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Terms for this website.

These terms cover lodestarastro.com, including readings sold here, AI conversations, and any browser notes saved through earlier versions. The current iOS client uses the same service account, profiles, saved readings and stars. These service-use terms apply to that shared account; App Store payments and refund procedures are also subject to Apple’s applicable terms. This does not promise migration of earlier app or subscription records.

Site measurement

This site automatically measures visits and selected service and advertising events through Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, X, Meta and TikTok, subject to browser Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals and any previously saved provider refusal. Our Privacy Policy explains the data, recipients, retention and how to request withdrawal. Refusing measurement does not restrict use of the service. Privacy Policy

Who you are dealing with

This website is operated by Lee JungAe, a sole proprietor registered in the Republic of Korea under the trade name 덕구스튜디오 (English display name: Duckgu Studio). Using the site after these terms take effect means you accept them.

Operator
Lee JungAe, sole proprietor trading as 덕구스튜디오 (Duckgu Studio), Republic of Korea
Representative
Lee JungAe
Business registration
756-51-01119
Mail-order sales registration
2026-부산남구-0569
Business address
Apt. 1502, Building 104, Gyeongdong Apartments, 202 Dongmyeong-ro, Nam-gu, Busan, Republic of Korea
Telephone
+82-10-5594-0555

Age and accounts

Lodestar is available from age 14. If you have not reached the age of majority where you live, you may use it only with permission from a parent or legal guardian, and the site asks you to confirm that permission. Under 14 is not permitted, because no child account or verified parental-consent programme is offered.

Reading the site does not require an account. Signing in uses Firebase Authentication with the provider you choose; Kakao and Naver are offered to visitors connecting from Korea, and Instagram Login supports professional accounts. Purchases and AI conversations require a signed-in account. You are responsible for activity under your sign-in, and you can report suspected unauthorised use to support@duckgustudio.com.

What the readings are

Readings on this service are content for entertainment and self-reflection. They are generated automatically by AI, they guarantee no prediction, and they are not medical, mental-health, legal, financial or other professional advice.

Lodestar uses astrological symbols for reflection and entertainment. When a signed-in member requests today’s fortune, Google Vertex AI writes it from the selected profile’s symbols and local date, and the result is saved to that profile. It is not a forecast calculated from live planetary positions. Chart calculations use approximate positions. Natal readings can include aspects and, when birth time and place are known, the rising sign and whole-sign houses.

Readings do not predict events and are not medical, mental-health, legal, financial or other professional advice. Features may be changed, suspended or discontinued as the site develops; where a material change affects something you have paid for, we give reasonable notice unless urgent security or legal action is required.

AI-generated readings and conversations

Google Vertex AI is an essential service provider for the AI-written readings and AI conversations offered on this website. When you ask Lodestar to create a reading or send a chat message, you instruct us to send the information needed for that request, as described in the Privacy Policy, to Lodestar’s server and Google Vertex AI for processing. There is no separate Vertex AI switch. If you do not want this processing, do not ask us to create an AI-written reading or send an AI message; ordinary pages remain available.

AI output may be inaccurate, incomplete or unsuitable, and Lodestar is not an emergency or crisis service. Safety checks may interrupt an ordinary reply to show support options; that safeguard does not replace a trusted adult, a qualified professional or an emergency service. Please do not submit another person’s confidential information without authority.

Prices and payment

Readings on this website are paid for with stars. One star is $1 and creates any one of the 11 readings for the details you give. It is saved to your account and can be reopened at no extra charge. A new reading for different details, another person, or the same chart with a new written interpretation uses another star. You can buy one star or a larger package; extra stars in a larger package are part of the same single purchase:

For a detailed compatibility reading connected to a friend, that friend must separately allow use of their selected birth profile. If either member edits, switches or deletes the profile shared on the map, that friend withdraws permission, the connection is removed, or either account is deleted, the linked result and recovery copy are deleted and can no longer be reopened. Editing or switching the shared profile also turns detailed permission off until the member opts in again. A star already spent is not automatically restored. Your refund rights under the refund policy and applicable law still apply.

If a birth profile describes someone other than you, create a shareable friend map from it only if that person has authorized its alias, Sun sign and lit-planet count to be visible to anyone with the link. Enable detailed-reading use for a friend only if you also have that person’s authority to use the profile’s birth details for that purpose.

  • 1 star — $1 for 1 reading
  • 3 stars — $3 for 3 readings
  • 6 + 1 stars — $6 for 7 readings
  • 9 + 2 stars — $9 for 11 readings
  • 15 + 5 stars — $15 for 20 readings

Your account has one server wallet: the website and current iOS app show the same star balance, and use on either reduces that balance. Eligible unused stars from your own purchases can be sent through the gift-link feature. Creating a link reserves those stars; the recipient signs in to accept. An unaccepted link lasts at most seven days and ends sooner at the earliest original expiry of the reserved credits. Cancellation or expiry returns the reserved stars to the sender with their original validity unchanged; already expired credits do not become usable again. App Store stars keep their no-expiry rule. Received gifts cannot be gifted again, sold, exchanged for cash or used outside Lodestar. Only the original purchaser may request a purchase refund through the applicable payment channel; receiving a gift does not create a cash-redemption right. Applicable consumer refund rights remain in effect.

A star bought here has no expiry date and is not tied to a particular paid reading until you spend it. There is no website subscription or recurring charge: each purchase is charged once, and nothing renews.

App Store stars purchased in the current iOS client are credited to the same service account after server verification and have no expiry date. They can be spent on supported paid readings through that account on the web or in the iOS client. This does not alter the validity of existing web-purchased credits or migrate earlier app subscriptions. Account deletion and refund reversals still affect access and available credits.

Lodestar is the seller of these readings and your purchase contract is with us. Dodo Payments Inc. provides the checkout and is the merchant of record for the payment, so the charge appears on your statement as a charge from Dodo Payments rather than Lodestar — that is the same charge, not a separate one. Dodo Payments sends the receipt to the email address you enter at its checkout. A purchase made before English and Japanese checkout moved to Dodo Payments was charged by Whop Inc. and appears as WHOP* LODESTARASTRO. This website never receives or stores card numbers.

Every displayed price includes tax — the $1 single star and every larger package alike — so nothing is added at checkout. The amount, currency and total shown on Dodo Payments’ checkout govern the transaction, and they are shown before you pay. Signing in comes before paying, because pressing buy opens an order here first and the stars are added to that order: they reach the Lodestar account you bought them from, not the address you paid with, which may well be a different one. Dodo Payments reports the completed payment to this server, the server matches it to your order, and the stars appear where you left off. If a payment does not reach your account, your order reference is on /purchase/ — send it to support and we will add the stars rather than asking you to buy them again.

Refunds and withdrawal

Your withdrawal and refund rights, how to exercise them, and what happens to your access afterwards are set out in the refund policy. No blanket “no refunds” rule applies, and nothing in these terms removes a mandatory consumer protection.

Read the refund policy →

Your content and acceptable use

You keep your rights in what you write. You grant Duckgu Studio and its processors only the limited rights needed to transmit, process, store and display it in order to operate Lodestar.

  • Do not use Lodestar unlawfully, infringe another person’s rights, or submit content you have no right to process.
  • Do not attempt unauthorised access, evade access controls, reverse engineer protected components, automate abusive traffic, or interfere with operation.
  • Do not use generated output to harm, deceive, discriminate against, or make high-impact decisions about another person.

Intellectual property and suspension

Lodestar’s software, visual design, text and branding, excluding content you submit, belong to Duckgu Studio or its licensors. You receive a limited, personal, non-transferable, revocable right to use them. We may restrict access where reasonably necessary for security, legal compliance, material breach, abuse or user protection.

Availability and liability

The service is provided on an available basis and may contain defects or interruptions. To the extent permitted by law, Duckgu Studio does not promise uninterrupted service or the accuracy of AI-generated results. We do not exclude liability where doing so is prohibited, including liability arising from intent, gross negligence, or mandatory consumer protection.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the Republic of Korea, and disputes are handled by a court having jurisdiction under applicable procedural law. This does not deprive consumers of mandatory protections or local forum rights available where they live. English is the drafting baseline; the Japanese translation is intended to carry the same meaning and does not override mandatory local-language or consumer protections.

Changes and contact

Material changes are announced on this website before they take effect, and we request consent where applicable law requires it. Questions about these terms: support@duckgustudio.com.