Effective 14 October 2026 (updated: what your account keeps about Support purchases and completed Umrahs; earlier: no Plus purchase: every feature is free; optional Support purchases; a weather forecast on the Prayer times page; optional account sync of Umrah times; weather from MET Norway; the app is now called Umrah for Beginners).
In short
- Without an account, everything stays on your phone. We never upload it.
- Every feature of the app is free and works without an account.
- The only purchases are optional Support tiers. Apple handles the payment. They unlock nothing.
- An account is optional. If you sign in, it keeps your Umrah times and steps (your list of Umrahs and badges) with your account, so they come back on a new phone. Photos, captions, duas, your birthday, checklist and settings never leave your phone.
- No usage analytics and no tracking.
- The app never uses your location. When you finish an Umrah, it checks the weather at the Haram once. When you open Prayer times, it gets the forecast for the city shown there. Those requests carry nothing about you.
- No ads, and no tracking across other apps or websites.
This policy covers the Umrah for Beginners app for iPhone and its web version (together, "the app"). "We" and "us" means All Day Design Studio, which is responsible for your data. Contact: accounts@allday.design.
1. What stays on your phone
These are stored in the app's storage on your device. Without an account they are never sent to us or to anyone else. With an account, only the items marked (synced) are also kept with your account (section 2):
- your Umrah progress: phase, circuits and lengths, times, pauses and hair choice (synced);
- your list of Umrahs: each one's steps, date, completion background and the weather at the Haram when you finished it (synced), and its photos (never synced);
- your badges (synced), and your birthday if you add it (day and month only, no year), which is used only for the birthday badge and never synced;
- the name you enter when you perform an Umrah for someone else (synced, as part of that Umrah);
- your answers in Setup (who the guide is for, your route to Makkah) and your checklist;
- your photos and captions in Memories;
- your saved duas and the duas you write yourself;
- your settings, including your prayer-times city, which you pick by hand.
Photos leave the app only when you choose Save to device (to your photo library) or share your recap card. Deleting the app deletes all of this data. So does Settings → Reset data.
The weather check
When an Umrah reaches its last step, the app asks MET Norway (the Norwegian Meteorological Institute's free weather service, api.met.no) once for the current weather at the Haram in Makkah. It picks the background of your completion screen (for example, rain or a hot afternoon). The request contains only the Haram's fixed coordinates (21.4225, 39.8262). The iPhone app also sends its name, version and a link to its project page so MET Norway knows which app is asking; the web version sends the website's address, as every browser does. The request never contains your location, an ID, your account or anything you entered. Like any web server, MET Norway's server sees the internet address the request comes from in order to answer it. The answer is saved with that Umrah on your phone and is never fetched again. With no connection, the app skips the check and uses the time of day.
The forecast on Prayer times. Beside each prayer time the app shows a small weather icon and the temperature. For this it asks MET Norway for the forecast at the city shown on that page: Makkah, or the city you picked from the list. The request contains that city's fixed coordinates and, as above, the app's name and version; it never contains your location or anything about you. It is sent only when you open the Prayer times page, and then only when there is no forecast yet, or when a prayer is at most 30 minutes away, and once more when it is at most 10 minutes away. Nothing is requested while the page is closed. The forecast is kept on your phone and replaced by the next one.
Weather data: MET Norway, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0). The app reduces each forecast to rain or no rain, the temperature and day or night.
2. Optional account
You never need an account to use the app. If you choose to sign in, it keeps your Umrah times and steps on every device where you sign in. You can sign in with Apple, with Google, or with a one-time code sent to your email address.
When you sign in, our account provider, Supabase, stores:
- your email address (with Sign in with Apple, this is the private relay address if you choose "Hide My Email");
- with Google, the name and profile picture link Google shares with the sign-in;
- a random account ID, the sign-in method, and when the account was created and last used;
- your Umrah times and steps: the items marked (synced) in section 1, updated a few seconds after each change while you are signed in. Photos are removed before anything is sent. Only you can read this copy;
- a short record of each Umrah you complete while signed in: its number in your list and when you completed it. It stays if you delete that Umrah in the app, and goes when you delete your account;
- which Support tiers your account owns, if you buy one while signed in (section 3);
- security logs kept by Supabase, such as sign-in times and IP addresses.
Your account data is hosted by Supabase in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region (AWS ap-south-1). The one-time
code email is sent by Supabase through our email delivery provider; it contains only the code. Your account never contains your photos, captions, duas, birthday,
checklist or settings.
3. Purchases
Every feature of the app is free. The only purchases are three optional Support tiers (Supporter, Gold and Cosmic). Each is a one-time purchase made through Apple. A Support purchase unlocks nothing: it adds a decorative style and a supporter stamp to your shareable Umrah card, and earns a "Thank you" badge. Apple handles the payment. We never see your card or payment details. Nothing renews.
We use RevenueCat to check and restore Support purchases. RevenueCat receives the App Store receipt for this app, the product, the price and currency, the purchase date, and an app user ID. That ID is random, or your account ID if you are signed in. RevenueCat keeps the purchase record. If you are signed in, RevenueCat also tells our server which Support tiers your account owns (the product IDs and the highest tier), so they stay with your account. Signed out, our server receives nothing about your purchases.
4. No usage analytics
The app does not collect usage analytics and does not track you. If we ever add anonymous usage statistics, they will be off unless you turn them on, and we will update this policy first.
5. What we never do
- We never ask for, read or store your location. Prayer times use the city you pick. The weather check uses the Haram's fixed coordinates, and the Prayer times forecast uses the fixed coordinates of the city shown there. Map links in the app point to fixed places, such as the miqat at Masjid Aishah.
- We never show ads.
- We never track you across other companies' apps or websites, and we never sell or rent your data.
- We never use your data to train AI models.
6. Services we use
| Service | Used for | Data | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple | App Store, payments, Sign in with Apple | Purchase; Apple ID sign-in | Apple's regions |
| Sign in with Google (optional) | Google sign-in | Google's regions | |
| Supabase | Accounts (optional) | Email, account ID, Umrah times and steps (no photos) | India (Mumbai) |
| RevenueCat | Checking and restoring Support purchases | Receipt, product, app user ID (random, or your account ID) | United States |
| MET Norway | The weather at the Haram, once per completed Umrah | None about you (the Haram's fixed coordinates; the app's name and version, or the website's address) | Norway |
When data moves between countries, these services protect it with standard contractual clauses or an equivalent safeguard.
7. Why we use it
- Account and purchase data: to provide what you asked for (signing in, your Support purchase).
- Security logs: our legitimate interest in keeping accounts safe.
8. How long we keep it
- Data on your phone: until you reset it or delete the app.
- Account data: until you delete your account.
- Purchase records: as long as Apple and RevenueCat need them to keep your purchase working and for tax and accounting rules.
9. Deleting your data
- Delete your account in the app: Settings → Account → Delete account, then hold to confirm. This deletes your account, its profile, its copy of your Umrah times, its record of completed Umrahs and its record of Support tiers from our servers straight away. Your Umrah on this phone stays.
- Delete one Umrah: Memories → the Umrah → Delete. Its photos are deleted from the app. Badges you earned stay.
- Delete what is on your phone: Settings → Reset data, or delete the app.
- Purchase records: contact us through the Support page and we will delete them.
Deleting your account does not cancel or refund a purchase. A Support purchase stays tied to your Apple ID: open the Support screen (Journey → Prepare → the Support card, or the end of Settings) and tap Restore Purchase to get it back.
10. Your rights
You can ask to see, correct, export or delete the data we hold about you, and you can object to or restrict how we use it. Contact us through the Support page. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
11. Children
The app is a guide for pilgrims and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly create accounts for children under 13. If you think a child has created an account, contact us and we will delete it.
12. Security
All connections use HTTPS. Account data is protected by row-level security, so each account can read only its own record. No one who makes Umrah for Beginners can see your Umrah progress, photos or duas, because they never leave your phone.
13. Changes
If we change this policy, we update the date at the top and describe what changed on this page. We never start using data in a new way without asking you first.
14 October 2026: with an account, our server now also keeps which Support tiers the account owns and a short record of each completed Umrah (its number and date) until you delete the account. Signed out, nothing changes.
10 October 2026: Umrah for Beginners Plus was removed. Every feature is free for everyone. The only purchases are optional Support tiers, which unlock nothing. Our server no longer stores a purchase status with your account; RevenueCat keeps the purchase record.
9 October 2026: added the weather check, your list of Umrahs, badges, the optional birthday, names for an Umrah for someone else (all on your phone); with an optional account, your Umrah times and steps (never photos) are kept with the account. The free 3-day trial was withdrawn. The weather check now asks MET Norway instead of Open-Meteo; the request still carries nothing about you.
14. Contact
Contact us via the Support page.