Privacy policy

iOS asks before ProjectAR uses any of these, and you can change your answer at any time in the Settings app.

• Camera, to show your scene in your surroundings.
• Local Network, to find and connect to Blender on your computer, and to nearby devices when you share a session.
• Microphone, optional, only to record your voice with AR videos when Record Microphone is on in Settings.
• Add to Photos, optional, only to save the photos and videos you take. This permission lets ProjectAR add to your library, not see it.

The camera view. The camera image is used on your device by Apple’s ARKit to understand the room and place your scene. It isn’t recorded unless you take a photo or video, and it never leaves your device.

Models you open and your library. Models you open from Files or another app, and scenes you choose to keep, are copied into ProjectAR’s storage on your device. Deleting them in the app, or deleting the app, removes them.

Design decisions. A decision you record keeps the question, the options you compared, the one you chose, the criteria and reason you enter, an optional confidence rating, your display name and a photo of the view taken when you start it.

Photos and videos. The photos and videos you take are kept in the app. They go to your photo library, or anywhere else, only when you choose to save or share them.

Where you placed things. So your scene can be put back after you reopen the app, ProjectAR saves an ARKit map of the room’s shape and a small picture of the view, to help you find the spot again. Both stay on your device and are replaced or removed when you place the scene again or reset it.

Room scans. On devices with LiDAR, Apple’s RoomPlan makes a room scan on your device. It stays there until you send it to Blender or share it.

Your settings. Your preferences, your display name and the last computer you connected to are saved on your device only.

Files you share. When you share a model, a photo, a video or an export, ProjectAR makes the file on your device and opens the iOS share sheet, so you choose where it goes. Models from Blender are shared as USDZ files with their materials and textures.

Like other app data, these may be included in your device’s backups, which Apple handles under its own privacy policy.

ProjectAR connects directly to Blender on your own computer, either found on your local network or at the address you type. Blender sends the scene: its geometry, materials, textures, object positions, notes and design options. The app sends back only what you ask it to: notes you add, with their text, position and your display name; the design options you switch to; materials you choose to apply in Blender; room scans you send; and design decisions you record, with their photo.

When it connects, the app also sends your display name and a random identifier made only for this purpose, so Blender can ask you before a new device gets the scene and remember the devices you allow. That list stays in Blender’s preferences on your computer, and you can remove a device from it at any time.

All of this travels only between your computer and your device, over your local network, not the internet. This connection isn’t encrypted, so use it on a network you trust.

When you host or join a shared session, ProjectAR connects directly to the other nearby devices with Apple’s Multipeer Connectivity, encrypted and without any server or account. Nothing is shared until you start or join a session, and the host approves each device that asks to join. The devices share what they need to show the same scene in the same place: your display name, which the others see, where the scene is placed, the design options that are showing, and ARKit data that lets them line up the room. The host also shares the address of the Blender computer it’s connected to. Camera images are never shared, nothing goes to anyone outside the session, and sharing stops when you leave.

Study Mode is for researchers running user studies. It does nothing until a session starts, and before it starts, the researcher confirms that the participant agreed to take part. While a session runs, it records in-app events, such as placing, moving or scaling a model, changing a material, measuring, adding a note, recording a decision or taking a photo, with their times; the participant ID, condition and notes the researcher types; and the device model, iOS version and app version. It never records camera images or audio.

The researcher can also hand the device to the participant to answer questionnaires, such as the System Usability Scale or the NASA Task Load Index, or questions the researcher writes. The answers are kept with the session.

Sessions and answers stay on your device until you export them as CSV or JSON through the iOS share sheet, or delete them. Deleting a session doesn’t remove copies you’ve already exported. If you run studies with ProjectAR, you’re responsible for your participants’ consent and for how you handle the exported files.

Links in the app, such as the one to get the Blender add-on, open in your web browser, where that website’s own privacy policy applies.

ProjectAR doesn’t collect personal data from anyone, including children.

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. If ProjectAR ever starts collecting any data, it will ask you first and this page will say exactly what is collected and why.

This policy is translated for convenience. If a translation differs from the English, the English version applies.

Questions about privacy: danialsarfraz2000@gmail.com