Privacy
No accounts, no saved charts, no third-party analytics. Item by item:
Your birth details
Used to cast your chart at that moment, then dropped. This site writes them to no database and no file, with one exception from 4 November 2026: when a chart is shown, two broad facts are counted — the decade of birth (such as "the 1980s") and whether the chart was cast as male or female — so we know which age groups use the site. Never the date, the time or the place, and nothing that names you. When you cast a chart from the main form, they travel in the body of the request, not in the web address — so they do not end up in the address bar, your browser history or our host's access logs. A few pages do put them in the address: the day-master and year pages (the date only), the bone-weight page (the date and hour), the two-chart comparison, and the links that carry a chart from one page to another, such as "See the full chart" and "all twelve hours". Those addresses can be bookmarked and shared, and when one is used the details end up in your browser history, in any link you share, and in our hosting company's standard access logs, which record every address requested and are kept under the host's own retention settings. This site does not read or export those logs.
If you buy a reading
To make your reading, send it to you, and let you correct your birth details for 14 days, this site keeps the birth details and email address you give at checkout, and when each reading was first opened (proof that it arrived), and deletes them automatically 30 days after the reading is delivered. Payment is handled by Stripe: we never see or keep your card number, and Stripe keeps its own record of the payment under its privacy policy. These details are used only to make and send your reading and to answer your emails, and are given to no one.
This site's own visit log
Each page view adds one line: which page (everything after the ? in the address is cut off, so no birth details; only a link's three campaign tags, utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign, are kept, and any that look like a date are thrown out), which site you came from, whether you are on a phone, tablet or computer, whether you read it in English or in Simplified or Traditional Chinese, whether a birth was entered on that visit — yes or no, never what — your country (looked up from your network address on this site's server; the address itself is not kept), your browser's name and main version, and whether it sent the headers every ordinary browser sends, which helps tell people from programs. There is also a visitor code, made from your network address and browser mixed with a random value that changes every day, so today's code differs from tomorrow's and cannot be turned back into an address (for the date of your first visit, see below). Using a share button, or making a calendar file on an almanac page, adds a line too: which button, on which page (again without anything after the ?), and the id of that page view; never the link itself or a birth. Programs that say they are bots, such as search engines, are not logged as visits; only their name, the page fetched (never anything after the ?), when, and how the server answered and how fast. These lines are kept as one plain file per day on this site's own server and are not shared with anyone. The country lookup uses DB-IP's free data: IP Geolocation by DB-IP.
Detailed usage logging (from 15 October 2026, reviewed after six weeks)
For six weeks from 15 October 2026 this site records more about how it is used, to learn which pages help people and which do not. Recorded: the pages you open and how you arrived; clicks on this site's own links and buttons — the wording on them or a fixed name, and where they go (a page here, or only the name of another site; never anything after the ? in an address); how far down the page you scrolled and how long it was actually read; how fast it loaded; script errors, with addresses and long numbers removed; the names of forms started and sent, never what was typed; and actions such as sharing, printing, saving a calendar file, sending feedback or casting a chart — the action and the page's name, never the content (for a chart, also the decade of birth and male or female, as above). Each page view also notes the kind of page, how the server answered and how fast, your browser's first language preference, how long ago your first visit was (see Cookies), and whether the request looked automated. On pages that show or ask for a birth, no text from the page is copied at all, and anything shaped like a date in what the browser sends is removed before it is kept. Not done: nothing goes to any other company; your network address is not stored with these records; there is no code that follows you from day to day: the code that groups one day's pages changes daily, and the date of your first visit is kept only as how long ago it was, in broad steps. Kept: the click, reading, speed, error and action records for 30 days on this site's server and 90 days in our own private copy, then as daily totals only.
Third parties
No third-party analytics, no tracking pixels, and no ads. If ads are ever added, this page changes first. When you follow a link out to a source text — Wikisource, ctext and the rest — your browser tells that site only that you came from mingpan.co, not the address of the page you were on.
Cookies
One, named fs, set on your first visit. It holds that day's date (for example 20261015) and nothing else, lasts 395 days and is never extended. The records keep only how long ago that was, in broad steps (a day or less, within a week, a month, three months, or longer), which tells this site how many visitors are new and how many come back, not who anyone is. The language is in the address — Chinese pages are under /zh/ — so no cookie is needed for that. During a flood of automated traffic, a second, short-lived cookie named ok (one hour) may be set to tell browsers from scrapers: it holds the same value for everyone that day and no identifier.
Feedback
The feedback form — below, and at the foot of the chart pages — stores what you write and whatever contact you choose to leave. It does not carry your birth details.
Questions: use the form below. Last updated 22 October 2026.
Say something back
Every reading here traces to a named text, and that much a machine can check. Whether any of it reads well is not something a machine can check — only a person can. If a passage made no sense, or read badly, or sounded like nonsense, say so plainly.
This form does not carry your birth details. What is stored is your message, whatever contact you chose to give, the page path with everything after the question mark cut off, and a visitor hash whose salt rotates daily — nothing tied to a chart, and nothing reversible to a person.