Privacy Policy

This page explains, service by service, exactly what MoonCadence does with your data — because a moon-phase site that reads your location deserves a policy that says precisely what happens to it, not a generic legal template.

Location Data Never Leaves Your Browser

The moonrise/moonset lookup and any "today's moon for your location" widget ask your browser's own Geolocation API for permission, then run every calculation — rise time, set time, position — locally in JavaScript on your device. Your latitude and longitude are held in memory for that one page view and are never transmitted to our servers, logged, or shared with any third party. Denying location access simply means those specific widgets fall back to a manual location entry instead.

Newsletter Signups

If you subscribe using the footer newsletter form, your email address is sent to Brevo (formerly Sendinblue), our email service provider, and added to a single mailing list used only for MoonCadence updates. Brevo processes that address under its own privacy terms as our data processor. You can unsubscribe from any email we send using the link in its footer.

Contact Form Submissions

The contact form sends your name, email address, and message to our own inbox through Brevo, the same email service that runs the newsletter, so we can reply. We keep that correspondence only as long as needed to resolve whatever you wrote in about, and we don't add contact-form addresses to the newsletter list unless you separately subscribe.

Purchases and Donations

Both the personalized lunar calendar PDF and the "support us" donation button run through Stripe Checkout. Stripe collects and processes your card details directly on its own hosted payment page — MoonCadence never sees, receives, or stores your card number. For the PDF purchase, we do receive the email address, location, year, and optional birthday you enter at checkout, because a real person needs that information to hand-build your calendar; it is used for that fulfilment only.

Site Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 (only once a real measurement ID is configured) and Vercel Web Analytics to understand aggregate traffic patterns — which pages get read, roughly how visitors arrive. Both report anonymized/aggregated usage statistics; neither is wired to identify you personally, and neither receives the coordinates your browser's Geolocation API produces.

Advertising and Affiliate Links

This site serves ads through Google AdSense, which helps keep the calendars and phase pages free. Google and its advertising partners use cookies to serve and measure those ads, and depending on your ad settings the ads may be personalized — including remarketing — based on your visits to this site and to other websites. If you are in the EEA or the UK, Google asks for your consent before setting personalized-advertising cookies, and you can change that choice at any time. No moon-phase reading or recommendation is shaped by an advertiser, and advertisers never see a page before it is published.

To see why an ad appeared or to turn off ad personalization, visit Google My Ad Center; to opt out of interest-based ads from many companies at once, use aboutads.info. How Google uses information from sites that show its ads is set out in Google's own policy.

Some skywatching and lunar-photography gear named on our guide, phase and blog pages is linked through Amazon affiliate links — we earn a small commission if you buy through them, at no extra cost to you, and every page carrying them says so plainly next to the picks.

Your Choices

You can browse nearly all of MoonCadence — every phase page, calendar, and folklore article — without granting location access, subscribing, or accepting any cookie. To ask what data we hold on you or to request deletion of a newsletter subscription or contact-form record, use the contact page; we respond from the same inbox the contact form delivers to.

Changes to This Policy

If the services above change — a new analytics tool, a different email provider — we'll update this page rather than introduce a new tracking mechanism silently.