Privacy Policy

Bazmano – Prayers, zmanim and the Hebrew calendar

1. Overview

Bazmano ("the app") shows prayers, prayer times and the Hebrew calendar. This policy explains what data the app uses and how. In short: no account, no ads, no tracking across other apps, only anonymous general usage data, and no personal data stored on our server unless you turn on the weekly Shabbat reminder.

2. Location

Your location is used only to calculate prayer times. You can allow device location, pick a city or enter coordinates manually. To calculate the times the app sends our server the coordinates, elevation and time zone. This is not stored on the server unless you turn on the Shabbat reminder (section 3).

3. Notifications and the Shabbat reminder

If you turn on the weekly Shabbat reminder, we store the following to send you candle lighting and Shabbat end times:

• Your device's push notification token.
• City name, coordinates, elevation and time zone.
• Israel or Diaspora schedule, app language and candle lighting minutes.

These details are not linked to your name, email or any account. Turning the reminder off in the app deletes them from the server. Prayer reminders are scheduled on your device.

4. Anonymous usage data

We use Google's Firebase Analytics to understand which screens are used and which prayers are completed, and to improve the app. It collects screen names, a prayer-completed event and general technical data (device model, OS version, language, approximate country), together with an anonymous per-install identifier. No advertising ID, name, email or precise location is collected, and the data is not used for advertising or tracking across apps.

5. Data stored on your device

Your settings (language, nusach, location, text style) and content you opened before are stored only on your device so the app works offline. Deleting the app removes them.

6. Service providers

• Google Firebase Analytics: anonymous usage data.
• Vercel: hosting our server.
• Neon: the database for the Shabbat reminder.
• Expo Push Service, Apple (APNs) and Google (FCM): delivering notifications.
• Sefaria: the source of the prayer texts. Requests go through our server, so your device never contacts Sefaria directly.

We do not sell your data or share it for advertising.

7. Children's privacy

The app does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13.

8. Your rights

To delete Shabbat reminder details from our server, turn off the reminder in the app settings. You can also request deletion by emailing yair8520@gmail.com and identifying Bazmano as the app. To remove settings and cached content stored only on your device, uninstall the app. Location requests for calculating times are not stored on our server; reminder details are kept until you turn the reminder off or request deletion.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The latest version is always available on this page.

10. Contact

Questions about this policy? yair8520@gmail.com