Privacy policy

This policy describes what data the Ahillah app and this website process. It is deliberately short, because Ahillah is built to collect almost nothing. The binding spirit of this document is the Amanah Pledge; if this text and the pledge ever appear to disagree, we fix the text.

Who we are

Ahillah is developed by the Ahillah project (contact: the address in the site footer). [Legal entity and registered address to be completed before store submission.]

What the app collects

• Account data: a username you choose and an optional display name. No phone number, no email address, no contact-book access.
• Scholar Q&A tickets: questions you explicitly send to verified scholars, with the metadata needed to route and moderate them. You can ask anonymously; publication in the public answers library happens only with your explicit consent.
• Community mosque edits: iqamah times and mosque details you submit to the shared directory, which are public by design.

What the app never collects

• Your location. Prayer times, Qibla, and the hijri calendar are computed on your device; coordinates are never transmitted.
• Your messages and calls. They are end-to-end encrypted; our servers relay ciphertext they cannot read.
• Your prayer tracker, Quran reading, or khatmah progress. These never leave your device.
• Advertising identifiers, analytics events, or device fingerprints. There are no third-party analytics or advertising SDKs in the app.

What this website collects

Nothing. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, and loads no third-party resources. The prayer-times widget on the home page computes in your browser; your location — if you choose to grant it — is used on your device and never transmitted. One preference (animation on/off) is stored in your browser’s local storage if you use the pause control.

Sharing and selling

We do not sell, share, broker, or “partner away” user data — under any name, to anyone.

Retention and deletion

Account data is kept while your account exists. Deleting your account removes it. Published scholar answers are anonymized and remain in the public library; unpublished tickets are deleted with the account.

Legal requests

We can only hand over what exists. For most of what matters — location, messages, contacts, identity — nothing exists to hand over. Requests we do receive will be published in a transparency report unless we are legally barred from doing so.

Children

Ahillah does not knowingly collect personal information from children beyond the minimal account data above, and contains no advertising or tracking whatsoever.

Changes

Any change to this policy that collects more data requires updating the Amanah Pledge in the same release, and will be announced in the app’s release notes.