Privacy Policy — HolyFaith
Developer: Jalal Uddin
The short version
HolyFaith has no ads, no user accounts, no analytics and no tracking, and it does not use an advertising ID. Almost everything works completely offline. The few optional online features connect only when you open them. We do not sell, rent or share your personal data — we do not collect it in the first place.
What the app stores — on your device only
The app saves the following only in its private storage on your own device, so it can work offline and remember your choices:
- your settings (city or coordinates you chose, calculation method, alert switches, language);
- bookmarks and reading position in the Quran, hadith and dua sections;
- your prayer/fasting tracker ticks, quiz best scores and course progress;
- audio files you explicitly choose to download (see “Quran and course audio” below) — you can delete them at any time from inside the app;
- tafsir and word-by-word results you viewed, kept for at most 7 days as the Quran Foundation's API terms require.
None of this is transmitted to us. You can erase all of it at any time by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling the app. There is no server copy to delete.
Permissions and how each is used
- INTERNET — only for the optional online features listed below.
- ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION and ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION — prayer times and Qibla direction, calculated on your device (see “Location”).
- POST_NOTIFICATIONS and SCHEDULE_EXACT_ALARM — prayer-time alerts, only if you enable them.
- RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED — to restore any prayer alerts you enabled after the device restarts.
Location
The app never asks for location at startup. Location is requested only if you tap “use my current location” (for example in the Qibla map or when setting your place for prayer times).
- Your coordinates are used on the device to calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction. A GPS fix is not stored; only the place you choose to keep in your settings is saved, and you can change or remove it at any time.
- You can use the app fully without location: pick one of the preset cities or enter coordinates manually.
- One exception: if you open the online mosque finder / Qibla map layer, the map area you are viewing is requested from OpenStreetMap's tile servers and the Overpass API — as with any web map, those services receive the search area. The offline Qibla map sends nothing.
Optional online features
The app works offline. These features use the internet only when you open them:
- Tafsir and word-by-word: the app sends only the surah and ayah reference (for example “2:255”) to the Quran Foundation API (api.quran.com) and displays the returned text, with its attribution. No personal information is included in the request.
- Mosque finder: nearby-mosque searches use the Overpass API (overpass-api.de) and map tiles from OpenStreetMap, which receive the map area being viewed.
- External links open outside the app in your browser or the YouTube app (for example the Makkah–Madinah live streams and the developer's Holy Faith channel on YouTube). What those websites and services collect is governed by their own privacy policies.
Quran and course audio — streaming and downloads
Quran reader audio (per-ayah “Listen” and whole-surah continuous play), Hifz audio and কারিয়ানা (Kariyana) recitation-course audio are streamed from the Alafasy recordings served via the Islamic Network content delivery network (CDN). When you choose to download a surah audio pack or a course day's audio for offline use, those audio files are saved on your device only, at your request, and you can delete them from inside the app. No listening history is sent to the developer.
Notifications
Prayer alerts are off by default. If you switch them on, notifications are generated entirely on your device from your own settings. No notification data leaves the device.
What we do not collect
No accounts, no analytics, no trackers, no advertising ID, and no collection of personal data by the developer.
Children's privacy
The app contains general religious and educational content suitable for all ages. It does not knowingly collect any information from children — it does not collect information from anyone.
Changes to this policy
If a future version changes how the app handles data, this policy will be updated and the effective date changed before that version is released.
Contact
Questions about this policy: Jalal Uddin — jalaluddin80816@gmail.com