How Jade Almanac handles your data

Jade Almanac is a small publication about Chinese culture. We built it to need as little of your data as possible, and this page explains, in plain language, the little we do handle and where it goes. If anything here is unclear, write to hello@jadealmanac.com.

The short version

• We set no cookies and run no ads.
• Dates you type into our calculators are used to compute your result on the spot and are never stored.
• If you subscribe, your email address goes to our email service (Kit) and nowhere else.
• Our analytics are cookieless and aggregate. We cannot identify you from them.

What you type into our tools

Our calculators (the gender predictor, calendar converter, age calculator, and kua calculator) ask for dates: a birthday, a due date, or a conception date. These are used once, in the moment, to compute the page you see. We do not save them in any database, we do not build a profile from them, and we cannot connect them to you later.

Two honest details. First, the dates travel to our server as part of the result page's web address, so they sit in your own browser history and pass through the standard, short-lived traffic logs of our hosting provider, the same way any page address does. Second, if you share a result link, the dates are visible inside that link, so share it only with people you are comfortable seeing them.

The calligraphy tool renders what you type directly in your browser. If you use "See it in Chinese" on a word we have not covered ourselves, the text you typed is sent to Google's translation service to fetch a machine translation, so it is best not to type anything private there.

Email

Our subscribe boxes (the newsletter, tool waitlists, and the symbols pack) collect one thing: your email address. It is forwarded to Kit (ConvertKit), the email service we use, which stores it and handles sending and unsubscribing. We use it to send you the thing you signed up for and occasional site updates. Every email includes an unsubscribe link, and you can also write to us to have your address deleted from Kit entirely. We never sell your email or share it beyond this.

Analytics and cookies

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics, which is cookieless: it gives us aggregate counts, such as which pages are read and roughly which country readers are in, without fingerprinting you or following you across sites. We do not set cookies, and there is no advertising or social media tracking anywhere on the site.

The services we rely on

• Cloudflare hosts the site and provides the analytics above. Like any host, it keeps standard, transient traffic logs for security and operations.
• Kit (ConvertKit) stores subscriber email addresses and sends our email.
• Google serves the site's fonts, which means your browser requests those font files from Google's servers, and provides the machine translation described above.

Retention

We keep no database of visitor data, so there is nothing for us to retain. Subscriber emails stay in Kit until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete them.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, for example in the EU or UK under GDPR or in California under the CCPA, you may have formal rights to access or delete personal data held about you. In our case that data is your email address at Kit. Write to hello@jadealmanac.com and we will handle it. Everything else you enter on the site is computed and discarded, so there is nothing to request.

Children

Jade Almanac is a general-audience cultural publication and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children; the little we collect, an email address, requires a deliberate signup.

Changes

If our practices change, for example if a new feature needs new data, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change goes live.