Fate Council Privacy Policy

This policy is provided for transparency. It is not legal advice.

What Fate Council Does

Fate Council is a personal astrology and destiny-reading app. It maps a person's life through multiple traditional methods, including BaZi (Four Pillars), Tu Vi (Zi Wei Dou Shu), Western astrology, Vedic astrology, and Feng Shui Kua. Features include a first reading from birth details, Past Check (how well each method describes events the user has already lived), Life Chart (the user's rhythm over time), Ask the Oracle (a question answered with method evidence), What If (comparing a past decision against an alternative path), and Explore (comparing methods).

Deterministic engines compute the chart symbols. AI models turn those symbols into written readings. Readings are for reflection and entertainment. They are not guaranteed predictions and are not a substitute for professional medical, legal, financial, or psychological advice.

Information We Collect

We may collect:

Account and authentication information, such as Apple or Google sign-in identifiers, display name, and email when provided. Sign in with Apple private relay is supported, in which case we only see the relay address.
Birth and profile information that the user enters directly, such as date, time, and place of birth, and profile details. This information is used to calculate the chart. It is personal data. It is not health data.
The questions the user asks and the readings they choose to save, kept as reading history.
Purchase information, such as gem pack purchases (consumables), Oracle Plus subscription status, restored transactions, and refunded transactions.
Device and technical information, such as app version, anonymized diagnostics (Apple MetricKit), timezone, language, country/locale, network request logs, device identifiers needed for sign-in or sync, and APNs push token when notifications are used.

We do not collect device location. A birth place is text the user types, not GPS coordinates. Fate Council does not use Apple Health or HealthKit and does not collect health data. We do not use third-party advertising or tracking, and we do not show an App Tracking Transparency prompt because we do not track users across other companies' apps or websites.

How We Use Information

We use information to:

Calculate charts and generate readings from the birth and profile information the user provides.
Provide Past Check, Life Chart, Ask the Oracle, What If, and Explore.
Process gem and Oracle Plus purchases and maintain subscription status.
Save question and reading history so the user can return to past readings.
Improve reliability, abuse prevention, and fraud prevention.
Respond to support requests and comply with legal obligations.

AI Features

When a user requests a reading or asks the Oracle a question, the chart symbols and the user's question, the minimum needed to generate the reading text, are sent to an AI provider. AI providers never receive the user's full account profile, Apple ID, or payment records. We do not permit AI providers to train models on personal data without explicit consent. The current AI providers are:

OpenAI (United States). GPT models, primary writer for readings.
Google Gemini (United States). Fallback writer.
DeepSeek (People's Republic of China and internationally). Reading content writer.
Anthropic Claude (United States). Higher-tier fallback writer.

Other service providers:

Railway and managed database providers, for hosting and backend infrastructure (United States).
Apple, for Sign in with Apple, StoreKit in-app purchase, and Apple Push Notification service.
Google, for Google Sign-In.

Purchases and Subscriptions

Gems are consumable in-app purchases used to unlock deep readings and Oracle questions. Oracle Plus is an auto-renewing subscription offered weekly, monthly, and annually, sold through Apple in-app purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled before the end of the current period, and are managed in the user's Apple ID account settings. The user always sees the cost before anything is charged. All payments are processed by Apple. We never receive card details.

Sharing

We may share information with:

Service providers that help operate authentication, hosting, databases, AI reading generation, and payments.
Apple, for in-app purchase, restore, refund, and transaction verification.
Google, for sign-in.
Authorities or other parties when required by law or to protect safety, security, and legal rights.

Fate Council does not sell personal information. Fate Council does not use personal data for third-party advertising or tracking.

Retention

We keep information as long as needed to provide the app, comply with law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, and maintain purchase or subscription records. Users may request deletion by contacting help@rawdestiny.com. Some purchase, refund, safety, security, and subscription records may be retained where required or reasonably necessary.

Children

Fate Council is not directed to children under 13, or under the minimum age required by local law (16 in some EU countries). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under these ages. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the applicable minimum age, we will delete that information promptly. If you believe a child has created an account, contact help@rawdestiny.com.

International Transfers

Fate Council is operated by an individual developer based in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. Our backend infrastructure is hosted on Railway, which operates servers in the United States. AI providers operate primarily in the United States and internationally, including DeepSeek in the People's Republic of China and internationally.

If you are located in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or another region with data transfer restrictions, your personal data may be transferred to and processed in the United States or other countries that may not provide the same level of data protection as your home country.

Where required by applicable law, we rely on the following transfer mechanisms:

Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) adopted by the European Commission, incorporated into data processing agreements with our infrastructure and AI providers.
Data Processing Agreements (DPAs) with Railway and our AI providers covering their processing of data on our behalf.

For users in Vietnam, we process personal data in accordance with the Vietnamese Personal Data Protection Decree (Decree 13/2023/ND-CP) where applicable.

If you have questions about international transfers, contact help@rawdestiny.com.

Your Choices

Users can:

Edit or delete saved readings and questions in the app.
Disable notifications in iOS Settings or the app.
Contact support for access, deletion, or account questions.

Account and Data Deletion

Users can delete their account and all associated data directly in the app:

Open Fate Council.
Go to the You tab.
Tap Account.
Tap Delete Account.
Confirm the deletion.

When deletion is confirmed, Fate Council sends a deletion request to our backend server, which permanently removes your profile, birth details, saved readings, questions, and account records.

What is retained after deletion: Apple in-app purchase transaction records (the transaction ID and purchase date, anonymized) may be retained for up to 7 years for fraud prevention and to comply with financial record-keeping obligations. These retained records cannot be used to identify you after anonymization.

If in-app deletion is unavailable, users may also request deletion by emailing help@rawdestiny.com. We will process the request within 30 days.

Legal Basis for Processing (EEA and UK Users)

If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, we process your personal data under the following legal bases under GDPR Article 6:

Data category	Purpose	Legal basis
Account identifiers (email, sign-in ID)	Creating and maintaining your account	Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b))
Birth and profile information	Calculating charts and generating readings	Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b))
Questions and saved readings	Providing reading history and continuity	Performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b))
AI reading content	Generating the written reading text	Consent (Art. 6(1)(a)). You initiate each request.
Subscription and purchase records	Running your subscription and IAP transactions	Performance of a contract and legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(b) and (c))
Diagnostics and crash data	App stability and reliability	Legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f)). Keeping the app safe and functional.
IAP transaction records retained after deletion	Financial record-keeping compliance	Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c))

You have the right to access, correct, erase, restrict, port, and object to your data. You also have the right to withdraw consent at any time (this does not affect the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal). To exercise these rights, use the in-app deletion flow or contact help@rawdestiny.com. You have the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

Diagnostics

Fate Council uses Apple MetricKit to collect anonymized crash reports, hang reports, and performance metrics. This data does not include your birth information, questions, or readings. It is subject to Apple's privacy policy and used only to identify and fix bugs and performance issues.

Data Breach Notification

If Fate Council experiences a personal data breach that is likely to result in a high risk to your rights and freedoms, we will notify affected users without undue delay as required by applicable law, including GDPR Article 34. Notification will be provided by email using the address associated with your account, or by prominent in-app notice. We will also notify the relevant supervisory authority within 72 hours of becoming aware of a qualifying breach, where required.

Governing Law

This policy and any disputes arising from it are governed by the laws of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, except where consumer protection laws in your country of residence require otherwise.

Contact

Questions or privacy requests: help@rawdestiny.com