▲ The short version
- Your birth date and time are worked out on your own device. The reading on these public pages is a preview: it computes here, in your browser, and nothing from it reaches us or is kept.
- Saving that reading needs an account, and a saved chart is stored on your account so it reaches your other devices. That is the only way it leaves your device, and it happens because you chose to save it.
- They are never written to a log and never sent to an analytics event.
- We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising.
- If you ask us to delete your account, we delete it, we do not keep a shadow copy.
Who we are
LocalAstro is operated by Neutron LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. For anything in this page, write to info@localastro.com. We are the controller of the information described below.
What we hold
Your birth details
The day, time, and place you were born. These are the most sensitive things the product touches, and they are handled accordingly:
- On the public pages of this website, the reading is worked out entirely in your browser. Your birth date and time are not transmitted anywhere. Close the tab and nothing of them remains with us, because nothing of them ever arrived.
- In the phone app, with no account, they are stored on that phone and nowhere else. They are not sent to us. Delete the app and they are gone.
- With an account which the signed-in area of this website requires, and the phone app offers, they are stored on your device and on your account. That is what carries your chart between your devices. They are readable only by you.
- Never in a log or an analytics event. Our servers strip anything resembling a date, a coordinate, or an email address before writing a log line, and our analytics accepts only a fixed list of event names with no free-text fields.
Places you type
The place field checks the 5,000 towns already built into the page first, which needs no request at all. Only a name that is not among them, a village, a small town, is looked up, and then only the characters you typed are sent: no date, no time, no account, no identifier, and no credentials.
That lookup goes from your device straight to Open-Meteo, deliberately not through our servers. Passing it through us would put every user’s birth city into our own logs, which is the exact thing the rest of this page exists to prevent. A place name that nobody can tie to a birth moment is the smaller exposure, and it is the one we chose.
Your account, if you make one
An email address, your birth moment, the cities and plans you save, and what you have bought. An account is what your chart is saved to and what carries it between your devices. It is required for the signed-in area of this website and to buy a plan. The phone app can be used without one, keeping everything on that phone; the reading on these public pages needs none either, and keeps nothing.
Payments
Subscriptions and passes bought inside the app are processed by Apple or Google, and on the web by Stripe. We never see or hold your card number. We receive confirmation that a purchase happened and what it entitles you to.
The ordinary technical record
Our servers keep short-lived request records, the time, the page, a coarse region, and the kind of device, to keep the service up and to stop abuse. Birth details are removed from these before they are written.
Other companies involved
We keep this list short on purpose, and it is the whole list:
| Who | What they do | What reaches them |
|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare | Serves the site, runs our API, and stores accounts and saved places | Ordinary request records, and only what you chose to save, readable only by you |
| Resend | Delivers the sign-in code | Your email address and the code; never birth details |
| Open-Meteo | Finds a town we do not already carry | The place name you typed, and nothing else |
| Apple, Google, Stripe | Take payment | Your payment details, held by them and not by us |
| OpenFreeMap | Draws the zoomable map, on this site and inside the app | Which part of the world your map is showing; never who you are or your birth details |
| Google Analytics | Counts visits to this website, so we can see which pages are read and where visitors come from | The page address, the site that sent you, and what your browser reports about your device and rough region; never birth details, and never your email |
| RevenueCat | Confirms purchases made through the app stores | Your purchase and an app user identifier; never your birth details |
We do not use advertising networks or tracking pixels, and we do not sell or share your information for anyone else’s advertising. Google Analytics, above, is the one measurement tool on this website; it is not loaded inside the phone app.
Cookies
We set no cookies of our own. Google Analytics sets its own (named _gaand _ga_ followed by an id) to tell one visit from the next; you can block them in your browser and the site works the same. If you sign in, your session is kept in your browser’s own storage on that device, along with a device identifier used only to limit abuse of the service. The typefaces this site is set in are served from our own domain.
When you arrive from one of our advertisements
Our own banners link here with a short label in the address naming the banner, for example utm_source=danbo. If you arrive that way, we keep that label in your browser’s storage for thirty days and add one to a count for that banner. If you create an account in those thirty days, the label is noted on your account so we can count which banners lead to sign-ups and to purchases. The label names the advertisement, never you; the counts we keep hold no identifier of any kind; and the note on your account is deleted with it. Arrive any other way and nothing is kept.
How long we keep things
- Account information: until you delete your account.
- The label of an advertisement you arrived from: thirty days in your browser, or on your account until you delete it if you signed up.
- Saved places, plans, and documents you generated: until you delete them.
- Technical request records: a short rolling window, then discarded.
- Birth details entered on this website: not kept at all, because they are never received.
What you can ask for
Wherever you live, you may ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it, including your whole account. Depending on where you live you may also have the right to object to a particular use, to ask us to restrict one, or to complain to your data protection authority. We do not charge for any of this and we do not treat you differently for asking.
Write to info@localastro.com from the address on your account. Please do not include your birth details in the message we do not need them to find your account, and an email is not a good place to keep them.
Where information goes
We are based in the United States and the companies above operate globally, so information may be handled outside the country you are in. Where the law requires a safeguard for that transfer, we rely on the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses or an equivalent.
Children
LocalAstro is not intended for children under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us information, write to us and we will remove it.
Changes
If we change how any of this works, we change this page in the same breath and move the date at the top. A change that makes a real difference to you gets told to you directly, not buried here.
■ Reaching us
info@localastro.com · +1 (321) 538-9369 · 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States or the contact page.