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Rude Karma

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 29, 2026

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy explains what information Rude Karma (“we,” “us”) collects through the Rude Karma app and website, how we use it, who we share it with, and the choices you have. It applies together with our Terms of Service.

2. Information We Collect

Information you give us

  • Account: your display name and email address, and which sign-in method you use (Apple, Google or email).
  • Birth details: birth date, birth time (optional) and birthplace, including its map coordinates, used to calculate your birth chart.
  • Preferences: topics you’re interested in (such as love, career or money), your preferred tone (Nice or Rude), and optional details such as gender if you provide them.
  • People you add: for compatibility, a nickname, relationship type (romantic, friendship or business), birth date, and optionally birth time and birthplace for each person.
  • Content you create: questions you ask in Ask, and the answers and compatibility reports generated for you.
  • Email preference: whether you’ve agreed to receive occasional emails about big sky events, and when.

Information collected automatically

  • Purchases: your subscription status, which products you’ve bought, and store transaction identifiers, received from Apple or Google through RevenueCat. We never see your card or payment details.
  • Usage and diagnostics: screens viewed, features used, app performance and crash reports, through Firebase Analytics, Crashlytics and Performance Monitoring.
  • Advertising: device and ad-interaction information collected by Google AdMob. On iOS, your device’s advertising identifier is only available if you allow tracking when asked.
  • Notifications: a push notification token, if you allow notifications.

3. How We Use Information

  • To create and secure your account and sign you in.
  • To calculate birth charts and write your readings, answers and compatibility reports.
  • To process purchases, apply subscriptions, credits and report allowances, and prevent abuse of them.
  • To show ads in the free version and to give credits for rewarded ads.
  • To send notifications you’ve allowed, such as when a report is ready, and emails you’ve opted into.
  • To understand how the app is used, fix problems and improve features.

4. How Readings Are Generated

To write a reading, answer or report, we send the relevant details to service providers that do the work for us: birth details to an astrology calculation service to compute chart positions, and chart information, your question and preferences to OpenAI to write the text. For compatibility reports this includes the details of the person you added. Your display name may be included so a reading can address you by it; your email address isn’t. These providers process the information to provide the service to us.

5. Who We Share Information With

We don’t sell your personal information for money. We share it only with service providers that help us run Rude Karma:

  • Google: Firebase (accounts, database, notifications, analytics, crash reports), AdMob (ads), and Google Maps Platform (finding your birthplace when you search for it).
  • Apple and Google: sign-in and in-app purchases.
  • RevenueCat: managing subscriptions and purchases.
  • OpenAI: writing readings, answers and reports.
  • An astrology calculation provider: computing chart positions.

We may also disclose information if required by law, to protect our rights or users’ safety, or as part of a business transfer such as a sale or merger.

6. Ads and Your Choices

  • iOS: we ask permission before using your advertising identifier to personalize ads (App Tracking Transparency). You can change this any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking.
  • Android: you can reset or delete your advertising ID in your device’s settings.
  • In regions that require it, such as the EU and UK, we ask for your consent before personalized ads are shown.
  • Subscribers to Premium or Just no ads don’t see ads.

7. People You Add

Details of people you add for compatibility are used only to produce readings and reports for you. We don’t contact them or share their details for any other purpose. You can remove a person at any time, and everyone you’ve added, along with reports about them, is deleted when you delete your account.

8. Keeping and Deleting Your Information

We keep your information while your account is open. You can delete your account in the app under Settings → Delete account. This permanently deletes your account, profile, birth details, people you’ve added, compatibility reports and questions. Some records may be kept where we need them for legal, tax or fraud-prevention reasons, such as records of purchases, and Apple, Google and RevenueCat keep their own purchase records under their policies. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription; cancel it in your store settings.

9. Security

Your information is stored with Google Firebase and protected with access controls that limit each account to its own data. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your information and limit who can access it.

10. Your Rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

  • access the information we hold about you, or get a copy;
  • correct it (most of it you can edit yourself in Edit Profile);
  • delete it (you can delete your account in the app);
  • object to or restrict certain uses, or withdraw consent you’ve given;
  • opt out of marketing emails (in Settings), notifications (in your device settings) and personalized ads (section 6).

To make a request, email us at the address below. We won’t treat you differently for exercising your rights.

11. California Residents

If you live in California, the California Consumer Privacy Act gives you the right to know what personal information we collect, use and disclose; to request deletion; to correct inaccurate information; to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; and not to be discriminated against for using these rights. We don’t sell personal information for money. Personalized advertising may count as “sharing” under California law; you can opt out using the ad choices in section 6.

12. Children

Rude Karma isn’t intended for children, and we don’t knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we’ll delete it.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy as the app changes. We’ll post the new version here with a new “Last updated” date, and for significant changes we’ll let you know in the app.

14. Contact Us

Questions, or requests about your information: privacy@rude-karma.com.