The short version: Arabic.app does not ask for an account, an email, or any personal information. The app works fully offline. We do not sell, share, or trade personal data with anyone.
1. Who we are
Arabic.app ("the app") is developed and operated by Aaratus, Inc. ("we", "us", "our"). This policy describes how we handle information when you use the iOS app or visit our website at arabic.app.
2. Information we do not collect
To be unambiguous, the app does not collect, store, or transmit:
- Your name, email address, phone number, or any account credentials — the app has no accounts.
- Your contacts, photos, microphone audio, camera input, or location data.
- The names you type into in-app profiles. Profile names live only on your device.
- Your quiz answers, lesson progress, streak history, or any learning data. All progress is stored locally on your device.
3. What we do collect — and why
The app uses Firebase Analytics from Google to record anonymous, aggregated usage events that help us understand how the app is used — for example, how many people complete a lesson, which lessons see the most quiz retries, or whether a new release crashes more often than the previous one. Specifically:
- Event names such as lesson_opened, quiz_completed, achievement_unlocked. None contain personal information.
- App state such as the lesson ID, the score band (e.g. "80-89%"), and the app version.
- Device-level metadata Apple/Firebase automatically attach to analytics events: device model (e.g. "iPhone 17 Pro Max"), OS version, locale, and a randomly-generated Firebase Instance ID. This ID is not linked to your Apple ID, name, or email.
- Crash data — automatic crash reports so we can fix bugs.
This data is anonymous and aggregated. We use it solely to improve the app. We do not sell it, and we do not use it for advertising.
4. What we do not show
We do not display advertising of any kind — no banner ads, no interstitials, no "watch a video to unlock" prompts, nothing. The app has no in-app purchases and no subscriptions. There is no monetisation pipeline attached to your behaviour inside the app.
5. Children's privacy
Arabic.app is family-friendly and frequently used by parents teaching their children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children — and as detailed above, we do not collect personal information from anyone. The app does not require sign-up, does not request permissions to access device features that could identify a child, and contains no advertising or external links beyond the App Store and this website.
6. Notifications
If you opt in to reminders, the app schedules local notifications on your device (for example, a daily practice reminder). These notifications are generated and stored entirely on your device by iOS. We do not operate a push-notification server and we do not send remote messages.
7. Audio
All Arabic audio (letters, harakat, words, sentences, suras) is bundled inside the app at install time. Playback never requires an internet connection, and no audio is streamed from our servers. We do not record or process audio from your device's microphone.
8. Third-party services
The app uses one third-party service:
- Google Firebase Analytics — for the anonymous, aggregated metrics described in section 3. Firebase's own privacy terms apply to that data: firebase.google.com/support/privacy.
The app does not integrate any advertising SDKs, analytics SDKs other than Firebase, social-network SDKs, attribution SDKs, or tracking pixels.
9. Your rights
Because we do not collect personal data tied to your identity, there is no personal data we hold about you to access, correct, export, or delete. If you want to remove the anonymous analytics events your device has sent, deleting the app from your device resets the Firebase Instance ID; reinstalling generates a new, unrelated ID.
10. Data retention
Firebase Analytics retains event-level data for up to 14 months by default; aggregated reports may be retained longer. We do not retain any data outside of Firebase.
11. Changes to this policy
If we update this policy we will post the revised version at arabic.app/privacy and update the "Last updated" date above. Material changes will also be summarised in a release-notes update on the App Store.