Last updated: 19 October 2026

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Locus Privacy

This page describes what Locus, the georeferencing add-on for Archicad, does with data. For bimover’s website, account, sign-in and payment, see the general Privacy Policy. Where the two could be read differently, this page wins for Locus.

Locus is an add-on that runs inside Archicad on the customer’s own machine. The building model, the imported terrain and everything drawn from it stay in the customer’s CAD file. bimover never receives the model.

1. Controller and contact

bimover GmbH, Hammer 19, 5000 Aarau, Switzerland Email: privacy@bimover.ch

2. Signing in

Locus uses the bimover account. Signing in works exactly as it does on the website, and what we store for it is described in the general Privacy Policy. There is no separate Locus account.

3. What Locus sends us, and when

When a licence is bought. A licence is bought on our website, in the office portal, by whoever manages an office. A licence belongs to one building project, so at purchase we store the project name and, if you give one, the recipient on the receipt with name and address, plus the plan, the price, the office, the account that bought it, and the date the licence runs until.

When a licence is picked in Locus. The add-on shows the running licences of the offices you are a member of, with project, plan and recipient on the receipt. Locus remembers the chosen licence in the Archicad project.

When the terrain data is placed for the first time. Locus reports the coordinates of that first placement and the country to our server, and we store them with the licence purchase. That is not a trace of where you are: it is the position of the building project itself, and it is stored because the licence then applies only within 500 metres of it. Without that one pair of coordinates the radius cannot be checked at all.

Each further time a licence is used. The add-on asks our server whether the licence is still running and reports the position it is being used at, so the 500-metre rule can be applied. We do not receive the model, the drawings, the layers, the imported terrain or any other content of the project.

No usage statistics. Locus has no analytics and no telemetry. It counts nothing about which tools you use.

4. Where the geodata comes from

swisstopo (Switzerland) and IGN (France). Terrain, orthophotos, buildings and cadastral data are fetched directly from those national providers. The request goes from your machine to them and carries what any web request carries, including your IP address, the time, and the map area you asked for — which is the location of your project. Those providers are the recipients. bimover does not sit in between, receives nothing from those requests and keeps no copy of them. Their terms of use apply in addition to ours and are shown during import; see swisstopo and IGN.

5. Payment

Licences are paid through our payment provider Payrexx (Payrexx AG, Switzerland). Payment details are entered at the provider and never reach bimover. We receive the transaction reference, the amount and whether the payment succeeded. See the general Privacy Policy for the payment section.

6. Receipt

The office gets the receipt for a licence purchase from the website’s purchase path: with the payment confirmation and, when buying on invoice, with the invoice in the office portal. If a recipient on the receipt was given at purchase, the receipt carries it, so the licence can be rebilled to the building owner. A public receipt page without sign-in no longer exists since 19 October 2026.

7. Support

Support requests are submitted by ticket from inside the add-on. What you write in a ticket reaches us and is processed to answer it. Please don’t put client data or confidential project information into a ticket.

8. How long we keep it

The purchase data of a licence is kept for as long as the licence exists plus the retention periods Swiss bookkeeping law imposes on us (ten years for accounting records). The first-placement coordinates belong to that purchase data and share its life. Logs follow the general retention window, currently six months; see Section 11 of the general Privacy Policy.

9. Your rights

The rights section of the general Privacy Policy applies here too: information, correction, deletion, objection, and a complaint to the competent supervisory authority. Write to privacy@bimover.ch.

One limit belongs here honestly: the purchase data of a licence and its receipt are accounting documents. As long as bookkeeping law requires us to keep them, we cannot delete them — we can only restrict their use.