How Long PastLifeTest Keeps Reading Data

PastLifeTest does not publish a countdown that erases every reading on a fixed day. What lasts depends on where the data sits. A past-life quiz can keep answers in the browser until you clear them. A saved Good Day or BaZi reading on an account is a title, a short summary, and a page link tied to your email, and it stays until you ask for deletion of what the site holds for that address. Opening a chart or a date tool does not charge a card.

Key facts

The free past-life card needs no account. Quiz answers can live in this browser so a refresh does not wipe the page. Start again to replace them. Clearing the browser removes that local copy.
An email magic link is one use and lasts about twenty minutes. After a successful open, a session cookie can last up to 30 days. The cookie is httpOnly. Sign-out ends the session on that browser.
Save this reading stores a title, a short summary, and a page link. Birth data is private. A chart summary can include the birth line you typed so you can recognize the chart later. Treat the account as private.
A waitlist note uses the same email. It is not an order and it does not reserve a price.
The privacy page says a deletion email to privacy@pastlifetest.com is how you ask the site to delete what it holds for that address. Browser storage stays until you clear it.
BaZi and Pick a Good Day are guidance. The past-life quiz is entertainment fiction. Retention does not change those labels.

Three places a reading can sit

Think of three cupboards, not one vault.

The first cupboard is the browser. The privacy page says the quiz does not require an account and that answers can live on the device. That copy is yours to clear. Another person who uses the same profile can see it. A private window is a different cupboard from the everyday profile. The site does not promise that a library computer forgets you. You close the session and clear the site data if the machine is not yours.

The second cupboard is the inbox and the magic link. You ask for a sign-in link when you want an account, often from Save this reading. The message says the link expires in 20 minutes and works once. Nothing was charged. If the link is already used or too old, the account page says it has expired or was already used, and you ask for another. An unused link is not a long-term archive of your chart. A used link is not a second key.

The third cupboard is the account after you are signed in. Account lists saved Good Day readings and saved BaZi charts, plus any waitlist note on that email. Each saved row shows a title, a short summary, and a way to open the page. The account also has a section for orders and downloads. The help page describes the same split: the free card needs no login; a Good Day or a chart is what Save this reading is for.

The public pages do not advertise an automatic expiry date for those saved rows. Do not invent one, and do not assume a saved title vanishes after a month because a session cookie does. The session is how you stay signed in. The saved row is the note on the email. They are different clocks.

A chart saved from a kitchen laptop in Austin

Helen, an adult in Austin, casts a light BaZi chart on a laptop she shares with her spouse. She chooses Save this reading, opens the magic link within twenty minutes, and sees the chart on the account as a title, a short summary that includes the birth line she entered, and a page link. A week later the session cookie is still there, so the laptop opens the account without a new link. She signs out when she is done, because the birth line is private and the laptop is shared. She does not post the summary. If she wants the server-side note gone, the privacy page tells her to email privacy@pastlifetest.com and says the site deletes what it holds for that address. The browser copy, if any remains, is still her job to clear.

What “about twenty minutes” does not cover

The twenty minutes are the life of the unused sign-in link. They are not the life of the reading and not a billing hold. There is no billing hold.

What the site says it does not need for a free card

The privacy page says the site does not ask for a birth time, a government ID, or photos to produce the free card or a paid text chapter. Paid chapters, when checkout is enabled, need an 18+ confirmation. The site does not collect a selfie to write a story. Past-life fiction stays entertainment. It should not be stored in your mind as a medical file or a legal exhibit, because it is neither.

BaZi is different in one practical way. The form asks for birth details because the chart is built from them. An unknown hour leaves the hour pillar blank. Those details are private even though you typed them. The saved summary exists so you can tell one chart from another on the account. It is not a public directory. A Good Day link can include the date window you chose and a birth date if you supplied one for a clash match. Anyone with that link can reopen the window. Share it on purpose, or do not share it.

The privacy page says the site does not set an advertising cookie. A sign-in sets the httpOnly cookie for up to 30 days. You can use the free quiz with cookies blocked, and answers can still remain in the browser until you clear them. If a sign-in message never arrives, check the address and ask again. Treat any link as private. Do not go looking for server logs.

How to shorten what remains

Sign out on a shared computer. That drops the session. It does not, by itself, delete the email’s saved rows. Clearing site data in the browser drops the local quiz cupboard. Emailing privacy@pastlifetest.com is the published route for asking the site to delete what it holds for the address. The privacy page states that browser storage on the device stays until you clear it.

Keep screenshots in mind. A photo in your camera roll is not deleted by an email to the site. A chat backup is not deleted by signing out. Birth data in those copies is still private information you chose to place there.

The FAQ and how results are made explain the fiction card if your question was about the story rather than the clock. Guidance readings remain guidance the whole time they are stored. A long-kept chart does not become entertainment, and a quiz card does not become a BaZi report because both can sit on the same phone.

What this is not

Not a promise that every note disappears after 30 days. Thirty days is a session length, not a deletion schedule for saved readings.
Not a payment record. A waitlist note is not an order.
Not a public profile of birth data. Birth data is private.
Not medical, legal, or financial advice, and not a file you should hand to a clinic, a court, or a lender as an expert report.
Not a change of label. BaZi and Pick a Good Day stay guidance. Past-life stories stay fiction.
Not a live export button. The account shows what you saved and lets you open it. Deletion of what the site holds is requested by email, as the privacy page describes.

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