Privacy Policy

AsterNym is operated by [LEGAL OPERATOR NAME], located in [COUNTRY AND BUSINESS ADDRESS]. For applicable data-protection laws, [LEGAL OPERATOR NAME] is responsible for deciding how and why your personal information is processed. Privacy questions and requests may be sent to hello@asternym.com.

When you use AsterNym without an account, your name and birth profile are calculated and stored in your browser’s local or session storage. This device-only approach applies to adult guests, guests aged 13–17, and child profiles created by a parent or guardian in parent mode.

Device-only profiles are not stored in an AsterNym account or synchronized across devices. Limited information may still be transmitted for the specific lookups and essential technical operations described below. You can remove device-only information using the delete option provided in the product or by clearing AsterNym’s site data in your browser.

Account information

If you are 18 or older and create an account, we process: your email address; your name and birth profile, including birth date, time and place; the version and date of the Terms you accepted; authentication and session information; and account creation, update and deletion timestamps. We use this information to authenticate you, generate your report and synchronize it across your devices.

Name and city lookups

Some features require narrow lookups. Name popularity: your first name is used to search historical naming records; your birth date, time and place are not included in this lookup. Birth city: for eligible adult features, the city text you enter is used to find matching places, coordinates and time-zone information. These requests are handled by AsterNym’s own servers, which hold the reference datasets — they are not forwarded to third-party lookup services.

The system handling a lookup may also process ordinary connection information such as an IP address, browser type and request timestamp. We do not combine that technical information with your complete birth profile for advertising.

Technical and security information

Our hosting and security infrastructure may process: IP address, browser and device type, requested page, request date and time, and error and security information. We use this to deliver the service, prevent abuse, investigate errors and protect accounts. We do not use it to create advertising profiles.

Email information

AsterNym uses Resend to deliver one-time sign-in codes and essential account or purchase messages. Resend receives your email address and the information required to deliver and troubleshoot those messages. Creating an account does not automatically subscribe you to marketing. Promotional messages are sent only when you separately choose to receive them, and you may unsubscribe at any time.

Purchase information

When you purchase a star dedication, gift or physical product, [PAYMENT PROCESSOR] processes your payment information. AsterNym does not receive or store your complete payment-card number. We may store: your account or customer identifier; order and transaction identifiers; product purchased and amount paid; payment and subscription status; billing country and applicable tax information; delivery information for physical products; and customer-support correspondence. Payment and tax records may be retained where required for accounting, fraud prevention or legal compliance.

Public star dedications

A star dedication is intended to appear publicly in the AsterNym Galaxy. Information you choose to publish includes the dedication name, your message, the associated star and its coordinates, and the dedication date. Do not include private information that you or another person would not want displayed publicly.

Public-figure profiles

Famous profiles use publicly available information from sources such as Wikidata and the sources linked on each profile. We use this information to calculate and display cultural and entertainment-based comparisons. A person or authorized representative may request a correction or removal by contacting hello@asternym.com.

Depending on the feature and applicable law, we process information: to provide the service or fulfill a purchase you requested; with your consent for optional features or communications; to protect the service and prevent abuse; to comply with tax, accounting and legal obligations; and for our legitimate interest in maintaining, troubleshooting and improving a privacy-conscious service.

AsterNym’s automated readings and compatibility results are for reflection and entertainment. They are not used to make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects about you.

We use service providers that process limited information on our behalf: hosting and content delivery — Vercel; transactional email — Resend; payments — [PAYMENT PROCESSOR]; database and authentication — [PROVIDER — TO BE CONFIRMED AT LAUNCH]. Geographical and name-popularity lookups run on AsterNym’s own servers against locally-held datasets. We use no third-party error-monitoring or analytics trackers.

These providers may process information only as needed to perform their services and under their respective contractual and legal obligations. We do not sell personal information. We do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and AsterNym does not contain third-party advertising trackers or pixels.

Name-popularity information comes from the United States Social Security Administration’s public baby-name data. Place and time-zone information comes from the GeoNames geographical database, used under its applicable attribution licence. Astronomical calculations use Hipparcos-derived star positions, the IAU Catalog of Star Names, the Tycho-2 catalogue (CDS I/259), the HYG stellar database and the astronomy-engine ephemeris library. Historical birth-hour weather is retrieved from the Open-Meteo historical weather archive.

AsterNym intentionally sets one essential cookie, asternym_session, after you sign in. It keeps your account session active for up to 90 days and is not used for advertising. The application also uses browser storage to maintain device-only profiles and product preferences. Payment pages or infrastructure providers may use additional strictly necessary technologies under their own policies.

Device-only profiles remain until you delete them or clear AsterNym’s browser data. Account profiles remain until you delete the account.

Deleted account profiles are removed from active systems [IMMEDIATELY / WITHIN X DAYS — TO BE SET]. Encrypted backups may retain deleted records for up to [X DAYS — TO BE SET] before automatic expiry. Security and operational logs are retained for [X DAYS — TO BE SET]. Transaction and tax records are retained for [X YEARS OR APPLICABLE LEGAL PERIOD]. Public star-dedication records remain visible while the dedication is active; after cancellation or lapse the record is archived from the public registry.

Minimal records may be retained when reasonably required to document consent, resolve disputes, prevent fraud or comply with law.

AsterNym is not available for independent use by anyone under 13. People aged 13–17 may use guest features without creating an account. Their complete birth profile remains on their device, although their first name may be processed for the disclosed name-popularity lookup.

A parent or guardian may create a child profile through parent mode. The child’s profile remains on the parent’s device — today, AsterNym does not transmit or store child profiles on its servers at all. Before any future feature would send information about a child under 13 outside that device, AsterNym will require [VERIFIABLE PARENTAL-CONSENT PROCESS — TO BE DEFINED BEFORE ANY SUCH FEATURE LAUNCHES].

Parents may contact hello@asternym.com to review or delete information processed about their child or withdraw permission for further processing.

Our service providers may process information in countries other than your own, including the United States, where our hosting and email providers operate. Where required, we use recognized transfer mechanisms and contractual safeguards. You may contact us for more information about the safeguards applicable to your information.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to: request access to your personal information; correct inaccurate information; delete your information; restrict or object to certain processing; receive a portable copy of information you provided; withdraw consent for optional processing; and opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information. AsterNym does not sell personal information or share it for targeted advertising.

To exercise a right, use the available account controls or contact hello@asternym.com from the email associated with your account. We may request reasonable information to verify that the account belongs to you. You may also have the right to complain to the privacy or data-protection authority where you live. We will not discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect personal information. However, no online service can guarantee absolute security. You are responsible for protecting access to your email account and signing out of AsterNym on shared devices.

We may update this policy as AsterNym changes. The effective date at the top identifies the current version. If a change materially affects how account information is used, we will provide reasonable notice before the change takes effect where required.

For privacy questions or requests: [LEGAL OPERATOR NAME] · [BUSINESS ADDRESS] · hello@asternym.com