Privacy Policy

Salah Buddy collects nothing about your child. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Names and progress stay on your device.

Salah Buddy helps parents teach children ages 4 to 10 how to pray. We built it so families can hand it to a child without worrying about privacy.

Salah Buddy is made by Iced Out Ventures LLC, a company in the United States. On this page, "we" means that company. We are responsible for the information described here.

What we collect

Nothing about your child. The app has no accounts, no sign-up, no ads and no tracking. It does not record what you or your child do in the app. Lessons work offline. Names, answers and progress are saved on your device and are never sent to us.

The one thing the app sends out is about your subscription. When the app opens, it asks a service called RevenueCat whether this device has a plan. The section on subscriptions below says what is sent and who receives it.

What stays on your device

To remember progress, the app saves a few things on your phone or tablet only:

• Each child's first name or nickname
• Your answers to the setup questions, like your child's age group and your practice time
• Lessons finished, check-ins, stars, stickers and streaks
• Settings, like the voice and one lesson a day

We cannot see any of this. You can change or clear it in the grown-up settings, and deleting the app deletes all of it from your device. If you back up your device, to iCloud for example, the backup may include it. That backup is yours, and we cannot see it.

Subscriptions and purchases

Subscriptions are bought through Apple with your Apple ID. We never see your name, your email or your payment details. Apple's own privacy policy covers what Apple does with your purchase. Apple shows us totals, such as downloads and sales by country, with no names.

To check that a subscription is active, the app uses a service called RevenueCat, which works for us. RevenueCat receives the purchase history for Salah Buddy on your Apple ID: which plan, what it cost, when it started, and when it renews or ends. It is kept under a random ID made on your device. That ID is not linked to your name, your email or your child.

Technical details come with each check: the app version, your device model and iOS version, your language setting, the country of your App Store, and an ID that Apple gives your device for our apps only. It is not the advertising ID. Like any internet service, RevenueCat also sees your IP address and the time of the check. The check happens even if you never subscribe, because that is how the app finds out whether there is a plan.

This is used for three things only: to tell the app whether a plan is active, to stop misuse of subscriptions, and to show us totals, such as how many families have a plan. It is never used for ads, never used to find out who you are, and never sold. RevenueCat's privacy policy is at revenuecat.com/privacy.

Sound

When the app reads words aloud, the sound comes from the app or from your device. Nothing is recorded and the microphone is never used.

Children

Children use the app together with a parent. The app asks a child for nothing, and nothing about a child leaves the device: no name, no voice, no photos, no location, and nothing they tap. A subscription is the parent's purchase, and the subscription record holds nothing about a child. There are no ads and no way for a child to contact anyone. Settings sit behind a grown-up check. So does the subscription screen whenever it is opened from a child's screen. The only link out of the app is to Apple's terms of use, on the subscription screen.

The U.S. children's privacy law (COPPA) asks us to tell parents this. The only identifiers the app sends are the random ID and the device ID described above. They are used only to keep subscriptions working: checking for a plan, stopping misuse and counting totals. They are never used for ads, to build a profile of anyone, or to contact anyone. We make sure of that in three ways: the app has no advertising tools and nothing that watches what you do, RevenueCat may use the information only to provide this service to us, and nothing in the record says who you are. A parent can ask us what we hold and have it deleted. See "Your choices and rights" below.

For children: Salah Buddy does not know who you are. Your name and your stars stay on your family's phone or tablet. If you have a question, ask a grown-up.

If you email us

When you write to support, we see your email address and whatever you tell us. We use it only to answer you. We don't add you to a mailing list and we don't pass it on. Our email provider stores it for us. Support is for grown-ups, so please tell us no more about your child than we need to help.

Who receives information

We never sell your information, and we never share it for advertising. Only these companies handle it, and only to do their job for us: RevenueCat (the subscription record), Cloudflare (our website) and our email provider (support emails). Apple handles your purchase under its own privacy policy. We would hand information to the authorities only if the law made us.

Where it is kept, and for how long

We are in the United States, and RevenueCat keeps its records there. So if you live somewhere else, your subscription record and any email you send us are handled in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from yours. RevenueCat's contract with us requires it to protect this information to the standard of European and UK law. The connection between the app and RevenueCat is encrypted.

RevenueCat keeps the subscription record until we delete it, and we delete yours when you ask. We keep support emails only as long as we need them to help you. What is saved on your device stays there until you clear it or delete the app.

Your choices and rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us what we hold about you, ask for a copy, ask us to correct or delete it, or ask us to stop using it. Email support@getsalahbuddy.com and we will answer within 30 days. Asking costs nothing, and we will never treat you differently for it.

The subscription record has no name on it, so we will ask you for something that lets us find it, such as the order number on your receipt from Apple. If your plan is still active when we delete the record, the app makes a new one the next time it checks.

To cancel a plan, open Settings on your device, tap your name, then Subscriptions. To stop the checks altogether, delete the app.

Europe and the UK

If you live in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, Iced Out Ventures LLC is the controller of the information on this page. Our legal reasons for using it are: to provide the plan you bought (our contract with you), and our legitimate interest in checking for a plan, stopping misuse, counting totals and answering your emails. We make no automated decisions about you. You also have the right to complain to the data protection authority where you live. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office. We would be glad to hear from you first.

This website

We do not use cookies, analytics or tracking scripts on this website. Our host, Cloudflare, handles basic connection details such as your IP address to deliver the page and keep it secure.

Changes

If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date above. The newest version is always at getsalahbuddy.com/privacy.

Contact

Questions? Email us at support@getsalahbuddy.com.