Privacy, explained.

What the app itself collects

The app has no accounts and no sign-in. I do not ask for your name, email address or phone number.

Your reading progress, bookmarks, favourites, quiz scores and settings 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.

Anonymous story counts

To learn which stories people read, the app sends my server only daily counts: the story’s name, the day, and whether it was opened, finished, listened to the end or quizzed. These counts carry no device ID, advertising ID, account or other personal information, and the server does not keep IP addresses for them.

New stories and audio

The app comes with a library of stories that works offline. When you are online it checks for new stories, and narration is streamed or downloaded from my server through Cloudflare. As with any website, Cloudflare and the server briefly process your IP address to deliver the files and protect the service.

Notifications

The story-of-the-day reminder is scheduled on your phone at the time you choose. News of new stories is sent with Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging to a shared topic for your language. For this, Google gives your device a delivery token; I do not store it and do not send messages to individual devices. You can turn either kind of notification off in the app under “Me” or in Android settings.

Advertising

The app is free and shows adverts through Google AdMob on some browsing screens. It never shows adverts while you read or listen to a story, in quizzes, next to Quran verses or hadith, in notifications or on the widget. 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. The maximum advert content rating is set to “G” (general audiences).

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.

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 under Me > “Ad privacy choices”.
• You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off personalised adverts, in your device settings under Google > Ads.
• An optional reward advert gives a day without adverts; “Remove ads” removes them for good.

Permissions

• Notifications, only if you turn on the story of the day or news of new stories.
• Running at start-up, so the daily reminder is set again after a restart.
• Foreground service (media playback), to keep narration playing with the screen off and show playback controls.
• Internet, network state and the advertising ID, for new stories, narration, adverts and the Google Play purchase.

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

The website nurergolpo.com

The website has no analytics and no accounts. When adverts are switched on, Google AdSense may use cookies; where the law requires it, consent is asked first. Your colour-theme choice is kept in your own browser.

Children

The app and website are made for a general audience aged 13 and over and are 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.