Last updated: October 22, 2026
Qalam – Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 21, 2026
Qalam does not collect, sell or send your personal information to us. Everything you create in the app stays on your phone. The only outside service the app uses is Google AdMob, which shows ads.
Qalam ("the app") is published on Google Play by Bright Pixel ("we", "us"). This policy explains what information the app handles, why, and the choices you have. It applies to the Qalam Android app only.
Information stored on your device
The app saves the following only on your phone. We have no server, and none of it is sent to us.
- App settings (theme, language, numerals, calendar, reminders, vibration)
- Why: To remember your preferences
- Widget styles, saved presets and custom text you type
- Why: To draw your widgets
- Photos you choose for a widget background
- Why: To show them in the widget
- Notes: A copy is kept in the app's private storage. The app only sees the photos you pick.
- Gem balance and unlocked widgets
- Why: To keep your unlocks
- Notes: Encrypted on the device and excluded from backups
- Tasbih counts
- Why: To show your count
If you have Android backup turned on, Android may include your settings and widget styles in your own Google backup. Your gem balance is never included.
Advertising
Qalam is free and shows ads through Google AdMob: a banner at the bottom of some screens, and optional rewarded ads you can choose to watch for gems.
To show and measure ads, Google may collect information from your device, such as your advertising ID, IP address, device model, app interactions and approximate location. Google processes this information under its own policies; we do not receive it.
- Your consent: where the law requires it, for example in the EEA and the UK, the app asks for your consent with Google's consent form before personalized ads are shown.
- Changing your choice: you can review or change it at any time in Settings → About → Ad & privacy choices, when that option is shown in your region.
- Advertising ID: you can reset or delete it in your phone's Android settings, under Privacy → Ads.
Learn more: How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and the Google Privacy Policy.
Permissions
- Internet and network state: To load ads
- Notifications: For the optional daily dhikr reminder and the free-gem reminder. You can turn these off in Settings.
- Alarms and reminders, run at startup: To update clock widgets on time and to reschedule reminders after the phone restarts
- Vibration: For gentle touch feedback. You can turn it off in Settings.
The app does not ask for access to your location, contacts, camera, microphone or files. Photos are chosen through Android's photo picker, which shares only the photos you select.
Children's privacy
Qalam is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The app itself collects none. Ads are provided by Google AdMob under Google's policies.
Your choices and deleting your data
- Ads: change your ad consent in Settings → About → Ad & privacy choices (where available), or reset your advertising ID in Android settings.
- Reminders and vibration: turn them off in the app's Settings.
- Deleting data: because your data is stored only on your phone, you can delete all of it by clearing the app's storage in Android settings or by uninstalling the app. We hold no copy to delete.
Content credits
The Quran text is from the Tanzil Project (Simple text), used without changes under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. Fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. Full credits are in the app under Settings → About → Font & content licenses.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update it on this page and change the effective date above.
Contact us
Questions about this policy or your privacy: [email protected]