Privacy
This page explains the general privacy approach for FortuneTell.
FortuneTell is designed as a manual first configurable financial system for people with irregular income.
FortuneTell does not exist to collect more information than needed to make the product, site, and related services work.
Manual first by design
FortuneTell is manual first.
FortuneTell is built around information that users enter, review, and correct themselves.
FortuneTell does not require a bank connection to be useful.
Information users enter
FortuneTell may use information you enter to provide budgeting, planning, forecasting, and deterministic cash flow forecasting.
This may include financial information such as balances, transactions, expected income, bills, planned spending, dates, categories, and related planning details.
You are responsible for the information you enter and keep current.
Account email
Where account access is available, FortuneTell may use an email address for account access, product communication, security, and service operation.
Email may also be used for product updates where you choose to receive them.
Public site analytics
Public pages may use analytics providers to understand basic site traffic and page use.
Analytics may help measure page visits, site performance, device or browser information, approximate location, referral sources, and similar site activity.
Analytics use on public pages is separate from budgeting, planning, forecasting, and deterministic cash flow forecasting.
Advertising
Public pages or product surfaces may include advertising where applicable.
Advertising providers may use cookies or similar technologies to measure activity, deliver ads, prevent fraud, and support their services.
Advertising must not be based on user level FortuneTell financial state.
FortuneTell does not sell user identifiable financial information to advertising providers.
Service providers
FortuneTell may use service providers for hosting, analytics, advertising, billing, product operations, and related services.
Service providers may process information only as needed to support the service they provide to FortuneTell.
Service provider use may vary by product, feature, surface, access level, and availability.
Financial information
FortuneTell is built around user entered financial information.
FortuneTell uses that information to support budgeting, planning, forecasting, and deterministic cash flow forecasting.
FortuneTell does not sell user identifiable financial information.
FortuneTell does not use user identifiable financial information to provide financial advice.
Manual export, auto export, manual import, and multi device sync
Where manual export is available, you are responsible for creating and maintaining any exported artifacts that matter to you.
Manual export is not a guarantee of data safety, durability, or recovery.
Where auto export is available, it is a convenience behavior only.
Auto export is not a guarantee of data safety, durability, or recovery.
Where manual import is available, manual import may replace current application state after successful validation.
Where multi device sync is available, it is not a guarantee of data safety, durability, or recovery.
Exported artifacts that you independently maintain are your responsibility.
User account deletion and user data deletion
Where user account deletion is available, it applies to the user account within the applicable scope.
Where user data deletion is available, it applies to retained user data within the applicable scope.
User account deletion and user data deletion may not affect exported artifacts that you independently maintain.
Product limits
FortuneTell products, features, surfaces, access levels, and service providers may vary.
Some privacy, account, support, billing, export, import, deletion, or continuity features may not be available in every product, feature, surface, access level, or time period.
FortuneTell does not guarantee data recovery.
FortuneTell does not guarantee uninterrupted availability.
Changes to this privacy page
This privacy page may be updated over time as FortuneTell changes.
The current version posted on this site is the version that applies when you use FortuneTell or the FortuneTell site.