Privacy Policy

Nothing. The app does not collect, send or share any personal information, with us or with anyone else. It has no account, no server, no analytics and no code that sends your data anywhere. Everything it needs, including its list of cities and US ZIP codes, is built into the app.

To work, the app keeps some information in its own storage on your iPhone. It stays there and is never sent to us.

Some of this can be sensitive. The prayers you mark, your prayer tradition and your giving record can say something about your religious practice. That is one more reason it all stays on your iPhone, where we cannot see it.

Alhams asks for two permissions, and only after you tap something that needs them. It never asks when it starts.

• Location, While Using the App. Used on your iPhone for the purposes in the table above: prayer times and the Qibla, the nearest place name, the automatic method for your country and the live compass. Approximate location is enough. Very close to Makkah, the app may suggest turning on Precise Location for an accurate Qibla direction. If you would rather not share your location, choose a city. Prayer times, reminders, widgets and the Qibla direction all work from the city you choose; only the live Qibla compass needs location access.
• Notifications. Used for prayer reminders, which are scheduled on your phone.

If you have allowed location, then each time iOS gives the app a moment in the background to refresh your reminders and widgets, the app asks iOS once for a location, to check whether iOS gives one to an app that is not in use. The position, if any, is never used or stored; the app keeps only a note of whether one came back, how accurate it was and how old.

Alhams does not ask for your contacts, photos, camera, microphone or motion data. Your location is never tracked or sent anywhere.

You can change either permission at any time in the Settings app on your iPhone, under Apps › Alhams.

The app has no code that sends your data anywhere. There is no server for it to contact (we have none), and it sends nothing about you to anyone else. Reminders are scheduled on your phone, not sent from a server.

Alhams is built with open-source software and data, credited in the app under Settings › Licenses and Sources. None of it collects or sends data, and the app contains no analytics, advertising, tracking or crash-reporting code.

A few buttons open a website in Safari when you tap them: this website’s privacy policy and support pages, the source websites listed under Licenses and Sources, and, on iPhones set to the US region, the IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search. Those websites have their own privacy policies. The links carry nothing about you.

If you share a verse, the iOS share sheet sends only the text you see, to the app or person you choose.

Apple distributes the app, and your iPhone works out its location with Apple’s Location Services. If you have turned on sharing with app developers in your iPhone’s Analytics & Improvements settings, Apple may share crash reports and app usage statistics with us. If you test a pre-release version through TestFlight, Apple shows us the name and email address we invited you with, your device model and iOS version, your installs and sessions, crash reports and any feedback you send. These are Apple’s services, under Apple’s privacy policy; the app itself sends nothing.

Like most iPhone apps, the app’s data can be included in your own iCloud or computer backup, depending on your iPhone’s settings, and restored with it. Those backups belong to your Apple Account or your computer; we cannot see them.

Everything the app stores stays on your iPhone until you change or delete it, or delete the app. In the app you can delete a giving entry or a saved place, reset your adjustments and clear your masjid times. Each time you mark or unmark a prayer, marks older than 14 days are removed. Deleting the app deletes the data. Copies in iCloud or computer backups made earlier stay in those backups until they are replaced or deleted.

Alhams collects nothing from anyone, including children.

alhamsapp.com is a set of static pages hosted on Cloudflare Pages. It uses no cookies, no analytics, no tracking and no scripts, and it loads nothing from other websites. Like any web host, Cloudflare processes visitors’ IP addresses and basic request details to deliver the pages and protect against attacks, under Cloudflare’s privacy policy.

If you email support@alhamsapp.com, Cloudflare Email Routing forwards your message to the developer’s mailbox, where our email provider stores it. We use your email address and message only to reply. When we have answered, we delete the conversation, including our reply, and we keep no mailing list.

A message about a prayer app can reveal religious beliefs, so please include only what we need to help.

Because the app sends us nothing, we hold no app data about you to access, correct or delete: it is all on your iPhone, under your control. If you have emailed us, you can ask us at any time to delete your messages, and we will.

If the app or this website ever handles information differently, we will update this policy and the date at the top before the change takes effect.

Omer Yasin, Texas, USA · support@alhamsapp.com