Privacy, explained.

What the app itself collects

Nothing. The app has no accounts and no sign-in. I do not run a server for it and I do not receive your location, your prayer log or anything else about you.

Your chosen place, settings, prayer and fasting log, tasbih count and Quran bookmarks are kept only on your device. They are removed when you clear the app’s data or uninstall the app. If your device has Android backup switched on, Google may include them in your own device backup. If you use “Save a backup”, the file goes only where you choose to save it.

Location

If you tap “Use my location”, the app asks for your approximate (city-level) location. It is used on your phone to calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction, and is not sent to me. To show the name of your place, Android’s built-in geocoder may look up the coordinates with Google. You can instead pick a district or city from the list, or type coordinates, and never grant location access.

Advertising

The app is free and shows adverts through Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK) on some browsing screens. It never shows adverts on prayer times, the azan, notifications, the Quran, duas, the 99 Names, the Qibla, the tasbih counter or widgets. To show and measure adverts, and to prevent fraud, Google may collect and use:

• your device’s advertising ID and other device identifiers;
• your IP address, from which an approximate location can be worked out;
• information about your device, such as model, operating system version and language;
• how you interact with adverts and the app, and diagnostic information such as crash and performance data.

This data goes directly from your device to Google and its advertising partners. I do not receive it in a form that identifies you.

How Google uses information from apps that use its services ↗ · Google’s privacy policy ↗

Purchases

“Remove ads” is a one-time purchase handled entirely by Google Play. I do not see your payment details. The app only asks Google Play whether the purchase has been made, so that it can turn adverts off on your devices.

Other internet use

Prayer times, the Quran text and translations, duas and the calendar work offline. When you play Quran recitation, the audio is streamed from EveryAyah.com, which sees your IP address as any website does. Opening “Nearby mosques” hands the search to your maps app.

Your choices

• Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland), the app asks for your consent before any advert is requested. You can change your answer at any time in Settings > “Privacy choices for ads”.
• You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off personalised adverts, in your device settings under Google > Ads.
• No adverts are loaded while you are offline, and none at all after you buy “Remove ads”.

Permissions

• Approximate location, only if you tap “Use my location”, for prayer times and the Qibla.
• Notifications, alarms and reminders, and running at start-up, so the azan and reminders arrive on time, also after a restart.
• Foreground service (media playback), to play the azan and the sehri alarm until you stop them.
• Do Not Disturb access, only if you turn on “Vibrate-only during prayer”.
• Internet, network state and the advertising ID, for adverts, Quran recitation and the Google Play purchase.

The app does not ask for your contacts, camera, microphone, files or photos.

Links that leave the app

Some buttons open Google Play, your email app, your maps app, a share sheet, this website, or help pages for your phone’s battery settings. Those apps and sites have their own privacy policies.

Children

The app is made for people aged 13 and over and is not directed at children under 13. I do not knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes, the new version will be published on this page with a new date. For privacy questions or requests, email [email protected]. The policy for this website itself is the zubaer.com privacy policy.