Sakan is a daily worship app for iPhone, made by Umar Gora. This policy explains what happens to your information when you use it.
What stays on your iPhone
Your wird, your salah log, your counts, your khatm, your history, your haidh, nifas and travel dates, and your settings are stored only on your iPhone. There is no account. We cannot see this information, and we never receive it. It is included in your iPhone or iCloud backup, which Apple manages under its own privacy policy. Deleting the app deletes it.
Your location
Sakan works out the salah times on your iPhone, so it needs to know roughly where you are. You choose how:
- Use my location. With your permission, iOS gives Sakan your location. The salah times are calculated on your iPhone. To show the name of your town, Sakan sends your location, rounded to about 10 metres, to the Sakan server, which asks postcodes.io for the nearest town.
- Search for a town or postcode. The text you type is sent to the Sakan server, which asks postcodes.io for matching places.
The Sakan server does not store your location or your search. Its logs record only which kind of request was made, its result and how long it took. postcodes.io is a free UK postcode service run by Ideal Postcodes; its privacy policy is at postcodes.io. Our hosting provider may keep standard technical records, such as IP addresses, for a short time to keep the service secure.
If you do not allow location and do not search, Sakan uses a default place and sends nothing.
The Islamic date
Sakan downloads the start dates of the Islamic months from the Sakan server. This request contains no information about you.
Notifications
Reminders are scheduled on your iPhone by iOS. No notification server is involved, and we do not know which reminders you choose.
What we do not do
Sakan has no adverts, no analytics, no tracking and no third-party SDKs. We do not sell or share information about you, because we do not have it.
Children
Sakan is suitable for all ages and does not knowingly collect information from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top.
Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@umar.codes