Effective date: 3 November 2026
This policy describes Nidaa’s current data practices. We will update it if those practices change.
Prayer times stay on your device
Nidaa calculates prayer times and Qibla direction on your device. You do not need an account. The app contains no advertising or usage analytics, and we do not operate a server that receives your prayer settings or camera feed.
Location and saved settings
Nidaa stores your selected coordinates, saved city names and prayer preferences on your device. The app and its widgets share these settings using local storage on your device.
Location permission is optional and is requested only while you use the app. You may enter coordinates manually instead. Approximate location is sufficient for the app.
Apple Watch and the Lock Screen countdown
If you use Nidaa on Apple Watch, your iPhone sends your saved place (city name, time zone and coordinates rounded to about 100 m) and your prayer-time settings to your paired watch through Apple’s WatchConnectivity, so the watch can show the same times. This data goes only between your own devices. Nidaa does not receive it.
The optional prayer countdown appears on your Lock Screen, in the Dynamic Island and in the Apple Watch Smart Stack. It runs on your devices, uses no push service and may show your saved city’s name when its time zone differs from your phone’s.
City searches and Apple geocoding
When Nidaa looks up a city name for coordinates, it sends those coordinates to Apple’s geocoding service. When you search for a city, it sends your search text to Apple. The app may also attempt a city-name lookup after you enter coordinates manually; manual entry still works if that lookup is unavailable.
These requests need internet access and are handled by Apple under its privacy policy. Prayer calculations do not use an online prayer-time service.
Nearby mosques
When you open the Mosques tab, Nidaa sends the location it searches from (your current location if you allow it, otherwise your saved location) to Apple’s MapKit service to find nearby mosques and prayer rooms and to estimate walking, driving and public transport times. Apple handles these requests under its privacy policy. Nidaa does not store this information on any server of its own and does not share it with anyone else. If you choose directions in Google Maps or Waze, the destination is passed to that app.
Camera and Qibla direction
Camera access is optional and is used for augmented-reality Qibla guidance. Nidaa does not record, save or upload camera images. Camera, heading and AR processing run on your device.
Notifications
If you allow notifications, Nidaa schedules prayer alerts and reminders locally. You can change sounds and reminders in the app or turn off notification permission in your device settings.
Your choices and data retention
You can revoke location and camera permissions in your device settings and replace the saved location in Nidaa. Settings remain on your device until you change them or remove the app’s stored data. Your operating system controls app deletion, backups and shared widget storage. There is no Nidaa account or developer-held copy of your app settings to delete.
If you contact support
If you email nidaaprayer@gmail.com, we receive your email address and the information you choose to send. If you use Send Feedback in the app, the draft email also includes the app version, iOS version and app language, which you can edit or remove before sending. We use it to respond to your request. Your email provider and ours process the correspondence as part of delivering and storing email.
We retain support correspondence only as needed to handle the request and related follow-up, or where retention is required by law. You may ask us to delete it by emailing the same address.
This website
This site is hosted by GitHub Pages. We have added no analytics scripts, advertising, cookies or contact forms. GitHub may process technical request information, including your IP address, to deliver and protect the website. See GitHub’s privacy statement.
Questions and changes
For privacy questions or requests, contact nidaaprayer@gmail.com. If this policy changes, we will publish the updated version here with a new effective date.