Fate — Privacy Policy
Last updated: 2026-05-31
This is the privacy policy for Fate ("the App"), a private daily-readings app that brings together your birth chart, tarot pulls, and short notes about your day. It explains what data we collect, how we use it, who we share it with (spoiler: almost nobody), and the controls you have over your own data.
We're a small team. We wrote this in plain English on purpose. If anything here is unclear, email privacy@telosumstudios.com and we'll either explain it better or change it.
What we collect
When you use Fate we store the following on our servers:
- Account basics. Email address, the encrypted password you chose, the timestamp you signed up, and a randomly generated user ID. Stored by our authentication provider (Supabase Auth).
- Your birth chart inputs. The birth date, birth time, and birth location you enter to generate your chart. We compute the chart locally and store the result; we don't share these inputs externally beyond the ephemeris lookup needed to compute the chart.
- Your notes. The short text or voice notes you record about your day. Audio files live in a private bucket; only signed URLs we mint for your authenticated session can reach them.
- Your readings. The daily readings the App generates from your chart, recent transits, drawn cards, and notes.
- Per-entry metadata. A small structured summary the AI extracts from each note (mood, themes, the people you mentioned, a single "resonance" line linking the note to a chart aspect or card, and a non-clinical safety flag if your entry suggests you may need support). This metadata powers the resonance hints — it never becomes a label on you.
- Embeddings. A numeric fingerprint of each note that powers search. Embeddings can't be reversed to reveal the original text, but we treat them with the same care as the note itself.
- Settings. Your timezone, voice language, reading tone preset, the deck you've selected, and notification preferences.
- Usage records. Each AI call we make for you (model used, token counts, estimated cost). Used to enforce free-tier limits and for internal cost auditing. No content from your notes is stored in these records.
We do not collect: ongoing location, contacts, device identifiers beyond what your phone OS attaches to authentication requests, screen-time analytics, behavioral profiles, or anything else not listed above. Your birth location is used once to compute your chart and is not used for location tracking.
Who we share it with
Three external services receive parts of your data so the app can work:
- Supabase hosts the database, authentication, and audio file storage. Everything in "what we collect" above lives on Supabase's infrastructure. Their privacy policy: https://supabase.com/privacy.
- OpenAI receives your note text (or transcribed audio text) and the relevant chart/card context to generate readings, resonance links, structured metadata, and embeddings. OpenAI has agreed in their API terms not to train models on data we send through the API. Their policy: https://openai.com/policies/api-data-usage-policies.
- Apple / Google see whatever the underlying mobile operating system receives — push notification routing if enabled, App Store / Play Store purchase records once subscriptions exist.
We do not sell your data, share it with advertisers, license it to third parties, or use it to train AI models. There are no ads in Fate.
How we use it
Your data is used for one thing: to power Fate for you. Specifically:
- Your chart, the day's transits, drawn cards, and your notes are combined by the AI to produce daily readings.
- Embeddings power search across your own notes and readings.
- Metadata powers the resonance hints and the gentle safety banner.
- Usage records enforce free-tier limits and let us see whether the app is sustainable at scale.
We may look at aggregate, non-identifying statistics (e.g. "how many total readings were generated this week") to improve the product. We will never read individual notes or readings unless you give us explicit permission (e.g. as part of a bug report).
Your controls
- Export your data. Settings → "Export your data" downloads a JSON archive of every row of yours, including signed download links for your audio.
- Delete your account. Settings → "Delete account & data" permanently removes everything keyed to you: chart inputs, notes, readings, audio files, settings, subscription record, and the authentication row. This is irreversible. We don't keep "soft-deleted" backups of your content.
- Change what you've written. Edit or delete any note. Edits propagate to the next reading regeneration.
Children
Fate is not designed for users under 13. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 13. If you believe a minor has signed up, email privacy@telosumstudios.com and we'll delete the account.
About the readings
Fate's readings are reflective tools, not predictions of fact and not professional advice. The App is not a therapy service and not a crisis service. If your notes suggest you may be struggling, the App will gently surface support resources (findahelpline.com globally, 988 in the US, Samaritans in the UK / Ireland). These are pointers, not professional support — please reach out to a real human if you need help.
Changes to this policy
If we change anything material here (what we collect, who it goes to, how it's used), we'll update the "Last updated" date at the top and surface a notice the next time you open the app.