Privacy Policy

1. Scope and plain-language promise

This policy covers PickACard.TV’s website, installable web app, member profiles, community, Reading Vault, astrology tools, Academy, events, messaging, and creator marketplace catalog.

It describes the product as it operates in this release. It does not claim a privacy certification or replace rights that may apply under local law.

2. Information the service handles

The chart calculator receives the date, time, offset, latitude, and longitude entered for a calculation. The current chart endpoint returns the calculation without intentionally writing those inputs to the member database. A chart becomes social only if the member separately creates a post.

• Account and security data: email address, one-time sign-in challenge records, failed-code attempts, session state, timestamps, and keyed network identifiers used to limit abuse. Store reviewers may use a separate protected test credential with ordinary member permissions.
• Profile data you provide: display name, handle, biography, pronouns, profile images, location label, languages, interests, traditions, specialties, links, availability, and the visibility selected for each field.
• Member activity: posts, comments, reactions, bookmarks, follows, blocks, reports, notifications, community memberships, direct messages, and moderation history tied to that activity.
• Private feature data: saved readings and journals, collected cards, game progress, Academy progress, credentials, consent choices, submissions, and seller-catalog records.
• Community policy agreements: the Terms of Use and Community Guidelines versions you explicitly accepted, your account association, and the server-recorded acceptance time. No agreement is inferred from browsing or another person's choice. Version history is available in your account export and is removed with account deletion.
• Media you upload for a profile or listing, including its storage key, type, size, and upload date.
• Basic technical requests ordinarily needed to operate and secure a web service, such as request time, browser/network information, and server error or access logs. Creator-directory searches send the search text, language and specialty filters to the server; request logs can retain those search terms.

3. How information is used

• Authenticate members, protect accounts, enforce blocks and visibility, and route member-only pages.
• Provide readings, saved progress, profiles, conversations, submissions, Academy credentials, event discovery, and seller-catalog tools.
• Moderate reports, investigate coercion, impersonation, scams, dangerous claims, privacy violations, and rights complaints, and keep an operational audit trail.
• Maintain, debug, secure, and improve the app without ranking people by spiritual accuracy.

4. What is public and what stays private

Public profiles and profile fields appear only under the visibility choices the member saves. Public or followers-only posts are visible to the intended audience. Private posts, bookmarks, blocks, direct messages, saved readings, journal text, and raw account email are not public profile fields.

Authorized operators can access operational and reported material needed for security, moderation, support, and legal obligations. PickACard.TV does not provide a general admin feed for browsing private journals. Content that a member reports may be reviewed by the moderation team.

5. Service providers and external destinations

Information may also be disclosed when reasonably necessary to protect people, investigate abuse, comply with a valid legal obligation, or complete a business transfer subject to appropriate safeguards. PickACard.TV does not describe ordinary hosting or moderation access as a sale of private journals.

• Infrastructure providers process data needed to host the site, store the database and member media, deliver email sign-in codes, and protect network traffic.
• This release does not activate Google Analytics, HubSpot visit tracking, or a first-party advertising measurement system. Ordinary hosting and security requests still include network and browser information. A future optional measurement feature will require an updated disclosure and the controls required where you live.
• Optional AI companion (added November 1, 2026): only after you choose a task, enter text and confirm sending it, the server sends that text and your selected public card or event references to OpenAI. It does not automatically retrieve your private Vault, chart inputs, messages or profile. The request asks OpenAI not to store a retrievable response (store:false); provider security and abuse-monitoring rules can still apply. AI drafts stay in your open tab unless you deliberately copy or publish them. Account-linked request timestamps and counts are retained for limits; generation itself does not store prompt or answer text in the member database. Deliberately submitted reports follow the exception below.
• Exception for deliberate AI reports: if you choose Report AI response and confirm submission, the selected output, report reason, account email and submission time are stored in the private moderation queue. This reported copy is separate from the transient AI draft and may remain after profile deletion for safety or legal review. Cancel sends no report.
• Private-message reports: a participant can deliberately report a selected received message. Authorized moderators can inspect that reported message and the supplied reason; the review console does not provide general access to private inboxes. Reporting and blocking do not require agreement to community publishing.
• The Reading Stream uses YouTube’s privacy-enhanced player and public thumbnails. Loading thumbnails or an embedded player can contact Google before you press Play and disclose network address, browser/device information and requested video. Playback sends player interactions to YouTube. Privacy-enhanced mode limits use of embedded views for personalized advertising; ads may still appear and are non-personalized. Google’s privacy policy applies to those requests. PickACard.TV does not send your account email, Vault or messages to the player. Following an external link also contacts its provider.
• Event, creator, source, and organizer links leave PickACard.TV. Information submitted on those sites is controlled by those sites.
• PickACard.TV does not currently run a payment processor or seller payout system and does not collect card details through the marketplace catalog.

6. Cookies, device storage, and the PWA

The current app uses essential, HTTP-only cookies for the email-code challenge and signed-in session. The app also uses browser storage for choices such as deck, game progress, music track and volume, dock state, and an unfinished share draft.

No optional first-party analytics or advertising identifiers are activated in this release. Browser and provider storage associated with embedded media is governed by that provider’s controls. Blocking external media in your browser can affect thumbnails or playback.

The service worker caches public app-shell files for offline use. Personalized routes such as profile, messages, notifications, sign-in, and APIs are excluded from that offline cache. Installing the PWA does not grant additional account access.

7. Member choices, security, and changes

No internet service can promise absolute security. PickACard.TV uses access checks, signed sessions, one-time challenges, same-origin mutation checks, media validation, rate limits, and human review, and will update these controls as the product changes.

A material policy change will receive a new version and effective date on this page. See Data Retention & Deletion for current record behavior.

Depending on where you live, you may have rights to access, know, correct, delete, restrict or object, receive a portable copy, or opt out of covered sale, sharing, targeted advertising, or profiling. Contact privacy@pagerankkings.com. Where an appeal right applies, reply to a decision with Privacy appeal in the subject line. PickACard.TV does not discriminate for exercising applicable privacy rights.

PickACard.TV does not sell member information for money or activate a first-party cross-company advertising system in this release. External video requests and provider practices are described above; privacy-enhanced playback is not a promise that no data leaves your device.

• Use Profile & Privacy to change field visibility, make a profile public or private, export account data, block members, and request account deletion.
• Sign out to remove the current session cookie. Browser settings can clear local storage and installed-app caches.
• Use in-product reporting for content, profiles, impersonation, privacy, scams, copyright, or dangerous claims.
• You can browse public material without an account, choose whether to use external videos or AI, and use browser controls for external media and local storage. Contact privacy@pagerankkings.com about applicable privacy requests.