Privacy Policy for Visitor Data, Cookies and Online Rights

About This Policy

Last updated: February 2025.

This site publishes the writings and lectures of Dr. Mohammad Najeeb Qasmi, alongside articles on Fiqh, Hadith, Seerah, and related fields of Islamic scholarship. This policy explains, in plain terms, what happens to your data when you visit.

The purpose here is honest and narrow. We want you to read, learn, and reflect without wondering what is being tracked in the background. So this document lays out what we collect, why, and how you can push back.

If something below is unclear, the Contact page is the right door to knock on.

Information Collected

Most of what reaches our servers is the ordinary technical exhaust of any website visit. When you open a page, the server logs an IP address, the browser and device you used, and which pages you looked at. This is standard housekeeping, not surveillance.

When you reach out

Contact submissions are different. If you send a message through the contact form, you hand over whatever you typed — your name, email, and the body of your question. We only hold that because you chose to send it.

When you subscribe

Subscription inputs work the same way. If you sign up for updates, we store the email address you entered so we can deliver what you asked for. Nothing more is required, and nothing more is taken.

Cookies and Tracking

Cookies are small files a site places on your device. Some are necessary; others are optional. We separate them clearly so you know what each one does.

Essential cookies

These keep the site working. They remember your consent choices and hold together basic functionality across pages. Without them, the site simply misbehaves.

Analytics cookies

These help us understand traffic — which articles get read, how visitors move between sections, where people arrive from. The point is editorial, not commercial: knowing that a Hajj guide gets heavy weekend traffic tells us where to spend effort.

Advertising cookies

None are active today. We note them here because personalized advertising may be introduced in the future, and if that day comes, this section will describe it before any such cookie is set.

User Rights and Privacy Choices

The data is yours, and so are the decisions about it. A few concrete rights sit at your disposal.

• Access. You can ask what information we hold about you and receive a plain answer.
• Erasure. You can request that we delete your contact records or subscription details.
• Opt out of tracking. You can decline analytics and future advertising cookies without penalty.

To exercise any of these, write through the Contact page. Name what you want — access or deletion, and we will act on it. Because the site is maintained by a small team rather than a large staffed department, a request may take a little time to process, but it will be honored.

How Collected Information Is Used

Everything we gather serves one of three ends, and no fourth purpose sneaks in behind them.

First, we use it to improve how the site reads and behaves — smoother navigation, pages that load where you expect, content organized around what people actually seek.

Second, analytics data measures performance. It tells us whether a new article on the Seerah and History section found its audience or slipped by unnoticed.

Third, contact submissions exist so we can reply to you. If you asked a question about a ruling or a lecture, your message is used to answer it — and then it rests.

Third-Party Services and Infrastructure

No website runs entirely on its own machines, and this one is honest about the outside help it leans on.

Analytics vendors

Traffic measurement runs through third-party analytics tools. They process visit data on our behalf under their own privacy terms.

Advertising partners

There are none at present. Should advertising partners join later, they will be disclosed here with the scope of what they receive.

Hosting and delivery

Content is served through hosting providers and a content delivery network that caches pages closer to you for speed. These providers necessarily handle technical request data as part of delivering the site to your screen.

Retention Periods and Deletion Practices

We do not hoard data. Different types live for different spans.

Technical server logs are kept only as long as they are useful for security and diagnostics, then cycled out. Contact messages remain while a conversation is open and are cleared once the matter is settled. Subscription records last until you unsubscribe — at which point they are removed rather than parked.

Deletion is a routine, not a favor. When a retention window closes, the data goes.

Revisions to This Policy

This policy will change when the site changes. If we add advertising, adopt a new analytics tool, or adjust how long we keep data, the update lands here first.

Every revision carries a fresh date at the top of the page. Significant changes may also be flagged on the site itself so returning readers notice them. Reading a policy once and forgetting it is easy — so when you next return and see a new date, will you take the minute to check what moved?