Atqin (أَتْقِنْ) is an independent, one-person project — not a company. This page explains what the app actually does with your data today, in plain language.

What Atqin collects

• If you sign in (Google, required only for Recite, Review, and syncing across devices): your name and email address, as provided by Google. We don't request your Contacts, Calendar, or any other Google data.
• Reading preferences (theme, Arabic text size, reading mode, reciter, translation) — stored in a cookie on your device, whether or not you're signed in. These never leave your device except to load the page you asked for.
• Recitation results, only while signed in and only when you use Recite: which ayat and words were matched, and any confirmed mistakes (as a factual record — surah, ayah, word position — never a score, and never a claim about your character or your standing before Allah).

What Atqin does not do

• Your voice is not recorded or stored. While you recite, audio is streamed to our transcription service in real time, used only to figure out which words you said, and discarded the moment your session ends. Nothing is written to disk. This is true today, for every user, with no exceptions.
• We don't run ads, and we don't sell or share your data with advertisers.
• We don't use third-party analytics or tracking scripts.
• We never calculate an iman, piety, or "quality of Muslim" score. Atqin tracks factual recitation evidence — not your worth.

How recitation audio is processed

When you tap Recite, your microphone audio is sent over an encrypted connection to a transcription service we operate on Modal, using an NVIDIA speech-recognition model (licensed CC-BY-4.0). The service holds your audio in memory only for the length of your session, compares it word-by-word against the Qur'an text you're reciting, and discards the audio when the connection closes. No copy is kept, and it is never used to train any model.

If this ever changes — for example, an opt-in feature to contribute recitations toward improving recognition accuracy — it will be off by default, will require your explicit, separate consent, will be limited to users who confirm they are 18 or older, and this page will be updated and you will be notified before it applies to you.

Who else sees your data

Atqin relies on a small number of infrastructure providers to operate:

• Google — for sign-in only (OAuth). We receive your name and email, nothing else.
• Vercel — hosts the web app.
• Neon — hosts the database (account info, reading preferences, and recitation-evidence records described above), in Sydney, Australia (ap-southeast-2).
• Modal— runs the real-time transcription service described above. Audio is processed on Modal's infrastructure and discarded immediately after, as described above — never written to disk anywhere.

None of these providers is permitted to use your data for their own purposes.

Your choices

• You can read and listen without ever creating an account.
• You can request deletion of your account and associated data at any time by contacting us (below).
• Reading-preference cookies can be cleared through your browser at any time.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes in a way that affects what we collect or how we use it, we'll update the date above and, for signed-in users, surface the change directly in the app rather than relying on you to check back here.

Contact

Questions, or a data-deletion request? Reach out at contact@itqan.app.