlist email, or anything else on this page, email partnerships@josephbankole.ca.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. We will not quietly add tracking; no ads and no cross-site tracking is a product promise, not a settings default.

Contact

Email partnerships@josephbankole.ca or message @thearchvfc on Instagram. For app help, see support.

The ARCHV is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or licensed by FIFA, any club, federation, competition, or player.