Privacy Policy for Sakeenah (سكينة)

Effective date: 8 October 2026
App: Sakeenah (سكينة) — Android package com.ibrahim.sakeenah

Sakeenah is an offline-first Arabic reading app for the Quran, books such as Dalāʾil al-Khayrāt, prayer times, and local reminders (including daily ayah and hadith). This Privacy Policy explains how the app treats information.

1. Summary

• We do not require an account or login.
• We do not show ads or use advertising SDKs.
• We do not use analytics, crash-reporting, or tracking SDKs.
• The app is designed to work without sending your personal data to our servers (the developer does not operate a Sakeenah backend that collects user content).
• Preferences and reading progress stay on your device.

2. Information stored on your device

To provide features you choose, the app may store locally on your device, for example:

• Reminder settings (which reminders are on, and their times)
• Prayer-time preferences (city/location you select, calculation method, notification toggles)
• Quran bookmarks and last reading position for books/PDF
• Whether you opened the daily ayah/hadith inbox
• Scheduled local notifications managed by the Android system

This information remains on your device unless you clear the app data, uninstall the app, or choose to share content yourself (see below).

3. Permissions

Depending on your Android version and the features you enable, the app may ask for:

• Notifications — to show local reminders and prayer-time alerts you enable
• Exact alarms / Alarms & reminders — so those alerts can fire at the time you set

These permissions are used only to deliver on-device alerts. If you deny them, related reminder features stay off. You can change permissions later in Android system settings.

4. Location

Prayer times are calculated from a city you select from the app’s offline city list (coordinates bundled in the app). The app does not use continuous GPS tracking or send your location to the developer.

5. Sharing

If you use the in-app Share action (for example for an ayah, hadith, or prayer times), content you choose to share is passed to the Android share sheet and then to the app or service you select (messaging, email, etc.). That third party’s privacy policy applies to what you send them. Sakeenah does not upload shared content to a Sakeenah server.

6. Internet access

Core reading and reminders are designed to work offline. The app does not include advertising or analytics networks. Opening this privacy policy in a browser (or similar system features) uses your device’s normal network connection under your control.

7. Children

The app does not target children as a primary audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. Because the app does not collect personal data on our servers, there is no child account data for us to delete remotely.

8. Data retention and deletion

Local data remains until you delete it (clear app storage) or uninstall Sakeenah. Uninstalling removes the app’s local data from that device according to Android behavior.

9. Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy when the app’s behavior changes. The effective date at the top will be revised. Continued use of the app after an update means you acknowledge the revised policy.

10. Contact

For privacy questions about Sakeenah, contact the developer through the Google Play Store listing for Sakeenah (com.ibrahim.sakeenah) using the developer contact email shown there.