Privacy Policy

Information we collect

Hidayahs collects the minimum needed to sign you in and keep your subscription active.

• Your mobile number — used to identify your account and to send the one-time verification code.
• Your mobile operator — derived from your number prefix, used to route the daily charge.
• A subscriber ID and reference number issued by the billing system for each verification.
• Your subscription status — whether the account is currently registered and paid.

We do not ask for your name, email address, national ID, photograph, or contact list, and we have no way to read your messages.

What stays on your device

The following are stored only in your browser's local storage. They are never uploaded, never backed up by us, and are erased if you clear your browser data.

• Bookmarked verses
• Your last reading position
• Tasbih counts, targets and streak
• Text size, night mode and language preference
• Your saved coordinates and prayer calculation method

How we use your information

Your mobile number and subscription details are used for exactly four things: verifying that it is you, checking whether your subscription is active, processing the daily charge, and cancelling when you ask us to.

We do not sell your data, we do not rent it, and we do not share it with advertisers. There are no advertising trackers in this application.

Location data

Prayer times and the qibla direction need to know roughly where you are. When you allow it, your browser gives us a latitude and longitude, which we round and store on your device.

Those coordinates are sent to the prayer-time service only to calculate timings. If you decline the permission, Hidayahs falls back to Dhaka and everything else keeps working.

We never store a location history, and we cannot see where you have been.

Third-party services

Hidayahs fetches its content from external services. When it does, those services can see the request — including your IP address, as any web request would reveal.

• A public Quran dataset, for the Arabic text and Bangla translation.
• A hadith and prayer-times service, for the collections, timetables and Ramadan schedule.
• Translation services, used only when you ask for a passage to be translated into Bangla.
• A recitation audio host, used only while you are playing a verse.
• A web font provider, for the Arabic, Bangla and Latin typefaces.

We do not pass your mobile number or subscription details to any of these services.

Billing and your operator

Payment is handled by direct carrier billing. To take the daily ৳2.78 from your balance, your mobile operator — Robi or Cirkle — is told that a charge is due for your number. Your operator applies its own privacy policy to that transaction.

We never see or store your balance, your call records, or any other operator data.

Data retention

Your mobile number and subscription record are kept for as long as the subscription is active, and for a limited period afterwards so that billing disputes can be resolved. Verification codes and reference numbers expire shortly after use.

Your rights

• Cancel at any time from Settings or the Subscription page — no phone call, no retention offer.
• Erase everything held on your device by signing out and clearing your browser data.
• Ask what we hold about your number, and ask for it to be deleted after your subscription ends.
• Withdraw location permission at any time in your browser settings.

Children

This service is billed to a mobile account and is intended for the person who controls that account. It is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or how we use it, the updated date at the top will change and the new version will appear here before it takes effect.