Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 23, 2026

This policy covers the Salah Ceylon mobile app (published by NerdCody) and the prayer-lk API it talks to.

Summary

Salah Ceylon does not have user accounts and does not sell or share your data with advertisers. The app does use Firebase Analytics (a Google service) to understand how the app is used, described below.

What the app does locally, on your device

• Your selected district and notification/athan-sound preferences are stored only on your device, so they persist between app launches. They are never sent anywhere except as described under Analytics below.
• Downloaded Raheek Al-Makhtoom audio chapters are cached on your device for offline playback.
• Your last-played Raheek chapter and playback position are stored only on your device, so playback can resume where you left off.

What the app sends over the network

The app makes anonymous requests to our server to fetch:

• Prayer time schedules for your selected district
• The athan sound catalog
• The Raheek Al-Makhtoom chapter list and audio files

These requests do not include any personal information, device identifiers, or account data — they're the same for every user who selects the same district.

Notifications

If you enable athan notifications, they're scheduled entirely on your device using iOS's local notification system. No notification content or schedule is sent to any server.

Analytics

The app uses Firebase Analytics, provided by Google, to understand how people use the app so we can improve it. Firebase Analytics automatically collects:

• App usage data: screens viewed, session count and duration, app opens, first install, and app updates
• Device and app info: device model, operating system and version, app version, language/locale, country/region (derived from IP, which Google does not otherwise retain), and time zone
• An anonymous, resettable device/app-instance identifier (not tied to your name, email, or any account, because the app has no accounts)

In addition, the app logs the following in-app events to understand feature usage: selecting a district, changing notification or athan sound settings, sending a test notification, previewing an athan sound, and Raheek Al-Makhtoom playback actions (playing, pausing, skipping, seeking, downloading, and deleting downloaded chapters). Each event only includes the specific detail named (e.g. which district was selected, which chapter was played) — never your name, contacts, or any other personal data, because the app never collects that.

This data is processed by Google as described in the Google Analytics for Firebase Terms of Service and Google's Privacy Policy. You can request deletion of your app's Analytics data by uninstalling the app, which resets the anonymous identifier tied to it.

Third parties

Firebase Analytics (Google) is the only analytics service the app integrates — the app does not integrate any advertising or crash-reporting SDKs. Audio files, prayer-time data, and Analytics data are all served through or processed by Google Cloud Platform / Firebase infrastructure that NerdCody operates or Google operates on our behalf.

Children's privacy

The app does not knowingly direct the collection of information from children beyond the anonymous, aggregate Analytics data described above, which is not used to identify any individual, child or adult.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this same URL with a new "Last updated" date.

Contact

Questions about this policy: support@nerdcody.org