Cookie Policy

This page says what AstroApp stores in your browser, why, and for how long. The table below is generated from the site's own code rather than typed out, so it cannot fall out of step with what the site actually does.

What a cookie is

A cookie is a short piece of text a website asks your browser to keep and to send back with your next request. It is how a website can tell that two requests came from the same person, which is all that being signed in means.

What AstroApp sets

Only what the site needs in order to work: a session cookie once you sign in or submit a form, a sign-in cookie so that you can close the browser and come back, and the cookie that remembers your answer to the banner. There is no advertising on this site, no tag manager, no analytics product, and nothing that follows you to another website.

Your choice

Cookies that are strictly necessary are set without asking, because the site cannot be delivered without them -- that is the exemption in article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. Anything else waits until you have said yes. You give or refuse that permission in the banner, and you can change your mind at any time with the button above: nothing is set, and anything already set in the category you withdraw stops being used.

Your answer is kept for 12 months in the AACONSENT cookie. It belongs to this browser on this device rather than to your account, so a different browser asks again -- and if you clear your cookies, so does this one.

Third parties

Two, and both are listed in the table. Google reCAPTCHA runs on the sign-in, registration, password-recovery and contact forms and is what keeps them from being used to send mail in bulk; we treat it as strictly necessary, because without it those four forms could not be offered publicly at all. Stripe and PayPal set their own cookies on their own payment pages while a payment is being made -- we never see your card details, and those cookies are theirs rather than ours.

Turning cookies off in your browser

Every browser lets you see, delete and block cookies, usually under Privacy or Site settings, and you can do that for this site alone. Blocking the strictly necessary ones for astroapp.com means you will not be able to sign in: the sign-in will appear to succeed and the next page will have forgotten you.

What we do with personal data is in the Privacy Policy. The agreement you are using the site under is the Terms of Use. If anything here is unclear, please write to us.

Every cookie, and what it is for

Name Set by Where What it is for How long it lasts

SITESESSIONID First party
astroapp.com Every page of the website, once you sign in or submit a form Identifies your session on the website so that you stay signed in, and so that a form you submit can be checked against the security token issued with it. Until the browser is closed, and discarded after 60 minutes of inactivity

JSESSIONID First party
astroapp.com The AstroApp application itself, under /astro The same thing for the application: it is what holds your working session while you have charts open. Until the browser is closed, and discarded after 75 minutes of inactivity

AASSO First party
astroapp.com Set when you sign in; removed when you sign out Signs you in to the website and to the application with one login, and is what lets you close the browser and come back still signed in. 30 days, and no more than 75 minutes of inactivity

AACONSENT First party
astroapp.com Set when you answer the cookie banner Remembers the choice you made here, so that you are not asked again. It holds nothing but that answer and the version of this notice it was given for. 12 months

_GRECAPTCHA Third party
google.com The sign-in, registration, password-recovery and contact forms Set by Google reCAPTCHA, which those four forms use to tell a person from a machine. It is what stops the contact form and the registration form being used to send mail in bulk. We treat it as strictly necessary: without it those forms could not be offered publicly at all. Up to 6 months

Stripe's own cookies Third party
checkout.stripe.com Only while you are paying, on Stripe's own payment page Stripe hosts the payment page itself; we never see your card details. The cookies it sets there are its own, are set on its domain rather than ours, and are what carry the payment through and detect fraud. Stripe's own -- see Stripe's cookie notice

PayPal's own cookies Third party
paypal.com Only while you are paying, on PayPal's own pages The same, for a payment made with PayPal. PayPal's own -- see PayPal's cookie notice

The categories

Name	Set by	Where	What it is for	How long it lasts
`SITESESSIONID`	First party astroapp.com	Every page of the website, once you sign in or submit a form	Identifies your session on the website so that you stay signed in, and so that a form you submit can be checked against the security token issued with it.	Until the browser is closed, and discarded after 60 minutes of inactivity
`JSESSIONID`	First party astroapp.com	The AstroApp application itself, under /astro	The same thing for the application: it is what holds your working session while you have charts open.	Until the browser is closed, and discarded after 75 minutes of inactivity
`AASSO`	First party astroapp.com	Set when you sign in; removed when you sign out	Signs you in to the website and to the application with one login, and is what lets you close the browser and come back still signed in.	30 days, and no more than 75 minutes of inactivity
`AACONSENT`	First party astroapp.com	Set when you answer the cookie banner	Remembers the choice you made here, so that you are not asked again. It holds nothing but that answer and the version of this notice it was given for.	12 months
`_GRECAPTCHA`	Third party google.com	The sign-in, registration, password-recovery and contact forms	Set by Google reCAPTCHA, which those four forms use to tell a person from a machine. It is what stops the contact form and the registration form being used to send mail in bulk. We treat it as strictly necessary: without it those forms could not be offered publicly at all.	Up to 6 months
`Stripe's own cookies`	Third party checkout.stripe.com	Only while you are paying, on Stripe's own payment page	Stripe hosts the payment page itself; we never see your card details. The cookies it sets there are its own, are set on its domain rather than ours, and are what carry the payment through and detect fraud.	Stripe's own -- see Stripe's cookie notice
`PayPal's own cookies`	Third party paypal.com	Only while you are paying, on PayPal's own pages	The same, for a payment made with PayPal.	PayPal's own -- see PayPal's cookie notice

Strictly necessary (always on)

Signing in, keeping you signed in, protecting a form from being submitted from another site, and remembering this cookie choice. The site cannot work without them, so they are set without asking and cannot be turned off here.

Functional

Remembering a preference you have expressed -- a language, a layout -- where the site would still work without it. This site sets no cookie in this category today.

Analytics

Counting visits and measuring which pages are read, so that we know what to write next. Never used to identify you. This site sets no cookie in this category today.

Marketing

Advertising, and anything that would follow you to another website. This site sets no cookie in this category today.