Privacy Policy

1. What this policy covers

This policy covers the Dua Diary iPhone app and this website (duadiary.app). The two are handled differently, so they are described separately below: the app collects nothing, while the website's optional waitlist form does collect an email address.

2. What the app stores, and where

The following are created by you and saved only in the app's own storage on your device:

• Collections and the duas inside them, including any you write yourself
• Personal notes attached to a dua
• Daily reflections
• Your recitation history, repetition counts and consistency record
• Your routines and their reminder settings
• App preferences, such as text size, Arabic style and prayer calculation method

None of this is transmitted anywhere. It is not sent to us, and this version of the app does not sync it to any online account.

3. What leaves your device

We would rather be precise than reassuring, so here is the complete list of times any information leaves your phone because of Dua Diary:

• If you type a city for prayer times. When you set your location manually in Settings, the city name you type is sent to Apple's geocoding service to convert it into coordinates. Apple handles that request under Apple's Privacy Policy. Nothing else about you accompanies it, and it is not sent to us.
• If you export your data. Export creates a file and hands it to the iOS share sheet. Where it goes from there is entirely your choice.
• If you share a dua image. The card is rendered on your device and passed to the share sheet, the same way.

That is the whole list. The app contains no analytics, advertising, attribution or crash reporting SDKs, and no code that contacts a server of ours.

4. Device backups

Because your duas live in the app's storage on your phone, they are included in your device's own backups if you back your phone up to iCloud or a computer. Those backups belong to you and are governed by Apple's Privacy Policy, not by us. This is the only way a copy of your content would ordinarily exist off your device.

5. Permissions the app may ask for

Each is requested only when you first use the feature that needs it, and each can be revoked at any time in the iOS Settings app.

• Location — used only to work out prayer times on your device, so a routine set to a prayer window opens at the right moment. Your coordinates are used for that calculation and are not stored by us or transmitted. If you decline, prayer windows fall back to an estimate and the app tells you plainly that it needs your location rather than showing times it cannot vouch for.
• Notifications — used only for the reminders you set up yourself. They are scheduled on your device, so their content never passes through a server. There are no marketing or promotional notifications, and you can have reminders show only "Dua Diary" on the lock screen instead of a collection name.

6. The writing assistant

On iPhones that support Apple Intelligence, Dua Diary can offer to help you express a dua you have started writing. This runs entirely on your device using Apple's on-device model. Your words are not uploaded, are not stored by us, and are not used to train any model. You always see the suggestion first and can keep your own words instead — nothing is changed without your say. The app explains this before the first time you use it.

7. Analytics

Analytics are off unless you turn them on in Settings → Privacy & Data. Even when enabled, the app writes a small number of non-identifying usage events to your device's own system log and nothing more: there is no third-party analytics service, and the events are never transmitted to us or anyone else. We currently have no way to see how anyone uses the app.

8. Your control over your data

• Export — Settings → Privacy & Data → Export my data gives you a copy of everything you have written.
• Delete — Settings → Privacy & Data → Delete all data permanently removes every collection, dua, note, reflection and reminder from the device. It asks you to type a confirmation first, and it cannot be undone.
• Uninstall — deleting the app removes its stored data from your device along with it.

9. This website

The site is a set of static pages. It sets no tracking cookies and runs no analytics or advertising scripts, so we do not follow you between visits or across sites.

The one exception is the waitlist form. If you choose to use it, the email address you enter — and your name, if you add it — is submitted through Google Forms and stored in a private spreadsheet only we can open. Google processes that submission on our behalf under its own terms. We use it solely to tell you when Dua Diary is available, we do not add you to any other list, and we do not sell or pass it on. Ask us at any time and we will delete it.

10. Children

Dua Diary is suitable for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children — the app collects none from anyone, and the only information the website collects is an email address you would have to enter yourself.

11. Your rights

If you are in the UK, EU, California or another region with data protection rights, those rights include access, correction, deletion and portability. In practice they apply only to a waitlist email address, since that is the sole piece of personal information we ever hold — your duas are on your device, where we cannot reach them. Write to us and we will act on any such request.

12. Changes to this policy

If the app changes in a way that affects your privacy — for example, if a future version adds optional sync between your own devices — we will update this page and its date before that version ships, and describe plainly what changed.

13. Contact

Questions about your privacy, or about anything on this page: hello@duadiary.app. We would rather answer a question than have you wonder.