Do I need my exact birth time?

It helps enormously — the rising sign and the houses move about a degree every four minutes. If you don't know it, say so on the form. You will still get a full reading, and it will be explicit about which parts it cannot determine rather than guessing and hoping.

Is this generated by AI?

The astronomy is calculated, not generated — real ephemeris data, the same source observatories use. The words around it are written by a language model working only from your computed positions, and every claim ships with the degrees behind it so you can check the reasoning. We would rather tell you that than have you find out.

What do you do with my birth data?

Compute your chart. That is the only thing it is used for — including the free paragraph, if you choose to give your birth details when you join the list. We never ask what you earn or what you spend — a reading has no use for either, and the intake form has nowhere to put them. When you buy, Stripe handles the payment and collects your card and billing details; we never see or store a card number. What we keep is what any purchase record needs: your email, what you bought, and the amount. Nothing is sold or shared with anyone, and there are no advertising trackers on this page.

The Chart is a one-time payment of $49, not a subscription. The founding rate is held for the first 500 people who join the list, and it does not expire.

Is One Orbit a horoscope app?

No. A horoscope is written for a sun sign and applies to millions of people. One Orbit computes a chart from one specific birth moment — a date, a time and a city — and prints the degree, orb and source behind every claim. Where the sky says nothing, the reading says nothing.

Privacy

Last updated 26 September 2026

One Orbit is run by a small team. This page describes exactly what we collect, why, who else touches it, and how to make us delete it. It is written to be read, not to be survived.

What we collect

To compute and deliver a reading, we ask for:

Your first name, or whatever name you want the reading addressed to
Your email address
Your birth date, birth time, and birth city
The city you live in now
A goal for the next ninety days, and the obstacle in front of it
The year you first noticed the pattern you are asking about

That is the complete list. The birth details are the chart — a chart is a photograph of the sky from one specific place at one specific second, so without them there is nothing to compute. The goal and the obstacle are what keep the reading pointed at your actual life instead of at generalities.

The waiting list and the free demo

When you join the waiting list we keep:

Your email address, and your first name if you give it
Your place on the list, and whether you hold the founding rate
Which page or message you joined from, and the language you used
Your Instagram username, only if you joined through a message to our account
Optionally, your birth date — and, if you choose to add them, your birth time and birth city — used to compute the short free demo, which we store so we can show it to you and email it

The birth details are optional. They are the same ones the paid reading uses — nothing extra — and if you skip them you are still on the list. If the demo cannot be computed straight away, we retry for up to a few hours and email it when it is ready.

Your location on the home page

The “overhead right now” panel shows the sky where you are. By default it uses the time zone your device already reports, placed at the coordinates the public time-zone database gives for that zone; nothing is asked and no outside service is used. If you tap Use my exact location, or have already allowed this site to use your location, your browser shares your position, which we round to about one kilometre before it is used. Either way it is used once to compute that panel and is not stored.

Signing in with Google

If you choose Continue with Google, Google tells us your name, your email address and your profile picture, and confirms that the email is yours. We use them only to create your account and sign you in. We do not receive your Google password, and we do not ask for access to your Gmail, contacts, calendar, files or anything else in your Google account.

One Orbit's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. We never sell it, never use it for advertising, and never let a person read it except to fix a fault you asked us to fix. You can remove One Orbit's access at any time from your Google account's security settings; to delete what we hold, see "Your rights" below.

What we deliberately do not collect

We do not ask for your phone number, and the intake form has nowhere to record your home address or anything about what you earn. This is not an oversight we might correct later — the database is built so those fields do not exist.

One honest exception, because a blanket claim here would be false: when you buy something, Stripe collects your card and billing details, including a billing address. That is Stripe's, not ours — we never see or store a card number. What reaches our database is a purchase record: your email, which product you bought, the amount, and the date. We keep that because you need it to reach your reading, we need it to process a refund, and tax law requires it.

We do not buy data about you, we do not run advertising trackers or pixels, and we do not sell, rent, or share your information with anyone for marketing. Not as a current policy. As a design decision.

Your journal and your chats

Anything you write inside One Orbit — journal entries, notes, conversations with the app — belongs to you. It is visible only to you, encrypted at rest, and is never used in marketing, never shown as an example, never used to train anything, and never read by us for any purpose other than fixing a fault you have specifically asked us to fix.

Who else touches your data

We use a small number of services to run the product. Each one only receives what it needs to do its job:

Stripe — payments. Stripe handles your card details directly; we never see or store a card number. They send us your email, the amount, and whether it succeeded.
Base44 — hosts the application and the database your reading and your waiting-list entry are stored in, and handles sign-in, including sign-in with Google.
Resend — sends the emails described below. Receives your email address and the message.
Our compute service, hosted on Fly.io — calculates planetary positions from the Swiss Ephemeris. Receives a date, a time, and coordinates. It is not told your name or your email.
OpenStreetMap Nominatim — turns a city name into coordinates. Receives the city name only.
Inrō — runs our Instagram direct messages. If you message our account or comment to ask for your numbers, Inrō processes that conversation, including your Instagram username and the birth date and email you type into it, and passes the date and email to us.
A large language model (Google Gemini, reached through Base44) — writes the interpretive text around the computed chart. It receives your chart positions, the name you gave us, and the context you gave us. It does not receive your email address. We think you should know this plainly rather than discover it: the astronomy is calculated, and the words about it are generated, then shipped with the degrees that produced them so you can check the reasoning yourself.

Email you will receive

We send transactional email only — messages triggered by something you did:

A confirmation when you join the list, with your demo if you asked for one
Your demo on its own, if it could not be computed while you waited
A receipt when you buy, asking for your birth details
One reminder if we are still waiting on those details
A note when your reading is ready
Occasionally, an announcement when something significant opens

There is no newsletter and no daily mail. Announcements carry an unsubscribe link. The messages above that follow from something you did do not; to stop them, reply to any of them or write to info@onesorbits.com and we will remove you. Unsubscribing never affects a reading you have already paid for.

How long we keep it

Your reading and the birth data behind it are kept while your account exists, so you can return to them. A waiting-list entry, with any demo and birth details, is kept until you ask us to remove it or until the list is closed. If you ask us to delete your account, we remove your readings, your birth data, your journal, and your waitlist entry within thirty days. We keep a minimal record of the transaction itself where tax law requires it — the amount and date, not the contents of your reading.

Your rights

Wherever you live, we will honour these: ask us for a copy of everything we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Email info@onesorbits.com from the address on your account and we will act within thirty days. You do not need to give a reason, and asking will never affect the service you receive.

Children

One Orbit is not intended for anyone under 16, and we do not knowingly collect information from them. If you believe a child has given us data, tell us and we will delete it.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or who receives it, we will email you before it takes effect. Quietly rewriting a privacy policy is a thing companies do and we are not going to do it.

⌁ No phone numbers. No home addresses. No spend history. No data brokers. Your journal is yours alone.