Privacy Policy
Muslim Haven has no accounts and no ads, and never sells your data. If you choose to use your location for prayer times, it is used only on your device and is never sent to us or to anyone else. To keep the app reliable, it sends anonymous usage statistics and crash reports through Google Firebase.
This Privacy Policy explains how the Muslim Haven application, formerly Quran Radio (“the app”), developed by Muhammad Alkady (“we”, “us”), accesses, collects, uses and shares information. Muslim Haven is an app for reading and listening to the Holy Quran (the mushaf, live Quranic radio stations and recitations by many reciters), with prayer times, prayer reminders and a qibla direction, on Android phones, tablets and Android TV.
Location data
What we access. With your permission, the app reads your device's approximate (coarse) location, accurate to about city level. It never asks for your precise (GPS-level) location.
Why. Your location is used only to work out the prayer times, the time zone and the qibla direction for where you are, and to show the name of the nearest town. The town name comes from a list of places built into the app, so no address lookup is made over the internet.
When. Location is optional. You can instead pick a city from a list, which needs no permission at all. The app reads your location only after you tap “Use my location” and grant the permission. While your prayer location is set to your device's location, the app refreshes it when you open the app, from time to time in the background, and shortly before each prayer, so that prayer times and reminders stay correct when you travel.
Background location (optional). If you also choose “Allow all the time”, those background refreshes can run while the app is closed, so a reminder follows you to a new city. Without it, the location is refreshed only while you use the app. Background location is used for nothing else.
Storage and sharing. Your location is stored only on your device: your current prayer location, and a history of the last 100 times the app asked for it (when, why, the result and the place found). You can view and clear this history in the prayer settings. Location data is never transmitted off your device. It is not sent to us, to Firebase, or to any third party, and it is never used for advertising or analytics. It is excluded from Android's cloud backup. If you move to a new phone with a direct device-to-device transfer, your prayer settings (including the saved location) go with you, but the location history does not.
Your control. You can turn location access off, or change “Allow all the time” to “Only while using the app”, at any time in your device's settings, or simply pick a city instead. Clearing the app's storage or uninstalling the app deletes all stored location data.
Usage statistics and crash reports
The app uses Google Firebase Analytics and Firebase Crashlytics, provided by Google, to understand how the app is used and to find and fix crashes. They collect:
- App interactions: for example, app opens, screens viewed and session length.
- Crash and diagnostic data: crash reports and error traces, with the app's own diagnostic messages leading up to an error.
- Device and app information: device model, Android version, app version and language.
- Identifiers: a random app-installation ID created by Firebase. This is not your advertising ID. The app does not collect the advertising ID.
- Google may infer your country or region from your IP address. This is not your device location.
This data is not linked to your name or to any account, and it is not used for ads. Google processes it on our behalf under the Firebase privacy and security terms and keeps it only for a limited period. You can reset the installation ID at any time by clearing the app's storage.
Data stored only on your device
To make the app work, some information is saved locally on your device and is never sent to us:
- Favorites, starred verses and playlists, including the names you give them.
- Recordings: audio you choose to record from radio stations, and any titles you add.
- Downloads: Quran audio you download for offline listening, kept in the app's private storage.
- Listening and reading activity: recent searches, listening history, and your reading and memorization progress.
- Prayer settings: your prayer location, calculation method, reminders and any adhan sounds you add.
- Playback preferences: your last playback position and your sleep-timer setting.
You stay in control of this data. You can delete items within the app, or remove all of it by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling the app. If you have turned on Android backup on your device, Android may back up some of this data to your own Google account. Your location, your location history, your prayer settings and your adhan sounds are always left out of that backup.
Network connections and third parties
The app connects to the internet to deliver its content. When you use it, your device requests content directly from the following services. Like any internet service, they receive standard technical request data such as your IP address. How they handle that data is governed by their own privacy policies:
- jsDelivr CDN (privacy policy): used to download the catalog of reciters, stations, Quran text and verse-timing data.
- mp3quran.net (privacy policy) and its mirror qurango.net: sources of Quran recitation audio files.
- Radio broadcasters' streaming services, such as RadioJar: used to stream live Quranic radio stations.
- Google Firebase (privacy policy): usage statistics and crash reports, as described above.
We do not sell or rent any data, and we do not share it with anyone other than the services listed above. We do not control these third-party services and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices.
Permissions the app uses
None of these permissions are used for advertising or tracking:
- Approximate location: optional; to calculate prayer times and the qibla for where you are (see “Location data”).
- Background location: optional; to keep prayer times and reminders correct when you travel while the app is closed.
- Internet & network state: to stream and download Quran audio and to check for a connection.
- Foreground service: to keep playback and downloads running while the app is in the background.
- Notifications: to show playback controls, download progress and prayer reminders.
- Alarms & full-screen alerts: to sound the adhan and prayer reminders at the exact time, even on the lock screen.
- Wake lock: to keep audio playing and downloads active without the device sleeping.
- Run at startup: to reschedule prayer reminders and resume interrupted downloads after a restart.
Children's privacy
The app is suitable for users of all ages. It does not knowingly collect personal information from children, and it collects no names, contact details or precise location from anyone.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and the “Last updated” date above will show the latest revision.
Contact us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, contact us at kady.muhammad@gmail.com.