Privacy Policy
Tilanur is an Android app for listening to recitations of the Qur'an. This document explains what the app stores, what it sends, and what it does not do.
Plain summary
- No accounts. Tilanur has no sign-in. There is nothing to log into.
- No analytics or telemetry in this version. The app does not currently measure your usage, crashes, or behavior. If we add any form of measurement in a future version, we will disclose the change in the release notes and update this policy before that version ships.
- No advertising. The app contains no ads and no advertising SDKs.
- Audio is streamed from third-party archives. When you tap to play a sura, your device makes a direct HTTPS request to a public Qur'an recitation archive operated by a third party. See Audio streaming below.
- No identifiers, no profile data. Tilanur does not generate or send a device ID, account ID, advertising ID, cookie, or other persistent identifier.
What Tilanur stores on your device
The following data is stored locally on your device and never leaves it:
- Resume position. The Qari, sura, and time-offset of your most-recent listening session. This is what powers the "Continue" affordance on the home screen.
- Recently played. A short list of suras you have recently listened to.
- Playlists. Any playlists you create — their names, and the items you have added to them.
- Theme preference. Whether you have chosen Dark, Light, or "Match device."
- Language preference. Whether you have chosen English, Indonesian, Arabic, or to follow the system language.
- Audio cache. A bounded local cache of audio you have recently played (so you can resume offline). Capped at approximately 500 MB; older audio is replaced as new audio is downloaded.
You can clear all of the above (except your audio cache and playlists) from Settings → History. Playlists are explicitly preserved by the History controls because they are author-curated, not history.
To clear the audio cache, the cached audio data, or the app entirely, use Android's Settings → Apps → Tilanur → Storage → Clear data.
Audio streaming
Tilanur does not host the audio recordings itself. Audio is streamed from public third-party Qur'an recitation archives. When you tap to play a sura, your device makes a direct HTTPS request to one of those archives.
What the third-party archive will receive:
- your IP address (as a normal consequence of any HTTPS request from your device),
- the filename of the audio you requested,
- standard HTTP request metadata (e.g., the time of the request, your device's User-Agent string).
These archives have their own privacy policies which we do not control. We have no contract with them, and we do not retain or have access to their request logs. We have no way to combine those logs with anything else, because we receive no copy of them.
What Tilanur does not send to those archives:
- any account or device identifier (we have no accounts, and we do not generate device IDs),
- any cookie, login token, or persistent identifier,
- any usage signal beyond the single audio request you triggered.
In other words: contacting a third-party audio archive looks, from the archive's side, indistinguishable from any other browser or app fetching a single public file.
To listen without contacting any third-party archive: audio you have already played is cached locally on your device (up to ~500 MB; see Audio cache under What Tilanur stores on your device). Cached audio plays without any network request to the archive. If you only ever play suras you have already cached, no audio request leaves your device.
Permissions Tilanur requests
Tilanur requests only the permissions strictly necessary to play audio:
INTERNET— to download audio recordings from third-party Qur'an recitation archives (see Audio streaming).FOREGROUND_SERVICE+FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK— to keep audio playing reliably when the app is in the background or the screen is locked.POST_NOTIFICATIONS— to show the media-playback notification (the standard play/pause/skip controls on your lockscreen and notification shade).
Tilanur does not request access to:
- contacts, calendar, location, microphone, camera, accounts, SMS, call logs, or device identifiers,
- your photos, videos, or any user-generated files.
Data sharing
Tilanur does not share or sell any data. This version contains no third-party SDKs — no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, no profile providers. If a future version integrates any such SDK, the change will be announced in the release notes and this policy updated before that version ships.
The single exception, fully disclosed in Audio streaming above: when you choose to play a sura, your device contacts a third-party recitation archive directly to fetch the audio. That archive sees the standard request metadata that any HTTPS request implies. Tilanur sends no additional data on your behalf and receives no copy of the archive's logs.
Children
Tilanur does not collect personal information from anyone, including children. The app is suitable for use by listeners of all ages; parents may use playlists to organize listening for children without creating any kind of account.
Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we will update the Last updated date above. Material changes — for example, if a future version adds analytics, telemetry, or crash reporting — will be announced in the app's release notes before they take effect.
Contact
For privacy questions, contact us at the address listed on the Play Store listing.