Privacy policy
This policy explains how the Salah app and the al-salah.app website, operated by EPLWORLD ("we"), handle your data. In short: no accounts, no ads, no tracking or analytics, and your location stays on your device.
What we don't collect
- We don't ask you to create an account, and we don't collect your name or phone number.
- We show no ads and use no analytics, tracking tools or advertising identifiers.
- We don't sell any data or share it for marketing.
Location
If you allow it, the app uses your device's location to calculate prayer times and the Qibla direction. The calculation runs on your device, and the chosen location is stored only on your device. It is never sent to our servers. You can instead pick your country and city by hand without granting location access.
To show your city's name or search for a city, the app uses the place lookup service built into your phone's operating system (from Apple or Google). That service is covered by the platform provider's privacy policy.
Data stored on your device
Your settings, favourites, bookmarks, khatmah progress and downloaded recitations are stored only on your device and are deleted when you delete the app. Adhan and Athkar alerts are scheduled on your device and do not go through our servers.
The "Contact us" form
When you send a message from the app, we receive your message, your email address if you enter one (it is optional), the app language, the platform (iOS or Android) and the app version. We use this only to reply to you and to improve the app.
Messages are stored in our content management system on a server in Frankfurt, Germany (Amazon Web Services), and only the app team can read them. We hold your IP address briefly in server memory to block spam, and we do not store it with your message. We keep messages for no more than 12 months and then delete them.
Content updates
The app connects to our server api.al-salah.app to download content updates, such as alert texts, live channel lists and guide videos. These requests carry no personal data; the server only sees your IP address, as with any internet connection.
Third-party services
Some features show content from other providers. When you use them, your phone connects directly to their servers:
- MP3Quran (mp3quran.net): streaming and downloading recitations, and Quran radio.
- YouTube (Google): the live Quran and Sunnah channels and the Wudu and prayer guide videos, through the official embedded player. Watching is covered by Google's privacy policy.
- App Store and Google Play: when you rate the app or open its store page.
This website
al-salah.app uses no cookies and no analytics, and its fonts are served from our own server.
Children
The app is suitable for all ages, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from children.
Your rights
You can ask to see or delete the messages you sent us at any time by writing to us from the same email address. To delete the data stored on your device, delete the app.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will publish the new version on this page with its date.
Contact
For any privacy question: contact@al-salah.app