What Yabqa knows about you.

• Your route, your history and your settings live on your own device.
• If you create an account, the same information is also kept in your account so it survives a lost phone and reaches your other devices. Nobody else can read it.
• There is no advertising, no analytics and no tracking of any kind in Yabqa.
• You can export everything, and you can delete everything, from inside the app.

Your memorisation route, every completed sitting, the places you have marked as weak, your goals and schedule, your reading position, and your settings. This is stored by your browser under the name hifdh-companion-store-v1, along with a few small flags: whether you have agreed to the follower using your microphone, which first-use explanations you have already seen, and a cache of the last passage you opened so it reopens quickly.

Clearing your browser data, or your browser deciding to clear it for you, removes all of this. That is the main reason accounts exist.

Creating an account stores your email address and a copy of the same information listed above. If you sign in with Apple or Google instead of an email code, they tell Yabqa your email address — with Apple you may choose a private address that forwards to yours — and Apple may also pass on your name the first time, if you allow it; Yabqa keeps that name in your account and nothing else from them. It is protected so that only you can read or change it — every request is checked against your own account, and other people's requests for your data are refused by the database itself, not merely hidden by the app.

Voice recordings are never uploaded. If an old version of Yabqa saved a recording on your device, it stays on your device.

There are only three things, and two of them you control.

• Recitation audio. When you press play, Yabqa streams the recitation from Quran.com (for some reciters, from its audio mirror at quranicaudio.com). That request tells them a device asked for a particular recitation. The Qur'an text is included in Yabqa itself — the Tanzil Project's Uthmani text — and no request is ever made to Tanzil for it.
• Your account. If you sign in, your route is sent to and from your account as described above. If you do not sign in, nothing is sent.
• The optional follower. See the next section — this one deserves its own.

Yabqa contains no analytics, no advertising, no third-party trackers and no social media pixels.

There is one more thing, and it only happens when Yabqa breaks. If something goes wrong, Yabqa sends us a description of the fault: what the code did wrong, the shape of the screen it happened on — /quran/:n rather than the Surah you were reading — the make of your browser, and which build you were on. It carries no name, no account, no device or session identifier, and nothing that could be joined back to you. Before it is sent, your device removes any Arabic, any email address and every number, so a passage cannot travel inside an error message; the database refuses the report outright if any of that survives. Identical faults are counted together as one, so what we end up with is “this broke 412 times” and never a list of people. It goes to our own database, not to any reporting company. You can turn it off in You → Privacy, and if you do, nothing is sent at all.

There is one thing we count, and this is it. If you have an account, we ask our own database how many accounts revised on three or more days in a week. It is a single number — nobody's name, nobody's passages, nobody's dates — worked out from the route already in your account, and it is read by us and sent nowhere. If you never sign in, you are not in it at all.

The follower — the optional feature that keeps your place while you recite — is off until you turn it on, and asks before it uses the microphone the first time.

On the website, the follower uses your browser's own speech recognition, and on most browsers that means your browser sends the audio to its own provider's servers to be turned into words. That happens between you and your browser's maker under their privacy policy, not ours. Yabqa never receives the audio, never stores it, and keeps only the words while the sitting is open.

In the iPhone app, the follower turns your recitation into words on the phone itself, with a speech recogniser built into Yabqa. Nothing you say leaves the phone. If that recogniser cannot start, the app uses Apple's speech recognition instead, which may send the audio to Apple under Apple's privacy policy; the notice before the follower starts says which one your phone will use.

We put this plainly rather than in a footnote, because it is the one part of Yabqa where something you say can leave your device.

A record of Qur'an memorisation says something about your religious practice, which the law in many places treats with extra care. Yabqa is built accordingly: no advertising, no profiling, no sharing, and a delete that really deletes.

We keep your information because you asked us to: keeping your route is the service itself. Because it says something about your religious practice, we also ask for your clear agreement when you create an account. To take that agreement back, delete your account. The person responsible for your information is Uzmaan Azeem.

Your route is kept for as long as you keep it. Delete your account and it is removed — your saved route, your history and your email address — and this is not a flag marking you as deleted; the rows are gone.

An account that nobody opens is kept until you delete it. A ḥāfiẓ can come back after years, and Yabqa does not delete a route because it has been quiet. Your account is stored in Seoul, South Korea.

From the You screen you can export everything Yabqa holds as a single file you keep, and you can delete everything. Deleting asks you to confirm in words, because it cannot be undone.

If you would rather ask us to do it, write to salaam@yabqa.app. Depending on where you live you may also have the right to a copy of your information, to have it corrected, or to object to it being held at all.

Yabqa is for anyone memorising the Qur'an, including young people learning with a teacher or a parent. An account may be created from the age of 13. Below that, Yabqa can still be used on a device without an account.

The date at the top changes with it. If a change means something genuinely different happens to your information, Yabqa will say so in the app rather than quietly updating this page.