Privacy Policy
Follow My Astrolabe is made by Studio New Moon, and it comes two ways: this website, and an iPhone and iPad app that's in testing and isn't on the App Store. The short version for both: your chart is worked out on your own device. There are no ads and no cookies, and your birth details never leave your device. There are no accounts either, apart from one optional exception: if you buy a Custom Chart Poster, an emailed sign-in link lets you come back to it. The website counts how many people visit its pages, without cookies and without identifying anyone; the app counts nothing. Beyond the ordinary requests any website makes to load its pages and fonts, information leaves your device only when you choose: ordering a print, which involves a payment and a postal address; ordering a Custom Chart Poster, which sends the positions in a chart and keeps them, with your email address and the artwork, for a year; asking for a reading on this site, which sends the positions in your chart but never your birth details; and sending us feedback from the app. All of it is spelled out below.
The Website
Casting a chart
When you cast a chart on this site, your birth date, time, and place are used by the page, in your own browser, to work out the chart. None of it is sent to us or to anyone else.
Birthplace search runs in your browser too. The list of places is a file the page downloads from this site, split by first letter, so the only thing a request can show is which letter's file was fetched — never what you typed. Place names come from GeoNames, but their servers are never contacted.
Readings
Readings are written by the same program the iPhone app uses. It runs on a small service of ours on Cloudflare rather than in your browser, so that the words you read on this site are the words the app would give you, from one copy kept in one place.
To ask it for a reading, the page sends the positions in your chart and nothing else: where each planet and point sits, whether it is retrograde, and the two angles, the Ascendant and the Midheaven. Your name, your birth date, your birth time, and your birthplace stay on your device and are never sent. The page also sends which day it is where you are, so a reading that says "today" turns over at your midnight rather than at midnight in Greenwich.
To be straight about what that is: a full set of positions is not your name, but it does describe one moment in the sky, and someone determined could work back from it to roughly when you were born. It is not anonymous. It is the least that can be sent and still have a reading written for you.
The service keeps nothing. It composes the reading, sends it back, and forgets: no account, no database, no copy of your positions, and nothing cached along the way. Request logging is switched off for it, so unlike the order service described below, there are no logs to look at afterwards.
Charts you save
Where the site lets you save people's charts, their names, birth details, and places are stored in your browser's own storage on that device. They're never uploaded, they don't sync to your other devices, and we can't see them. Clearing this site's data from your browser deletes them.
The site also remembers, in the same storage, whether you've dismissed the note about adding it to your Home Screen, and it keeps a copy of its own pages so it can open without a signal. Neither contains anything about you.
Loading the site
Like any website, loading a page sends a request from your device, with its internet address and browser type, to the services that deliver it: GitHub Pages, which hosts the site, and Google Fonts, which serves its typefaces. The homepage and the print shop also ask our order service on Cloudflare for current print prices. These requests carry nothing you've typed. We don't receive logs from GitHub or Google. Cloudflare keeps short-lived technical logs of requests to our service, for up to a week, which we look at only to diagnose a problem with an order.
Counting visits
This website, and only this website, uses Cloudflare Web Analytics to count its visits: how many pages are viewed, which pages, which site or search a visitor came from, the country, and the kind of browser and device. That is how we learn whether anyone is finding the site at all.
It sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It doesn't build a profile of you, doesn't follow you to other websites, and doesn't tell us who you are: what we see are totals, never a list of visitors. It never sees your birth details, your saved charts, or anything you type. It is left off the two pages whose web addresses carry something private: the sign-in link for your posters, and the page you return to after ordering a print. Cloudflare's own commitments for it are at cloudflare.com/web-analytics.
Ordering a Print
Chart to Canvas prints can be ordered from this site, or from the app. A physical print has to be paid for and posted somewhere, so this is where information about you does change hands. None of it happens unless you start an order.
When you begin checkout, the site or the app sends only the print itself — which product, which sign's artwork, and what quantity — to a small service we run on Cloudflare. That request carries nothing about you, and nothing from any birth details.
Payment happens on Stripe's own hosted checkout page. Your name, email address, shipping address, and card details are entered there, on Stripe's page, and go to Stripe. We never see your card number at any point.
Once Stripe confirms the payment, our ordering service passes your name, email address, and shipping address to Gelato, the print partner that produces and ships the print — for the same reason any sender needs an address. Our service keeps one small record of its own: your email address and the name of the item you ordered, so it can email you as the print moves through production and shipping. Those updates are sent through Resend, an email delivery service. The record deletes itself automatically 120 days after the order's last update. Everything else about the order lives with Stripe and Gelato, who handle it under their own privacy policies (stripe.com/privacy, and Gelato's policy on their own site).
A Custom Chart Poster
A Custom Chart Poster is artwork made from one chart, so unlike a reading, something about that chart has to be kept until the artwork is made and you've collected it. Here is exactly what, where, and for how long.
What's sent when you order. The page sends the positions in the chart you chose, the same ones a reading uses: where each planet and point sits, whether it is retrograde, and the Ascendant and Midheaven. It also sends the two choices you make on the order page: the skin tone you'd like for the people in the artwork (or that you've left it to the artist), and any notes for the artist you write. The skin tone is a preference for the artwork, not a question about you, and we never ask for your ethnicity. The name, birth date, birth time, and birthplace stay in your browser and are never sent. As with readings, positions are not anonymous: they describe one moment in the sky, and someone determined could work back from them to roughly when that person was born.
Paying. You pay on Stripe's own page, which collects your email address and card. We never see the card. Stripe tells our service the email address, which is where your poster's links are sent.
What we keep. Our service on Cloudflare keeps a record of your order: the chart's positions, your skin tone choice and notes for the artist, your email address, the artwork, a first draft of it, and anything you write to us about it, such as a change you ask for. The artwork is stored privately: it has no public web address, and it's shown only to you, through your sign-in link, and to us.
Making the artwork. A first draft is made automatically by fal.ai, an image-generation service. It is sent a short text description and nothing else: the symbols for three signs in the chart, such as "a lion" or "two fish", and the skin tone you chose for the people, if you chose one. It never receives the positions, your notes, your email address, or anything else about you. A person at Studio New Moon then works from the positions and the draft to make the finished artwork.
Emails and signing in. We email you through Resend when your order is confirmed and when the artwork is ready to see. Those emails carry a link that works once. Opening it stores a sign-in pass in that browser: a random code and an expiry date, which say nothing about you and let that browser show your posters. Signing out on the posters page deletes it. There's no password and nothing else to remember.
Ordering a print of it. This works like any other print, described below, except that the print partner is given a private link to your artwork, which expires after a month.
How long. Your poster's record and artwork are kept for one year after you approve the artwork, so you can come back to download it or order prints, and then deleted automatically. A poster that's never approved is deleted about thirteen months after it was ordered. Write to us at any time and we'll delete yours straight away.
The iPhone App
Birth details you enter
Your name, birth date, birth time (or an approximate time window, if you don't know it exactly), and birth place are used to compute your natal chart — the core function of the app. This is done entirely on your device. Nothing about your birth details is transmitted to us, and nothing about them reaches the print-ordering service described above either, even when you order a print.
Looking up your birth place uses Apple's MapKit, which sends your search text to Apple's own map servers to find matching places and resolve the correct time zone — the same way typing an address into Apple Maps does. That exchange is between your device and Apple directly; we never see it, store it, or have access to it. Apple's own privacy practices govern that part of the lookup, described at apple.com/legal/privacy.
Your birth details are stored locally on your device only, and stay there unless you delete the app.
A profile photo, if you choose to add one
You can optionally add a photo of yourself, shown only within the app. It's selected through Apple's own system photo picker, which never gives the app access to your photo library as a whole — only the one image you actively choose. That photo is stored locally on your device and is never uploaded anywhere.
Location and motion, for the Sky feature
If you use the "point your phone at the sky" feature, the app reads your device's location (only while the app is in use) and motion sensors (compass and gyroscope) to figure out which part of the sky you're facing. This is computed and used entirely on-device, in real time, and is never stored or transmitted. If you decline these permissions, the app falls back to a manual slider instead.
Notification preference
If you opt in to being notified about a future feature launch (currently offered for the in-progress Tarot section), the app asks iOS for permission to send local notifications and remembers that you asked, stored locally on your device. This is a local iOS notification preference, not a push notification service — no token, device identifier, or contact information is sent to us or to anyone else as part of this. As of this writing, no notification has anything to actually send yet; opting in simply reserves your place for when it does.
Appearance and app settings
Things like your chosen color scheme, metal finish, font, and whether you've subscribed are stored locally so the app remembers your preferences between launches. None of this identifies you to us, because we never receive it in the first place.
Feedback from the app, if you choose to send it
In the iPhone app, you can send us feedback in two ways: the feedback form, reachable from every screen, and the thumbs up and down under each reading, which open a short checklist of what worked and what didn't. Nothing is sent until you press Send.
What's sent is what you wrote or ticked. A vote on a reading also includes the reading itself, where in your chart it came from (for example, the sign and house), and the app version, so we can find and fix the exact line you're telling us about. None of it includes your name, email address, birth details, or anything that identifies your device, unless you type something like that into the message yourself. It reaches us with no way of telling who sent it. To stop anyone flooding our inbox, the service counts how many messages arrive from each internet address in an hour; that count is kept apart from the feedback itself and deletes itself within two hours.
Your feedback travels through the same small service we run on Cloudflare, which hands it to Resend to deliver as an email to our own inbox. That service also keeps its own copy — the same text you sent, with the date it arrived — so we can work through feedback in bulk rather than one message at a time, and that copy deletes itself after 180 days. The emailed copy we keep for as long as it helps us improve the app. We use neither for anything else. Feedback like this is the only way we learn which readings work: the app never reports anything about how you use it.
What We Don't Do
We don't run an account system. There is no password, no cloud sync, and no profile of you anywhere but on your own device. The one exception is a Custom Chart Poster, which you sign in to with an emailed link, as described above. The one service we operate handles print and poster orders, print prices, and feedback you choose to send. The only things it keeps are order records, your posters, and a copy of that feedback, each of which deletes itself on a timer, plus the short-lived request logs described above.
We don't use cookies or crash reporting, on the website or in the app. The app has no analytics of any kind. The website's only analytics is the visit counting described above, which identifies no one.
We don't show ads, and we don't use any advertising or tracking tools.
We don't sell or rent your information to anyone. The only information we pass on is what's needed to deliver what you asked for: the name and address a print is shipped to, which goes only to the printer; the email address your order updates go to, which goes only to the service that sends them; and, for a poster's first draft, the three sign symbols described above, which go only to the image-generation service.
The app doesn't use App Tracking Transparency because it doesn't track you across other companies' apps or websites.
Third Parties
GitHub Pages hosts this website, and Google Fonts serves its typefaces, as described above.
Stripe takes payment for prints and posters, and Gelato prints and ships prints, exactly as described above. fal.ai makes a poster's first draft from three sign symbols, and nothing else. Cloudflare hosts the small service that connects them all, along with the print artwork and your posters. Cloudflare also counts this website's visits, as described above; the app doesn't use it for that. Resend delivers the emails that service sends: order updates, poster links, and any feedback you send from the app.
In the app, Apple provides MapKit for birthplace search, as described above, and TestFlight and StoreKit for testing and subscriptions. We never see or store payment information.
Beyond those, we use no third-party service, SDK, or library — in particular none for advertising or crash reporting, and none for analytics beyond the website's visit counting.
Children's Privacy
Follow My Astrolabe is not directed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from anyone in that age group. Neither the website nor the app sends us anything that identifies you, and the places personal information does change hands — ordering a print or a poster — require a payment card in the first place.
Your Choices
Because your information lives on your device rather than in an account on a server, you're always in direct control of it:
To remove charts you saved on the website: delete them on the site, or clear this site's data in your browser's settings.
To remove your birth details, photo, or preferences from the app: edit or clear them from within the app, or delete the app entirely — deleting it removes everything Follow My Astrolabe stored on your device.
To revoke location, motion, or notification permissions in the app: use your device's Settings app at any time; the app degrades gracefully (a manual sky-pointing slider, or simply no future notification) rather than breaking.
For a print you ordered: most of the record sits with Stripe and Gelato, and the email-and-item record our own service keeps deletes itself 120 days after the order's last update. Write to us and we'll help with either.
For a Custom Chart Poster: write to us and we'll delete its record and artwork straight away. Otherwise they're deleted a year after you approve the artwork.
For feedback you sent from the app: it carries nothing that identifies you, so we can only find yours if you tell us roughly when you sent it and what it said. Write to us and we'll delete it, from our inbox and from the service's own copy — and that copy deletes itself after 180 days regardless.
Changes to This Policy
If this policy changes — for example, if the website starts sending anything about a chart to a server, or if the friend-sharing feature in our product plans is built, since sharing something with a friend necessarily involves sending it somewhere — we'll update this document and its date before that change goes live, and describe plainly what's new.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this policy or how Follow My Astrolabe handles information, contact us at: