My Azaan Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 20, 2026.

This Privacy Policy explains what data My Azaan collects, how it's used, and your rights regarding it.

My Azaan is built to need as little of your data as possible. It has no account system and no analytics. The short version: the name of the place you are in goes to a prayer-time service so it can work out when the prayers fall there, a banner ad at the bottom of the screen is served by Google AdMob, and the app checks a file we publish to see whether a newer version exists. Nothing else leaves your device.

No account required

My Azaan does not require you to create an account, sign in, or provide any personal identifying information such as your name, email address, or phone number. There are no logins, passwords, or single sign-on of any kind. The app is free and has no purchases.

What we collect

Location

My Azaan needs to know where you are to calculate prayer times, which depend entirely on your latitude and longitude.

You choose how it learns this. You can search for a place, in which case the name you picked is used as-is, or you can tap "Use Current Location", which asks iOS for your device's location and turns it into a town-and-country name such as "Karachi, Pakistan".

Either way it is that place name, not your coordinates, that is sent to the AlAdhan Prayer Times API (aladhan.com) to retrieve the timings for it. One consequence is worth knowing: if you search for something more specific than a town — a street address, or a landmark — then that is the text that gets sent, so search at whatever level of detail you are comfortable with.

That request contains the place name, the calculation method and your chosen juristic school. It carries no identifier of you or your device, and we operate no server that sees or records it. Your coordinates never leave the device at all — they are kept locally and used only to calculate prayer times offline if the API cannot be reached. Your chosen location is stored on your device so the app knows where you are next time.

App settings

Your location, Fiqh/Madhab, time format, chosen Azaan voice, and your per-prayer notification sound choices — separately for weekdays and weekends — are stored only in your device's local storage. They are not uploaded, backed up to any server we control, or synced across devices.

Prayer times

Once fetched, the year's prayer-time calendar is cached on your device so the app works offline without contacting the API again.

Update checks

When it launches, My Azaan fetches a small static file we publish to see whether a newer version has been released. It is the same file for every user, and the request sends nothing about you — no identifier, no location, no settings. It is the only request the app makes to infrastructure we control, it is served as plain static storage with no access logging enabled, and we neither collect nor retain anything from it.

Advertising

My Azaan is free, and a single banner ad at the bottom of the screen pays for it. The ad is served by Google AdMob.

Every ad request is explicitly marked non-personalized: My Azaan does not use your device's advertising identifier (Apple's IDFA) or any tracking data to choose which ads you see, and does not build a profile of you. Because no tracking data is requested, we do not show Apple's App Tracking Transparency prompt.

AdMob still processes basic technical data — such as your IP address and general device and app information — in order to serve and measure the ad, under Google's own privacy policy. That processing is Google's, not ours; we never receive it.

Ads are never shown between you and a prayer time. The banner is confined to a fixed strip at the bottom of the screen, and My Azaan shows no full-screen, interstitial, or rewarded ads at all.

What we do not collect

We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, or browsing history. We do not use analytics SDKs of any kind. Beyond the non-personalized ad serving described above, we do not track you across apps or websites.

Notifications

My Azaan schedules local notifications for prayer times directly on your device. They are generated on-device by iOS and are never sent through a push notification server — we have no way to send you a notification, and no record of the ones your device shows you.

If you turn on Ring on Silent, prayers set to Full Azaan or Beep are scheduled as alarms instead, using Apple's AlarmKit. These are scheduled on your device in exactly the same way: iOS asks your permission first, the alarm is held by the system rather than by us, and nothing about it — that it was set, that it rang, or that you dismissed it — is transmitted anywhere or recorded by us.

Third-party service providers

We share the minimum data necessary with the following service providers, under their own respective privacy policies:

Data retention

Children's privacy

My Azaan is not directed at children under the age of 13 (or the minimum age required in your country), and we do not knowingly collect data from children. The app collects no personal data from any user regardless of age, and the ads it shows are non-personalized and are not targeted using any data about children.

Your rights

Because your location, settings, and prayer times live only on your device, you can exercise data rights directly: changing your location in Settings replaces it, and deleting the app removes everything. You can also revoke location access at any time in iOS Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services → My Azaan, and continue using the app by searching for a city instead.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the effective date above is updated and the current version is published at https://myazaan.awaisk.com/privacy-policy.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email awaiskaleem@gmail.com.