1. Scope
This page describes information handling by the Al Huda iPhone app and the public website at alhudaprayer.com.
2. App information handled on the device
Core prayer calculations, prayer settings, authority records, travel choices, reminders, preferences and transient Zakat calculator inputs are handled on the user’s device. No Al Huda account is required.
The app may handle:
- a current or manually selected location used to calculate prayer times and Qibla;
- civil time zone, calculation method, Asr convention, high-latitude rule and prayer offsets;
- notification choices and locally scheduled prayer reminders;
- home, current and planned-destination location profiles;
- user-recorded Ramadan, Eid, Jumu’ah and authority-source details;
- an installation-local trial start date and Apple-managed lifetime entitlement state.
Current Zakat calculator values are transient and are not intentionally persisted. The current source has no location-history model.
3. Location and Apple services
Location is requested in context and at the minimum scope required for prayer calculations and Qibla. Manual city mode remains available. A user-requested device-location fix may send coordinates to Apple’s reverse-geocoding service to resolve the civil time zone. Those coordinates are not sent to an Al Huda server.
Apple’s handling of information through iOS, Core Location, reverse geocoding, notifications, StoreKit and the App Store is governed by Apple’s applicable terms and privacy information.
4. What Al Huda does not include
Al Huda contains no account system, advertising SDK, behavioural analytics SDK, remote configuration service, marketing-notification system, remote prayer history or Al Huda backend.
5. Website hosting and technical requests
The public website is designed as a static site hosted by Netlify. Like ordinary web hosting, Netlify may process technical request information needed to deliver and protect the site, such as an IP address, request time, browser or device information, requested URL and security or diagnostic data. Al Huda does not add analytics, advertising trackers or a customer account to the site by default.
The site uses no contact form, marketing email capture or payment system. No cookie banner is shown because the site does not intentionally set non-essential cookies in its own code.
6. Prayer Essentials and external links
Prayer Essentials publishes original guides and considered collections. Any affiliate destination is clearly labelled. Selecting one takes the visitor to Amazon, where Amazon’s privacy, cookie, account and purchase practices apply. Al Huda does not process the resulting payment, order, delivery or return.
7. Purchases
Any in-app purchase is processed by Apple. Al Huda receives entitlement information rather than full payment-card details.
8. Sharing and sale
Al Huda does not sell personal information. Information is not shared for behavioural advertising. Service providers may process limited information where necessary to operate their service—for example Apple for platform features and Netlify for website hosting—under their respective terms.
9. Retention and deletion
The in-app reset clears saved preferences and local records while retaining Apple-managed lifetime-purchase history. Website hosting and security logs, if any, are handled according to Netlify’s service terms and security practices.
10. Security
Al Huda uses local-first architecture to reduce the information it collects. The website is configured for HTTPS and restrictive browser security headers. No method of storage or transmission can be guaranteed completely secure.
11. Changes
This page will be updated when the app, website, service providers or commercial model change.
12. Contact
For the current help pathways, visit Contact.