Cookies and storage

Fatiyyah Academy stores a few small things on your device to make the service work. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies, and nothing here tracks you on other websites. Because everything below is needed for a service you asked for, or remembers a choice you made, the law does not require us to ask for consent first; we still explain each one.

Cookies

Name	What it is for	How long
`halaqa_session`	Keeps you signed in. It holds a random code, not your details, and scripts on the page cannot read it	30 days without use, or until you sign out (14 days for students who sign in with a PIN)
`NEXT_LOCALE`	Remembers the language you chose, if you change it	Until you close your browser
[`halaqa_pin_device`]	[Set when a student signs in with a PIN in a browser. It holds a random code, which we keep only as a one-way hash, so that while PIN sign-in is paused this browser can still sign in to the accounts it knows. Scripts on the page cannot read it, and it is sent only with PIN sign-ins]	[90 days]

Storage on your device

Name	What it is for	How long
`theme`	Remembers whether you chose light or dark mode	Until you clear it
`halaqa.camera`	Remembers whether you turned your camera off in lessons, so it starts the same way next time [(live lessons only, which are not in this version)]	Until you clear it
[`halaqa.lastSchool`]	[The school a student last signed in to with a PIN on this device, so the sign-in form fills it in. Only the school's address, never a username or PIN]	[Until you clear it]
[`fatiyyah.installCard.dismissed`]	[Remembers that you closed the suggestion to install the app]	[Until you clear it]
[`halaqa.recorder.brokenFormats`]	[Recording formats that failed on this device, so the recorder doesn't try them again]	[Until you clear it]
[`halaqa-recitation` (a browser database)]	[A recording made in the app, a recitation or a teacher's voice note, that hasn't been sent yet, so a lost connection or a closed page doesn't lose it]	[Until it has been sent, or you throw it away]
[Caches whose names start with `fatiyyah-`]	[The app's own files, its offline page, and the mushaf pages, page data and fonts you have opened, so the mushaf works without a connection. Nothing from your account is kept in them]	[Until you clear them. An update of the app replaces its own files]

The mobile apps keep your sign-in in the phone's secure storage (the Android Keystore or the iOS Keychain) and remember your camera choice in the app's own settings. Deleting the app removes them. [There are no Android or iOS apps in this version.]

Live lessons

Audio and video in lessons travel through our media provider (see sub-processors). They are not stored unless your academy records lessons, which is explained in the privacy notice. [Live lessons are not used in this version of the app, so no lesson audio or video travels through a media provider.]

Changing your mind

You can clear cookies and storage in your browser's settings at any time. If you clear halaqa_session you will be signed out. [Clearing storage also removes any recording that hasn't been sent yet.]