Privacy policy

Dawah Bible is a free study and reference app for comparative theology and interfaith dialogue. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can ask us to do with it. It is written to meet UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Who we are

Dawah Bible is operated by Karmali Investments (the "we" in this policy). Our full company details and registered address are being finalised and will be published here shortly. Until then, you can reach us about anything in this policy at salim@dawahbible.org. We are the data controller for the information described below.

What we collect

• Account details — your name, email address and profile photo if your sign-in provider supplies one. This comes from you or from Google or Apple when you use their sign-in.
• Things you create in the app — personal notes, dawah journal entries, saved questions and answers from the AI companion, and messages you send us from Settings.
• Donation records — the amount, date, currency and whether a gift was one-off or monthly, plus the reference our payment processor gives us. We never see or store your card number.
• Basic technical information — the usual server logs needed to run and secure the service.

Why we use it, and our lawful basis

• To provide your account and save your work — necessary to perform our agreement with you.
• To send account emails — a welcome message, sign-in and password emails, replies to messages you send us, and donation confirmations. Necessary to perform our agreement with you.
• To process donations and keep financial records — to perform the transaction and to meet our legal accounting obligations.
• To keep the app secure and improve it — our legitimate interest in running a safe, working service.

We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising or profiling.

Who processes your information

We use a small number of trusted providers who process data on our instructions: our hosting, database and sign-in provider; our email delivery provider, for the messages described above; an AI provider, which processes the question text you send to the AI companion in order to generate an answer; and Stripe, which handles all card payments for donations. Payments are taken by Karmali Investments through Stripe. Some providers operate outside the UK, in which case transfers are covered by appropriate safeguards such as UK international data transfer agreements.

Cookies and storage

We only use essential storage on your device: what is needed to keep you signed in, remember your light or dark theme, and keep the app working. We do not use advertising or tracking cookies, so there is no consent banner to click through.

How long we keep it

Your account and the content you create are kept while your account exists. If you delete your account, that content is deleted with it. Donation and financial records are kept for as long as accounting and tax law requires, normally six years, even after an account is deleted.

Your rights

Under UK GDPR you can ask us to give you a copy of your information, correct it, delete it, restrict or object to how we use it, or provide it in a portable format. You can delete your account and its content yourself at any time from the Settings area of the app. To exercise any other right, email salim@dawahbible.org and we will respond within one month. If you are unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Children

The app is intended for people aged 13 and over. If you believe a younger child has created an account, contact us and we will remove it.

Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top of this page, and tell you by email if the change is significant.