Privacy Policy

Watch Vault Archive · Published by Aveneg Technologies, LLC

Effective 20 October 2026

The short version

This application does not collect your data, because it cannot. There is no server for it to send data to. Nothing you enter — watches, values, serial numbers, photographs, documents, your passphrase — ever leaves the device it is installed on through the application. The only copies that go anywhere are files you choose to create — a spreadsheet, a sales dossier, a folio, a printed document, an export of your watches, or a backup, including the automatic backups written to a folder you chose — which are yours to keep or send. Backups are encrypted, an export of your watches is encrypted only when you lock it with a password, and the rest are unencrypted. If that folder is one a cloud service syncs, the service carries the encrypted file and sees its name, which identifies this application but not its contents; the application never chooses a cloud for you. In iCloud Drive the file goes to your own Apple account, carried by Apple under Apple's terms; it does not pass through any server of ours, and we hold no copy. This is not a promise of restraint; it is a constraint built into the application you install. Its Content Security Policy disables fetch, XMLHttpRequest, WebSocket and the page's other ordinary ways of making a request at the engine level, the application contains no code that opens a network connection of any other kind, and you can watch it hold with your own network monitor. A build that changed it would come with a changed policy. See the Security Overview for the technical detail.

Everything below exists to cover the few places data can touch someone other than you: buying the software, and asking us for help.

1. What the application itself collects

Nothing. No analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, no usage tracking, no update checks, no device fingerprinting, no advertising identifiers. The application never sends your collection anywhere — not the watches, not the values, not the photographs or documents, not your passphrase. We do not know what watches are in anyone's collection, or whether you opened the app today.

The error log stays on your computer. The application keeps a short log of its own errors (what went wrong and when) so that you can send it to us if you ask for help. It is built to leave out watch details, values and names, keeps only the newest 200 entries, and is never sent by the application: it leaves your computer only if you save it and send it yourself. You can turn it off or clear it in Settings → Error log.

Touch ID stays on your Mac. If you switch on Touch ID in the Mac App Store edition, macOS checks your fingerprint and tells the application only yes or no; the application never receives anything about your fingerprint. The key that a fingerprint releases is kept in this Mac's Keychain, is not synced through iCloud Keychain, and is removed when you switch Touch ID off or erase the collection.

Two things worth separating, because they are often run together. Your collection is air-gapped — the part of the application that holds it has no way to open a network connection — and encrypted. The application itself is not the same thing. Where the application is obtained from an app store, it may talk to that store about your licence: whether it is owned, what it costs, and any purchase or restore you confirm. That exchange is between you and the store, under the store's own privacy policy; it tells them nothing about your collection, because the part of the application holding your collection cannot open a connection at all. What we receive from the store is what it reports to every publisher: download and sales totals, and usage and crash reports only from people who have chosen in their system settings to share them with developers. None of it names you, and none of it comes from the application.

Your collection — including photographs and attached documents — is encrypted on your own device with a passphrase only you hold. We do not have a copy of it, a backup of it, or a way to decrypt it. If you lose your passphrase and your recovery key, we cannot recover your data, because we never had access to it in the first place.

The recovery-key screen offers Optional — save a digital copy. If you use it, the application places your recovery key on this computer's clipboard so you can paste it into the password manager you already use. The application marks it so that your operating system keeps it off the clipboard shared with your other devices and clipboard-history tools skip it, and clears it when you leave that screen, lock or quit, or after five minutes, unless you have copied something else since. If the application is forced to quit or the computer loses power first, the key stays on the clipboard until something else is copied. The system and well-behaved tools honour those marks; a program that ignores them can read the clipboard like any other. The Security Overview says more. The application sends it nowhere; where your password manager stores it is between you and that provider, under its own privacy policy.

To delete your collection, open Data → Permanent erasure in the application. Erase this collection removes every watch, photograph and document, and keeps your passphrase, recovery key, owner details and succession notes; Reset Watch Vault Archive removes those too. Erase also removes the earlier versions of your collection the application keeps on this computer (Data → Earlier versions), where a watch you deleted otherwise remains, encrypted, until that version is replaced or you delete it. Backup files you exported, automatic backups written to a folder you chose, and any copy your computer's own backup or a cloud service has made of them, are yours, and you delete them separately.

2. If you purchase a licence

If Watch Vault Archive is distributed as a paid product, it is sold through app stores, and the store you buy from is the merchant of record, not Aveneg Technologies, LLC. It collects what it needs to complete the transaction and comply with tax law — typically your name, email address, and payment details — under its own privacy policy, which governs that data. Aveneg Technologies, LLC sees purchases only in the store's publisher reports — totals by country and date, not by name — and never receives your name, email address or payment details from a purchase. Contact the store directly regarding data it holds about your purchase.

3. If you contact us

Email (bug reports, feature requests, a commercial licence question, or a security report) is received and retained like any other business correspondence, for as long as needed to respond and keep a reasonable record. We do not use it for marketing, and we do not sell, rent, or share it with anyone beyond the email service that carries it.

If you send a screenshot, log excerpt, or exported file to help diagnose a problem, that content is only ever what you chose to send — the application has no mechanism to transmit anything on its own. Delete anything sensitive from a file before sending it if you are not comfortable including it in an email.

To have your correspondence with us deleted, write to the address in §8 and ask. We delete it unless the law requires us to keep it.

4. What we cannot access, even if asked

Because your collection is encrypted with a key derived from your own passphrase, and that key never leaves your device, there is no mechanism by which Aveneg Technologies, LLC could produce your data in response to a subpoena, a support request, or anything else. We are not holding it in escrow; we simply do not have it. What we do hold — email you send us (§3) and the store's publisher reports (§2) — is ordinary business correspondence and can be required of us like any company's; your collection is not among it unless you chose to send part of it. Nobody at the company can see or recover what is in your collection.

5. Our website

watchvaultarchive.com is a static site served by Cloudflare. It sets no cookies and has no accounts, comments or contact forms; its search box runs in your own browser and sends nothing to us. The site runs no analytics. It keeps no access logs of its own; Cloudflare, as its host, processes every request under its own privacy policy. Email is the only way to contact us.

6. Children's privacy

Watch Vault Archive is not directed at children and is not intended for use by anyone under 18. We do not knowingly collect information from children, consistent with Section 1 above — we do not knowingly collect information from anyone.

7. Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the version distributed with your installed build governs your use of that build, consistent with the Terms of Service. Material changes will be reflected in a new version of the application.

8. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about data held by an app store or support correspondence: privacy@watchvaultarchive.com.

Watch Vault Archive · watchvaultarchive.com · published by Aveneg Technologies, LLC. This policy describes the application's own conduct and ours; it does not extend to the privacy practices of an app store you purchase through, your operating system, or a cloud, password-manager or email service you choose to use with it.