Terms of Service

1. Acceptance

In these terms, "Cygnus" means Cygnus Project LLC, the operator of this site, and "we", "us", and "our" refer to Cygnus Project LLC.

Using Cygnus — browsing the site, casting a chart, creating an account, running an electional search — means you accept these terms. If you do not agree, stop using the service.

Continued use after a posted change to these terms constitutes acceptance of the revised terms (see §11).

2. What Cygnus is, and what it is not

Cygnus is a web application offering astrological tools — including but not limited to chart wheels, synastry, electional search, planetary timing references, and saved-work management — built on a custom astrological ephemeris.

Cygnus is not:

• Personalized astrological counsel or prediction tailored to your specific situation.
• Medical advice. No diagnosis, treatment plan, or health decision should be made on the basis of Cygnus output.
• Legal advice.
• Financial advice. No trading, investment, or financial-timing decision should be made on the basis of Cygnus output, even though electional search can produce timing windows that look applicable.
• A substitute for professional consultation in any of the above domains.

Cygnus is in active development. Features will change, data models may evolve, and the experience is not held to a professional-grade SLA. See §7 for service availability.

3. Eligibility

You must be at least 13 years old to use Cygnus. You represent that you have legal capacity in your jurisdiction to accept these terms.

4. Your account

You can create an account using your email and password, or sign in with Google if you prefer. One account per person. No account sharing. No automated account creation.

You are responsible for activity under your account. Notify us (§13) if you suspect unauthorized access.

No impersonation of others. For data access, export, correction, and deletion rights tied to your account, see the Privacy Policy.

5. Your content

"Your content" means the inputs and saved work you put into Cygnus: saved charts (birth data, location, subject name), saved electional searches (condition trees, parameters), settings (default location, tradition, theme), and any custom themes you create.

You retain ownership of your inputs. You grant Cygnus the operational license needed to host, store, process, display, and create derivative works (such as thumbnails, exports, or image previews) from your content as needed to operate the service for you, and to share that content with service providers (hosting, email delivery) who help us operate. Cygnus will not use your content to train AI or machine-learning models, sell it, or use your identifiable content in marketing without your separate permission.

Computed astronomical output (planetary positions, house cusps, electional windows) reflects facts about the sky. Cygnus's specific presentation (chart wheel rendering, condition tree visualization, theme system) is Cygnus's work; the underlying facts are not copyrightable.

5.1 Sharing

Cygnus lets you create a public link to a chart you've cast. By creating a share link, you represent that you have the right to share the data it contains — specifically, that the birth data is either your own or information that is already public (a historical figure, a news event, a published chart).

You agree not to share another person's protected information — birth date, birth time, birth place, full name, or any other personal detail — without that person's permission. This includes friends, family members, public figures whose birth data is not already publicly documented, and anyone else who has not consented to having their chart published.

Takedown: if your information was shared on Cygnus without your permission, contact support@cygnus.so with the share URL and we will remove it.

6. Acceptable use

Personal, hobbyist, educational, and professional astrological use of the Cygnus web interface is all permitted.

You are also welcome to share screenshots, image exports, or visual copies of Cygnus output — charts, dignity tables, electional results, planetary tables, anything the app produces for you — on social media, blogs, in conversation, anywhere. For personal, educational, or noncommercial use, consider this an open invitation. Attribution to Cygnus is appreciated but not required.

You may not:

• Scrape the site or hammer the search engine, chart-rendering, or location lookup endpoints.
• Generate load that degrades service for other users.
• Circumvent authentication, rate limits, or any technical control.
• Reverse-engineer or decompile the application.
• Stand up an API wrapper, mirror, or competing service that resells Cygnus computations.
• Harass, defame, or invade the privacy of identified third parties through free-text fields (chart names, saved-search names, etc.).
• Upload malicious content or content designed to exploit the application or other users.

Cygnus reserves the right to investigate suspected violations and to take action up to and including account termination (§8).

7. Early access

Cygnus is in early access. The service is under active development — features may change, be added, or be removed; data models may evolve; unexpected behavior or downtime is possible. By using Cygnus during early access, you understand and accept that things are in flux.

Cygnus is free during early access. There is no subscription, no payment processor, and no billing applies right now; these terms do not constitute an offer to sell. A paid tier may be introduced as the product matures. We aim to communicate significant changes — to pricing, to what's free, to features you rely on — in advance where we can.

8. Termination

You may stop using Cygnus at any time. You may delete your account at any time; mechanics, scope, and the 30-day completion window are described in the Privacy Policy §10.

Cygnus may terminate or suspend your account for a violation of these terms, for fraudulent activity, or for attempts to circumvent technical controls. Cygnus may terminate any account for any reason with notice and an opportunity to export your data, except where immediate harm or legal compulsion requires acting without notice.

If Cygnus shuts down, we will give reasonable notice and honor the data deletion and export commitments in the Privacy Policy during wind-down.

Sections that by their nature survive termination: §5 (content license, to the extent needed for operational wind-down), §9 (disclaimer of liability), §10 (intellectual property), §12 (governing law), §13 (contact).

9. As-is, no warranties

Cygnus is provided as-is and as-available, without warranty of any kind, express or implied.

There is no uptime SLA. Outages may happen due to infrastructure issues, deploys, dependency failures, or operator error. Cygnus will make reasonable efforts to communicate prolonged outages.

Cygnus does not guarantee output is without error, particularly for edge cases (extreme historical dates, polar latitudes for house systems).

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Cygnus is not liable for outcomes of decisions you make based on Cygnus output — astrological, medical, legal, financial, or otherwise. If any disclaimer in this section is unenforceable in your jurisdiction, the remainder remains in effect.

10. Intellectual property

The Cygnus web application and the astrological ephemeris that powers it are works of Cygnus Project LLC. All rights reserved. The source is proprietary and is not available for redistribution, modification, or use outside of the Cygnus service.

That said — you are welcome to share Cygnus output (see §6 below).

The Cygnus name, logo, and visual design are reserved. You may not use them to imply endorsement.

Cygnus's astrological ephemeris is built on open-source astronomical work, with acknowledgments on the Acknowledgements page.

10.1 Copyright complaints

If you believe content on Cygnus infringes your copyright, contact support@cygnus.so with: (a) identification of the copyrighted work, (b) the URL or location of the allegedly infringing content on Cygnus, (c) your contact information, and (d) a good-faith statement that you believe the use is not authorized by the copyright owner or law. We will review and respond. Accounts that repeatedly post infringing content may be terminated.

11. Changes to these terms

Cygnus may update these terms from time to time. Material changes — changes that affect your rights, the license in §5, acceptable use in §6, the free/paid scope in §7, termination in §8, liability in §9, IP in §10, or §12 — will be communicated by email to active accounts at least 30 days before they take effect. Non-material changes (typo fixes, link updates) take effect when made. The effective date at the top of this page reflects the current version.

If you do not accept a material change, your remedy is to terminate your account before the effective date.

12. Governing law and disputes

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute arising from or relating to these terms or your use of Cygnus will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Texas, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

Before formal proceedings, the parties will attempt good-faith resolution by direct contact (§13) for at least 30 days.

If you are in the EU or UK, mandatory consumer-protection laws of your jurisdiction may override the choice-of-law clause above. These terms do not waive non-waivable consumer rights.

If any provision of these terms is held unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect. These terms, together with the Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and Cygnus regarding the service.

13. Contact

For questions about these terms, complaints, or legal notices, email support@cygnus.so.