Privacy

Audio

The khateeb’s voice is never recorded or stored. It is streamed for speech recognition only.

Where processing happens

Khutba Now runs in the cloud, within the European Union. Speech recognition, translation and storage all happen there.

Translation is done by large AI models from established providers, choosing those best suited to the task. The models may change as better ones appear.

What is stored

The Arabic text of each line of a speech, and its translations, kept within the European Union.

There is no fixed retention period yet. One will be set, and published here, before more organisations join.

Accounts

Only administrators and speakers have accounts, by invitation; there is no public sign-up. Each account holds an email address, a name, a role and the organisation it belongs to.

Worshippers

Worshippers need no account and no login, and give no personal data. A venue’s link names a room, never a person.

The page remembers the chosen language, text size and theme on the phone itself, in the browser’s storage.

The translation provider

Khutba Now keeps no log of the text it sends for translation, or of the translations that come back. The AI service’s logging of these requests is switched off.

This website

khutba.now uses no cookies, no analytics and no forms, and stores nothing in your browser.

The site is hosted in the cloud. Like most hosting, the host keeps a log of the requests that reach it, such as the page asked for, the time, and the IP address the request came from. The log can’t be switched off, and is kept for as long as the site is hosted there. It is used only to keep the site running and secure.

Questions

For any question about privacy, write to salam@khutba.now.