Privacy policy: Prayer Times (working name): Prayer Times & Qibla

Status: this app is in development and has not been released yet. This policy describes what the app is designed to do, as written in its specification; it will be reviewed again before release.

In short

The app calculates prayer times and the Qibla direction on your phone. It has no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and it contains no network code. Nothing leaves the phone: city names come from a database shipped inside the app, with no online lookup.

What is stored on your phone

In a local database inside the app:

• Your saved locations: a name, country, coordinates and time zone, whether picked from the built-in city list, typed in, or found with your phone's location. One location is active at a time. Your location is never stored beyond the saved location that you can see and delete.
• Your settings: language, theme, calculation method, school of jurisprudence, per-prayer adjustments, display options, notification choices per prayer and the sound you pick, and Hijri date options.
• A record of which notifications the app last scheduled, used to show their status in settings.
• If you choose your own adhan sound file, a copy of it in the app's storage.
• There is no other user content, no account and no sync.

Permissions

• Location (while the app is in use): asked only after your own tap, to find the nearest city and compute prayer times and the Qibla on the phone. Nothing is uploaded. There is no background location.
• Notifications: asked the first time you switch on a reminder or adhan.
• Android: exact alarms (a special access that you grant in system settings) so that reminders ring on time; a foreground service of the media playback type so that the adhan can play; boot-completed so reminders are re-armed after a restart; vibrate. The release build has no internet permission.
• iPhone: a time-sensitive notification entitlement. There is no background audio mode.
• The compass uses the phone's direction sensors.

Backup and export

Settings backup is not part of the first version. The monthly timetable and today's times can be exported or shared as text or CSV by you, and you decide where they go.

What the app does not do

No advertising, no analytics, no accounts, no network use. Planned store privacy labels: App Store "Data Not Collected"; Google Play collects nothing and shares nothing.

Contact

Questions about privacy: plainapps@tuta.com.