Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
Zodiary is made by Essential Dev Team (Dumitru Bumbu), the data controller for the app. Contact: essentialdevteam@gmail.com.
2. In short
- No ads, no tracking, no sale of data, and no account.
- Your birth details, your partner's details and your diary stay on your device.
- If you use the AI features, we send your birth details and question to a server that asks a Google AI model to answer. We do not send your name or your diary.
- We collect anonymous usage statistics, and you can turn them off in Settings.
3. What stays on your device
Zodiary stores these only on your iPhone: your first name, birth date, birth time (if you give it), birthplace, your partner's name and birth details (if you add them), your diary notes and moods, your plans, and your settings. We cannot see them. If you back up your iPhone with iCloud, Apple may include this data in that backup under Apple's terms. Deleting the app deletes it from your phone.
4. What leaves your phone, and when
| What | When | Goes to |
|---|---|---|
| The place name or coordinates you type | When you search for a birthplace | Apple Maps (MapKit) |
| Your birth date and time, birthplace (name, coordinates and time zone), your calculated chart, and your question | When you use an AI reading or ask the astrologer | Our server (Supabase), then Google Gemini |
| Subscription status | When you subscribe, renew, cancel or request a refund | Apple, who tell our server |
| Anonymous usage and crash data | While you use the app, unless you turn it off | Our server (Supabase) |
We never send: your name, your partner's name, your diary, your email, your contacts, your photos, advertising identifiers, or your device location. Zodiary does not ask for location permission.
5. AI features
Pro includes readings and answers written by AI. To produce one, the app sends your birth date, birth time (if known), birthplace name, coordinates and time zone, your calculated chart positions, and your question to our server. Our server passes them to Google's Gemini API and returns the answer. We do not send your name, your partner's name, or your diary notes. Our server does not keep your questions or the answers once the reply has been delivered. Google handles the request under its own terms: Gemini API terms and Google privacy policy. Do not type sensitive personal information into a question.
AI answers can be wrong. They are reflections for entertainment, not advice. Nothing in Zodiary makes decisions about you.
6. Anonymous usage statistics
Zodiary uses our own simple analytics, not a third-party advertising or analytics SDK. It helps us see what works and what crashes. It sends:
- Device model family, iOS version and app version; language, region and time zone; accessibility settings that are switched on.
- Sessions and the last screen you were on.
- The app's own events, such as which horoscope page you opened, without any of its content.
- Paywall views and taps, purchase and restore events, and whether the review prompt was requested.
- Crash and performance reports from Apple's MetricKit.
It never sends: your name, email, phone, address, location, advertising identifiers, prices, receipts or transaction identifiers, or anything you write. Your IP address is not stored or used. Data is tied to a random Installation ID that we cannot link to you. We keep usage data for 13 months and crash and performance data for 6 months.
To turn it off: Profile → Settings → Privacy → Share Usage Data. When off, nothing is collected or sent.
7. Purchases and refunds
Subscriptions are sold and billed by Apple. We never see your payment details or your Apple Account. Apple notifies our server of renewals, expiries and refunds so we can check your Pro status, and our server keeps only the plan, expiry, Apple's transaction identifiers and whether it was refunded.
Refund requests. When someone asks Apple for a refund, Apple may ask us about the purchase. By subscribing, you agree that we may then tell Apple that the purchase was delivered, that a free version or trial was available beforehand, and that we prefer a refund of the unused part. We share nothing else, and only for purchases made after this consent appeared on the subscription screen.
If you use Family Sharing, Apple tells us that the subscription is shared. We do not learn who your family members are.
8. Why we may use your data (GDPR)
- To give you the app and the features you ask for (contract): the chart, readings, AI answers, your Pro status.
- To improve and protect the app (legitimate interest): anonymous usage and crash data, with an opt-out in Settings.
- To meet legal duties, for example tax and consumer law.
We do not use automated decision-making or profiling that has legal or similar effects on you.
9. Services we use
| Service | For | Their policy |
|---|---|---|
| Apple (MapKit, StoreKit, App Store) | Place search, purchases, Family Sharing | apple.com/legal/privacy |
| Supabase | Our server for AI requests, purchase status and anonymous usage | supabase.com/privacy |
| Google Gemini API | Writing AI readings and answers | policies.google.com/privacy |
Zodiary also uses Astronomy Engine by Don Cross (MIT licence) to calculate planet positions on your device. It sends no data anywhere.
10. International transfers
Our server and Google may process data in the United States and other countries. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses.
11. How long we keep things
- On your device: until you delete it or the app.
- AI questions and answers: not kept by our server.
- Usage statistics: 13 months. Crash and performance data: 6 months.
- Purchase status: while you are subscribed, and as long as the law requires for records.
12. Your choices and rights
You can edit or delete your birth details, your partner and your diary in the app at any time, and delete everything by deleting the app. If you are in the EU, UK or a similar region, you have the right to access, correct, delete and export your data, to object to or restrict processing, and to complain to your data protection authority. If you are in California, you have the right to know and delete, and we do not sell or share personal information.
To ask us to delete the usage data tied to your phone, email us your Installation ID (Profile → Settings → Privacy, tap to copy). We will confirm when it is done.
13. Children
Zodiary is not directed at children under 13, and it has no profiles for children. We do not knowingly collect data from children.
14. Security
Connections to our server use HTTPS. No API keys are stored in the app. Data on your device is protected by your iPhone's own security. No system is perfectly secure.
15. If something goes wrong
If a breach affects your data, we will tell you and the authorities as the law requires.
16. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date above, and tell you in the app if the change is significant.
17. Contact
Questions or requests: essentialdevteam@gmail.com. We answer in English.