Augurine

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 10, 2026

Scope

This privacy policy applies to the Augurine website at augurine.com. References to "the service" or "Augurine" throughout this policy refer to the website.

1. Information We Collect

We collect the following categories of information:

  • Account information: Email address and password (hashed) when you create an account. If you sign in with Google or Apple, we receive your name and email address from those providers and store them with your account; we do not receive your password.
  • Birth data: Date of birth, time of birth (optional), and birth location (city, latitude, longitude) used to calculate your natal chart.
  • Journal entries: Mood ratings, emotion tags, domain tags, and text entries you voluntarily submit.
  • Partner data: Birth data for partners you add for compatibility readings.
  • Witness Marks and reflections: Astrological context attached to a moment you choose to mark, plus any written reflection. Reflection text is stored as ciphertext (in the database column note_ciphertext) and is not readable by us in queryable form.
  • Chapter reflections: Short memory lines (up to 500 characters) you optionally add to chapters in Astro Replay.
  • Predict questions: Questions you submit to the Predict feature, together with the location context at the time of asking.
  • Residency and relationship periods: Time ranges (with city, latitude, and longitude) for places you have lived, and time ranges (with partner name and optional notes) for relationships, used to anchor chapters in Astro Replay.
  • Place Dossier records: Selected place names, exact coordinates, timezone, context, purpose, dates, tags, notes, calculation receipts, natal facts attached to place factors, static readings, lived evidence, prereveal memories, and calibration reflections. These records are private unless you create a redacted shared snapshot or include private fields in an export.
  • People in Places: Your recorded permission basis, allowed location detail, practical priorities, birth time uncertainty, a pinned copy of the permitted Inner Circle chart source, including birth date, birth time, timezone, and the exact coordinates needed for its private calculation, independent Place calculations and readings, and an optional exact Replay relationship link. Your allowed location detail controls what Places displays and what the People export includes. These records are private, excluded from shared Place snapshots, and included in an account export only when you select the People group. Inner Circle names and authored person text are excluded from that export.
  • Private route records: Route names, ordered stops, declared date precision, stop coordinates and timezones, the selected Local Space origin, practical priorities, calculated geometry, and factor chapters. Routes are excluded from shared Place snapshots and included in an account export only when you select the Routes group.
  • Push notifications: If you enable notifications, we store the web push subscription required to deliver them.
  • Usage data: Anonymous product analytics via PostHog on the web and server side (screens viewed, features used, anonymous browser identifier, browser version), configured to avoid collecting personally identifiable information beyond a pseudonymous user ID.
  • Error and performance monitoring: When the application encounters an error, Sentry receives the stack trace, the request URL, and (for authenticated sessions) your pseudonymous Supabase user ID so we can correlate the report with your account on request.
  • Payment information: Website payments are processed securely through Stripe. We do not store credit card numbers.

2. How We Use Your Information

  • Calculate your natal chart, transits, and forecasts
  • Generate personalized readings based on your chart data
  • Calculate exact place factors and create rule-based Place Dossier readings without an AI request
  • Analyze journal patterns against Today activation context and legacy transit data for weekly insights
  • Process subscription payments
  • Send daily reading notifications (if enabled)
  • Verify you are a real user during signup and login via an invisible bot challenge
  • Improve our services through anonymous usage analytics and error monitoring

3. Data Storage & Security

Your data is stored in a PostgreSQL database hosted by Supabase with row-level security (RLS) policies ensuring you can only access your own data. All connections are encrypted via TLS. Passwords are hashed using bcrypt. The application is deployed on Vercel with HTTPS enforced. Reflection text attached to Witness Marks is encrypted at rest in a dedicated ciphertext column.

4. Data Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for advertising. Your birth data and journal entries are never used for advertising. We use the following service providers who may process data on our behalf:

  • Supabase: authentication and database hosting
  • Vercel: application and edge hosting
  • PostHog: anonymous product analytics on the web and server side
  • Sentry: error and performance monitoring (receives stack traces, request URLs, and your pseudonymous Supabase user ID for authenticated sessions)
  • Cloudflare Turnstile: invisible bot challenge during signup and login (Cloudflare receives the visitor IP and challenge metadata)
  • Resend: transactional and digest email delivery (recipient address and message content)
  • OpenStreetMap (Nominatim): place search and coordinate lookup. A selected map point sends its exact latitude and longitude to Nominatim so the service can return a place label.
  • CartoCDN: vector map tiles for astrocartography. Your IP address and the tile coordinates requested by your browser are visible to Carto while the map renders. Carto does not receive your saved notes or Place Dossier reading.
  • Upstash Redis: rate limit counters keyed on your account ID
  • Google and Apple: optional OAuth sign-in (we receive your name and email if you choose to use them to sign in)
  • Stripe: payment processing (website)
  • OpenAI: reading and insight generation. We send your birth data, computed chart placements, the daily activation context, recent journal entry text when generating journal-driven readings, and partner birth data for compatibility readings. Inputs are not retained or used for model training under our API agreement. When you request an AI location reading, we send computed nearby line factors, natal placements, natal aspects, and the selected house system. Timing readings also send the destination timezone and location factor identifiers. We do not send the place name or exact coordinates. Derived factors can still convey approximate location context. Predict does not use OpenAI: questions you submit to Predict are screened, judged, and worded by deterministic rules and are never sent to OpenAI. Predict readings created before July 2026 may retain narration generated by the earlier system. Place Dossier static readings and blind calibration do not call OpenAI.

5. Your Rights

You have the right to:

  • Access your personal data via your account settings
  • Update or correct your birth data at any time
  • Delete an individual Place Dossier, its readings, its lived evidence, or its calibration records from the dossier controls
  • Remove a person from a Place Dossier while retaining its saved revisions, or revoke permission to erase that person's pinned source and derived Place records
  • Delete a private route from its route controls. Deleting a source Place Dossier keeps the separate route record and marks the removed origin or stop as deleted
  • Delete your account and all associated data via account deletion on the website
  • Export your data. Premium users can export journal and transit data from Settings. All users can request a full export of their personal data by emailing support@augurine.com; we respond within 30 days.
  • Opt out of analytics tracking via cookie preferences

6. Cookies

On the website, we use essential cookies for authentication (Supabase session tokens). PostHog product analytics is treated as a first-party tool: it initializes automatically for signed-in users (on the lawful basis of performance of our Terms of Service) unless you reject analytics in cookie preferences. Signed-out visitors are not tracked by PostHog until they accept cookie consent. You can change your cookie preferences at any time. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies.

7. Data Retention

Your data is retained for as long as your account is active. When account deletion completes, your profile, birth data, journal entries, readings, partner data, Witness Marks, and chapter reflections are removed from active systems. Place Dossier records, calculation receipts, static readings, lived evidence, calibration memories, reflections, permissioned People layers, private route records, and active shared snapshots are also removed. We request deletion of the account-linked analytics person, events, and recordings. A random deletion status receipt with no account identifier is retained for up to 30 days so a lost connection can recover the result. Account data may remain temporarily in protected backups or in records we are legally required to keep.

8. Children's Privacy

Augurine is not intended for children under 16, or the higher minimum age set by the law of your jurisdiction. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided us with data, please contact us.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. Continued use of the service constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.

10. Contact

For privacy-related questions or data requests, contact us at support@augurine.com.