Privacy

Who runs this site

This site is run by two individuals based in Jordan. It is not run by a company or an association.

Account data

When you create an account we collect your name, e-mail address and password. We also keep your progress in courses, your quiz results and your certificates. We send you e-mails when needed, for example when you complete a course, about books you searched for, or about problems you contacted us about.

Library history

While you are signed in, we keep a history of your activity in the library: the books and categories you open, the language filters you choose and the words you search for. We use it to improve the site and so that you can go back to what you were looking for. You can view and download this history from your account. You can also save books to your account favorites and remove them whenever you choose. Favorites stay with your account so they are available on your other devices.

How long we keep data, and deleting your account

We have not set a fixed period for keeping account, progress and history data. To have your account deleted, e-mail [email protected] and we will delete it within 24 hours of your request. Google Analytics data is described below.

Children

The site is open to everyone, including children, and registration is not restricted by age. We do not ask for your age.

Hosting and other services

The site and its account server are hosted by GreenGeeks, and we use Cloudflare. Some features contact other services directly from your browser. When the prayer-times feature has no saved city for you, it looks up your location from your IP address through ipapi.co. If you choose to use your device location, approximate coordinates are sent to OpenStreetMap (Nominatim). Searching for a city sends the text you type to Open-Meteo. Quran text is loaded from api.alquran.cloud. Embedded videos and audio come from YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud and Google Drive. Each of these services handles data under its own policy.

Measurement is optional

We ask before measuring anything. Until you accept, the Google Analytics script is not requested and no measurement event is sent. If you decline, the site works the same.

What we measure

If you accept, we use Google Analytics 4, a service of Google, to count visits and see which pages, courses, lessons and audio items are used. We send the address of each page you open, without any query string or fragment (certificate verification codes are replaced by a placeholder), and these events: signing up (only the method), enrolling in a course (the course identifier), starting and completing a lesson (the course and lesson identifiers, and how the lesson was completed), and starting audio (the content type and item identifier), pressing the read or download button of a book (the book identifier), pressing the sign-up button in the header or the start button of a course (the course identifier), and switching the interface language (the language chosen). Audio is measured for audiobook files and Quran verses played on this site; items embedded from YouTube or SoundCloud are not measured.

What we do not send

We do not put your name, e-mail address, password, sign-in token or other account details into any event. The page title is not sent; the page path is sent in its place.

What Google receives anyway

Because your browser contacts Google, Google also receives the technical information that every web request carries, such as your IP address, browser and device details and language. The site's code asks Google Analytics not to use Google signals and not to personalise ads. In our Google Analytics account, Google signals are turned off, the User-provided data collection feature is turned off (this does not mean Google Analytics collects no data about visitors), the collection of granular location and device data is turned off, and ad personalisation is allowed in none of the 307 regions the account lists. Event data is kept for 14 months. User data is also kept for 14 months, and because the option to reset the period on new activity is on, a visitor's user data keeps its period running from the visitor's latest activity. So this is not a promise to delete all data 14 months after it was collected. Google handles this data under its own privacy policy.

Cookies and browser storage

These are the cookies and browser storage the site uses:

• _ga and a cookie starting with _ga_ (Google Analytics): set only after you accept, to tell visits apart.
• analytics-consent (browser storage): remembers whether you accepted or declined. It stays on your device and is not sent to anyone.
• islamguide_session (cookie): keeps you signed in.
• NEXT_LOCALE (cookie): remembers your language.

Changing your choice

You can change your choice from Measurement settings at the bottom of the page (in the footer, or under the reader on surah pages). When you withdraw, the site turns measurement off and removes the Google Analytics cookies. This does not recall a request that had already started sending before you withdrew, and it does not delete data that was sent earlier. If you accept again after withdrawing, the current page is reloaded to resume measurement.

Questions

Questions about this page: [email protected].