Privacy Policy
What Would Allah Do · Last updated August 24, 2026
What Would Allah Do is a voice app. You talk with Hakim, an AI advisor grounded in the Quran, and Hakim talks back. To do that, the app has to handle some of your personal information. This page explains what we collect, why we collect it, and what we will never do with it — in plain words, not legal jargon.
We know Muslims have been burned before. In 2020, popular prayer apps were caught selling users’ location data to brokers. We built this app knowing that history, and we run it differently.
Not to advertisers, not to data brokers, not to anyone. That is the whole sentence, and there is no fine print under it.
What we collect, and why
- An anonymous ID. The app does not have accounts today. Instead, it creates a random identifier on your phone — no name, no email, nothing about who you are. That ID is what lets Hakim remember your conversations between visits.
- Your conversation transcripts. We keep a written record of your conversations with Hakim, tied to that anonymous ID, so he can remember what you have talked about before and give guidance that fits your life. Hakim also keeps a short private note of what matters to you (a name if you share one, a situation you are carrying) for the same reason. You can erase all of it — see deleting your data.
- Your location, only if you allow it — and it stays on your phone. If you grant location permission, prayer times and the qibla direction are calculated on your device. Your location is never transmitted to our servers. If you say no, the app still works.
- Your device timezone. So prayer times, daily limits, and the Islamic calendar line up with your day.
- Anonymous usage counts. We count events like “a conversation started” and “a reply took this many seconds” so we can tell whether the app is working well. These counts never include what anyone said, use only a one-way scrambled form of the anonymous ID, and expire from our analytics within about 90 days.
That is the full list. We do not collect your name, your email, your contacts, your photos, your browsing history, or anything else. There are no advertising trackers in this app, and there never will be.
Coming later: accounts and subscriptions. When “Continue with Google” sign-in and paid subscriptions launch, we will collect your name and email from Google sign-in, and learn from Google Play whether your subscription is active (never your card details). This policy will be updated before that happens, and the promise above will not change.
Your voice
When you talk to Hakim, your voice is sent, as you speak, to ElevenLabs — the company that provides Hakim’s voice — so that your words can be understood and turned into text. This is what lets Hakim hear Arabic in its regional dialects, know when you have finished a thought, and stop the moment you speak over him.
Your speech is streamed for that purpose and is not stored by us. We never keep a recording of your voice. What we keep is the written transcript, as described above.
If you would rather not have your voice leave the phone at all, you can type to Hakim instead — the message box works exactly like speaking to him, and nothing is sent from your microphone.
Who helps us run the app
Like nearly every app, we use a few companies to make things work. Each one processes only what it needs for its job:
- Cloudflare (USA) — hosts the app and stores our database, including your transcripts.
- Anthropic — powers Hakim’s AI conversation. The text of what you say is sent to Anthropic to generate Hakim’s reply.
- ElevenLabs — hears what you say and turns it into text, and gives Hakim his voice. Your speech passes through them for both halves of the conversation.
These companies work for us under their own privacy and security commitments. Some of them process data in the United States, so your data may be stored or processed there. None of them may sell your data, and neither may we. We do not use your conversations to train AI models, and our providers are not permitted to either.
Two small technical notes, in the spirit of listing everything: the app’s fonts load from Google Fonts, which — like any website resource — sees standard connection data such as your IP address. And the audio of Hakim’s spoken replies is cached briefly so repeated phrases don’t cost twice; cached audio is stored by a fingerprint of the sentence text, not by who heard it, and expires automatically within 30 days.
How long we keep your data
We keep your transcripts and Hakim’s memory note for as long as you use the app, because that is what lets Hakim remember your conversations. When you ask us to delete your data, it is gone within 30 days. We never keep your voice — your speech is streamed to be understood as you say it, and we store only the written words.
Your rights
Your data belongs to you. At any time, you can:
- See your data. Email us and we will send you a copy of what we hold.
- Delete your data. Full instructions are on our data deletion page.
Depending on where you live, the law may give you more rights than these (such as correcting your data or taking a copy elsewhere). Email us and we will honor them.
Children
What Would Allah Do is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child is using the app, email us and we will delete the associated data.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the date at the top of this page. If a change meaningfully affects how we handle your data, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact us
Questions, requests, or worries — write to us at support@whatwouldallahdo.com. A person will read it.