Privacy Policy
Zodian is built for one job — casting and reading Vedic charts. We collect the minimum needed to do that job, and this page explains all of it in plain language.
1. What we collect
- Account: when you sign in with Google we receive your email address and Google account ID. We use them only to identify your account. We never see your Google password.
- Birth profiles: the names, birth dates, times and places you enter to cast charts. They are stored against your account and are visible only to you.
- Mobile-app history: if you also use the Zodian mobile app with the same Google account, chart history you chose to sync there can be imported into your web workspace — only when you ask for it.
- Support messages: what you write to us in Support, plus basic context (app version, platform, language) so we can help.
- Usage data:anonymised events (for example “a chart was viewed”) and standard web analytics via Google Analytics with IP anonymisation. This tells us which features matter.
- Server logs: short-lived technical logs (IP address, request path, timestamp) kept for security and debugging.
We do not collect: contacts, photos, microphone, precise device location, advertising identifiers, payment card numbers, or biometric data.
2. How we use your data
To make the product work — show you charts, timelines, matching and calendar screens — to answer your support requests, and to understand aggregate usage so we improve the right things. Nothing else. No profiling, no ad targeting, no data sales.
3. What we don’t do
- We don’t sell or rent your data to anyone.
- We don’t show third-party ads or embed ad trackers.
- We don’t fingerprint your device or participate in cross-site tracking.
- We don’t use your birth data for anything except showing you your own results.
4. Cookies
We use one essential cookie (__session) to keep you signed in, and Google Analytics cookies to understand aggregate usage. Blocking analytics cookies does not affect the product.
5. Service providers
A small number of providers process data on our behalf, under their own contractual safeguards:
| Provider | Purpose | Data involved |
|---|---|---|
| Google (Sign-In) | Account authentication | Email, account ID |
| Google Analytics | Aggregate usage statistics | Anonymised usage events |
| DigitalOcean | Application & database hosting | All service data |
| Apple App Store / Google Play | Mobile app distribution | Store-side install analytics |
We add to this table before any new provider touches personal data.
6. Where data lives
The team operates from Tamil Nadu, India. Service data is hosted with DigitalOcean; Google services may process data in their own regions (including the United States) under standard contractual safeguards. If you use Zodian from the EU/UK, transfers rely on Standard Contractual Clauses; in India we follow the DPDP Act 2023.
7. How long we keep it
| Data | Kept for |
|---|---|
| Birth profiles | Until you delete them or your account |
| Account data | Deleted within 30 days of a deletion request |
| Support emails | Up to 24 months |
| Analytics | Google Analytics default retention (14 months) |
| Server logs | Up to 30 days |
8. Security
All traffic is encrypted in transit with TLS. Birth profiles are protected by per-account access controls — no other user can read your data. Found a vulnerability? Write to hello@zodian.inwith the subject “Security” and we will respond quickly.
9. Children
Zodian is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it promptly.
10. Your rights
Everyone: you can access, correct, export or delete your data — in the app, or by writing to us. We respond within 30 days, usually much faster.
- EU / UK (GDPR): you additionally have the rights to restriction, portability and objection, and may complain to your local supervisory authority.
- India (DPDP Act 2023): you may request a summary of your data, correction, erasure and grievance redressal; unresolved grievances may be escalated to the Data Protection Board of India.
- California (CCPA/CPRA): we do not sell or share personal information as those terms are defined in the CCPA, and we honour Global Privacy Control signals.
11. Deleting your data
- Delete any birth profile yourself, any time, from the workspace.
- Request full account deletion via the in-app Support tab or by email — completed within 30 days, confirmation sent when done.
12. Changes to this policy
If we make a material change we will update this page, note the new date above, and show a notice in the product. Non-material clarifications may be made without notice.
13. Contact & grievance officer
Privacy questions and grievances: the Support tab inside the app, or hello@zodian.in (Zodian, Tamil Nadu, India). We respond within 30 days; most messages are answered within a week.