Privacy policy

The general horoscopes, sign profiles, and incompatibility test are available without creating an account. If you don't sign up, I don't collect any personal data beyond what's described below.

If you do create an account (for personalised readings), I collect and store your email address, display name, sun sign, and birth details. All of which I will use exclusively to judge you more accurately.

Here's what you should know.

Accounts and personal data

If you create an account, the following data is stored on the server in a MySQL database:

• Email address — used for login, password resets, and the occasional in-character welcome email.
• Display name (optional) — whatever you'd like to be called.
• Sun sign — so I know which box to put you in.
• Birth details (date, time, place) — if you create a natal chart. Used to calculate planetary positions and generate personalised readings.
• Password — stored as a one-way hash. I can't read it. Nobody can.

I don't share this data with anyone. It stays on the server and is used solely to provide the service.

Payments

Subscriptions are processed by Stripe. When you subscribe, you're redirected to Stripe's hosted checkout page. I don't see or store your card details — Stripe handles all of that. I receive a webhook confirming payment and your Stripe customer ID, which I store to manage your subscription status.

You can read Stripe's privacy policy for details on how they handle payment data.

Transactional emails

Password reset and welcome emails are sent via Mandrill (Mailchimp's transactional email service). Your email address is passed to Mandrill solely for the purpose of delivering these emails. No marketing emails are sent unless you specifically opted in (which you can't, because I haven't built that).

Analytics cookies

If you've accepted cookies, this site uses Google Analytics 4 (property ID: G-6EFTD2NTLG) to understand how people use the site — which pages get visited, how long people stay, that sort of thing. It helps me know whether anyone's actually reading the Capricorn chapter or if everyone skips straight to their ex's sign.

Google Analytics sets the following cookies:

• _ga — distinguishes unique visitors. Expires after 2 years.
• _ga_* — maintains session state. Expires after 2 years.

These cookies collect anonymised data including your IP address (which Google truncates), browser type, device type, pages visited, and time spent. This data is processed by Google. You can read Google's privacy policy for the full details.

If you declined cookies, or haven't been asked yet, no analytics cookies are set and no data is sent to Google.

The consent cookie

When you click "Accept" or "No thanks" on the cookie banner, I store a small cookie called cookie_consent to remember your choice. This is classed as a strictly necessary cookie (it only records whether you said yes or no) and doesn't require consent itself. It expires after 1 year.

What I don't do

• I don't sell data to anyone.
• I don't run targeted advertising.
• I don't track you across other websites.
• I don't share your personal data with third parties (beyond Stripe for payments and Mandrill for email delivery).
• I don't send marketing emails.

Server-side analytics

Separately from Google Analytics, I log basic page view data on the server — the page URL, referring URL, browser type, and a hashed version of your IP address. This doesn't use cookies and doesn't require consent. The IP hash is a one-way process (salted monthly), so I can count unique visitors without knowing who you are. This data is used solely to understand site traffic.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access any personal data held about you — contact me and I'll provide it
• Rectification — you can update your account details at any time via your account page
• Erasure — you can request deletion of your account and all associated data by contacting me
• Object to processing — you can decline cookies, and you can request account deletion at any time
• Portability — you can request a copy of your data in a machine-readable format

You can also install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on to prevent data collection across all sites that use GA.

Changes to this policy

If anything changes — which it probably won't, because the site is deliberately simple — I'll update this page.

Contact

If you have questions about this policy, you can reach me at hello@badastrologer.com.

Last updated: April 2026