Terms of Service

Agreement and eligibility

By using EightFates, you agree to these Terms and our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, do not use the service. You must be at least 13 years old. If you are under the age of legal majority where you live, a parent or legal guardian must review and agree to these Terms with you.

Cultural and entertainment service

EightFates provides educational content, Chinese zodiac guides, and BaZi chart calculations for cultural reflection and entertainment. Symbolic descriptions and compatibility scores are not facts about a person and do not predict a guaranteed outcome.

The service is not medical, mental-health, legal, financial, investment, employment, relationship-safety, or other professional advice. Do not use a chart, reading, score, or article as the sole basis for a high-impact decision. Seek a qualified professional and rely on real-world evidence where a decision affects health, safety, rights, money, or another person.

Accounts

You are responsible for providing accurate account information, protecting access to your account, and notifying us if you suspect unauthorized use. You may not impersonate another person, create accounts for abuse, or attempt to bypass authentication or feature gates.

Calculator limitations

Chart output depends on the information supplied and the stated calculation model. An inaccurate birth time, city, time zone, or gender choice used by the traditional luck-pillar rule can change parts of the result. Historical time-zone information may be less certain for older dates. True solar time requires longitude. Unknown or approximate time can produce a three-pillar chart, a range, or multiple candidates.

The calculator exposes uncertainty rather than guaranteeing a single answer at every boundary. Public availability of one calculator or report capability does not mean every preview, paid feature, or operational pilot is enabled. Access to a protected or gated feature does not authorize attempts to defeat its controls.

Different BaZi schools can use different rules and interpretive methods. EightFates does not warrant agreement with every practitioner, source, or software product. Calculation bugs should be reported to us; interpretive disagreement alone does not create a guarantee of a particular reading.

Conditional paid social reports

Locked website sections and early-access calls to action remain previews and are not offers to sell. A paid social report is available only if EightFates directly provides you with an active Stripe Payment Link after its accuracy, privacy, demand, operational, and payment gates have opened. Merely seeing these Terms, a sample report, or a configured Link does not mean paid delivery is open. No purchase is required to use public zodiac, calculator, or educational pages.

When enabled, the early-bird price is USD 15 for the first 20 completed paid orders, then USD 19. The checkout’s report-specific custom field asks only for the case UUID and requires acceptance of these Terms. After payment, you must provide complete birth details again and give separate paid-LLM consent. We recalculate the chart and repeat eligibility and two-tool comparison; we do not retain or reuse a free-flow chart. The 72-hour delivery period begins only when both complete valid details and the required consent have been received. Each LLM-assisted draft is reviewed by a person before the formal PDF is delivered.

If the recalculated case fails eligibility or comparison, or we cannot complete the report before delivery, we will not generate/deliver the paid report and will issue a full refund. After formal delivery, you may request a full refund within 7 calendar days if you are dissatisfied. Request it in the same message thread or email privacy@eightfates.com with the case UUID. Refunds return to the original payment method subject to Stripe and banking processing times. These contractual remedies do not limit non-waivable rights under applicable law.

Acceptable use

You may not misuse the service, interfere with its operation, probe or bypass security controls, extract private keys, overwhelm endpoints, automate abusive traffic, upload malicious material, infringe intellectual-property or privacy rights, or use outputs to harass, discriminate against, deceive, or make consequential decisions about another person without an appropriate lawful basis.

You may link to public editorial pages and quote short portions with attribution. You may not copy the service, proprietary template code, site design, or substantial editorial content for redistribution or commercial imitation except where a separate license expressly permits it.

Third-party services and data

The service relies on providers for hosting, authentication, database infrastructure, email, and aggregate analytics. Their availability and terms may affect certain features. Google sign-in is governed in part by Google’s terms when you choose it.

City and time-zone data is adapted from GeoNames cities15000 under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. GeoNames is credited at geonames.org. External links are provided for context; we do not control third-party sites.

Intellectual property

EightFates content, branding, compilation, interface, and original software are protected by applicable intellectual-property laws and licenses. Some underlying software and data are used under their respective licenses and attribution requirements. These Terms do not transfer ownership to you.

You retain rights in information you submit. You grant us only the limited permission needed to process that information to provide, secure, and support the service as described in the Privacy Policy.

Availability and changes

We may modify, suspend, restrict, or discontinue features, including preview features, to maintain security, comply with law, or improve accuracy. We do not promise uninterrupted availability. We may update these Terms and will identify the current version by the updated date; continued use after an effective update constitutes acceptance where permitted by law.

Disclaimers and limitation

To the extent permitted by applicable law, the service is provided “as is” and “as available,” without warranties of uninterrupted operation, fitness for a particular purpose, or a particular interpretive outcome. Nothing in these Terms excludes a warranty or liability that cannot legally be excluded.

To the extent permitted by applicable law, EightFates is not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive loss arising from reliance on symbolic content, inability to access the service, or unauthorized misuse. This limitation does not apply where prohibited by law.

Termination

You may stop using the service at any time and request account deletion at privacy@eightfates.com. We may suspend or terminate access for material violations, security risk, legal requirements, or abuse. Provisions that by their nature should survive termination—including intellectual property, disclaimers, and limitations—will survive.

Contact

Questions about these Terms may be sent to privacy@eightfates.com.