Privacy Policy
The short version. Matla keeps everything on your device. Your location never leaves your phone. There are no accounts, no ads, no analytics and no servers.
This Privacy Policy explains how Flowlab Apps (“we”, “us”) handles information in Matla (the “app”). It is written to be read, not to be survived.
1. What we collect
Nothing. There is no sign-up, no login, no email address collected, no advertising identifier, no usage analytics and no crash reporting. No SDK in the app reports your behaviour to anyone.
Flowlab Apps operates no server that holds your Matla data, because no such data ever reaches us. That is not a policy decision we could quietly reverse in an update — there is no backend to send it to.
2. What the app stores, and where
Everything Matla saves is stored on the device you are using it on.
| What | Where | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your chosen location or city | On your device | To compute prayer times, fasting times and the Qibla direction |
| Calculation settings and reminder preferences | On your device | To remember how you like the app configured |
| Fasting days you mark | On your device | Your private Ramadan record; nothing is shared |
| Quran bookmarks and last-read position | On your device | So you can continue where you stopped |
| Hijri date adjustment | On your device | To match your community's announcement |
3. Permissions
Matla asks for the following, and nothing else. Every permission marked optional can be declined, and the app keeps working without it.
- Location (while using the app, approximate) — To compute prayer times, fasting times and the Qibla direction for where you are. Matla asks only for approximate accuracy and only while the app is open, never in the background. You can decline it and pick a city from the built-in offline list instead.
- Notifications — For prayer, suhoor and iftar reminders. Everything is scheduled on your device; nothing goes through a push server.
- Exact alarms (Android) — So a reminder fires at the exact minute rather than whenever the system gets around to it. Android may ask you to allow this in Settings.
- Run at startup (Android) — So reminders you already scheduled survive a device restart.
- Compass and motion sensors — To point the Qibla compass. Sensor readings are used on the device and never stored or sent anywhere.
4. Network activity
Version 1 of Matla makes no network requests at all. Prayer times, the Hijri calendar, the Qibla direction and the Quran text are all computed or stored on the device. If a later version adds streamed Quran audio, it will fetch audio files from a content server; that request contains the file requested and nothing about you, and this policy will be updated before that version ships.
5. Third parties
None. There are no analytics SDKs, advertising libraries, crash reporters or trackers in the app.
We do not sell, rent, share or disclose your personal information, because we do not hold any of it.
6. What we declare to the app stores
Apple and Google each require a privacy declaration alongside the app listing. These are the answers we give for Matla, reproduced here so you can check them against the rest of this policy.
| Store declaration | Our answer |
|---|---|
| Apple App Store — App Privacy | Data Not Collected. Nothing is collected from this app, by us or by anyone else, so no data type is linked to you and none is used to track you. |
| Google Play — Data safety | No data collected. No data shared with third parties. No data is transmitted off the device, so there is none to encrypt in transit. Users can erase everything the app holds by deleting it. |
| Account deletion | Not applicable — the app has no account. See Data & Account Deletion. |
Because location is processed only on the device and never transmitted, both stores treat it as not collected.
7. Children
Matla is not directed at children under 13, and it collects no personal information from anyone of any age. Because nothing is collected, nothing is collected from children.
8. Your rights and your choices
Privacy laws including the GDPR and the CCPA give you rights to access, correct, export and delete personal data a company holds about you. Flowlab Apps holds no personal data about Matla users, so there is nothing for us to produce, correct or erase on request.
You remain in full control of the data on your own device:
- Delete individual items from inside the app.
- Remove the app to delete its local data, subject to your device's own backup and restore settings.
- Revoke any permission at any time from your device's system settings.
We do not sell personal information and never have. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising.
9. Security
Because your data stays on your device, its security rests on your device's own protections — your passcode, your biometric lock and your operating system's storage encryption. Keep your device updated and locked.
10. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, the revised version will be published at this address with a new date at the top. If a future version of Matla ever begins collecting data, this policy will be updated before that version is released, and the app will ask for your consent in-app.
11. Contact
Questions about this policy, or about privacy in any Flowlab Apps app:
- Email: dev@flowlabapps.com
- Support: flowlabapps.
com/ apps/ matla/ support/
We aim to answer within a few business days.