سياسة الخصوصية | Privacy Policy

🕌 About the App

"Al-Mithan" (المِذّن) displays prayer times in the State of Qatar according to the official annual calendar published on the Qatar Ministry of Awqaf website.

The app relies on an official annual file extracted from the ministry publication, with technical fallback handling only when a specific day is missing from the extracted data.

• Display five daily prayer times and sunrise
• Qibla direction compass
• Nearby mosques map
• Adhkar (supplications) and Tasbih counter
• Prayer time notifications

📊 Data Collection

Al-Mithan app does not collect any personal data about you. We believe your privacy is a fundamental right.

• We don't collect names or email addresses
• We don't collect phone numbers
• We don't collect payment information
• We don't collect any personally identifiable information
• We don't collect usage data or analytics

📍 Location Data

Location access is completely optional. Prayer times work without location permission (defaulting to Doha).

If you grant location access, it is used only for:

• Determining the Qibla direction accurately via compass
• Showing nearby mosques on the map

⚠️ Important: Your location data stays on your device only and is never sent, stored, or shared with any third party. You can deny location permission and the app will work fully.

🌐 Third-Party Services

The app uses the following services to fetch prayer time data only:

• Qatar Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs: Primary official source for prayer times
• Technical/local fallback: Used only when a specific day is unavailable in the extracted annual file

No personal data or location data is sent to these services.

🔗 Data Sharing

We do not share any data with third parties:

• We don't sell your data
• We don't share your location with advertising companies
• We don't use tracking or analytics tools that collect personal data
• The app contains no advertisements

⚙️ Required Permissions

The app requests the following permissions to provide its services:

• Location (optional): For Qibla direction and nearby mosques map only
• Notifications (optional): To alert you about prayer times and Adhan

All permissions are optional. You can revoke them at any time from your device settings and the app will continue to work fully.

💾 Data Storage

All your settings and preferences (such as preferred Adhan sound, display mode) are stored locally on your device only. There is no user account or login required.

🔔 Notifications

To deliver the adhan and your reminders, your device is issued a push notification token (FCM Token) by Google's Firebase service. It identifies the device, not you: it carries no name, no email and nothing that points back to you, and it is used for nothing but delivering notifications.

Turning notifications off in your device settings drops the token, and the app keeps working.

💬 Contact and support

There is no support chat inside the app. "Contact us" opens your own email app or WhatsApp, and you send the message yourself — nothing passes through the app.

🗑️ Requesting deletion of your data

The app creates no account for you and keeps no record about you. Your settings, your bookmarks in the mushaf and your khatma progress live on your device alone, and uninstalling the app deletes them.

If you want to be certain nothing remains — such as the notification token — write to ralkubaisi89@gmail.com and we will act within thirty days.

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Children's Privacy

The app is safe at any age, and we collect no one's data — child or adult. It is not directed at children under 13.

🔄 Policy Updates

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by updating this page.