Privacy Policy

This policy describes the AyahClarity iPhone app and this website. It was written by reading the app's own code, so that every sentence below matches what the app really does.

Last updated 31 October 2026

Who is responsible

AyahClarity is published by Ahmed Ali. For anything in this policy, write to a416647123@gmail.com.

The short version

The app has no accounts, no sign-up and no server of ours. Your learning records are written to one file on your own iPhone, and none of it is sent to us — not your progress, not your answers, not a record of what you tap. The app is not silent on the network, though: it talks to Apple's App Store about your subscription. Anything else leaves your device only because you send it.

What is stored on your iPhone

Everything the app knows about your learning is kept in a single file inside the app's own storage area on the device. It contains:

your answers to the first questions the app asks when you set it up, and your settings;
which lessons you have started and completed;
each word and phrase you are revising, how strong it is, when it is next due, and which kinds of question you have answered correctly;
your individual answers to practice questions, with the time they were given;
how much you studied on each day;
your mistake notebook, any practice diagnostics you have taken, and any notes you have written in the app;
bookmarks, where you were last reading, and your reminder settings;
whether a subscription is currently active, as confirmed by the App Store;
a random identifier generated on the device itself, used only to tell one device's records apart. It is never sent anywhere.

We add no encryption of our own. The file sits inside the app's sandbox, where iOS's own protections apply — which, on an iPhone with a passcode, includes Apple's file encryption. If you have a corrupted save, the app sets the damaged copy aside beside the main file so your history is not lost; those copies are deleted along with everything else when you delete your data.

If you back your iPhone up to iCloud or to a computer, that backup includes the app's files, because Apple's device backup covers app data. That backup is yours and Apple's; we have no access to it.

What the app records about how you use it

The app does keep analytics — on the device. A short list of product events, things like "lesson started", "revision completed" or "subscription screen viewed", is held in memory while the app runs, up to the 500 most recent. Each event is one of a fixed set of names, and the only details attached are numbers, yes/no values and small fixed choices, so no question text, no ayah, no note and no free text can be carried in one. The list is not saved to disk: closing the app ends it.

None of it is sent anywhere. There is no analytics service connected to the app, no software development kit from another company, no crash reporter, and no advertising identifier in it. You can read the whole list and erase it: Settings → Your data → What this app records.

The same events are also written to your iPhone's own system log, as apps' messages normally are. That log belongs to iOS, not to the app: it stays on your device, iOS decides how long to keep it, and the app cannot erase it — so "Delete all local data" clears the app's own list but not entries already written to the system log. You can read that log by connecting the iPhone to a Mac running Apple's developer tools. We cannot.

What leaves your device

Subscriptions, through Apple

If you buy or restore a subscription, your iPhone talks to the App Store, under the Apple Account signed in on that device. Apple takes the payment and tells the app only whether a subscription is active, whether it will renew, and the relevant dates. We never receive your card details, your billing address or your Apple Account email, and the app has nowhere to send them: there is no server of ours. Apple's handling of that purchase is covered by Apple's Privacy Policy.

Email you choose to send

If you email support, we receive what you wrote and your email address, through our ordinary email provider.

The app's Report a content issue screen does not send anything itself. It builds the report as text and shows it to you in full before you copy it: the kind of problem, the lesson and question it came from, the content version and its review status, the app version and build, your iOS version, and your own comment. That is the whole of it — no name, no email address, no device identifier, none of your learning records and none of your notes. Tapping "Email it to…" opens your mail app with our address and a subject line filled in; the report itself is what you paste in, and nothing is sent until you send it. You can equally paste it somewhere else, or not send it at all.

If you attach a screenshot, we see whatever is in it, so please check it first. The same goes for an exported backup: it contains your whole learning history and your notes, so please don't email one unless we have asked you to and you are happy for us to see it.

Nothing else

Apart from the App Store, the app contacts nothing. It has no accounts, no sign-in, no sync, no ads, no social features and no third-party components — there is no server of ours for it to reach. Reminders, if you turn them on, are scheduled by iOS on the device; no reminder is sent from a server. Recitation audio is not included in this release, so nothing is downloaded for it. This is a statement about where data goes, not a promise that the app never uses the network: the App Store requests above are real network activity, and they are Apple's.

Permissions the app asks for

Only one: permission to send you notifications, and only if you turn a reminder on. The app does not ask for the microphone, the camera, your photos, your contacts or your location, and this release does not include the capability to use them.

This website

These three pages are plain HTML, hosted on Cloudflare Workers. They set no cookies, contain no analytics, no advertising or social pixels, no fonts or scripts loaded from anyone else, and no forms — the only contact route is an email link, which opens your own mail app.

Cloudflare, as the host, necessarily processes the technical details of each request (your IP address, your browser's user-agent string, the page requested and the time) in order to serve the page and protect the site from abuse. That processing is Cloudflare's, under Cloudflare's privacy policy; we have added no tracking of our own on top of it, and we do not build any profile of visitors.

Keeping and deleting

Your learning records: Stay on your device for as long as you keep them. Settings → Your data → Delete all local data removes the state file, the recorded event list, the recovery copies and any scheduled reminders, and tells you if anything could not be deleted. Deleting the app removes its storage as well.
Backups you exported: Yours to manage. A backup file you saved to Files, iCloud Drive or an email is outside the app; the app cannot reach it, and deleting your data in the app does not delete it. Delete it yourself wherever you put it.
The system log: Not ours to clear. Entries the app wrote to your iPhone's log stay until iOS discards them, and deleting the app's data does not remove them. They never leave the device unless you share a log yourself.
Support email: Sits in our mailbox while we deal with it, and is deleted once the matter is closed. We do not add you to a mailing list and we do not use your address for anything else.

Some things we cannot delete for you, and we will not pretend otherwise:

Apple's record of a purchase or subscription, which belongs to your Apple Account;
your own iCloud or computer backup of the iPhone;
a copy of an email once it is in your email provider's system as well as ours;
the request logs Cloudflare keeps for this website.

Because the app holds nothing about you on our side, there is normally no account for us to look up, export or erase. If you have emailed us and want that correspondence deleted, ask at a416647123@gmail.com and we will delete it.

Who the app is for

AyahClarity is made for anyone learning to understand the Arabic of Al-Fātiḥah, including families who use it together. It has no sign-up, no profile, no messaging and no social features, and it collects nothing about anyone — so there is nothing for us to hold about a child or an adult. For the same reason the app has no age check and no parental-consent process: there is nothing to consent to. A subscription can only be bought through the Apple Account on the device, where Apple's own controls, including Ask to Buy and Screen Time restrictions, apply.

Changes to this policy

If the app changes what it stores or sends, this page is updated and the date at the top changes with it. A change that affects what leaves your device will be stated plainly at the top of this page, and in the app's release notes for the version that makes the change.