Privacy Policy

Who runs this site

Buruj Quran (burujquran.com) is a free, non-commercial website with no advertising. It is run by a private individual. In this policy, “we” means the person who runs the site.

Buruj Quran and the Quran Foundation

Buruj Quran uses the Quran Foundation's APIs (the service it offers to developers) for the meaning of each Arabic word, and for the timings that light up each word as it is recited. The Quran Foundation also runs Quran.com and QuranReflect. Buruj Quran is independent: it is not an official product of the Quran Foundation, Quran.com or QuranReflect. The site does not use Quran Foundation sign-in, so it never sees your Quran.com or QuranReflect account.

The Quran text, translations and word meanings are public material. They reach your device as files from burujquran.com itself, and fetching them collects nothing about you.

What the site remembers on your device

To make the site easier to use, your browser keeps a few things in its own storage on your device:

• your settings: light or dark theme, text size, which translations are shown, and the reciter you chose;
• your bookmarks, your private notes on ayahs, and the last ayah you read;
• the days you read, your reading plan, your memorisation progress and the words you have learned;
• your tasbih counts;
• your prayer-time settings and place. If you press the button to use your location, your browser asks your permission first. The position is rounded and kept only on your device. Prayer times and the qibla direction are worked out on your device, and the position is never sent to us or to anyone else.

None of this is sent to us, and none of it is a cookie. To delete it all, clear this site's data in your browser's settings.

What reaches the services that run the site

When you open a page, your device sends a request, as it does for any website. The request includes your IP address (the internet address of your connection) and basic details such as your browser type. Four services handle these requests:

Cloudflare handles this information for us under its Data Processing Addendum. The QuranicAudio recordings and their timings are listed by the Quran Foundation's developer service, which the site uses under its Developer Terms. Google Fonts and Islamic Network are free public services; we have no separate agreement with them.

We do not keep our own records of individual visitors. If you follow a link to another website, for example from the Sources page, that website's own policy applies.

What we never do

• We never build advertising profiles, and the site shows no advertising.
• We never sell, rent or trade information about visitors.
• We never mine or reuse visitors' information for anything other than running the site.
• We never use what visitors write, or the Quran Foundation's content, to train artificial intelligence.

Notes, reflections and religious beliefs

Notes and reflections about the Quran can reveal a person's religious beliefs, which many privacy laws treat as sensitive. Today the site stores none of this on its servers: your notes, bookmarks and progress stay on your device.

Community, where readers will be able to share reflections, is not open yet. Before it opens, we will add to this policy exactly what it collects, why, and for how long, and change the date at the top. Posting a reflection will need your separate, clear agreement, given by ticking a box that is not ticked for you.

Security

• Every page is sent over an encrypted connection (HTTPS, TLS 1.2 or newer).
• The site's keys for the Quran Foundation are kept private. They are never placed in the site's pages, only the person who runs the site can use them, and they are changed at least once a year, or at once if we suspect they have been exposed.
• If we ever hold personal information on a server (for Community), it will be stored encrypted, and only the person who runs the site will have access.
• If something goes wrong, such as someone getting into the site's accounts, we will act within 24 hours, report it to the Quran Foundation within 24 hours as its Developer Terms require, and tell anyone affected.

Your rights

• Everything the site remembers about you is on your own device, so you can see it and delete it yourself (see above).
• You can ask us what information about you we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. Today we hold none, apart from any emails you send us. Write to the address below.
• We answer within 30 days. If you ask us to delete something, we start straight away, remove it from the site within 30 days and from any backups within 90 days.

How long we keep information

We keep information only as long as it is needed. Emails you send us are kept only as long as needed to answer you. Cloudflare and Google keep their own technical records for the periods set out in their policies.

Children

Reading Buruj Quran needs no account and collects nothing about you, so the site is for all ages. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. When accounts arrive (for Community), they will be for people aged 13 and over: sign-ups from younger children will be refused, and anything collected from them by mistake will be deleted. Parents are welcome to read and listen together with their children.

Where information is handled

The services above work around the world, so your request may be handled outside your own country. Cloudflare's Data Processing Addendum includes the European Union's Standard Contractual Clauses for such transfers. We follow the data protection laws that apply to us.

Changes to this policy

If we make an important change, we will show a notice on the home page for at least 30 days and change the date at the top.

See also the Terms of Use.