Privacy Policy
The short version. iDeen has no account, no ads, no analytics and no crash reporting. We do not sell, rent or share your personal data, and we do not run a database of users. Your reading progress, bookmarks and settings are stored only on your phone. To show your city's name, find nearby mosques, show the weather and play recitations, the app contacts a few outside services. When it sends your position for this, it is rounded first (to about 1 km or about 10 km), never your exact location.
1. Who we are
iDeen ("we", "us") is an independent, free app. For any question about this policy or your data, email support@ideenquran.com.
2. What we do not do
- No sign-up, login or user account of any kind.
- No advertising, and no advertising ID is read.
- No analytics, crash reporting or tracking tools (no Google Analytics, Firebase, Facebook SDK or similar).
- No tracking across other apps or websites.
- No selling or sharing of personal data for money or marketing.
- No background location. The app only uses your location while you are using it.
- No access to your contacts, photos, camera, microphone or files.
3. Information stored only on your phone
The app keeps the following in its own storage on your device. We never receive it.
- Your settings: reading style, daily goal, theme, reciter, Athan sounds, calculation method and reminders.
- Your reading progress, bookmarks, the weekly ring, and Hifz (memorisation) reviews.
- Your last location (latitude, longitude and the city name), so prayer times work offline.
- A cache of nearby mosques (kept for up to 7 days) and of the weather (kept for about 1 hour).
- On phones with home-screen or lock-screen widgets, the next prayer time is shared with the widget, still on your phone.
Phone backups. If you have turned on your phone's backup (Google backup on Android, iCloud or device backup on iPhone), your operating system may include this app data in that backup, so your bookmarks and progress come back on a new phone. That backup is handled by Google or Apple under their own privacy policies, not by us.
4. Location
If you allow it, iDeen uses your phone's location while the app is open to:
- Work out prayer times and the Qibla direction. This is calculated entirely on your phone. Nothing is sent anywhere for it.
- Show your city's name. Your phone's built-in location service turns a position into a city name. iDeen first rounds the position to about 1 km. On Android this service is provided by Google; on iPhone, by Apple.
- Find nearby mosques (only when you open the Mosques tab). See section 5.
- Show the weather (only if the weather feature is switched on in your version). See section 5.
You can say no, or turn location off later in your phone's settings. The app still works: you can read, listen and use the calendar, but prayer times, Qibla and mosques need a location.
5. Outside services the app contacts
Like any internet request, these requests also show the service your phone's IP address and basic technical details (such as the app's user agent). We do not receive or store any of it. Each service handles it under its own policy.
| Service | When | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| Overpass API (OpenStreetMap data). Main server: overpass-api.de, run by FOSSGIS e.V., Germany. If it is busy, the app may try overpass.private.coffee or maps.mail.ru instead. | When you open the Mosques tab and there is no saved result for your area | A search for mosques around a position rounded to about 1 km |
| OpenFreeMap (map tiles) | When the map is shown | Requests for the map squares of the area on screen |
| EveryAyah.com (recitation audio) | When you play a recitation | A request for the audio file of the ayah being played |
| Your phone's location service (Google on Android, Apple on iPhone) | When your location is set or updated | A position rounded to about 1 km, to get the city name |
| iDeen weather service (runs on Cloudflare Workers and asks Apple Weather) | Only if weather is switched on in your version of the app | A position rounded to about 10 km and your time zone. It keeps no record of requests; replies are cached by area for 2 hours. |
| Google Maps or Apple Maps | Only when you tap "Directions" on a mosque | The mosque's location is handed to your maps app, which then works under its own policy |
All connections use HTTPS encryption.
6. Notifications
Athan alerts, the evening reading reminder and reminders for Islamic days are scheduled on your phone. No push-notification server is used and no notification token is created or sent. You can turn each reminder off in the app or in your phone's settings.
7. Permissions the app asks for
- Location (while using the app): prayer times, Qibla, city name and nearby mosques.
- Notifications: Athan and reminders.
- Alarms and reminders (Android): so the Athan arrives exactly on time.
- Vibration: gentle haptic feedback, and the Qibla compass vibrates when you face the Qibla.
- Internet: for the services in section 5.
8. Children
iDeen is suitable for all ages and contains no ads, chat or purchases. Because the app does not collect personal information from anyone, it does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country).
9. How long we keep data
We keep nothing, because nothing is sent to us. Data on your phone stays until you delete it. Uninstalling iDeen, or clearing its storage in your phone's settings, removes all of it from your phone.
10. Your rights
Depending on where you live (for example under the GDPR in the EU and UK, or California's CCPA), you may have the right to access, correct, delete or move your personal data, or to object to its use. We hold no personal data about you on any server, so there is nothing for us to hand over or delete. You control everything stored on your phone, and you can delete it at any time as described above. If you still have a question or concern, contact us and we will reply. You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority.
11. Changes to this policy
If the app changes how it handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top before the change reaches you. If a change is significant (for example, if we ever add an account or a new outside service), we will also say so in the app's update notes.
12. Contact
iDeen · support@ideenquran.com