Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 22 September 2026 Version 4.7 — supersedes the policy for version 4.6

Al Islam is built to support your spiritual life — and your privacy is treated with the same care as the app itself. This policy explains, clearly and completely, what the app accesses, what stays on your device, what leaves it, and why.

We follow one guiding principle: data minimisation. If a feature can work without your data, we do not take it. If it can work on your device instead of ours, it does.

Your personal content — your notes, collections, bookmarks, History, dhikr records, reminders and settings — lives on your device. You can use the whole app without an account.

About This Revision

This revision describes version 4.7 (Manara) and everything the app does today.

Reminders. Version 4.7 introduces Reminders, which can arrive as a full-screen alarm. To deliver them at the exact minute, and to show a full-screen alarm over the lock screen, the app asks for two permissions — alarms & reminders and full-screen notifications — both explained in Section 2. Reminders are created and delivered entirely on your device.

Qur'an recitation. Recordings are streamed from the archives that publish them, and a surah you save plays from your device. See Section 5.

Notifications from Al Islam. The app can let you know when a new version or new content is available. You can turn these off at any time. See Section 8.

Usage and diagnostic information. This revision describes more fully the information that helps us keep the app reliable and improve it. See Section 10.

At a Glance

1. Who This Policy Applies To

This policy applies to everyone who uses the Al Islam Android app.

The app is suitable for users of all ages. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided personal information, contact us and we will remove it promptly.

2. Permissions — Every One, and Why

Android shows a list of permissions on the Play Store listing. Below is every permission Al Islam holds, what it is genuinely for, and whether you can decline it. We would rather explain all of them than have you wonder about one.

Permissions you are asked for, and may decline

Every one of these is optional. The app is usable without any of them, and each can be turned off at any time in your device settings without affecting anything else.

Permissions that involve no personal data

Sensors

The Qibla feature reads your device's compass (magnetometer), accelerometer and rotation sensors to point toward the Kaaba and to keep the augmented-reality view steady as you move. Android does not ask permission for these.

These readings are used live, on your device, and are never stored, logged or transmitted. They tell the app which way your phone is facing — nothing more. No other part of the app reads motion sensors.

3. Camera — Qibla Augmented Reality

The augmented-reality Qibla view draws the Qibla direction over a live camera view.

• No photo or video is ever captured, saved or transmitted. There is no recording capability in this feature at all.
• The camera feed exists only on screen, only while that view is open, and stops the moment you leave it.
• Nothing from the camera is analysed, uploaded or kept. The app does not perform image recognition, face detection or any processing of what the camera sees.
• Camera permission is optional. Al Islam offers several other ways to find the Qibla, and all of them work without it.

4. Microphone — Voice Dictation

Dictation lets you speak instead of type when writing notes.

Recording is strictly on your command. It begins only when you press record, pauses only when you pause it, and stops only when you stop it. There is no background recording, no wake word, no always-listening mode, and nothing that starts or stops recording on its own. Nothing else in the app opens the microphone, and this feature opens it only while you are using it.

Where the recording goes. The audio is kept temporarily on your device. It is transcribed only when you ask for a transcript — and it is sent directly to the AI provider you configured, never to us. See Section 6.

You stay in control. You can review, re-record or delete a recording without ever transcribing it. Temporary audio is overwritten by your next recording and removed when you clear the app's data.

Devices without a microphone can use every other part of the app, and can still transcribe an audio file imported from storage.

5. Files and Storage

Al Islam opens and saves files only through Android's own file picker. The app never receives broad access to your storage. It receives only the specific file you choose, at the moment you choose it. It cannot browse, scan or index your device.

Files you can import

• Fonts — in the common font formats, or a ZIP of them — for displaying text. Stored on your device only; never uploaded, collected or transmitted.
• Audio files for transcription, handled exactly like a recording — sent only to your chosen AI provider, only when you ask.
• A sound for a reminder, such as an adhan recording you keep. It is played from your device and never uploaded.
• Settings files you previously exported, for restoring your Tasbeeh library and calendar data.

Files you can export

• Your Tasbeeh library, and your calendar events and fasting record, written as files to a location you pick. These leave the app and become ordinary files under your control — we neither see them nor keep a copy.

Content the app downloads

Translations, tafsir, transliterations, Arabic scripts and hadith collections are downloaded when you ask and stored on your device for offline use. The app also checks for new content and release notes. These are downloads of public content; they carry no personal data about you.

Recitation audio

Qur'an recitations are streamed from the archives that publish them. When you press play, a request for that recording goes to the publisher's server. Like any request to any website, it carries your IP address; it carries no account and nothing about who you are. Playback needs no account, and we do not tell the archives who is listening. If you would rather not make that request, save a recitation while you are online and it will play from your device from then on.

Recitations you save are stored in the app's own private storage, encrypted. They are not placed in your Music or Downloads folders, or anywhere another app or a file manager can reach, and they are removed when you uninstall Al Islam. The recordings are shared by their reciters for listening, and a saved surah is kept for exactly that: listening within the app. You can remove saved audio at any time from Downloads or the recitation picker, which shows how much space it uses.

The "files and media" permission appears only on Android 10 and below, where the older storage model required it to read a file you picked. On newer versions of Android, the system file picker needs no permission at all.

6. AI Assistance — Bring Your Own Key

Al Islam's AI features — translation, listening, asking, dictation, saved translations and your own commands — are part of Premium and run on a bring-your-own-key basis. This is a deliberate privacy decision.

You supply the key. To use AI features you connect your own account with an AI provider of your choosing. There is no shared Al Islam AI account and nothing is billed through us.

Your keys never reach us. Keys are encrypted on your device and protected by your phone's secure hardware. They are:

• never sent to our servers — a key goes only to the provider it belongs to, with your requests to that provider;
• never written to logs or diagnostic reports;
• never included in backup, on any plan;
• never shown in full again after you save them — only a short hint remains, so you can tell keys apart.

Your requests do not pass through us. When you use an AI feature, your device contacts your chosen provider directly. We operate no intermediate server for AI requests, so we cannot read your prompts, your content or the responses.

What is sent, and only when you ask. An AI action sends only what that action needs: the verse, narration, note or text you selected; any instruction you wrote; and, for dictation, the audio you recorded. For listening, the text to be read aloud is sent to the provider that produces the audio. Nothing is sent in the background, and nothing is sent until you tap the action.

The provider's policy applies from there. Once your request reaches your chosen provider, that provider's privacy policy and data practices apply. Providers differ in whether they keep submitted data or use it to improve their models, so we encourage you to read the policy of any provider before connecting it. A model running on your own computer keeps everything with you.

Results stay with you. Saved translations, transcripts and responses you keep are stored on your device and are not synced.

You stay in control. You can delete any connection and its key at any time, clear saved AI results, and use the rest of the app without ever setting up AI.

7. Your Account and Cloud Backup

Using Al Islam without an account

You can use every feature of the app without an account. Your notes, collections, History and settings stay on your device.

If you create an account

An account is optional and needed only for backup and Premium. We then hold:

• Email address — for signing in and identifying your account.
• Display name — the name you choose, shown inside the app.
• Sign-in method — email and password, or a sign-in service you choose.
• Your signed-in devices — each device's model, Android version, app version, language and region, and when it was first seen and last synced, so you can see every device signed in to your account and sign out any you do not recognise.

As with any online service, our servers also receive the IP address a request comes from, as part of normal operation and to prevent abuse.

If you sign in with another service, we receive your name and email from it for sign-in. We do not store profile photos, and the app does not ask you to upload one.

Cloud backup (optional)

If you use backup with Premium, your collections are stored securely with your account so you can restore them on a new device or after reinstalling.

To be precise about what is included: when backup is on, the data that leaves your device is limited to your account details, your collection entries and your signed-in devices. That is the entire set.

Your notes are part of this. Notes in Al Islam live inside your Collections — both notes attached to a saved verse or narration and notes of their own — so backup includes them, with their drawings.

Backup does not include your Tasbeeh counts and routines, History or search history, Divine Names data, reminders, prayer and calendar settings, fasting log, imported fonts, AI keys or saved AI translations. Those remain on your device whether backup is on or off.

8. Reminders, Notifications, Widgets and Background Activity

Reminders. Reminders — for the five prayers, reading, dhikr, fasting days, dates in the Hijri calendar, or anything you set — are created, scheduled and delivered entirely on your device, from information already stored there. No reminder involves a server, and no reminder's content is sent anywhere. The record of what each reminder did is kept on your device. If you turn notifications off, reminders simply do not appear.

Notifications from Al Islam. The app can let you know when a new version is available or when new content — translations, reciters, scripts or hadith collections — is added. These are general announcements sent to everyone who has them turned on; they are not personal messages and carry no personal information. You can turn either kind off under From Al-Islam in the Reminders settings, or turn off all notifications from the app in Android settings.

Home-screen widgets. Widgets for prayer times and the Hijri calendar read the same information on your device and draw it on your home screen. They send nothing anywhere. Widget content is visible to anyone who can see your home screen — true of any widget, not just ours.

Background work. The app occasionally does scheduled work in the background: restoring your reminders after a restart, refreshing widgets, finishing downloads, keeping search up to date, and backing up your collections if you use backup. This is why it holds the startup, wake-lock and background-service permissions. None of it collects anything about you.

9. Advertising

Al Islam is free to use, and advertising supports that.

Ads on the free plan are provided by our advertising partners. To deliver ads, limit how often they appear, and measure them, these partners may process limited device and advertising information — your device's advertising ID, general device characteristics and approximate region — under their own privacy policies.

Our commitments:

• On the free plan, full-screen ads are limited to five a day.
• We do not sell your personal data.
• We do not share your account details, notes, collections, History, prayer information, location or AI activity with any advertising partner.
• Personalised advertising follows your device settings. You can reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in Android settings at any time.
• Al Islam Premium removes advertising entirely.

10. Usage and Diagnostic Information

To keep Al Islam reliable and to understand how its features are used, the app collects some usage and diagnostic information:

• Usage information — which features and screens are used, and actions such as opening a surah, a verse or a narration, saving or sharing an item, completing a round of dhikr or setting a reminder, so we can see what people rely on and where the app can be improved. These record that something was done; they never carry the words of your searches, your notes or anything you write.
• Crash reports — technical details of an error, such as what went wrong and on which device model and Android version, so we can find and fix it.
• Performance information — how quickly the app starts and responds.
• Basic device and app information — such as the device model, Android version, app version, language and country.

This information is used only to fix problems and improve the app. It is not linked to your name or email address, and it never includes the content of your notes, drawings, collections, searches, AI prompts or responses, keys, passwords, precise location or recordings.

11. Location, in Detail

Location is used for exactly two things: calculating prayer times, and calculating the Qibla direction.

Your coordinates are used on your device for those calculations. They are not stored on our servers and are never attached to your account.

One thing to be precise about. To show a readable place name — "Lahore, Pakistan" rather than a pair of coordinates — the app looks up your approximate coordinates with a mapping service. That request carries no name, email, account or device identifier; it is a lookup of a place, not of a person. If you prefer to avoid it, set your location manually and no lookup is made.

The app does not track your location in the background and does not build a location history. Location is read when you ask it to update, and not otherwise.

12. How We Use Your Data

We use the information described in this policy to:

• Sign you in and keep your account secure.
• Back up and restore your collections, if you use backup.
• Show your signed-in devices so you can manage them.
• Display your chosen name inside the app.
• Confirm your Premium subscription.
• Send the notices about updates and new content that you have turned on.
• Keep the app reliable, fix problems and improve it.
• Deliver and limit advertising on the free plan.

13. What We Never Do

Stated plainly, so you can hold us to it. We never:

• Sell, rent or trade your personal data.
• Read, scan or analyse the content of your notes, drawings, collections or AI conversations.
• Send your History, search history, Tasbeeh or Divine Names records, or your reminders, to our servers. Your collections — with the notes in them — are sent only when you choose backup.
• Send your AI keys anywhere other than the provider each one belongs to.
• Record audio, photos or video in the background, or without you starting it.
• Use your camera or microphone outside the one feature that uses each.
• Track your location in the background or build a location history.
• Scan or index your device storage.
• Use your personal content to build advertising profiles.
• Share your data with data brokers.

14. Storage and Security

• The app's own data on your device — your notes, collections, bookmarks, History and saved places — is encrypted, so it cannot be read by other apps or by browsing the device's storage.
• AI keys, saved recitations and your sign-in are protected by your phone's secure hardware, so they are of no use if copied off the device.
• All communication with our servers uses encrypted connections.
• Records stored with your account can be reached only by your account. No other user can reach your data.

No system is perfectly secure. We encourage you to use a strong, unique password and to keep your device locked and up to date.

15. Subscriptions and Billing

Al Islam Premium is an optional, auto-renewing subscription available in monthly and annual plans.

All billing, payment, renewal and cancellation are handled by Google Play. We do not collect, process or store any payment information — no card numbers, no billing addresses, no bank details. Prices shown in the app come from Google Play, in your own currency.

When you subscribe, we confirm with Google Play that your subscription is valid, and nothing more. Full subscription, cancellation and refund terms are in our Terms and Conditions.

16. Services We Work With

Each of these services works under its own privacy policy, and we encourage you to review them.

17. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, rent or share your personal data with third parties for their own commercial purposes. The services listed above receive information only to provide what they do for the app.

Your information may be disclosed only where required by law, court order or a valid government request, or where necessary to protect the rights, safety or property of Al Islam or its users.

18. Your Rights and Controls

• Delete your account — at any time. All associated data on our servers is permanently removed.
• Get a copy of your data — contact us and we will provide the personal data associated with your account.
• Stop backup — sign out at any time. Your data on the device is unaffected.
• Turn off any permission — location, camera, microphone, notifications, alarms and file access can each be turned off independently in device settings.
• Turn off announcements — notices about updates and new content can be switched off in the Reminders settings.
• Control advertising — reset or delete your advertising ID, or opt out of personalised ads, in Android settings.
• Remove AI connections — delete any stored key and its saved results at any time.
• Remove History entries — any entry in your reading and search history can be removed within the app.
• Sign out a device — ends that session and removes it from your device list.
• Uninstall — removes all of the app's data from your device.

Depending on where you live, you may have additional rights over your personal data, including access, correction, portability, restriction, objection and erasure. Contact us and we will honour them.

19. Data Retention

• Account and backup data are kept while your account is active.
• If you delete your account, all associated data is permanently erased from our servers within 30 days.
• Usage and diagnostic information is kept only as long as needed to keep the app reliable and improve it.
• Temporary recordings are overwritten by your next recording and removed when you clear the app's data.
• Data on your device is removed when you uninstall the app.

20. International Users

Al Islam is used worldwide. Where your data is processed on our servers or by the services listed above, it may be handled in a country other than your own. Wherever it is processed, it remains covered by the commitments in this policy and protected by encrypted transmission and access controls.

21. Changes to This Policy

If we make significant changes — particularly to what the app accesses or how information is used — we will let you know inside the app before those changes take effect.

The version and effective date at the top always reflect the current revision, and each revision states what changed.

22. Contact Us

If you have any question, concern or request about this policy or your data, please contact us:

Email: support.alislam@lymrah.com Developer: Al Islam App ID: com.pakdeen.alislam

We aim to respond to every privacy request promptly.

Al Islam — Designed for your spiritual life. Built with respect for your privacy.