Terms of service

1 Agreeing to these terms

These terms are an agreement between you and Carthage Studio (Mehdi Snoussi), in Tunisia, the publisher of Dhikr: Tasbih Counter & Azkar. Installing or using Dhikr, on a phone or a watch, means you accept them. If you do not, please uninstall it.

Google Play’s own terms also apply to the download and to anything you buy.

2 What you may do with Dhikr

You may install Dhikr on Android phones and Wear OS watches that you own or control, and use it for yourself, free of charge. This permission is personal: you cannot sell it, rent it or pass it on, and we can end it if you break these terms.

You may not copy the app onto other stores or sites, take it apart to rebuild it, or change it and pass the result on, except where the law lets you regardless of what we say.

3 The texts and where they come from

Dhikr’s design, code and wording are ours. The sacred texts and the works built on them belong to their authors and publishers, and Dhikr names each one under Settings, in About:

• the Quran in Uthmani script, from the Tanzil project;
• the English meaning by Saheeh International and the French one by the Montada Islamic Foundation;
• the azkar, from Hisn al-Muslim, each with the collection it is reported in;
• Al-Mukhtasar’s tafsir, served by QuranEnc, and the Forty Hadith, from HadeethEnc;
• the recitations, streamed from EveryAyah, in the voice of the reciter you choose;
• map data, copyright of the OpenStreetMap contributors;
• the voice search model, Tilawi FastConformer, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence.

We copy sacred text letter for letter and check it against its source. If you find a mistake in an ayah, a hadith, a reference or a translation, write to us and we will correct it.

The prophets’ stories are our own retelling, read aloud by computer voices, with each ayah recited by a human reciter. The app marks them “Under review” until a scholar has read them.

4 Prayer times, the Qibla and the Hijri date

Dhikr calculates prayer times from your position, the date and the method you choose, or the method usual in your country. Mosques and authorities can differ from a calculation by a few minutes, and they are the ones to follow. You can shift each prayer by minutes in Settings.

The Qibla needle depends on your phone’s compass, which metal and magnets nearby can pull off course. The Hijri date follows the Umm al-Qura calendar; where the month begins by moon sighting it can be a day apart, and Settings lets you move it a day either way.

Dhikr is a help to worship, not an authority on it. For a ruling, ask a scholar you trust.

5 No account, and your watch

Dhikr has no sign-up. Your counts, marks, bookmarks and settings live on your phone. If you uninstall the app, clear its data or change phones without a backup or a copy file, they are gone and we cannot recover them. Remove Ads comes back through “Restore Purchases”.

Dhikr for Wear OS is part of the same app. The watch takes its prayer times from Dhikr on your phone and sends your finished rounds back to it.

6 Ads

The free app is paid for by ads from Google AdMob, and using it means seeing them. They never appear on Home, on the pages where you read the Quran, the azkar or a dua, or in the quiz.

7 Purchases and refunds

Google Play sells two kinds of thing in Dhikr, and shows the price before you confirm:

Neither is a subscription. A gift is not a donation to a charity and gives no tax receipt.

Refunds are handled by Google Play under its refund policy. We can back a request you make to Google, but Google decides. If you live in the EU or the UK, your legal rights over digital purchases stay as the law gives them.

8 Fair use

• Use Dhikr within the law of the place you are in.
• Do not tamper with it, or with its purchases.
• Do not aim scripts or bots at the services it relies on, such as EveryAyah, QuranEnc or the OpenStreetMap servers. They are free and shared.

9 Who can use Dhikr

Dhikr is made for a general audience. A child should use it with a parent’s agreement.

10 No warranty

Dhikr is provided “as is” and “as available”. We work to keep it right, but we do not promise that it will run without interruption or error, or that a calculated time, direction or date is exact. The services it draws on (recitations, tafsir, the mosque map) belong to others and can be slow or down.

11 Limit of our liability

As far as the law allows, we are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, or for lost data, arising from the use of Dhikr, and our total liability for any claim is limited to what you paid us in the twelve months before it.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law does not allow us to limit, or takes away rights that the consumer law of your country gives you.

12 Changes and ending

We may change these terms, for example when Dhikr gains a feature. The new terms carry a new date at the top of this page, and a change that matters is also announced in the app or in its notes on Google Play. If you keep using Dhikr after a change, you accept it.

You can stop at any moment by uninstalling Dhikr. We can end your permission to use it if you break these terms.

13 Law that applies

These terms follow the law of Tunisia, where the publisher lives. If you are a consumer, the mandatory protections of the law of your own country still apply to you, and you may bring a claim in your local courts where that law says so.

14 Contact

Carthage Studio (Mehdi Snoussi), Tunisia. apps.contact.supports@gmail.com