Privacy Policy

What we collect

To generate and deliver a reading, we collect:

• Your birth date, birth time, and birthplace: the raw inputs an astrocartography chart is calculated from.
• Any question or focus you tell us about, if you choose to share one.
• Your email address, so we can deliver your reading and reach you if something goes wrong.

We don't ask for anything beyond this, and we don't collect it from anywhere but your own intake form.

Why we treat these three details carefully

A birth date, an exact birth time and a birthplace are, taken together, close to unique. They are not just personal information; they can identify a specific person. For most readers that is merely worth knowing. For someone who has left an abusive partner, or who has any other reason not to be findable, it matters a great deal.

So: we never sell these details, we never share them for anyone else's purposes, and they never enter our analytics. Our funnel measurement is deliberately built to refuse personal data at the type level, so a birth detail cannot reach it even by mistake. Nothing you tell us is used to build a profile of you, and nothing is combined with data from anywhere else. If you would rather we did not hold them at all once your reading has arrived, ask and we will delete them.

The free strongest-line teaser

If you request the free strongest-line teaser, we collect your email, birth date, birth time, birthplace, and the home city you tell us about. We store these so we can generate your teaser once and re-serve the same result, including re-sending the link by email, if you come back or ask us to resend it. We don't generate it twice, and we don't use these details for anything beyond your teaser.

Our email list

When you request the free strongest-line teaser, we may add your email to our audience list, hosted by Resend, so we can occasionally reach readers with updates. A paid reading does not add you to this list; you'll only ever receive delivery and receipt emails for it. Every email we send includes an unsubscribe link, and we honor it immediately: unsubscribing stops future sends without affecting a reading or teaser link already delivered to you.

How payment works

Payment is handled entirely by Stripe. Your card number, expiration, and CVC are typed directly into Stripe's checkout, so they pass through Stripe's servers, never ours. We receive confirmation that a payment succeeded, not your card details.

Where your data lives

Your intake details and finished reading are processed and stored by a small set of infrastructure providers acting on our behalf, each doing one job:

• A Postgres database (Neon) stores your intake and order record.
• Blob storage (Vercel) stores your generated PDF and audio files.
• Anthropic generates the written reading from your chart.
• ElevenLabs narrates the audio version of your reading.
• Resend sends your delivery and receipt emails.

None of these providers may use your data for anything other than delivering your reading to you.

Rate limiting

To keep the free teaser and our contact form from being abused, we briefly record a one-way cryptographic hash of the IP address a request comes from, so we can cap how many requests one visitor makes per hour. We never store your raw IP address, only the irreversible hash, and it's purged within 24 hours of that hourly limit, on our daily cleanup pass.

How long we keep it

For a paid order, we keep your birth details and the finished reading, PDF, and audio so the link we sent you keeps working, so you can return to it whenever you like.

If you start an intake and never complete payment, that abandoned checkout is automatically purged after 7 days. If a reading fails to generate, you're refunded in full, and that order's birth details are purged after 30 days; there's no reading to keep access to, so we don't hold onto the data.

Your rights

You can ask us, at any time, to delete your data: your intake, your reading, and your record. Email hello@astrocartographers.com and we'll confirm once it's done.

No sale, no ad tracking

We do not sell your data, and we do not run ad trackers or pixels on this site. Your birth details and reading are used for exactly one thing: your reading.

Contact

Questions about this policy or your data? Email hello@astrocartographers.com.