1. Introduction
Welcome to Ayra ("we," "us," or "our"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and handle your information when you use the Ayra mobile application and its corresponding backend services.
This service is operated by Halil Can Ozcelik as an individual developer. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a secure experience while interacting with our AI Quranic guidance assistant.
2. Information We Collect
To provide a functional and optimized experience, we collect the following categories of information:
A. Account Information
When you use the app, we authenticate your session using Firebase Authentication:
- Anonymous Sign-In: A unique Firebase UID is assigned to your device to track your guest token and usage credits.
- Registered Accounts: If you link your account using Apple, Google, or email sign-in, we collect your Firebase UID, authentication provider name, and email address.
B. Usage & Quota Data
To prevent abuse and manage our AI service costs, we monitor how many queries you make. We record:
- Your daily query count and lifetime query count.
- The UTC dates of your active query windows.
C. App Interactions & Chat Messages
We save certain app interaction data inside the database for the following purposes:
- Quranic verses you mark as "favorites."
- Verses you view in the app's discover feeds so we can measure popular verses.
Chat Messages: We do not store or persist your chat messages or assistant replies. All chat interactions are processed ephemerally in-memory to generate and stream the AI's response, and are discarded once the session ends.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data strictly for the following purposes:
- To authenticate your identity and synchronize your favorites across your devices.
- To enforce daily limits and lifetime query quotas according to your user tier (anonymous vs. registered).
- To process your chat questions and deliver relevant answers via our AI models.
- To track and verify rewarded ad completions so that we can credit your account with additional usage tokens.
- To maintain, analyze, and optimize the performance and security of our application server.
4. Google AdMob
We display ads within the app using Google AdMob, which helps fund our AI inference and server costs. In order to show ads and verify rewards, AdMob processes certain device identifiers.
A. Data Collection by Google AdMob
Google AdMob may collect and use information such as:
- Your device's Advertising ID (e.g., Apple's IDFA or Google's Advertising ID).
- IP address, mobile carrier, and device type.
- Ad interaction data (impressions, clicks, and video completions).
For more details on how Google processes your data, please review the Google Privacy Policy and the AdMob Privacy Policy.
B. Server-Side Verification (SSV)
To reward you with extra queries for watching ads, we use AdMob's Server-Side Verification. When an ad is completed, Google securely calls our backend server with a cryptographically signed callback containing your Firebase UID to credit your account. No personal details are exposed to third parties during this exchange.
6. AI Content & Disclaimers
Our application uses advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) models to assist in providing spiritual reflections, educational contexts, and Quranic verse matching.
A. AI-Generated Content & Inaccuracy Notice
Please note that all assistant responses, reflections, and analyses are generated by AI. While we take measures to ground the AI's guidance in verified Quranic text, AI-generated content can occasionally contain inaccuracies, errors, or hallucinated interpretations. You should not treat AI responses as absolute, verified facts.
B. Not Professional or Religious Advice
The guidance, reflections, and suggestions offered by the AI assistant are designed for spiritual reflection and educational purposes only. They do not constitute:
- Professional medical, psychological, or psychiatric advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
- Legally binding religious rulings (Fatwas), legal counsel, or official theological decrees.
Always seek the advice of qualified professionals or authorized religious scholars regarding any specific medical, mental health, or theological concerns you may have.
C. No Crisis Intervention Services
The AI assistant is not equipped or designed to provide crisis intervention or emergency mental health services. If you are experiencing thoughts of self-harm, suicide, severe depression, or any emotional/clinical crisis, please seek immediate professional assistance or reach out to your local emergency services or national crisis support hotlines (such as 988 in the US/Canada, 111/999 in the UK, or equivalent emergency numbers in your country).
7. Security & Storage
All communication between the Ayra app and our servers is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS) technology. Your passwords are never stored directly on our servers; authentication is handled securely by Firebase.
We store your data on secured servers hosted on Railway. We retain your account data as long as your account remains active or as needed to provide our services.
8. Your Rights & Data Deletion
You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and request that it be corrected, updated, or deleted.
If you would like to delete your account and remove all associated data (including email, favorites, and usage logs) from our systems, you can do so directly within the app settings or by sending a data deletion request to our support email.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or if you wish to request the deletion of your account and personal data, please contact us at: