Privacy

This website

• Release emails. If you submit the form, we store the email address you typed and the date. We use it only to tell you about new versions of Ayah Editor. We do not sell, rent or share it. Ask at info@ayaheditor.com and we delete it.
• No analytics or tracking. There are no analytics scripts, no advertising pixels and no tracking cookies on this site.
• Server logs. The web host keeps standard access logs (IP address, page requested, time) as part of running a web server. They are used for security and troubleshooting only.
• Fonts. Typefaces load from Google Fonts, so your browser requests them from Google's servers and Google sees that request. The site is fully readable with fonts blocked.
• Download links. To point the Mac download buttons at the newest build, your browser asks GitHub's public API for the latest release. GitHub sees that request; nothing about you is sent with it.

The desktop app

• No account. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to sign in to.
• Your files stay yours. Recitations, footage and project files live on your computer, and rendering happens there. They are never uploaded.
• Anonymous usage data, on by default, one switch to turn off. So we know how many people use the app, which features matter and where it breaks, the app sends anonymous usage events and error reports to PostHog, in its EU cloud. They carry a random install ID created on your computer, the app version, operating system, language, whether Premium is active, events such as “project created”, “export finished” or “export failed”, and the technical details of errors, with your home folder removed from file paths. They never carry your name, email address, license key, project names or content, the verses you chose, audio or video. The app tells you about this the first time it starts. To turn it off, open the command palette (⌘K / Ctrl+K) and choose “Privacy & usage data”; from then on nothing is sent.
• Bug reports. “Report a bug” sends what you write, your email address if you add one so we can reply, and, if you leave the box ticked, diagnostics: the app version, system and recent error messages. It goes to the same PostHog project, and it is sent even with usage data turned off, because you chose to send it.
• Offline by design. The Quranic text and translations ship inside the app. The first export downloads the video encoder once; after that, no internet connection is needed.
• Update check. On launch, the Mac app (and the plain Windows installer, not the Store version) asks GitHub whether a newer release exists. It sends no information about you or your projects.

Downloads and payments

On Windows, Ayah Editor is installed through the Microsoft Store, which handles installs and updates under Microsoft's own privacy terms. Mac builds and the plain Windows installer are hosted on GitHub. We receive no personal information from either.

Premium purchases go through Lemon Squeezy, which processes the payment and sends your receipt under its own privacy terms. We receive your email address and the amount, so we can issue your license key and help if something goes wrong. The key is checked on your computer and never sent anywhere.

Planned: publishing to social platforms

A planned feature will let you send a finished export to your own TikTok or YouTube account as a draft. It will be strictly opt-in: you authorise the account yourself on the platform's own sign-in screen, the authorisation is stored on your computer, and the only thing sent is the video you chose, when you ask. If you never use it, none of it ever runs.

Changes and contact

If this policy changes in a way that affects people on the release email list, we will say so in the next email.

info@ayaheditor.com