--- title: "Privacy Policy | Islam Is Mercy" description: "What Islam Is Mercy records about visitors, why, where it is kept, for how long, and how to delete it — in plain words." lang: en url: https://islamismercy.com/en/privacy/ --- 1. [Home](https://islamismercy.com/en/) 2. Privacy Policy # Privacy Policy We want you to trust this site, so this page explains in plain words exactly what we record and why. In short: **no ads, no third-party trackers, no selling of data, and we never store your name or your IP address.** ## 1\. What every visitor sends us **Approximate location, for prayer times.** When a page shows prayer times, your browser asks our server for your approximate location. That location (city, country, time zone and approximate coordinates) comes from your internet connection through our hosting provider, Cloudflare. We send it back to your browser and save it in a cookie called `iim_loc` for 12 hours, so pages don’t have to ask again. **An anonymous daily count.** Each time that location is looked up, we add 1 to a daily count for that country, city and website language. The count has **no visitor number, no IP address and no device details**, so it cannot be traced to you. It tells us, for example, how many visitors came from Cairo in Arabic on a given day. **Your exact location (only if you ask).** If you press “Use my exact location”, your browser asks your permission and gives us precise coordinates. They are used only inside your browser to calculate prayer times and are kept there (in local storage). They are **never sent to our server**. **Your language choice.** If you pick a language from the menu, a cookie called `lang` remembers it for one year. ## 2\. What we record only if you choose to tell us On your first visit, a window asks: “How would you describe yourself?” Answering is **completely voluntary**. If you choose “Prefer not to say”, or close the window, **nothing below is recorded**. If you do choose an answer, we use it to suggest reading that fits you and, in summary form, to understand which articles help which readers. Your browser then keeps a **random visitor number** (it is not linked to your name, email or IP address), and we record against that number: - the description you chose (for example “Christian” or “Thinking about Islam”); - the website language, your country, region, city and time zone (from your connection); - the type of device (phone, tablet or computer) — not the full browser details; - the website you came from, if any (only its name, such as google.com); - which articles you read and which suggestions you clicked, with the date and time; - when you first and last visited, and how many visits you have made. **We do not record** your name, email, IP address, exact location or full browser details. Because a description such as “Muslim”, “Christian” or “Thinking about Islam” concerns religious belief, we treat it as especially sensitive. Choosing an answer in that window is your **explicit consent** to this use. You can withdraw it at any time (see section 5). ## 3\. Where the data is kept Our website runs on **Cloudflare**, which hosts the pages, runs our small server code and stores the database. Cloudflare processes this data for us and may store it in data centres outside your country. We do not share it with anyone else, and we do not use advertising or analytics companies. ## 4\. How long we keep it - The `iim_loc` cookie: **12 hours**. The `lang` cookie: **1 year**. - Visitor profiles and their reading history: **deleted automatically after 24 months without a visit**, or immediately if you press “Forget me”. - The anonymous daily counts are statistics with no personal data and may be kept long term. ## 5\. Your choices and rights - **Forget me.** Open the “How would you describe yourself?” window (the “Personalise” link at the bottom of every page) and press **“Forget me”**. This deletes your visitor profile and reading history from our database immediately, and removes the visitor number from your browser. - **Change your answer** at any time from the same window. - **Clear your browser’s cookies and site data** to remove everything stored on your device. - You may also ask us for a copy of your data or for its deletion by writing to **[privacy@islamismercy.com](mailto:privacy@islamismercy.com)**. Because we never store your name, we may ask for the visitor number shown in your browser’s storage to find your record. Depending on where you live (for example under the EU and UK GDPR), you have the right to access, correct, delete and object to the use of your data, and to complain to your data protection authority. ## 6\. Children This site is for a general audience. If you are under 16, please ask a parent or guardian before answering the “How would you describe yourself?” question. ## 7\. Other websites Sources on our pages open official sites such as quran.com and sunnah.com, which have their own privacy policies. ## 8\. Changes If we change how we use data, we will update this page and the date at the top. Questions are always welcome: **[privacy@islamismercy.com](mailto:privacy@islamismercy.com)**.