Privacy Policy

Esoterea (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website esoterea.net (the “Service”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services, including horoscope readings, cosmic news, community chat, and interactive games.

1.1 Account Information

When you sign in via Google Authentication (Firebase Auth), we receive your display name, email address, and profile photo URL. We do not access your Google password or any other Google account data beyond what is required for authentication.

1.2 Usage Data

We collect information about how you interact with our Service: zodiac sign selections, horoscope reading preferences (daily, weekly, monthly), reading cooldown timestamps, and community chat messages you voluntarily submit.

1.3 Automatically Collected Data

Like most web services, our servers may log your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages visited. This data is used for analytics and security purposes only.

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide and personalize horoscope readings based on your zodiac sign preferences
• Enforce reading cooldowns (daily, weekly, monthly) to maintain service fairness
• Display your name and profile in the community chat
• Moderate community chat content for safety and civility
• Generate and improve AI-powered content through aggregated, anonymized usage patterns
• Maintain, improve, and secure the Service

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

Esoterea integrates with the following third-party services:

• Google Firebase — Authentication, database (Firestore), and hosting. Subject to Google’s Privacy Policy.
• Google Gemini AI — Powers our AI-generated horoscope readings and news synthesis. Your individual reading requests are not stored by the AI provider beyond the session.
• Vercel — Web hosting and edge delivery. Subject to Vercel’s Privacy Policy.

We use browser local storage to maintain your authentication session and store UI preferences (such as sign-up prompt suppression timers). We do not use third-party tracking cookies. Firebase Authentication uses essential cookies required for the sign-in process.

5. Data Retention

Your account data is retained as long as your account is active. Chat messages are stored indefinitely to maintain community conversation history. Horoscope reading cooldown data is automatically overwritten on each new reading. You may request deletion of your account and associated data at any time by contacting us.

6. Your Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the right to:

• Access the personal data we hold about you
• Request correction of inaccurate data
• Request deletion of your data (“right to be forgotten”)
• Object to or restrict processing of your data
• Request data portability

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at the address below.

7. Children’s Privacy

Esoterea is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have collected data from a child, please contact us immediately and we will promptly delete it.

8. Security

We implement industry-standard security measures including HTTPS encryption, Firebase security rules, and secure authentication flows. However, no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the Service after changes constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data rights, please contact us at: