Your stuff stays yours.

The short version

• Your browsing (history, tabs, passwords, bookmarks, cookies) lives on your Mac. We never receive it.
• Crash reports and usage stats are off unless you turn them on, and never include the sites you visit, what you type or what you search.
• The app sends one anonymous “opened today” count a day, and checks for updates.
• This website counts its visitors on our own servers. No ad networks, no data brokers.
• We don't sell, rent or trade personal information. To anyone. Ever.

Who we are

Ardia is a free, open-source web browser and ardia.dev is its website, both run by Mantra Patel (“we”, “us”). This policy covers the Ardia app and ardia.dev (together, the “Services”). Questions go to mantrakp@gmail.com.

The Ardia app

What stays on your Mac

Everything you do in the browser: the sites you visit, your history, tabs, bookmarks, saved passwords, addresses, cards, cookies, downloads and settings. We don't operate any server that receives it, and there's no Ardia account to tie it to.

Sync

If you turn on sync, your data is locked with a key only your devices hold and stored in a place you pick, such as your own cloud drive. We never receive it and couldn't read it if we did. The storage provider you pick handles it under its own privacy policy.

Crash reports and usage stats (optional)

Off unless you turn them on, in setup or later in Settings. When on, Ardia sends us crash and error reports, rough counts of which features get used, and how fast things are, tagged with a random ID created on your Mac. It never sends the sites you visit, anything you type or search, or what's in your tabs. Settings › Privacy & Security › What's Sent lists every item. Turn it off any time and sending stops at once.

The daily count and updates

Whatever you choose above, Ardia sends one anonymous “opened today” count a day with its version and your macOS version, and checks ardia.dev for updates. These have no lasting ID and nothing about you. We use them to know roughly how many people use Ardia and which versions are still out there.

The website

ardia.dev measures its own traffic on our own servers: pages viewed, buttons clicked, the kind of device and browser, the page that sent you, and recordings of some visits to see where the site confuses people. Anything typed into the page is hidden from those recordings, and they're deleted after 30 days. We work out your rough country from your IP address and don't keep the address. A random ID in your browser's storage lets us count return visits; clear your site data to reset it.

We don't use advertising cookies, and no ad network or social media tracker runs on the site.

Other people's services

A browser's job is to talk to the rest of the internet, so some of what you do goes to other companies. They handle it under their own policies, not this one, and we aren't responsible for what they do:

• Websites you visit see what any website sees when you visit it.
• Your search engine gets your searches, and what you type into the address bar if search suggestions are on.
• Extensions you install are made by others and can see whatever you allow them to.
• Content blocking lists are updated from the people who publish them.
• GitHub, Discord and the Chrome Web Store, if you follow a link to them, collect data under their own terms.

How we use what we get

To fix crashes and bugs, make Ardia faster, decide what to build next, ship updates, keep the Services secure and answer you when you write to us. That's the list. No ads, no profiling, no selling.

Who we share it with

We keep this data on servers we run ourselves and don't hand it to third parties, except where the law makes us (a valid court order, for example), to protect the safety or rights of people or the project, or to a successor if the project changes hands, who'd be bound by this policy. Because what we hold is anonymous, there's usually nothing that points to you.

How long we keep it

Website recordings: 30 days. Error logs: about 90 days. Anonymous usage and speed stats: as long as they're useful for spotting trends. Emails you send us: as long as we need them to help you.

Your choices and rights

• Turn crash reports and usage stats off in Settings › Privacy & Security.
• Turn off update checks in Settings.
• Clear this site's data in your browser to drop its visitor ID.
• Delete everything Ardia stored on your Mac by deleting the app and its data.

Depending on where you live (for example the EU, UK or California), you may have the right to see, correct, delete or move personal data about you, or object to how it's used. Write to mantrakp@gmail.com. Since we deliberately don't collect names, emails or accounts, we may be unable to match anonymous data to you, and we'll tell you if that's the case. You may also complain to your local data protection authority.

Security

We take reasonable steps to protect what we hold. No system is perfectly secure, and we can't guarantee that data won't be accessed, lost or changed by someone who shouldn't.

Children

The Services aren't aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. If you think we have, write to us and we'll delete it.

Where data is processed

Our servers may be in a different country from you. By using the Services you understand your information may be processed there, under the protections in this policy.

Changes

We'll update this page when what we collect changes, and change the date at the top. If a change is significant we'll mention it in the release notes. Keeping on using the Services after a change means you accept it.

Contact

Mantra Patel · mantrakp@gmail.com