Privacy Policy

1. Who is responsible for your data

JEONG USEONG, an individual based in South Korea ("we"), decides how the personal data described here is used. Contact: hello@sumukpalja.com.

2. What we collect

When you calculate a chart, we store:

• your date of birth, and your time of birth if you enter it
• your gender (used for the direction of the ten-year cycles in the reading)
• your place of birth: the city name you choose, with its coordinates and time zone (used to correct for local solar time)
• the chart we calculate from those details

If you buy the full reading, we also store:

• the email address you used at Gumroad's checkout, sent to us by Gumroad
• the Gumroad sale ID for your purchase, and whether the reading is paid

If you use “Already paid?” on a reading page, we send the email you type to Gumroad only to look up your purchase. We don't store the email you type; if a matching purchase is found, we store its details as described above.

We don't collect your name, account details or passwords (there are no accounts), and we don't receive your card details — Gumroad handles payment. We don't use cookies or advertising trackers.

Our hosting provider records technical request data, such as IP addresses, as part of running the site.

We use Umami, a cookieless analytics service, to count visits and a few steps on the site — for example, whether the free reading was read to the end or the unlock button was clicked. Umami receives the page address and title, the previous page's address, your browser's language and screen size, and these step names. Before anything is sent, we replace your reading's private link with "/r/[id]" and remove payment details from addresses. We never send your birth details or your email. Umami uses technical request data, such as your IP address, only briefly to work out an approximate location. If your browser's "Do Not Track" setting is on, we don't count your visit.

3. Why we use it, and on what basis

• To calculate and show your reading at its private link — birth details and chart — performance of a contract (providing the reading you asked for).
• To confirm your payment and unlock the full reading — email, sale ID and paid status — performance of a contract.
• To help you if you contact us (for example, a lost link or a refund) — email and sale ID — performance of a contract, or our legitimate interest in supporting customers.
• To keep the site secure and prevent payment abuse — sale ID and technical request data — our legitimate interest in security and fraud prevention.
• To understand how the site is used and improve it — the analytics data described above, without your reading link, birth details or email — our legitimate interest in improving the site.

We don't sell your data and don't use it for advertising.

4. Who we share it with

We use these service providers to run the site:

• Vercel — hosts the site
• Neon — stores the database
• Gumroad — sells and processes purchases as merchant of record. For the purchase itself, Gumroad handles your data under its own privacy policy.
• Umami — website analytics, without cookies. Umami's own service providers are listed at umami.is/subprocessors.

We may also disclose data if the law requires it.

5. Where your data is stored

Our servers are located in the United States: the site runs on Vercel (US East) and the database on Neon (US East). Analytics data is stored by Umami (servers in the United States — the data region we chose). If that is outside your country, your data is transferred there.

6. How long we keep it

• Paid readings are kept until you delete them.
• Unpaid readings are also kept for now. We may remove unpaid readings that haven't been opened for a long time; if we start doing that, we'll say so in this policy first.
• You can delete a reading yourself at any time with the "Delete this reading" button. Deletion removes it from our database.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live (for example, under the GDPR in the EU/UK), you can ask to access, correct or delete your data, restrict or object to how we use it, and receive it in a portable format. To delete a reading, use the button on the reading page; for anything else, write to hello@sumukpalja.com with your reading link or the email you used at Gumroad. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.

8. YouTube

We post our own short videos on our YouTube channel, Sumuk Palja. To do this, we use a small tool that only we use. It uses YouTube API Services.

• What it uses: our own channel name and the upload status of our own videos.
• What it does not do: through YouTube API Services, we do not collect, see, or store any data about you or any other YouTube user.
• Where data is kept: only on our own computer — a sign-in key for our own account, and a record of our own uploaded videos (their video ID and upload status). We do not share it with anyone.

This section is only about YouTube API Services. The birth date and time you enter for a reading are covered by the other sections of this policy.

YouTube is run by Google. When you watch our videos on YouTube, the YouTube Terms of Service (https://www.youtube.com/t/terms) and the Google Privacy Policy (https://policies.google.com/privacy) apply.

Google account owners can remove an app's access at any time here: https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions

9. Children

The site is not meant for anyone under 18, and we don't knowingly collect their data.

10. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version.

11. Contact

hello@sumukpalja.com