Privacy policy

1. Introduction

Karma Match ("the App") is an astrology-based application that lets you explore birth charts, daily horoscopes and compatibility readings.

To produce a reading, the App needs information about you and, if you choose to compare charts, about other people. This Policy explains what we may collect, why, who we may share it with and what rights you have.

Please read it together with our Terms of Use. By using the App you confirm that you have read and understood this Policy.

2. Who we are

LANARS AS, registered in Norway
Martin Linges vei 25, 1364 Fornebu, Norway
[email protected]

LANARS AS is the data controller for the purposes of applicable data protection law, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Contact us at the address above with any privacy question or to exercise your rights.

3. What we may collect

Depending on how you use the App, we may collect:

• Account information, such as a name or display name, an email address, a sign-in identifier provided by Apple, and a profile image if you add one.
• Birth data — date, time and place of birth. This is the basis of every reading, since astrological calculations depend on the position of celestial bodies at a given time and place.
• Information about other people, where you enter it in order to compare charts. See Section 5.
• Content and settings you create, such as connection labels, saved readings and comparisons, and your notification and language preferences.
• Messages you send us, such as support requests and feedback.
• Purchase information. Payments are processed by Apple. We do not receive your card or bank details; we receive confirmation of your subscription status.
• Technical and usage information, such as device and app details, identifiers, IP address, access times, diagnostic and crash information, and general information about how the App is used.

The App is not designed to collect information revealing your health, sexual life or orientation, ethnicity, religious or political beliefs, or similar sensitive matters, and we ask you not to provide it. Where information of this kind is processed, this happens only with your consent and only to produce the reading you requested. You may withdraw that consent by deleting the relevant entry or your account.

4. Why we use your information and our legal basis

We process your personal information only where we have a lawful basis under the GDPR.

• To provide the service you requested (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) — including creating and maintaining your account, calculating astrological charts and compatibility readings, generating written interpretations, storing your saved content, processing subscriptions, and responding to your enquiries.
• With your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR) — for push notifications, analytics technologies and device identifiers where consent is required, and for any special-category personal data as described in this Policy. You may withdraw your consent at any time.
• For our legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) — to understand how the App is used, maintain and improve it, keep it secure, prevent misuse, process the birth data of a connection you have added in order to generate the compatibility comparison you requested, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
• To comply with legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) — including meeting our legal, accounting and regulatory obligations and responding to lawful requests from public authorities.

Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have assessed that our interests do not override your rights and freedoms. You have the right to object to this processing. See Section 9 for more information.

5. Information about other people

The App allows you to enter another person's birth data in order to compare charts. This means you may provide us with information about someone who does not use the App.

Your responsibility. By entering such information you confirm that, where required by applicable law, you have a lawful basis to do so; that the person is 16 or older; and that you will not use the App to profile or make decisions about them in a way that could affect them adversely.

How it is used. A connection's birth data is used to produce the comparison you requested and to display the result to you. We do not build a separate profile of that person, contact them, or use their information for marketing, and we do not sell personal information.

Notice under Article 14 GDPR. Where a user enters another person's birth data, LANARS AS acts as a controller of that data. As we hold no contact details for that person, providing individual notice would involve disproportionate effort within the meaning of Article 14(5)(b); this Policy serves as the required notice, and we rely on the user who entered the data to inform them.

Removal. If information about you is in the App and you would like it removed, contact [email protected]. We will consider and respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.

6. Privacy between users

Karma Match is not a social network. Your profile, birth data, connections and readings are private by default and are not made visible or searchable to other users.

7. Automated processing and AI

Karma Match generates charts using established astrological methods. Some written interpretations may be produced or refined using artificial intelligence and other automated technologies, and are delivered automatically without prior human review.

Automatically generated content may be general, incomplete or inaccurate. Readings are intended for entertainment and personal reflection only. They are not medical, psychological, legal, financial or relationship advice and should not be treated as objective facts or predictions. See the Terms of Use.

We do not carry out automated decision-making that produces legal effects concerning you, or similarly significantly affects you, within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR.

We may use third-party technology providers, including cloud and AI service providers, to operate this functionality. Such providers act as processors on our behalf under written agreements and may process the data only for the purpose of providing the relevant service to us. We do not sell personal information, and we do not provide it for the purpose of training publicly available AI models.

8. Sharing, transfers and retention

Who we may share with. We may share personal information with service providers who support the operation of the App — for example hosting, content generation, analytics, diagnostics, notifications, communications and support — each engaged under appropriate contractual terms. Apple handles distribution and payments under its own terms and privacy policy. We may also disclose information where we consider it necessary to comply with applicable law or a valid request from a competent authority, to investigate suspected misuse, to enforce our Terms of Use, or to protect the rights or safety of LANARS AS, our users or others. If our business is involved in a merger, acquisition or transfer of assets, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction.

Other than as described in this Policy, or as otherwise permitted or required by law, we do not provide personal information to third parties.

Device identifiers and tracking. Where required by applicable law, we seek your consent before storing or accessing identifiers on your device. On iOS, tracking across other companies' apps and websites takes place only where permitted through Apple's App Tracking Transparency framework. Our website may use cookies; where consent is required, we will request it.

International transfers. Some of our providers may be located in other countries. Where personal information is transferred internationally, we do so on the basis of an appropriate transfer mechanism recognised under applicable data protection law, such as an adequacy decision or standard contractual clauses. Further information is available on request.

Retention. We retain personal information for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Policy, and thereafter only where retention is required or permitted by applicable law — for example to meet accounting obligations or to establish or defend legal claims. Information may persist for a limited period in routine backups after deletion.

Security. We implement technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk in order to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You are responsible for keeping your credentials confidential and your device secure. Where a personal data breach occurs, we will notify the relevant supervisory authority and, where applicable, affected individuals, in accordance with our obligations under the GDPR.

9. Your rights

You may delete your account at any time within the App or by contacting us. Deleting your account removes your profile, birth data, connections and saved readings, subject to the retention position described above, and cannot be reversed. Deleting your account does not cancel a subscription purchased through the App Store; subscriptions are managed in your Apple account settings.

Subject to applicable law, you have the right to request access to your personal information, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, including for direct marketing, to receive it in a portable format, and to withdraw consent at any time without affecting processing carried out beforehand. Depending on where you live, additional rights may be available to you under local law.

To exercise any of these rights, contact [email protected]. We will respond within the timeframes set out in applicable law and may ask you to verify your identity.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country.

We do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising.

10. Children

The App is intended for users aged 16 and over. We do not knowingly collect information relating to anyone under 16, whether as a user or as a connection added by another user, and users may not enter the birth data of a person under 16.

If you are a parent or guardian and believe information relating to your child is held in the App, contact [email protected].

11. Changes and contact

We may update this Policy from time to time. We will update the "Last updated" date and, where changes are material, provide notice by appropriate means. Continued use of the App after such changes indicates acceptance of the updated Policy.

The App and our website may link to third-party services, whose privacy practices are not covered by this Policy.

LANARS AS, Martin Linges vei 25, 1364 Fornebu, Norway — [email protected]