Your home.
On your device.

Houses, stories and settings

Rooms, characters, progress, decisions and stories are stored in the app’s local storage. This includes four manual save slots, a separate automatic checkpoint and local recovery copies. Residents are predefined game characters; saves do not contain real user profiles created by you.

Language, music and effects, radio station, companion voice, welcome status and reduced motion are also stored on the device. These data allow the game to save, continue and apply your settings. To the extent personal data are processed, this serves to provide the app functions you use (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR).

The game sends no saves, user profiles or usage analytics to Newways servers. It includes no cloud save synchronisation of its own. Device backups and file synchronisation initiated by you depend on your settings and the terms of the relevant system service.

Photo mode and the Files app

Photo mode creates an image of the game view, not a camera photograph. The PNG is saved in the local “Photos” subfolder, at a maximum of 1600 pixels on its longest side. The app requests neither camera access nor access to your photo library for this.

App documents are accessible in Apple’s Files app. This includes documents other than photos, such as local saves. The game does not send these files itself. If you copy, synchronise or share them using system functions, the service you choose determines further processing. Check files before sharing for information you wish to keep private.

Apple purchases and restoration

The optional Architecture Collection is a permanent, non-consumable one-time purchase. Apple handles the product catalogue, regional price, purchase, payment and restoration through the App Store and StoreKit. The app uses Apple-verified transactions to unlock purchased projects. It requires no separate login and no proprietary purchase or receipt server.

A technical purchase-delivery record is stored on your device. It contains the product identifier and up to 64 transaction identifiers, but no name, email address or payment details. This record is not sent to Newways and cannot unlock content by itself. Its purpose is to reliably identify purchase deliveries already processed. Unlocking relies on the entitlement confirmed by Apple.

Apple processes purchase and account information under its own rules. We do not receive your Apple login credentials or credit card or bank details through this app. Apple’s store reports and any system diagnostics you permit are distinct from an analytics or tracking service within the game. See Apple’s App Store & Privacy information for details.

No advertising. No proprietary usage analytics.

No advertising or usage analytics service is enabled in the game. It uses no advertising identifier and performs no user tracking. It includes no proprietary cloud login, push registration or automatic transmission of diagnostic files to Newways. The intended external service within the game is Apple StoreKit for purchases.

Music and companion lines are bundled audio files. No music streaming service or live AI voice request is used during play. Spoken companion lines are audio playback; the app does not record speech or access your microphone, location or contacts. Apple’s operating-system and diagnostic functions are separately governed by your device settings and Apple’s information.

When you contact us

If you voluntarily email support, we receive your sender address and the content and attachments you choose to send. We use them to handle your enquiry and necessary follow-up questions. Without a reachable address or sufficient description of a problem, we may be unable to resolve it. A save or image reaches us only if you send it yourself.

For service-related enquiries, processing is necessary to perform a contract or take steps at your request before a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR). We handle other enquiries based on our legitimate interest in accessible customer support and resolving problems (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We retain legally required records under Article 6(1)(c) GDPR.

Technical email providers are involved in delivery and mailbox operation. Access is limited to the people and service providers needed to handle the enquiry. We keep the information for as long as needed to handle it, establish or defend claims where necessary, and meet statutory retention obligations. It is then deleted unless another retention ground remains. Please do not send passwords or full payment details.

Deleting data and changing devices

Local files remain stored until you delete them or fully delete the app. When the app is fully deleted, iOS or iPadOS removes its local data; merely offloading the app is different. Starting a new house does not necessarily remove older manual saves or recovery copies.

Manage copies stored outside the app folder and device backups through the respective storage or system service. Deleting the app does not cancel an Apple purchase. Restore purchase checks an entitlement again but does not restore local houses. Newways cannot view saves that have not been sent to us or restore them to another device for you.

Your privacy rights

Subject to the GDPR’s conditions, you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests for reasons relating to your particular situation. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it for the future. Contact mlo@newways.consulting to make a request.

You may lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority, such as the Spanish AEPD or the authority where you habitually live. No automated decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects are made about you.

This website and further help

These support and privacy pages load no analytics scripts. Accessing the website still involves technical web-hosting operations, such as processing your IP address to deliver the page. The newways.consulting website privacy notice additionally covers those processes and other website functions.

Find gameplay answers on the Architecture support page. Provider details are available in the legal notice.