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Privacy Policy

Learn how Islam Academy collects, uses, protects and manages your personal information.

Last updated: 19 August 2026

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Who we are

Islam Academy is an online platform providing access to Islamic educational resources and personal learning features.

Until Islam Academy is operated by a dedicated legal entity, the data controller is:

Walid Ghettas
Islam Academy
59 rue de Ponthieu, Bureau 326
75008 Paris, France
privacy@theislamacademy.com

This section will be updated if responsibility for Islam Academy is transferred to a company or other legal entity.

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Information we collect

Depending on how you use Islam Academy, we may process the following categories of information.

Account information

Email address, internal user identifier, username, display name and authentication information necessary to create and secure your account.

Profile information

Username, display name and, where available, profile image or avatar.

Learning and saved content

Content that you choose to bookmark or save and, where you have explicitly enabled personalised religious features, your current saved Quran reading position, together with the identifiers necessary to associate those choices with your account.

Communications

Your email address and the contents of messages you send to our contact, support, privacy or security addresses.

Technical information

Session identifiers, authentication cookies and technical information generated in connection with the operation and security of the service. Our infrastructure providers may also process technical logs, such as connection information and IP addresses, as necessary to provide and secure their services.

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How we use your information

  • create, authenticate and manage your Islam Academy account;
  • provide profile and personalised account functionality;
  • allow you to save and manage bookmarks;
  • for signed-in members who explicitly enable personalised religious features, remember the Quran verse where you stopped so you can resume reading;
  • send account confirmation, password recovery and security-related emails;
  • respond to support, privacy, security and other communications;
  • maintain the availability, integrity and security of Islam Academy;
  • prevent abuse and investigate technical or security incidents;
  • comply with applicable legal obligations.
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Religious information and sensitive data

Islam Academy is a platform dedicated to Islamic educational content. Merely visiting Islam Academy does not necessarily disclose a person's religious beliefs.

However, certain information associated with an identifiable account — including saved religious content and a saved Quran reading position — may in some circumstances reveal or allow inferences about a user's religious interests, practices or beliefs.

Islam Academy therefore stores these personalised religious records only after the signed-in member actively enables the relevant personalised features. Where such processing constitutes processing of special category data under applicable law, Islam Academy will rely on an applicable legal exception, including explicit consent where required.

You may withdraw that consent from your account settings. When you do so, Islam Academy deletes your saved bookmarks and Quran reading position and stops storing new personalised religious records unless you later enable the features again.

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Service providers and recipients

Islam Academy relies on third-party technology services to operate the platform.

Supabase
Authentication, user accounts, database and account-related data.
Vercel
Hosting, deployment, content delivery and technical infrastructure.
Resend
Delivery of transactional and authentication emails.
Cloudflare
DNS, domain infrastructure and routing of incoming email.
Google / Gmail
Current destination mailbox for incoming Islam Academy correspondence.

These providers receive or process information only to the extent relevant to the services they provide or as otherwise permitted by applicable law.

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International transfers

Some service providers used by Islam Academy operate internationally and may process personal data outside the European Economic Area.

Where applicable, transfers are subject to recognised data-transfer mechanisms and safeguards required under applicable data-protection law, such as adequacy decisions or contractual safeguards.

Islam Academy's Supabase project is currently hosted in the eu-central-2 (Zurich, Switzerland) region.

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How long we keep information

We do not intend to retain personal information indefinitely. Retention depends on the purpose of the processing.

Account and profile
For as long as the account remains active. Account-linked profile data are deleted when the account is permanently deleted, subject to limited technical backups where applicable.
Bookmarks
Until you remove the bookmark, withdraw personalised religious-data consent, or permanently delete your account.
Quran reading progress
Islam Academy keeps only your current resume position. It is replaced as you continue reading and deleted if you withdraw personalised religious-data consent or permanently delete your account.
Support and contact correspondence
For no longer than necessary to resolve and follow up on the request, taking into account any legal or evidentiary requirements.
Privacy requests
For the period reasonably necessary to demonstrate that the request was handled and to comply with applicable legal obligations.
Technical and security logs
For periods reasonably necessary for security, troubleshooting and abuse prevention, including provider-controlled retention periods.
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Your data-protection rights

Subject to the conditions of applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • access the personal data we hold about you;
  • correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
  • request deletion of your personal data;
  • request restriction of certain processing;
  • object to processing based on legitimate interests;
  • receive certain information in a portable format where the right to data portability applies;
  • withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent, without affecting processing carried out before withdrawal.

You may withdraw personalised religious-data consent or permanently delete your Islam Academy account from your account settings. You may also exercise your rights by contacting:

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data-protection authority. In France, this is the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL).

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Children and teenagers

Islam Academy currently allows users aged 15 years or older to create their own account.

We do not currently provide an account-creation process designed to obtain or verify parental authorisation for users under 15. Users under 15 should therefore not create an Islam Academy account at this stage.

This policy may change in the future if Islam Academy introduces a dedicated experience and appropriate safeguards for younger users.

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Cookies and local storage

Islam Academy currently uses technologies necessary for the operation of the service.

  • authentication and session cookies used to keep users securely signed in;
  • an "itc_lang" preference stored in the browser and in a cookie to remember the selected language.

The language preference cookie may be retained for up to one year.

Islam Academy does not currently use advertising pixels or behavioural advertising technologies. If optional analytics, advertising or other non-essential tracking technologies are introduced, this policy and any required consent mechanism will be updated before they are used.

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Security

Islam Academy uses technical and organisational safeguards intended to protect personal information against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, loss or misuse.

Account-related database access is restricted through access-control policies so authenticated users can access only the account information made available to them.

Security concerns may be reported to:

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Automated decision-making

Islam Academy does not currently make decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects on users solely through automated processing.

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Changes to this Privacy Policy

Islam Academy may update this Privacy Policy when the platform, its features, service providers or legal obligations change.

The current version and its last-updated date will remain available on this page. Where a change materially affects how personal information is processed, additional notice may be provided where appropriate.

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Contact us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or the use of your personal information:

Privacy Policy — Islam Academy — 19 August 2026