Privacy Policy

Who controls your data

The data controller is Rosary LLC, a limited liability company registered in Delaware, United States, which publishes Astrolize. Wherever this policy says "we", it means Rosary LLC.

Registered address: 131 Continental Dr, Suite 305, Newark, DE 19713, United States. For anything about your data, write to [email protected]. That reaches us faster than post.

The short version

Your charts never leave your Mac. Everything you enter in the app (birth data, notes, settings) stays in a local database and is never transmitted to us.

We hold personal data if you attempt a direct purchase from this website, buy directly, create a website account or contact support. Direct checkout includes regional eligibility checks, and a rejected checkout can leave a financial record even though no licence is issued. For a completed direct purchase we hold your email address, a record of the purchase, and which Macs your licence is activated on. Buying through the Mac App Store means the purchase itself leaves nothing with us; only an account you choose to create here, or a support conversation you start, does.

Separately, we hold the names and email addresses of business contacts we work with, and their payout details, only to run that working relationship and to keep the accounting records the law requires.

There is no advertising, no tracking and no profiling anywhere in the app or on this site, and the app has no analytics at all.

The Astrolize app

All charts, birth data, notes and settings are stored in a sandboxed local database on your Mac. This includes any third party whose chart you cast. None of it is transmitted to us, and the app has no cloud sync and no telemetry.

Location search uses Apple geocoding services on your Mac to turn a typed place name into coordinates; those lookups are handled by Apple under the Apple privacy policy and are not visible to us.

The version downloaded directly from this website contacts astrolize.app to activate and periodically re-check your licence. Those requests carry your licence key, the name of the Mac as set in System Settings, the app version, and a device identifier. The device identifier is a one-way SHA-256 hash computed on your Mac: we receive the hash, never the underlying hardware identifier, and we cannot reverse it. It exists only to count how many Macs a licence is active on. Between checks the app works fully offline.

The version installed from the Mac App Store does none of this. Apple has already established that you own it, so that build never contacts our licensing service and sends us nothing.

The app also checks astrolize.app for a newer version. That request sends no information about you or your Mac.

The astrolize.app website

Browsing the marketing pages sets no cookies and loads no third-party scripts. To know which pages help people decide, the site counts page views and presses of its buy and free chart buttons as anonymous daily totals on our own server: no cookie, no identifier, and no IP address or browser details are stored, so a count can never be traced back to a visitor.

If you sign in, we set one essential cookie to keep you signed in. It is strictly necessary for the account area to work, it is not used to track you, and it exists for no other purpose, which is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing optional to consent to.

Our hosting infrastructure keeps standard, short-lived server logs (IP address, user agent, requested URL) for security and operational purposes only. These logs are rotated automatically and are not used to profile visitors.

If you buy directly from us

For direct purchases sold through Link, Link (Stripe) acts as reseller and merchant of record and handles payment, billing details, tax, payment receipts and transaction support under its own privacy terms. Full card numbers and security codes do not reach our servers. Rosary LLC receives the information needed to deliver and administer your licence, including your email address, purchase amounts and transaction references.

For an eligible purchase, we create an account for the email address you paid with, and store: that email address, the purchase record, a hash of your licence key (never the key itself: we cannot recover it for you, only issue a new one), and one row per activated Mac holding the hashed device identifier, the machine name and the app version.

We keep purchase and licence records for as long as the licence is valid, and afterwards for as long as tax and accounting law requires us to keep proof of the sale. You can release an individual Mac at any time from your account page or from within the app.

Regional eligibility and rejected checkouts

For direct checkout, Cloudflare supplies a visitor country code. We also check the billing country recorded by Link or Stripe for the checkout and any available card-issuing country before issuing a licence. We use this information to decide whether we can fulfil the purchase under our regional policy, not for advertising or profiling.

For a rejected checkout, we retain country codes, the rejection reason and policy version, transaction references, amounts and currencies, refund and dispute status, and notification status. These records do not store full billing addresses, raw IP addresses, full card details or copies of payment-provider payloads. Authorized administrators use them to review the refusal, reconcile payments and refunds, and resolve disputes.

Rejection records are financial records, retained like purchase records for as long as tax and accounting law requires. The notification email address on a rejection record is separate: we retain it for late refund-status corrections even after a refund is reported complete, and remove it no later than 180 days after the rejection record was created. If no payment was collected, we remove it once its notice has been sent. This does not erase separate purchase, account or support records, or records held by Link or Stripe under their own policies.

If you buy from the Mac App Store

Apple handles the entire transaction. We never see your payment details, your email address or your identity, and refunds are handled by Apple. The purchase creates no account here and leaves no data with us. If you later sign in to this website or contact support, the account and support sections of this policy apply to what you provide then.

Account support and email

If you create an Astrolize website account or contact support, we receive the account information and content you provide, whether or not you bought directly. Private account support stores your email address and name, your messages and their timestamps, the account page you wrote from, and read progress, so that we can continue the conversation. The conversation is visible to you through your account and to our authorized administrators. Resolving a conversation or signing out does not delete it, and no automatic retention or erasure schedule is currently applied; write to us for access, correction or deletion and we will explain any record that must be kept. Please do not include licence keys, sign-in links, payment details or unnecessary personal chart information in a message.

If you write to our support address instead, we receive the information you choose to send: your email address and the content of your message. We use it only to answer you, and we do not add you to any mailing list.

We keep a copy of each email this website sends, such as sign-in, licence, receipt, download and support reply emails, so that we can confirm what was sent and help when a message goes missing. The copy holds the sender and recipient addresses, the subject, the message text, the names, types and sizes of any attachments (never the files themselves) and whether our mail server accepted it. Before storage, we remove the sign-in links, download links and licence keys our sign-in, download and licence emails carry, keeping only the last group of a licence key. We also remove the signed reply address used to answer support by email. Support reply emails are otherwise kept as sent, including the messages they quote.

Only our authorized administrators can access the email history. Viewing a stored message's content requires a recent second-factor confirmation, and each content view is recorded. Administrators can see sender and recipient addresses, subjects, Reply-To, Message-ID, attachment names and delivery status in the history without that additional confirmation. Stored copies are deleted automatically 90 days after the email was sent. A notice about a rejected checkout is deleted sooner if the 180-day limit on its rejection record comes first, and if no payment was collected for that checkout the stored copy keeps only a masked form of your address. To have stored copies erased before then, write to us.

Rosary LLC controls the account, licensing and support data described in this policy. Link and Stripe have their own responsibilities for transaction data; they are not described here solely as processors acting on our behalf. Astrolize sends licence and account emails from its own mail server. Link sends payment receipts and transaction notifications for purchases sold through Link.

Who else processes this data

We use a small number of service providers, each only for the purpose named: Cloudflare for content delivery and for storing the downloadable application builds, and Hetzner for server hosting in Germany. Transactional email runs on our own mail server rather than through a third-party provider.

Cloudflare and Hetzner act as processors on our behalf and are not permitted to use your data for their own purposes.

Your rights

If you are in the UK, the EEA or Türkiye, data protection law gives you the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected, to have it erased, to restrict or object to how we use it, and to receive it in a portable form.

Where we hold data, we do so to take steps at your request before a purchase, perform the contract you entered into when you bought the software, and meet our legal record-keeping obligations. We do not rely on consent for anything, because we do nothing optional with your data.

To exercise any of these rights, write to [email protected]. We answer personally. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.

Data sharing and sale

We do not sell or rent personal information. We disclose information to the service providers and transaction parties described above as needed for those purposes, and to authorities where the law requires it.

Children

Astrolize and this website are not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted on this page with a new effective date. Material changes will be noted in the app release notes as well.

Contact

Questions about privacy can be sent to [email protected]. We answer personally.