1. Who this agreement is with
Masaruna is made by Dujan, an independent developer in Egypt — one person, not a company. These terms are an agreement between that person and you, and they cover the app on iPhone and Android as well as this website.
Installing the app, or using it, means accepting them. If you would rather not, the way out is uncomplicated: delete the app. Your record lives on your phone and goes with it, and section 3 says what to do about the copy on the server.
Masaruna is free. There is nothing to buy inside it, no subscription, no trial that turns into a charge, and no advertising. Nothing here is the opening of a bill.
You need to be at least 13 to use it, and if you are under the age at which your country lets you agree to something like this, a parent or guardian has to agree to it with you.
2. Using Masaruna
You may install the app on the devices you use and keep your practice in it for as long as you like. That permission is yours personally, and the only thing that ends it is section 4.
The app itself stays ours — the code, the design, the name, and the library of commitments it ships with. Using something is not being given it, and nothing here transfers any of that to you.
A short list of what not to do with it:
- Do not sell, rent or redistribute the app, or pass off a modified copy of it as your own.
- Do not attack the server, or try to reach a record, an account or a group that is not yours.
- Do not automate a client against our server in a way that loads it beyond what a person using the app would.
- Do not use the app to do something the law where you are does not allow.
Where the law where you live gives you a right to do one of these things regardless — to study how software works, for instance — the law wins over this list.
3. Your account
The first time the app has a connection it creates an account for that phone, whether you were starting fresh or restoring. To begin with the account is unnamed: no email, no password, nothing attached, and no way for anyone but that phone to reach it. It exists so a lost phone is not a lost year.
Linking Apple or Google attaches a credential to that same account, which is what lets a second phone reach it. From then on the credential is the key to your record — keep it as carefully as you keep the phone, because whoever can sign in with it can restore what is in there.
Settings holds a Backup screen, and that screen governs the server side: whether a copy is kept, which account holds it, and a row that removes it. Removing it leaves the copy on your phone untouched.
Two things can end an account from our side. One is section 4 — an account used to harm somebody in a group. The other is time: an unnamed account that no device has opened for ninety days is swept, because nothing but that phone could ever have reached it. Linking Apple or Google stops the sweep for good.
4. Groups and conduct
A group is a small circle who witness one another, and two things of yours travel to it: the name you chose for that membership, and whether you kept a commitment today. Everything else stays on your phone.
Because a name is a thing another person reads, there is a line, and it is not a soft one. There is no tolerance here for abuse or for objectionable content. That means, concretely:
- Nothing abusive, hateful, threatening, obscene or harassing in a group name, a display name or an invitation.
- Nobody else's private information, and no impersonation of another person.
- No invitations to people who have made clear they do not want them.
- No using a group to advertise, to recruit, or to run a scheme of any kind.
If somebody crosses it, write to the address in section 11 and say what happened. A report of abuse is looked at within 24 hours. We can rename or remove what was written, close a group, and end the account behind it, and where a person is being harmed we will do that without ceremony or negotiation.
Inside a private group the owner decides who is in it and may remove a member. Leaving is always yours to do, and leaving takes your name out with you.
5. What you write
What you record is yours: the commitments you write, the days you kept, the names you go by. None of it becomes ours by being typed into our app, and linking an account does not change that.
The only permission you give is the narrow one the app needs in order to work — to store your record so it can come back to you, and to show your chosen name and today's yes-or-no to the people in your group. That is the whole of it. It is not permission to publish anything, to show it to anyone outside that group, to sell it, or to train anything on it.
Commitments you write yourself are never witnessed at all: only the app's own library can be carried by a group, so the title and the description you wrote stay on your phone and in your backup.
6. Prayer times and religious content
Prayer times are calculated on your phone, from a location rounded to about a kilometre and the calculation method you chose. A calculation is a convenience, not a ruling: methods differ from one another, a rounded location is not exactly where you are, and a phone can be wrong about the time or the place it thinks it is in.
So treat the times as a help and not an authority. Where a time actually matters, your local mosque or the authority you follow outranks this app, and following the app instead is your decision rather than our advice.
The same goes for the library. The commitments it offers are gathered as a help to somebody who wants to keep a practice steadily; they are not a fatwa, not an obligation, and not a claim about what you owe. What you take on is between you and Allah.
7. Availability
The app is offered as it stands, with no promise that every part of it will always be reachable. Almost all of it does not care: your commitments, your days and your reminders work with no connection and no server at all. Backups and groups are the parts that need both.
A backup is a second copy, not an archive and not a guarantee. The copy on your phone is the one that matters, and the server copy exists to give it back to you.
We may change the app, add things to it, take things out of it, or stop offering it altogether. If it is going to stop, that will be said inside the app with enough time left to take your record out of it.
8. No warranty, and limits
As far as the law allows, Masaruna is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind — no promise that it will suit a particular purpose, run without fault, or be available when you reach for it.
We are not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for a record that a device failure took with it, or for a prayer or a commitment missed because a reminder did not arrive or a time was computed differently from the one you follow. Where liability cannot be excluded at all, it is limited to the smallest amount the law permits.
None of that touches the rights your own law gives you and does not allow to be signed away. Egyptian consumer law, and the consumer law of wherever you happen to live, sit above this page rather than under it.
9. Governing law
These terms are governed by the law of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and any dispute about them goes before the competent Egyptian courts.
If you use Masaruna as a consumer somewhere else, that choice does not take away the protection of your own country's mandatory consumer law, or your right to bring a claim where you live.
If a court finds one part of these terms unenforceable, that part alone falls away and the rest stands as written.
10. Changes to these terms
When these terms change, the date at the top changes with them, and this page always carries the current version.
A change that matters — a new limit on what you may do, or a new obligation on you — is said in the app as well, before it takes effect. Continuing to use Masaruna after that is how it is accepted; if you would rather not, deleting the app ends the agreement.
11. Contact
Questions about these terms, and reports about how somebody is behaving in a group, reach a person at the address below.