Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Wudase Mariam - ውዳሴ ማርያም ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how our mobile application, providing a daily prayer companion for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo faithful, handles information when you use our App on Android and iOS platforms.

Our App respects your privacy. We do not require user accounts, logins, or a backend server, and we do not directly collect, store, or transmit your personal information to our servers.

2. Information We Collect

We do not collect personal information directly from you. However, our App uses a third-party advertising service that may collect certain data:

• Device Identifiers and Usage Data: Collected automatically by Google AdMob to provide and personalize advertisements.
• Local Application Data: We use local storage (SharedPreferences and equivalents) on your device to save your preferences, such as selected language and notification settings. This data never leaves your device.

3. How We Use the Information

The local data stored on your device is used solely to enhance your user experience by keeping your preferred language and notification settings intact across sessions. The device identifiers and usage data collected by Google AdMob are used to serve relevant advertising within the App.

4. Third-Party Services

Our App uses Google AdMob to display advertisements within the application. AdMob may collect and use device identifiers and usage data in accordance with their own privacy practices.

For more information on how Google collects and uses your data, please review the Google Privacy Policy .

5. Notifications

The App includes a feature to schedule daily prayer reminders (e.g., at 6:00 AM). These reminders utilize your device's local notification system. All scheduling and execution of notifications occur entirely on your device, and no data is transmitted externally to provide this feature.

6. Children's Privacy

Our App does not intentionally target or collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. Since we do not store personal data on our servers, any accidental collection would only reside locally on the device or with the third-party ad network.

7. Changes to This Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.