Privacy

We collect as little as we can get away with. An email address if you subscribe or make an account, and the reflections you choose to write inside the apps. We don’t sell anything to anyone, we don’t run advertising trackers, and you can delete the lot at any time.

Combined Wisdoms is the home of a small set of contemplative apps. This policy explains how we handle personal information under the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and the Australian Privacy Principles.

You can read this site and everything on it without an account. Where an account is needed — to save what you write, or to pick up where you left off — an email address is the only identifying thing we ask for. You’re welcome to use an address that isn’t your name.

If you subscribe to the mailing list: your email address, the date you confirmed, and whether you’ve opened anything we sent. Nothing else.

If you create an account: your email address and a password, which is stored only as a hash — we cannot read it. Celestial Canon also asks for a birth date, because a natal chart cannot be drawn without one.

If you use the apps: whatever you write in them, so it’s there when you come back.

We do not use advertising or analytics cookies. The only cookie set is the one that keeps you signed in.

Some of what you write in these apps may count as sensitive information — beliefs, or something touching on your health or state of mind. We only ever collect it because you chose to type it, which is your consent to us storing it so you can read it back. We don’t analyse it, profile you with it, or disclose it to anyone beyond what’s described below. You can withdraw that consent by deleting the entry or your account.

The apps use Anthropic’s Claude to generate readings and replies. Only the text of your question or reflection is sent. Your email address, your name, and your account ID are never included in that request, and birth dates are stripped to the bare figures needed for the calculation. From the model’s side you are anonymous — the link between a conversation and a person exists only in our database.

Nothing here makes automated decisions on your behalf. A reading is something to reflect on, not a judgement, and no algorithm on this site decides anything about your life.

Supabase — accounts and stored reflections. Vercel — hosting. Resend — sending email. Anthropic — generating responses. Stripe — payments, where they apply. We never see or store your card details.

All of these are based overseas, principally in the United States, which means your information is disclosed outside Australia. We choose providers that commit contractually to protecting it, but Australian Privacy Principle 8 requires us to be plain with you: once information is held overseas, Australian law may not be enforceable against those providers directly.

We only email marketing to people who asked for it and confirmed by clicking a link. Every one of those emails identifies us and carries a working unsubscribe link, as the Spam Act 2003 requires. Unsubscribing takes effect immediately. Emails about your own account — a password reset, a receipt — aren’t marketing and will keep working regardless.

Data sits behind row-level security, so one account cannot read another’s. Traffic is encrypted in transit. Passwords are hashed, never stored as text, and the keys that could identify a person never reach the browser.

If a breach ever happened that was likely to cause you serious harm, we would tell you and the OAIC, as the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme requires.

For as long as your account exists. Delete your account and the reflections go with it, permanently, within 30 days. Unsubscribing removes you from the mailing list immediately; we keep a record of the unsubscribe itself so we don’t accidentally email you again.

You can ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, or ask us to correct anything that’s wrong. Inner Scripture has a delete-account button that erases everything immediately, without needing to ask anyone. For the others, email us and we’ll action it within 30 days. None of this costs anything.

Tell us first — email us and we’ll come back to you within 30 days. If you’re not satisfied with how we’ve handled it, you can take the complaint to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au, or on 1300 363 992.

These apps are not intended for anyone under 16, and we don’t knowingly collect anything from them.

If this policy changes in a way that matters, we’ll email anyone with an account before it takes effect.