Effective September 27, 2026 · Colombia · Ley 1581 de 2012 and Decreto 1074 de 2015
This English text is a translation provided for convenience. The relationship is governed by Colombian law, and in the event of any discrepancy, the Spanish version prevails.
The essentials, in three points.
1. The app that calculates your birth chart does not store your birth data: it takes it in, runs the calculation, returns the result and discards it. There is no database of charts and no database of people. The one exception is the report you’ve just generated, which stays in the server’s memory for up to fifteen minutes; I explain that in point 2.
2. What you write to me by email or on WhatsApp does stay in my inbox and on my phone, like any other conversation.
3. You can ask me at any time to tell you what I hold about you, to correct it or to delete it.
The data controller is Ricardo Puerta Isaza, an individual (natural person), architect and astrologer, based in Bogotá D.C., Colombia.
| Address | Carrera 66 # 107-18, Bogotá D.C. |
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| ricardopuerta@ricardopuerta.com | |
| Phone / WhatsApp | +57 310 239 5869 |
| Websites | ricardopuerta.com · carta.ricardopuerta.com |
Requests, inquiries, and complaints about personal data are handled by me directly, at the email address and phone number above.
Not all of these routes are alike, and the difference matters:
To calculate a chart, the app asks you for a name, a date, a time, and a city of birth. None of it is stored. The server runs the calculation, returns the result and discards it. There is no database of charts and no database of people, so I can’t recover anyone’s chart afterward, yours included.
Four honest clarifications about that:
To deliver the PDF to you I need your email address. I use it only to send you that report. It travels to the payment gateway and to the service that sends the email (see point 4). The charge is processed by Wompi, which keeps its own record of the transaction. I never see or receive your card information.
This is the one route where data does get stored, and it’s worth saying so plainly.
The form on this site sends nothing by itself: it composes a WhatsApp message with what you wrote, and it is you who decides to send it. If you do send it — or if you write to me by email — I receive your name, your email address, your city and your country, and that conversation stays in my inbox and on my phone for as long as the professional relationship warrants.
To prepare a private reading, and in particular to rectify a birth time, I ask you to fill out a form with information about your life: your relatives’ birth dates, plus marriages, moves, accidents, surgeries, and deaths of people close to you.
About that form, two things the law requires me to tell you and that I want to tell you anyway:
If you share data about other people, I assume you have their permission to share it, and I use it only within your own reading.
I don’t sell, rent, or transfer personal data to anyone. I don’t advertise with it, and I don’t add you to mailing lists unless you ask me to.
| Wompi (Bancolombia) | Processes the payment. Receives your email address, the amount and the purchase reference. The gateway receives your card information directly, on its own site; I never see it. |
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| Brevo | Sends the email with your report. Receives your email address and the PDF report attached to it. |
| My email provider | The alternative route when the previous one is unavailable: the same email with the same attachment leaves through my own email provider’s outgoing server. I may also be BCC’d at an address of my own, with the same report, so that I can forward it to you if it does not arrive. |
| OpenStreetMap / Nominatim | Looks up the coordinates of your city of birth. The query is made by your own browser, as you type, so they receive what you write in that field and your IP address. |
| Google Fonts | The chart app loads its fonts from there, so Google receives your IP address and your browser information when you open it. This site (ricardopuerta.com) doesn’t load them from Google: its fonts are hosted here. |
| Vercel and Render | Host the site and the calculation server. Like any hosting provider, they log the IP addresses of those who visit them. |
| Calendly | If you book an appointment, the booking is made on their platform. |
| WhatsApp (Meta) | If you write to me there, the conversation is also governed by WhatsApp’s own terms. |
Some of these services are outside Colombia, so there may be an international transfer of data. By using this site and doing business with me, you authorize that transfer for the purposes described here.
Neither this site nor the chart app uses cookies, analytics tools or advertising. There is no Google Analytics, no pixels, no third-party trackers. The app uses the memory of your own tab, as explained in point 2a, which is not a cookie and travels to no server.
When it is no longer needed, I delete it.
As the data subject (el titular, under Colombian law), you have the following rights under article 8 of Ley 1581 de 2012:
Write to me at ricardopuerta@ricardopuerta.com with the subject line “Personal data”, tell me your name, something that lets me identify you (the email address you wrote to me from, for instance) and what you want: to know, to correct or to delete.
These are the periods set by articles 14 and 15 of Ley 1581 de 2012.
Traffic to this site and to the app is encrypted (HTTPS). The payment and email keys live only in the server’s environment variables, never in public code. And since I keep no birth charts, there are simply no birth charts to leak.
The National Register of Databases held by the Superintendencia de Industria y Comercio applies to public entities and to legal entities with total assets above 100,000 UVT (a Colombian tax unit). Decreto 090 de 2018 excluded natural persons from that register, and that exclusion applies to me. It does not relieve me of the obligation to comply with Ley 1581 de 2012, and this policy is part of that compliance.
If this policy changes, the date above changes with it. The version in force is always the one published on this page.
