Privacy Policy
What Would Allah Do · Last updated October 14, 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 reported to have passed users’ location data to data 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 Android app has no accounts and no sign-in. Instead, it creates a random identifier on your phone — no name, no email, nothing about who you are. That ID is sent to our servers with your conversations, and when you use voice it is also passed to ElevenLabs, so that Hakim can remember your conversations between visits. You can see it in Settings.
- 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. Because you may talk about your faith and your life, a transcript can reveal your religious beliefs and other personal things you choose to share. You can erase all of it — in the app, tap Delete my data in Settings, or 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. When you type to Hakim, the app sends your phone’s timezone, and we keep it with your usage record so that your daily time limit resets at your own midnight. It is not used for anything else.
- 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.
- Your usage record. How many seconds you have spent with Hakim today, and when each conversation started and how long it lasted, tied to your anonymous ID, so that we can apply the daily time limit.
- What you type into Quran search. The words you type in the Quran search box are sent to our servers to find matching verses. Our application does not save them.
- Answers you report. If you tap Report a wrong answer under one of Hakim’s replies, we store the question you asked and Hakim’s reply so that we can review it. A report is not linked to your anonymous ID, so the Delete my data button does not remove it — email us with its wording and we will remove it.
- Standard connection data. Like any app, each connection shows your IP address to the companies that carry it — Cloudflare and ElevenLabs, and Google for fonts (see below).
That is the full list. The app never asks for your name or your email address, and we do not collect your contacts, your photos, your browsing history, or an advertising ID. Names and details you choose to share in conversation are covered above. The only way we receive a name and email address is if you choose to sign in with Google on the web version (see below). There are no advertising trackers in this app, and there never will be.
Signing in with Google (web version only). The Android app has no sign-in. On the web version at whatwouldallahdo.com you can choose “Continue with Google”. If you do, Google gives us your name, email address and profile picture, we store them on our servers, and we keep a sign-in cookie in your browser for 90 days. Signing in is optional; Hakim works without it. There is no paid plan or in-app purchase in the app today. If that changes, this policy will be updated before we collect anything new, 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, and we have switched off ElevenLabs’ recording feature for Hakim’s conversations, so no recording of your voice is saved on their side either. We never keep a recording of your voice. We have also set ElevenLabs’ conversation-record retention for Hakim to zero days. 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, Hakim’s memory note and your usage record until you delete them, because that is what lets Hakim remember your conversations. There is no automatic deletion today: if you stop using the app or uninstall it, they stay on our servers until you ask for them to be removed. If you tap Delete my data in the app’s Settings, they are erased immediately; if you ask us by email, we delete them within 30 days. Reports you send with Report a wrong answer are kept until we remove them, and anonymous usage counts expire within about 90 days. Things stored only on your phone (bookmarks, prayer log, settings, your last known location) stay there until you clear the app’s storage or uninstall it. 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. In the app, open Settings and tap Delete my data to erase your conversations, Hakim’s memory note and your usage record from our servers right away. You can also ask us by email — 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.