TACLIIM Privacy Policy

Last updated: 27 August 2026

TACLIIM is an app for Islamic study groups. Teachers run classes, students join them, and the app keeps the register. This page explains what the app records about you, who can see it, and how to get rid of it.

This policy covers the TACLIIM Android app (package com.tacliim.so) and the server it talks to at tacliimmeeting.com.

1. What we collect

What you give us

• Your account — your name, your email address, your password, and whether you are a teacher or a student. A profile photo if you choose to add one.
• What you send in a group — text messages, voice notes, and photos.
• Photos, with the location taken out. A picture from a phone camera normally carries hidden information, including where it was taken. Every photo you send is re-made on our server before it is stored, and that removes the location, the camera model and the original timestamp. We do this even though the app already removes it before sending, because a promise that depends on the app behaving is not a promise.
• Absence reasons — if you tell your teacher why you missed a class, we store the name and phone number you enter and the reason you write. Please note that whatever you type here is read by your teacher, so do not include anything you would not want them to know.

What the app records as you use it

• Attendance — during a lesson the server asks whether you are still there. Your answer, or the absence of one, is recorded against that lesson.
• Which groups you are in, and whether you are currently online in one. The app sends a signal roughly every thirty seconds while you have a group open, so the class can see who is present.
• Your reading — your Qur'an bookmarks and the page you last read, and the same for books you download. See section 6: this is yours alone.
• How far you have read in each group, so the app can show you how many messages are waiting. It is a single number per group — the last message you have seen — not a record of what you read or when.
• A notification token for your handset, so we can send you a message alert. It is deleted when you log out, and also removed automatically once the handset stops accepting notifications — for example after you uninstall the app.

What we never collect

• Your location.
• Your contacts.
• Your SMS messages or your call history.
• Anything for advertising. There is no advertising in TACLIIM and no advertising network in it.

The app asks for the camera and the microphone so you can take part in a video lesson, and for permission to show notifications. It asks for Bluetooth so a headset works during a call. It does not use any of these outside a lesson.

2. How we use it

• To sign you in and show you the right groups.
• To deliver your messages to your class, and theirs to you.
• To run the attendance check during a lesson and produce the register your teacher sees.
• To tell you a new message has arrived.
• To put you back on the page you stopped at.

That is the whole list. We do not profile you, we do not build an advertising picture of you, and we do not sell your information to anybody.

3. Video and voice lessons

Video lessons run on our own server, not on a commercial video service. The picture and sound pass through a machine we rent and administer in Frankfurt, Germany. We do not record lessons, and no video or audio from a lesson is stored on our server or sent to any other company.

4. Notifications

Message notifications are delivered by Google's Firebase Cloud Messaging, because that is the only way an Android phone can be woken by a message when the app is closed. Google receives your handset's notification token and the fact that a notification was sent.

The notification itself says only the name of the group and that a new message has arrived. It deliberately does not include who sent it or what it says, because a lock screen is visible to whoever is holding the phone.

Attendance checks send no notification at all. They appear inside the lesson you are already in, so there is nothing to send to a phone that is not looking at it.

5. Who else sees your information

Three companies, each for one narrow purpose:

• Google (Firebase Cloud Messaging) — delivers notifications, as described above.
• Resend — sends our email. They handle the address a message is going to and the message itself: password reset links, and notices telling a teacher their account was approved or refused. No other information reaches them.
• DigitalOcean — rents us the server the app runs on, and answers the addresses for our domain. They operate the machine; they are not given your data to use.

Beyond that: your teacher and the other members of a group see what you post in that group, your name, your photo, and your attendance for that class. An administrator of your school can see the same. Nobody outside your groups can.

We will hand over information if the law requires it, and for no other reason.

6. What stays private even from your teacher

Some things the app knows about you are never shown to a teacher, a group, or anyone else:

• Your Qur'an bookmarks and the page you last read.
• Anything you have searched for in the Qur'an.
• Which books you have downloaded and how far through them you are.

These exist so the app can put you back where you were. They are yours.

7. Where it is kept, and for how long

Everything is stored on our server in Frankfurt, Germany. Passwords are hashed, never stored as you typed them. Traffic between the app and the server is encrypted.

We keep your information for as long as your account exists. When you delete your account it is removed immediately — there is no thirty-day grace period and no archived copy waiting to expire. See section 8.

8. Your rights

• See it — most of it is on your own screen. Ask us for the rest.
• Correct it — you can change your name, photo and password in the app.
• Delete it — you can delete your account yourself, from Profile, at any time. It is immediate and permanent. Full details, including what is kept and why, are on the account deletion page.

9. Age

TACLIIM is for adults. You must be 18 or over to hold an account. The app is not directed at children and we do not knowingly hold information about them.

10. Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles your information, we will change this page and update the date at the top. If the change is a significant one, we will say so in the app.

11. Contact

Questions about this policy, or about your own information:

tacliimapp@gmail.com

Published by TACLIIM.