Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2, 2026

Short version: Qoum does not require an account and is designed to keep prayer history, precise coordinates, settings, guardian details and user audio on your device. We use Firebase Firestore for minimal aggregate community counters. Those events can include the selected city and challenge type, but our application does not attach your name, email, phone number, advertising ID or a Qoum user ID to them. Qoum has no ads.

1. Who we are

Qoum ("the app", "we") is published by Tayba LLC, 300 Delaware Avenue, Wilmington, DE 19801, USA. You can reach us at [email protected]. This policy explains how Qoum handles information when you use the Android or iOS app.

2. Information kept on your device

Qoum stores the following locally so the app can work:

Your precise latitude and longitude and timezone, used to calculate prayer times offline.
Your prayer history, streak and missed-prayer status.
Your settings, including calculation method, alarm mode, language, theme and sound choice.
The guardian phone number you enter, if you enable that feature.
The QR identifier you register if you use the QR challenge.

Qoum does not upload your precise latitude/longitude, prayer history, guardian phone number or QR identifier to our application backend.

3. Aggregate information sent to Firebase

To operate community counters such as "X people rising for Fajr tonight", Qoum sends limited events to Firebase Firestore (Google). Depending on the action, the application payload can contain:

The local calendar date.
Whether an alarm was scheduled.
Whether Fajr was confirmed completed.
The selected city name, for city-level aggregate counters.
The selected wake-up challenge type, for aggregate feature statistics.

Qoum does not add a name, email address, phone number, advertising identifier or Qoum account identifier to those events. As with normal internet services, infrastructure providers may process technical network information such as IP addresses in order to deliver and secure requests under their own policies.

4. Information we do not use for advertising

Qoum does not show third-party advertising.
Qoum does not use IDFA or Android advertising IDs for ad targeting.
Qoum does not sell personal information.
Qoum does not access your contacts, photos or calendar for the current released feature set.

5. Permissions

Location · to detect your position and calculate prayer times. Precise coordinates are kept locally; the resulting city name may be used in the aggregate counters described above.
Camera · only for features that require scanning, such as the QR wake-up challenge.
Motion sensors · only for motion-based wake-up challenges.
Notifications / alarm-related permissions · to schedule and present Fajr alarms and reminders.

You can change app permissions from your phone's system settings. Features that depend on a revoked permission may stop working.

6. Third-party services

Firebase Firestore (Google) · stores the aggregate counters described in section 3. See Google's Privacy Policy.
Open-Meteo geocoding API · used when you search for a city by name. The search text is sent to that service so it can return matching places.

7. Children

Qoum is not designed to require personal profiles from children and does not knowingly ask users to submit direct identifiers to create an account. If you believe a child has provided personal information to us through a support channel or another service, contact us so we can review the request.

8. Retention

Local app data remains on the device until you clear app storage or uninstall Qoum, subject to the operating system's own backup behavior. Aggregate Firebase counters may be retained for historical statistics.

9. Your choices and rights

You can erase local Qoum data by clearing the app's storage or uninstalling it. The aggregate counters are intentionally not stored with a Qoum account or direct application identifier that lets us locate an individual user's contribution. For privacy questions or rights requests, contact [email protected].

10. International processing

Our service providers may process information in countries where they operate. Their privacy documentation describes their infrastructure and international data-transfer practices.

11. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy when Qoum's features or data practices change. The "Last updated" date above shows the latest revision.

12. Contact

For any privacy question or request, write to [email protected].