Privacy Policy

1 — Overview & controller

Overview

VedicChart provides a free Vedic astrology calculation service: you enter a birth date, birth time, and birthplace, and we return a sidereal chart (Lagna, Moon sign, Nakshatra, planetary positions, houses, Vimshottari Dasha, and Navamsa/D9). This Privacy Policy explains what information is involved, why it is processed, how long it is kept, and who handles it.

For the purpose of data-protection law, VedicChart is the controller for the website and its chart calculation service. The email for privacy questions, access or deletion requests, and general contact is support@vedicchart.net. We aim to reply within 5 business days, often sooner.

2 — What we process

What information is involved

Whether and how much data is processed depends on what you do on the site:

We do not ask for your legal name, address, or financial information to calculate a chart. If you include personal details in an email, we handle that message only to reply and to resolve the issue you raised.

3 — Purposes & legal bases

Why we process it

Each category above is used only for a matching, limited purpose:

• Birth details — to convert your local birth time to UTC, calculate sidereal positions with the Lahiri correction, place planets in whole-sign houses, determine Nakshatra/pada, Vimshottari Dasha balance, and Navamsa, and return the chart you asked for. The service cannot return a correct chart without this input. Legal basis: performance of the service you request (contract / legitimate interest in delivering the chart as described).
• Place search input — to resolve the birthplace you intended and supply accurate coordinates and historical time-zone rules. Legal basis: same as above — it is a necessary step of the calculation.
• Technical delivery data — to route traffic, keep the site available, and protect against abuse. Legal basis: legitimate interest in operating and securing the service.
• Emails you send — to read, respond to, and (where appropriate) document the handling of your inquiry. Legal basis: consent implied by writing to us, and legitimate interest in support.
• Optional analytics — to understand which pages and tools are used so we can improve the site. Legal basis: legitimate interest in product improvement. Analytics does not receive birth date, birth time, or selected place from calculator forms.
• Optional error reports — to detect and fix crashes and server failures. Legal basis: legitimate interest in reliability and security. Reports are filtered to remove birth details, place-search text, security credentials, and visitors’ IP addresses before they are sent.

We do not use birth details for advertising, resale, building a personal profile across sites, or scoring. If any future feature would change that, we would update this policy and, where required, ask for consent before enabling it.

4 — How we use your birth details

How a chart is calculated

Here is what happens when you calculate a chart:

1. You choose a birthplace — we match your selection to its coordinates and historical time-zone record so the correct local rules can be applied.
2. You submit the form — birth date, exact local time, and the selected place are sent securely for calculation.
3. We resolve the exact moment — including historical time-zone rules, daylight-saving transitions, and conversion to a universal time reference.
4. Positions are placed in the sidereal zodiac — astronomical positions are adjusted with the Lahiri correction, arranged in whole-sign houses, with the true lunar node and derived charts (D1, D9, Dasha) added.
5. The chart is returned to your browser only — we do not save it as a long-term personal record. See Retention below for the limited technical logs any hosting service keeps.

The short reading shown after calculation is a rule-based summary drawn strictly from the same chart — it does not add personal guesses beyond the calculated positions.

5 — Storage & retention

How long data is kept

• Chart requests and results — not stored as a user-accessible history or account record. The service does not create a chart archive you can re-open later under a login. We instruct the website and its caching services not to store your submitted chart details or results.
• Birth details — we design our application logs to exclude the birth details you submit.
• What may still exist elsewhere — our hosting service may retain standard operational logs — for example access logs and security events — for a limited window under its own retention policy. Those logs are not curated by VedicChart as a birth-data store, but they may contain technical request metadata as part of normal operation.
• Emails — kept only as long as needed to handle your request and, where there is a legitimate reason (for example a billing or support dispute that was resolved by email), for a reasonable follow-up period. You may ask us to delete a thread you sent.
• Place records — birthplace candidates come from a curated database of public geographic records; these are general place facts, not personal data about you, and are not tied to an account (there is none).
• Analytics identifiers — when Google Analytics 4 is enabled, Google may keep its own identifiers and reports under Google's retention settings while the property is active.
• Error reports — when GlitchTip is enabled, diagnostic events are retained under that host's retention settings for debugging. They are not used as a chart archive.

6 — Service providers

Who processes data on our behalf

VedicChart is a small, focused service. A few trusted service providers handle the hosting, calculation, and geographic data needed to deliver it. They process data only to provide that infrastructure, under their own published policies:

Place records themselves originate from public geographic datasets (such as GeoNames) — they are place facts, not personal data. We do not sell data to, or share birth details with, advertising networks or data brokers. If we add payments or optional saved-chart storage, this section will be updated before those features are enabled.

7 — Cookies, local storage & advertising

Cookies and tracking

The calculator does not require an advertising cookie or a cross-site ad tracker to function. VedicChart does not sell an advertising profile.

Optional Google Analytics 4. When enabled, Google Analytics helps us understand which pages you visit, which tools you use, and whether steps such as selecting a birthplace or calculating a chart succeed. We also measure errors, approximate response times, and use of the email contact button. These reports do not include your birth date, birth time, place names, or message text.

Analytics is for first-party product improvement, not ad retargeting by VedicChart. Google may process the analytics signals as an independent service provider under its own terms. Birth date, birth time, and selected place from calculator forms are not included in Analytics events we send. You can control cookies and site data from your browser settings.

Optional error monitoring (GlitchTip). When enabled, GlitchTip receives technical error reports to help us fix problems with the website and calculators. These may include the affected page, browser information, and details of the error. Reports are filtered to remove submitted birth details, place-search text, security credentials, and visitors’ IP addresses before they are stored. We do not use these reports for advertising or to save your charts.

8 — Security

How we protect the service

• Encrypted connections (HTTPS) for all traffic between your browser and the service.
• Server-side access control so only the website can call the calculation service — credentials are never exposed to the browser or stored in public code.
• Standard web security protections on site responses to reduce misuse.
• Minimal collection: the most effective privacy control is not collecting excess data in the first place — which is why chart results are not saved as a personal history.

No internet service can promise absolute security. If you believe you have found a vulnerability, please write to support@vedicchart.net with a reproducible description so we can investigate.

9 — International transfers

Where data is processed

VedicChart is available on the public internet, so a request initiated in one country may be processed in another as part of normal routing and hosting. Infrastructure providers may operate data centers in more than one region. We rely on their contractual and legal safeguards for any such transfer. If your jurisdiction requires additional disclosure about transfer mechanisms, please contact us and we will provide the relevant provider documentation and the location of the region currently hosting the workload.

10 — Your rights

Your choices and rights

Depending on where you live, you may have some or all of the following rights. We honor them regardless of region:

• Use the site without submitting birth details — you can read educational pages, comparison articles, and guides without entering anything into the calculator.
• Access and correction — because we do not keep a per-account chart archive, there is usually no stored history to correct. If you emailed us, you may ask what we have retained about that thread.
• Deletion — ask us to delete an email thread or any support record we hold about your message.
• Object or restrict — tell us if you object to a particular processing purpose; we will assess and, where appropriate, stop or limit it. For optional analytics, you can also block or clear Analytics cookies and site data in your browser.
• Portability — where applicable, we can provide the content of an email exchange you sent in a common format.

To exercise any of these, write to support@vedicchart.net from the address you used (if any) and describe the request and the message it relates to. We may ask for confirmation that you control that address before acting. You also have the right to complain to your local data-protection authority.

If you do not want birth details sent to the calculation service at all, do not submit the form. That is the most direct way to avoid processing — and it is why every reading, guide, and calculator preview is available without doing so.

11 — Children

Children's privacy

VedicChart is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them beyond the normal technical logs any web host creates for any visitor. If you believe a child has sent us personal information by email, please contact support@vedicchart.net and we will delete the relevant message.

12 — Changes to this policy

Updates

If we introduce payments, saved charts, accounts, or any new service provider that handles personal data beyond what this policy already describes, we will update this Privacy Policy and change the "Last updated" date at the top. For material changes we will give more prominent notice on the site for a reasonable period. Continued use of the site after an update means you have accepted the revised policy.

13 — Contact

Contact us

Questions, requests, or concerns about privacy, this policy, or the way a chart was handled? Write to support@vedicchart.net. If your message relates to a specific calculation attempt, include the date, time, and the fact that it was a VedicChart request — but do not resend sensitive identifiers you do not want repeated by email unless that is necessary to resolve the issue.

You can also reach us via the contact page. For general terms governing use of the site, see our Terms of Service and About page.