1. Who I am
A'fiyah is built and looked after by an independent Muslim solo developer. There is no company team behind it, so in this policy "I" and "me" mean the developer of A'fiyah. I am the person responsible for your information, and you can reach me at afiyah.support@gmail.com.
2. Information stored on your device
Everything you enter in A'fiyah lives on your device: the display name you choose to be greeted by, your onboarding answers such as age range and intentions, journal entries and the stickers and pages you choose for them, prayer records, dhikr counts, du'ās, moods, gratitude notes, goals, streaks and settings. None of it is sent to me or to any server I use, and I have no way to read it.
Prayer times are calculated on your device. If you allow location access, Apple’s geocoding services may receive your coordinates to look up your city and time zone. If you choose a city manually, your search is sent to Apple for that lookup. Your coordinates and city searches are not sent to Firebase or RevenueCat.
For the London calculation method, the app fetches and caches an approximate monthly timetable from AlAdhan (api.aladhan.com). It sends a fixed central London coordinate, month, year and calculation settings, not your device coordinates, identity or writing. Like other internet services, AlAdhan receives connection metadata such as your IP address. Other prayer methods are calculated on your device. Calculated times may differ from your local mosque.
If you allow notifications, that permission is used only to deliver the reminders you switch on, such as prayer times and journaling nudges. Every reminder is scheduled on your device itself; nothing is pushed from a server, and you can turn any category off in Settings at any time.
If you use iCloud Backup or back up your device to a computer, iOS may include A'fiyah's data in that backup. Those backups are protected by Apple, and I cannot access them.
3. Information collected automatically
When A'fiyah first opens, it signs in to Google Firebase with a random anonymous identifier, so the app's services can tell one install from another securely. You never register or sign in yourself, and the identifier is not linked to your name, email address or Apple ID.
To keep the app reliable, I receive usage statistics through Firebase Analytics, such as which screens are opened and whether onboarding was completed, and crash reports through Firebase Crashlytics, which include your device model and iOS version. Like most online services, Google may estimate a general region, such as your country, from your internet connection. Your journal and worship content, your name and your precise location are never included.
When you buy or restore a plan, Apple and RevenueCat confirm the purchase using an anonymous ID, so the app knows what you have unlocked.
4. Information I do not collect
Your name and everything you write are not sent to Firebase or RevenueCat. Apple may process location information for city and time zone lookups as described above. I do not collect your email address, phone number, contacts, photos or payment details. I do not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and A'fiyah uses no advertising networks of any kind.
5. How information is used
The small amount of information collected is used only to keep your purchases working, to fix crashes, and to understand which features are helpful so the app can improve. Nothing else.
6. Service providers
A'fiyah relies on a few trusted services to run. Each one processes data only to provide its service, under its own privacy policy:
- Google Firebase, for anonymous sign in, usage statistics and crash reports.
- RevenueCat, for checking subscriptions and lifetime purchases.
- Apple, for payments, downloads, location lookups and app integrity checks.
- AlAdhan (api.aladhan.com), for the approximate London calendar cache.
I never sell data and never share it with advertisers or data brokers.
7. Payments
All purchases are processed by Apple through your App Store account. I never see or store your card number or any other payment information.
8. Security
Everything the app sends travels over encrypted HTTPS connections. Cloud data is protected by server security rules that let each anonymous account reach only its own records. Your personal content never leaves your device, which is the strongest protection of all.
9. Deleting your account and data
Open Settings in the app and choose Delete Account and All Data. Settings & data is also available on the access screen without buying or renewing a plan. With an internet connection, the app first deletes your Firebase profile, legacy referral records and anonymous Firebase account. Only after those steps succeed does it erase your writing and settings on this device and return to onboarding. If deletion fails, the app keeps your local writing and shows a message so you can retry. Removing the app does not request cloud account deletion. Your Apple subscription is not cancelled, and purchase records held by Apple and RevenueCat are handled separately under their policies.
You can also email afiyah.support@gmail.com and I will erase your anonymous cloud record promptly. Usage statistics and crash reports are kept by Google for a limited period and then deleted automatically.
10. Your rights
Depending on where you live, laws such as the GDPR in the European Union and the United Kingdom, the CCPA in California, and personal data laws in many other countries give you the right to access, correct or delete your personal data and to object to how it is used. Because A'fiyah keeps your personal content on your own device, most of these rights are already in your hands. For anything held in the cloud, email me and I will respond within one month.
11. Children
A'fiyah does not ask children to send personal writing or contact details. The technical identifiers, usage statistics, crash reports and purchase information described above are still processed when the app is used. If you have a question about a child's data, contact afiyah.support@gmail.com.
12. The A'fiyah website
The A'fiyah website sets no cookies, runs no analytics and contains no trackers, so there is no cookie banner to accept. Its fonts are served by Google Fonts, which receives your IP address in order to deliver them, and the site is hosted by Netlify, which keeps standard server logs to run and protect it. Anything you type on the questions page stays in your browser and is never sent anywhere.
13. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes in a meaningful way, the updated version will appear here with a new date at the top. Continued use of the app after a change means you accept the updated policy.
14. Contact
Questions or requests about your privacy: afiyah.support@gmail.com
A'fiyah is looked after by one person. If anything here is unclear, write to me at afiyah.support@gmail.com and I will explain it plainly. Jazāk Allāhu khayran.