Privacy policy

Mushafim is made by AHISKA, a brand of MINIMA Group, Edward Staintonstraat 52, 3550 Heusden-Zolder, Belgium, enterprise number BE 1003.161.132. AHISKA is the controller of the data described here. For any question about privacy, write to info@ahiska.be.

Your settings, bookmarks, the place where you stopped reading, the drawings of teacher mode, your Khatm and Hifz progress (with My weak places), and the text and recitations you save for reading without internet are stored on your device only: in your browser’s storage, or in the app. We never receive them. You remove them by clearing the site’s data in your browser, with Reset settings, or by deleting the app. Mushafim uses no cookies.

To show you the Quran, your device downloads the text, the search indexes, the recitations and, in the app, the speech model of the Recitation check from mushafim.com and from our content delivery network, cdn.ahiska.be. As with any website, these requests carry your IP address and some technical details (the browser or app version, the type of device, the file asked for). Our servers use them to send you the files, and keep short technical logs to protect the service and fix errors. The logs are deleted once they are no longer needed for that and are never used to identify you or to build a profile.

We do this on the basis of our legitimate interest in delivering a working and secure service (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

mushafim.com counts visits with Plausible Analytics, which we run ourselves on our own server. It uses no cookies and stores no personal data: your IP address and browser are only used to compute a code that changes every day and cannot be traced back to you. We see totals only, such as pages viewed, countries, the sites that link to us and how often features are used (for example playing a recitation or adding a bookmark). The app has no visit statistics.

The basis is our legitimate interest in knowing how Mushafim is used, so we can improve it.

When the app crashes or meets an error, it sends a report to Sentry so we can fix it. The report holds the error, the app version, the device model and the version of its operating system. It holds no name, no IP address (Sentry is set not to store it), no screenshots and nothing of what you read. Reports are stored in Sentry’s EU region (Germany) and kept for up to 90 days.

The basis is our legitimate interest in an app that works.

The app asks Expo’s update service whether a newer version of its software is available. The request holds the platform, the app version, the update channel and a random code created when the app was installed, which is not linked to you. Expo (650 Industries, Inc.) is based in the United States; the transfer relies on the standard contractual clauses of the European Commission in Expo’s data processing terms.

These companies process the data above on our behalf, under a data processing agreement:

• Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany: the servers of mushafim.com, of the statistics and of the files behind our content delivery network
• BunnyWay d.o.o. (bunny.net), Slovenia: the content delivery network for the text and the recitations
• Functional Software, Inc. (Sentry), with storage in the EU: the app’s crash reports
• 650 Industries, Inc. (Expo), United States: the app’s updates

When our content delivery network cannot deliver a recitation, the player fetches it from cdn.islamic.network, where the recitations come from; that service then receives your IP address, as any site you load a file from does. Apple and Google handle the download of the app from their stores under their own privacy policies, and links to other sites, such as Elif Ba or the sources of the translations, lead to sites with their own policies.

We sell no data, show no ads and do not follow you across other apps or websites.

The app asks for no access to your location, contacts, camera or photos. It asks for the microphone only for the Recitation check, the first time you tap a microphone button. It listens only while that button is on; your recitation is recognized on your phone, by a speech model downloaded once, and no sound leaves your phone or is kept. You can take the permission back in your phone’s settings at any time. On Android it runs a media playback service, so recitations keep playing with the screen off and can be controlled from the notification. Sharing an ayah opens your phone’s share sheet: you choose what is sent, and to whom.

If you turn on reading reminders, the app asks to send you notifications. The reminders are scheduled on your device and contain only where you stopped reading; nothing is sent to us or to anyone else. You turn them off in the app’s settings or in your phone’s settings.

Mushafim is for readers of all ages. It asks no one for personal data, children included.

Under the GDPR you may ask for access to your personal data, for its correction or deletion, for a copy, or restrict or object to its processing. As we hold no data that identifies you, we can usually link nothing to you; write to info@ahiska.be and we will help.

You may also lodge a complaint with the Belgian Data Protection Authority, Drukpersstraat 35, 1000 Brussels, www.dataprotectionauthority.be.

When this policy changes, we update this page and the date at the top.