What Astracana Stores When You Save a Birth Profile

When you save a birth profile on Astracana — the nickname, birth date, time, and place that power your personal transit timelines, return charts, and saved readings — a reasonable question arises: where does that information go? Birth data feels personal, and it is. So here’s the complete, precise answer: it goes nowhere. Your profile is stored in your own browser, on your own device, and nowhere else. This article documents exactly what we store, where, and how you can remove it.

Where Your Profile Lives: Your Browser Only

Astracana saves your birth profile using the browser’s localStorage — a small storage area that websites can use to keep data on your device. The specific key is astracana_profile_v1. In practical terms, this means:

• Your birth data is saved on your device, in your browser — the same browser you used to enter it.
• It is never sent to any server — not ours, not anyone’s. There is no account, no database entry, no cloud sync. Our servers never see your birth data at all.
• It persists between visits on that browser (that’s the point — so your charts load instantly next time), but it does not follow you to other devices or browsers. Saving a profile in Chrome on your laptop doesn’t make it appear in Safari on your phone.
• Clearing your browser’s site data removes it, like any other locally stored website data.

This architecture is deliberate. Astrology tools don’t need your data on a server to compute your chart — every calculation on Astracana runs locally in your browser. Since there’s no technical reason to transmit or store your birth details remotely, we simply don’t.

Exactly What Fields Are Stored

No more, no less — the profile object contains these fields:

• nickname — the label you give the profile (e.g., “Me,” “Maya”). Just a display name.
• dob — date of birth, as you entered it.
• birthTime — time of birth, if you provided one (optional).
• utcOffset — the timezone offset used for the birth moment’s calculation.
• latitude — the latitude of the birth place (used in chart math; stored as a number).
• timeConfidence — how sure you are about the birth time, as one of four values: exact (from a birth certificate or record), family (from family memory), approximate (roughly known), or unknown (not provided). This drives which results we label as uncertain.
• updatedAt — the timestamp of the profile’s last save, so the site knows which profile is current.

That’s the entire record. No email, no name beyond your chosen nickname, no tracking identifiers, no analytics payload attached to it. The profile is data you gave us to do math with, and the math happens on your device.

What We Don’t Do With It

Because the profile never leaves your browser, several reassuring things follow automatically:

• We can’t sell, share, or leak what we don’t have.
• We can’t use your birth data for advertising or profiling — it never touches our analytics.
• A data breach on our servers can’t expose your birth details, because they were never on our servers.
• Deleting it is instantaneous and complete — there’s no backup copy, no “retention period,” no support ticket required.

How to View, Edit, or Delete Your Profile

Everything happens on the My Astracana page:

• View: your saved profile’s details are shown there — exactly what’s stored, with nothing hidden.
• Edit: update any field (a corrected birth time, a new nickname) and save; the localStorage entry is overwritten.
• Delete: one tap removes the astracana_profile_v1 entry entirely. The profile is gone from that browser immediately and permanently. (If you saved the profile in multiple browsers, delete it in each — they’re independent copies.)

There’s no confirmation email, no waiting period, no “are you sure” dark pattern beyond a standard confirm — just removal.

Profiles vs. Journal Entries vs. Private Sessions

Two related features worth distinguishing. Your tarot journal entries are also stored locally in your browser (never sent to a server) — same privacy model, separate storage. And if you enable Private session mode, journal saving and profile saving are both disabled entirely for that session: nothing is written to storage at all. In every mode, the principle is the same — your reflective data stays yours, on your device.

Why We Built It This Way

Many astrology sites require accounts, and accounts mean your birth data lives in someone’s database — subject to their security, their business model, and their future decisions. We think reflective tools shouldn’t demand that trade. Your chart is computed from your data; your data shouldn’t have to travel anywhere for the math to happen. Local-first storage is slightly less convenient (no cross-device sync), and we consider that a price worth paying for a guarantee no privacy policy can match: we can’t misuse data we never receive.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does my birth profile sync across my devices?

No — and that’s by design. Because the profile lives in your browser’s localStorage and is never sent to any server, there’s nothing to sync from. Each browser on each device holds its own independent copy. If you want the profile on your phone too, enter it there once; it takes thirty seconds. We consider the minor inconvenience a fair price for the guarantee that your birth data never travels anywhere.

What happens to my profile if I clear my browser data?

It's removed, along with other site data for astracana.com/ — exactly as if you'd tapped delete. There's no backup and no recovery, because there was never a server copy to restore from. If you clear data regularly (or use aggressive privacy settings), you may find yourself re-entering the profile often; that's the trade-off of local-only storage. Consider it a small ritual: thirty seconds to reconnect with your chart.

Manage your profile: visit My Astracana to view, edit, or one-tap delete your saved birth profile — everything described in this article, under your direct control.