Privacy policy

Reading

Reading and searching need no account. Your browser sends the ordinary request information any website receives. Cookies and browser storage hold your preferences and your sign-in; clearing them resets the site and may sign you out. Country flags load from flagcdn.com, which receives the same request information.

Prayer times and fasting

The prayer times and fasting need no account. Finding a city sends what you type to Google Maps. Without an account, the city you choose stays in your browser. Signed in, your account keeps the city's name, coordinates and time zone, so your times follow you to every device and your dashboard; a city chosen in your browser before you signed in moves to your account and leaves the browser. No one else can read it, our staff included. Remove deletes it. We never ask for your device's location and keep no history of places.

Notifications

Notifications are off until you turn them on. When you do, we keep the address your phone or browser gives us for them, the app's version, its language and clock, and a short name for the device, such as iPhone or Safari on Mac. Your reminders are read for the city your account keeps; without an account, a device that takes them keeps its own city with us. Apple, Google or your browser's maker carries each notification, so we never put your name or your city in one: only a prayer's name and time, or the day's words. Remove a device, sign out in a browser, take back its permission, or turn notifications off on the device, and we forget its address; we also forget it when the push service tells us it no longer exists. We keep a record of what was sent for 30 days, and forget a device we have not heard from in 180.

We send announcements, news of the site and the nonprofit, to your account's email address unless you turn them off, and the day's verse and reminder each morning if you turn them on, in your notifications. Amazon Web Services carries each email. We keep a record of each email sent and whether it went for 180 days. Every one ends on a link that turns off emails like it, with no sign-in.

Asking the AI

Your question, the conversation before it, and the passages it draws on are sent to Anthropic, whose Claude models write the AI's answers and search overviews; what you search for or ask is also sent to OpenAI to find the passages that match it. Both keep their own records, so leave private details out of a question. To keep the AI within its daily limits, we count the messages each account sends. Without an account, the count is kept under a keyed hash of your network address, not the address itself.

Without an account, a conversation stays in your browser until you start a new chat, and we keep none of it. When you are signed in, your chats are saved to your account so you can return to them, with your questions, the answers, and when each was written. A chat you had before signing in is saved only if you choose Save this chat. Only you see your chats on the site; our team does not read them, except as needed to keep the service running or when the law requires. Share a chat and anyone with its link can read it, up to where you shared it, without signing in; Stop sharing takes the link away.

Your chats stay until you remove them or close your account. Remove one from History, or download or remove them all in your account settings; a removed chat is gone from the site at once, and from our database backups within 27 days. An answer that drew on Library material only our team can read is held back from you if your account no longer has that access. We do not keep memories from your chats or use them to train AI.

Accounts

You sign in through Apple or Google, or with a passkey you add once signed in. Apple or Google share the name, email, and picture you allow. A passkey stays on your device; we keep its public key, its name, and when it was added and last used. We keep these with your account, along with its role, your sign-in records, and a bio if you write one. You and our developers and administrators can see your profile. They also see your devices, your notification choices, the emails sent to you, and how much of the AI's daily allowance you used, to run and repair the service. If you hold a role on our team, your name, picture, bio, role, and community are shown to the people who help run the site (contributors and above). We never see your password.

Religion and community

Giving your religion is optional. You choose it in your own word, and we keep it with the date you last gave it. We keep it because a community on the site is for Submitters: joining one asks that your religion is Submitter. You can remove it at any time from your profile, which also takes you out of your community. Only you and our developers and administrators can see it; it is not published or shown to other members. The community you choose is kept with your account and seen by you and our developers and administrators. If you are on our team, the people who help run the site see it on your team card.

Contact persons

A community's public page lists its contact persons by first name and last initial, with the phone, email, Instagram, and Discord given for them, so readers can reach them. Their full name is not published. Our contributors keep these entries. Ask us to change or remove one.

Sharing

We do not sell personal information or use it for advertising. It reaches the providers that run the site and its AI, only as needed to do so, and may be processed in the United States. We disclose information when the law requires it or to protect people and the service.

Your choices

Delete your account, and everything kept with it, from your account settings on the site or Settings in the app. Email [email protected] to see, correct, or delete your information. We may keep what the law or the service's security requires, and will say so.

Children and changes

Accounts and the AI are not for children under 13. We date this policy when it changes and give notice of material changes where we can.