Purpose and boundaries
AETERA LAB is a North America-facing cultural and lifestyle site. Its material translates Chinese Feng Shui, time wisdom, and related traditions into contemporary reflection and everyday practice. It is educational and cultural material, not medical, mental-health, legal, financial, investment, or identity advice. It does not provide diagnosis, prediction, or guaranteed outcomes.
Using the site
You may use the site for personal, lawful purposes. Do not interfere with the site, attempt to access systems or data without permission, submit automated traffic, or use the service in a way that harms other people or the service. AETERA may change, pause, or update content and features as the site develops.
Deterministic Reflection Map
The released Reflection Map uses only the focus, observable friction, and practice-mode choices you select. A deterministic rule produces a support phase and three actions. The result is a bounded reflective prompt, not a factual evaluation, professional advice, health assessment, prediction, or prescribed remedy.
Local seven-day practice
The optional seven-day practice is assembled in the browser from fixed AETERA-reviewed local rules, the three selected choices, and the existing result. It makes no request to DeepSeek or another AI provider, cannot change the support phase, and does not add facts about the reader. Do not treat it as professional advice or a guaranteed personal outcome.
Chinese Element Calculator
The Chinese Element Calculator uses a simplified year-stem method and an optional month only to flag the January or February calendar boundary. It does not establish identity, character, compatibility, health, or future outcomes. A result requires a deliberate valid submission.
Contact requests
The released follow-up form is for a voluntary Reflection Map follow-up. It requires a valid email and explicit contact consent and does not promise a service, response time, or continuing program. AETERA may decline or discontinue a request. Do not use the form to submit sensitive information.
Privacy and service providers
The Privacy Notice describes essential consent storage, optional Google Analytics 4, AETERA first-party events stored in Feishu/Lark, Vercel hosting, the local deterministic practice, the contact-consent boundary, one-way network hashing, hosting-edge country and region, and current retention limits. DeepSeek and other AI providers do not receive a Reflection Map request. Vercel Analytics and ad pixels are not used. Essential site use does not require analytics consent.
Content and intellectual property
AETERA LAB content, including its writing, design, and original framework language, is protected by applicable intellectual-property rules. You may share links and brief quotations with clear attribution. Ask before reproducing substantial portions of site content or using it commercially.
No guarantees
AETERA aims for thoughtful, accurate cultural translation, but cultural traditions are interpreted differently across sources and communities. We do not promise that content, practices, tools, analytics, or follow-up materials will be uninterrupted, error-free, or produce a particular personal, health, relationship, financial, or environmental result. Use your own judgment and seek qualified professional help for decisions that call for it.
Questions and updates
For corrections, source concerns, privacy requests, or questions about these terms, contact editorial@aeteralab.com. AETERA may update these terms as the released site changes; the effective date below identifies the current version.