Privacy & Terms

Who we are

The Wee Company (“we”, “us”), the developer of Inner Cipher. You can reach us about anything on this page at hello@theweecompany.com.au.

What stays on your phone and never leaves it

When you set up Inner Cipher you enter your name, the name on your birth certificate, and your date, time and place of birth. All of that stays on your device. It is stored locally and, if you have iCloud enabled, in your own private iCloud storage, which we cannot read. In particular:

• Your birth-certificate name never leaves your device. The app uses it to compute two numbers (Expression and Soul Urge). Only those numbers are ever sent. The name itself is not transmitted, and this is enforced by an automated test in our codebase.
• Your date, time and place of birth are not sent. The app computes your chart on the device and sends only the results: a sun sign, a life-path number, and similar.
• The name you are greeted by is filled in on your device. Where a reading addresses you by name, our server writes a placeholder and your phone substitutes your name locally, so the name never reaches us.

What we send to our server, and why

To write your readings we send a set of derived facts. These are numbers and category labels, not personal details. For example: a life-path number, a sun sign, a moon phase, which day of a repeating sixty-day cycle today falls on. We send these because the readings are generated from them. We do not send, and do not hold, your email address, your birth date, your birth time, your birthplace, your device identifier, your location, or your contacts. Your name is not sent to us either. The one place a name travels at all is a connection you make by code, and it travels encrypted to the other person rather than to us, which the section below sets out.

These facts are not unique to you. Readings are cached and shared: everyone whose relevant facts match receives the same text. That is a deliberate design choice and it is why the system needs no idea who you are.

One exception, and we want to be straightforward about it. Some facts we send are precise enough that, combined, they could narrow down a birth date. We treat them as personal information and protect them accordingly, even though they never carry your name.

If you add other people

You can add people you know to compare charts. The same rules apply: their birth details stay on your phone, only derived facts are sent, and their name is substituted locally. The other person is never named to us, because they are not the one who agreed to this policy. You are responsible for having their permission before entering someone else’s details.

If you connect with someone by code

Inner Cipher also lets two people connect directly, by one of you generating a short code and the other typing it in. This is the only feature where information about you is shown to another person, so it is worth setting out carefully.

What our server holds, and what it can read. Each side’s chart information is encrypted on the phone that sends it, and only the encrypted result is uploaded. The key is derived from the code itself, which we never receive. We receive a different, one-way scrambling of the same code, enough to match the two of you up and not enough to open either package. Our server cannot read what it is passing between you. It is deleted once collected, and in any case expires after seven days; an unused code simply stops working.

What the other person receives. They get the same kind of derived chart facts described above: sun sign, moon sign, life-path number, the sexagenary pillars, and so on, plus the name you are known by in the app.

We want to be straight about what that implies. We do not send your birthplace, your coordinates, or your birth-certificate name, and no screen in the app shows a connected person’s birth date. But some of those facts are precise enough that somebody determined could work out the year you were born, and roughly the time of day. We would rather say so plainly than let you assume otherwise: connect with people you are content to share a chart with. Removing a connection removes it from your own device.

Subscriptions and purchases

Subscriptions are handled by Apple. We never see your payment details. When you subscribe, your phone sends our server a receipt that Apple has digitally signed, so we can confirm you are entitled to the features you paid for. We check the signature and, for some features, keep a one-way hash of the subscription identifier for up to a day, to limit how often the same subscription can request expensive readings. We cannot reverse that hash into your Apple ID, and we do not store your Apple ID.

If you order a reading on this website

Everything above describes the app, where the promise is that your details stay on your phone. Ordering a reading here is different, and it has to be: a reading written by a person cannot be written without us seeing what it is written from.

When you place an order we collect your name, your email address, your birth date, and, if you give them, your full birth name, birth time and birth place. For the readings drawn from two people we also collect the second person’s name and birth date. A tarot reading is drawn from the cards rather than from a chart, so it asks for no birth details at all, and the form does not show them: it asks instead for your question, in your own words, and that is the one reading we collect one for. If the reading is a gift, we also collect the name it is signed from and any line you write to go with it. Please only give us someone else’s details if they are happy for you to.

Those details go to Google, into a private form and spreadsheet that only we can read, which is our record of the order. Payment is taken by Stripe on their own pages: your card is entered there and never on this site, and we never see it. We pass them your email address so they can send you a receipt, and a reference so we can match the payment to your order.

They are written down at the moment you press the button that opens checkout, which is a moment before you pay, because a payment we cannot match to an order is worse for you than a record we did not need. So if you get as far as Stripe and then change your mind, we still hold what you typed, and nothing is charged. Write to us and we will delete it: with no payment against it there is nothing the law requires us to keep.

We keep an order for as long as we need it to write and send your reading, and then for up to seven years afterwards, because Australian tax law requires us to keep records of what we sold. If you would like your details removed sooner than that, write to us and we will remove everything the law does not require us to keep.

Web orders are written by a person. They are not sent to Anthropic, or to any other model.

Who else processes your information

The app and a reading ordered on this website are two different products and they pass through different hands, so the list is in two parts. Nothing in the first part touches a web order, and nothing in the second touches the app.

For the app:

• Google Cloud: runs our server and database, in Sydney, Australia.
• Anthropic: their Claude models write the reading text from the facts above, in the United States.
• Google (Firebase App Check): confirms requests come from a genuine copy of the app, not a bot.
• Apple: subscriptions, and your own iCloud storage.

For a reading ordered on this website:

• Google (Forms and Sheets): holds orders placed on this website, as our record of what to write.
• Stripe: takes payment for orders placed on this website, on their own pages. They are in the United States.
• Firebase Hosting: serves the pages you are reading now. It keeps the usual server logs, and nothing you type into the order form reaches it.

Anthropic appears in the first list only. For the app, it processes the facts we send in order to generate your reading, and your name is not among them. A reading ordered on this website is written by a person from start to finish and is never sent to a model.

Some of these providers are outside Australia, so your information may be processed overseas. We only use providers with appropriate protections in place.

How long we keep things

Readings are cached so that the same text can be served again without being regenerated:

• Daily and monthly readings are kept for a matter of weeks and then deleted automatically.
• Reference readings, meaning explanations of terms and the tradition-specific passages, are kept indefinitely, because they describe a chart shape rather than a person and do not change.

Because these are keyed on facts rather than on you, deleting “your” copy is not meaningful: there is no copy that belongs to you specifically.

Invite codes are the one short-lived exception. The encrypted package each side uploads when you connect with someone is deleted as soon as the other person collects it, and expires automatically after seven days whether or not anyone does. We could not read it in the first place.

What we do not do

• No advertising: there is none in the app, and no advertising software in it. We removed both deliberately.
• No tracking: the app does not ask for permission to track you, because it has nothing to track you with. Our privacy manifest declares no tracking and no tracking domains.
• No analytics: we do not measure your behaviour in the app.
• No location access: searching for your birthplace is a text search. The app never asks for your location and cannot read it.
• Nothing declared to Apple: our App Store privacy manifest declares no collected data types, no tracking and no tracking domains at all.

Notifications

If you allow them, Inner Cipher sends you one reminder each morning. It is scheduled on your own device. We do not send push notifications from a server, we hold no device tokens, and we do not know whether you opened one. You can turn them off in iOS Settings.

Your rights

Under Australian privacy law, and under the GDPR if you are in the UK or EU, you have rights to access, correct and delete your personal information. We have to be honest about a limitation. Inner Cipher has no accounts. For everything we hold from the app, we have no way to connect it to you: readings are keyed on facts rather than on people, and nothing identifies a copy as yours. An order placed on this website is the exception, because it carries your name and email, and that section says how to have it removed. What this means in practice:

• To delete everything about you: delete the app. Your birth details and most readings live on your device and in your own iCloud. Removing the app and its iCloud data removes them.
• To correct your details: edit them in the app.
• If you believe we hold something about you and want it removed, write to the same address and we will help as far as we are able.

If you are unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (oaic.gov.au), or your local supervisory authority if you are in the UK or EU.

Children

Inner Cipher is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13. If you believe a child has provided us with personal information, contact us.

Security

Requests to our server must carry a token proving they come from a genuine copy of the app. Data is encrypted in transit. Our database is access-controlled and hosted in Australia. No system is perfectly secure, but the strongest protection here is structural: we hold very little, and nothing the app sends us names you.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. If we ever begin collecting something materially different, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.

What Inner Cipher is, and is not

Inner Cipher blends numerology, Western astrology and the sexagenary calendar into a daily reading written in plain language. It is for reflection and entertainment. Nothing in it is advice.

Specifically, readings are not medical, psychological, legal, financial or professional advice of any kind, and must not be relied on as a basis for any decision that matters. If you need advice, speak to someone qualified to give it. If you are struggling, please talk to a doctor or a crisis service in your country.

The traditions Inner Cipher draws on are not scientifically validated, and we make no claim that its readings predict anything.

Every reading in the app is generated by software. The daily reading, the whole-life reading, the month ahead and everything else in the app is written by an AI model from facts computed from your birth details. No human writes or reviews one before you see it.

Readings ordered on this website are the opposite, and they are a different product. Each one is written personally by a person and nothing about it is generated. For the tarot reading, the cards are laid out by hand from a real deck at the time your reading is written, not when you order, so nobody, including us, knows what they are until then. Everything in this section still applies to them: they are for reflection, they are not advice, and they predict nothing.

Who can use it

You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under 18, you may only use Inner Cipher with the involvement of a parent or guardian.

Your details, and other people’s

You are responsible for the details you enter. If you add another person to compare charts, you must have their permission to enter their birth details. Do not enter anyone’s details without their agreement.

Connecting with someone. You can also connect with another Inner Cipher user by sending them a one-time code. When you both use it, each of you receives chart information about the other, and each of you can see it from then on. Two things follow, and you should be clear about both before you send a code:

• Only connect with people you are willing to share a chart with. What crosses is chart information, not your birth details as you typed them, but it is enough for someone determined to work out roughly when you were born. Our privacy policy sets out exactly what does and does not travel; read that section before you decide.
• A code is a secret while it lives. Anyone who has it can complete the connection, so send it to the person you mean and nobody else. It works once and expires after seven days.

Readings ordered on this website

Readings ordered here are separate from the app: they are paid for once, in Australian dollars, and the price shown is the price charged. Payment is taken by Stripe. Every one of them is written by a person, from the details you give us, so an accurate birth date matters more than anything else on the form.

Stripe’s payment page offers a few additions you can add to a reading before you pay. Anything you tick there is shown with its price and charged on the same payment, and nothing is added to your order unless you tick it.

The times we quote for a reading to arrive are what we aim for, not a guarantee. One person writes these, and if something goes wrong we will tell you rather than let it go quiet.

• Before we have started writing, you can cancel for any reason at all and we will refund you in full. Just write to us.
• Once it has been written and sent, a reading cannot be un-written, so it is not refundable simply because you did not like what it said.
• If we never deliver it, deliver something other than what you paid for, or take too long to be reasonable, you are entitled to a refund, and that right is yours under the Australian Consumer Law whatever else this page says.

A reading is written for the person named in the order. Please do not order one about somebody who would not want it.

Subscriptions

Inner Cipher offers a free tier and paid subscriptions. Initiate and Adept are auto-renewing subscriptions, available monthly or yearly. Prices are shown in the app in your local currency before you buy. (You may see these called “Premium” and “Pro” on Apple’s own purchase and subscription-management screens. Those are the older internal names for the same two plans, and we are in the process of updating them with Apple.) The following applies to all subscriptions:

• Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase.
• Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period.
• Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the end of the current period, at the price of the plan you chose.
• You can manage and cancel your subscription in your Apple ID account settings after purchase. Cancelling stops the next renewal; it does not refund the period you are in.
• No free trial is offered. If we ever add one, any unused portion is forfeited when you buy a subscription.

Moving between plans. Adept sits above Initiate. Moving up takes effect immediately and Apple credits the unused part of your current term. Moving down takes effect at your next renewal.

Refunds are handled by Apple, not by us, under Apple’s Media Services terms. We cannot issue refunds for App Store purchases. To request one, use Apple’s “Report a Problem” page.

What a subscription buys. Access to features while it is active. It does not buy ownership of any reading, and it does not guarantee a particular volume of content, a particular reading, or uninterrupted availability.

Acceptable use

Please do not:

• try to break, overload, or work around the app’s security or its limits;
• automate access to our servers, or use the app other than through the app;
• attempt to extract, resell, or redistribute readings at scale;
• reverse-engineer the app except where the law expressly permits it;
• use Inner Cipher to harass anyone, or to make claims about another person based on their chart without their consent;
• send, in a tarot question, another person’s personal details, anything unlawful, or anything intended to abuse or distress the person reading it.

We may decline an order and refund it in full. One person writes these, and that person is not obliged to write anything. We may suspend access if you do these things.

Content

Your details are yours. We claim no ownership of the birth details you enter. The app, its writing and its design are ours. You may read, screenshot and share individual readings for your own personal, non-commercial use, including posting one to social media. You may not republish readings in bulk, use them to train a model, or present them as your own work or as a competing product. A tarot reading written for you is yours to keep and to share, on the same terms. Your question is yours, and we use it only to write your reading.

Availability

We will try to keep Inner Cipher working, but we do not promise it will always be available or error-free. Readings depend on services we do not control, and those can fail. We may change, suspend or discontinue features, and we may stop offering the app entirely. If we discontinue a paid feature you have an active subscription to, you may be entitled to a refund of the unused portion, which, because Apple handles billing, you would request from Apple.

Liability

Nothing in these terms excludes rights you have under the Australian Consumer Law or other laws that cannot be excluded. In Australia, our goods and services come with guarantees that cannot be excluded, and you may be entitled to a replacement or refund for a major failure. Subject to that, and to the maximum extent the law allows:

• Inner Cipher is provided “as is”;
• we are not liable for any decision you make on the basis of a reading;
• we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss; and
• our total liability to you is limited to the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. If we make a material change we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Inner Cipher after that means you accept the change.

Ending this agreement

You can stop using Inner Cipher at any time by deleting it. We may end your access if you materially breach these terms.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Victoria, Australia, and you and we submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of its courts. This does not affect consumer rights you have where you live.