Privacy policy
Plain language about what YouCast collects, why, and the controls you have. This policy covers youcastapp.com, app.youcastapp.com, and the YouCast mobile app.
Effective August 15, 2026
The short version: we collect your birth details and what you choose to share so we can make your episodes. We never sell your data, we run one advertising measurement tool and describe exactly what it sees below, and everything you share can be edited or deleted from your account, including the account itself.
Who we are
YouCast makes personalized podcast episodes from your birth chart. It's operated by Gideon Kai under the Cosmic Creation Media umbrella. For anything in this policy, write to gideon@youcastapp.com.
What we collect
Your account
Email address, name, and pronouns. Sign-in works by emailed code or link; we never see or store a password.
Birth details
Birth date, time, and place, for you and for any people you save to your account. This is the raw material every chart and episode is calculated from. When you save another person's chart, you're responsible for having their OK to share it.
What you share
The notes, questions, and context you choose to give your episodes: the one-time notes you type when making an episode, your saved "What you've shared" notes, and your "What's alive for you right now?" note. From these, YouCast also keeps a short running summary called "Where things stand." It's visible in your Settings, clearly labeled, and you can edit it, delete it, or turn it off entirely. Your own notes are never rewritten.
Your episodes
The reports and audio we generate for you, plus basic listening state (like where you left off) and any episodes you download in the app, which are stored on your device.
Payments
Payments are processed by Stripe. We receive your email and what you bought; we never see or store your card number. So an order can be fulfilled the moment it's paid, the birth details for that order travel with the payment session and are stored alongside it at Stripe.
Notifications and logs
If you turn on push notifications in the app, we store a device token to deliver them. Our hosting keeps standard short-lived server logs. We never sell analytics about you.
Advertising measurement
To know whether our ads are worth running, we use the Meta Pixel. It sets Meta's cookies in your browser and reports standard events to Meta, like a page view or a checkout starting. When a purchase completes, our server sends Meta a confirmation that includes a hashed (unreadable) version of your email so the sale can be matched to the ad. We also keep one small first-party cookie of our own (yc_attr, 30 days) that remembers which campaign link brought you here. We never send Meta your notes or your episodes. One thing worth stating plainly rather than burying: the pixel reports the address of the page you are on, and on our free chart tools the birth details you entered travel in that address, so they can be part of what your browser reports. If you would rather that didn't happen, block the pixel with any standard content blocker and every tool here still works exactly the same.
How we use it
- To calculate your charts and generate your episodes, reports, and daily transit readings.
- To personalize episodes with what you've chosen to share.
- To run your account: sign-in emails, delivery emails, receipts, and membership credits.
- To send occasional product emails if you signed up through one of our free tools; every one has an unsubscribe link. Service emails (sign-in, delivery) go to everyone with an account.
AI processing
YouCast episodes are written and voiced by AI. To make yours, your birth details and the context you've shared are sent to our AI providers: Anthropic (Claude), which writes the narrative and maintains your "Where things stand" summary, and Google (Gemini), which generates the episode audio. They process this data to produce your episode and do not use it to train their models.
Who we share it with
We never sell your data. It's shared only with the services that run YouCast:
- Stripe for payments
- Netlify for hosting and storage
- Anthropic and Google for AI writing and audio, as above
- Google (Gmail) and MailerLite for sending email
- Meta for the advertising measurement described above
One thing worth knowing: your episode delivery pages live at private, unguessable links. Anyone you give a link to can view that page, so share your links the way you'd share the episode itself.
Your controls
- Edit or delete anything you've shared, anytime, in Settings: your saved notes, your "What's alive" note, and the "Where things stand" summary. Deleting something stops it from shaping future episodes; it can't unmake episodes already produced.
- Turn the running summary off with one toggle ("Keep a running read of what I share"). Off means it stops updating and stops being used in your episodes.
- Delete your account from Settings in the app or on your account page. This removes your account record, your saved charts, your notes, your credit history, your sign-in identity, and any push registration. Some things a purchase creates live outside the account and are not swept up automatically: the episodes themselves, any connection reading made with someone else, share links you generated, the payment record at Stripe, and your entry on our email list. Episodes stay reachable at their private links so you don't lose what you paid for. Email us and we'll delete any of the rest.
- Unsubscribe from any non-essential email with the link in its footer.
Retention
Account data is kept for as long as you have an account. Delete your account and it's removed. Server logs are short-lived and rotate automatically.
Children
YouCast isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their data. If you believe a child has created an account, email us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and its effective date. Meaningful changes to how your data is handled will be called out, not buried.
Contact
Questions, requests, or anything this page didn't answer: gideon@youcastapp.com.