Privacy policy

Last updated: 2 November 2026

Who we are

Divine Echoes is run by Mohammad Aamir Desai, a sole trader in the United Kingdom ("we"). This policy covers the website divineechoes.org, the Name the Reciter game, and the Divine Echoes app for iPhone and Android. For any question, or to use your rights below, email support@divineechoes.org.

What we collect

If you have an account

Your name and username.
Your password, stored scrambled so nobody can read it.
If you link Google to sign in, the ID and email address of that Google account. We use the ID only to recognise you when you sign in, and show the email back to you in Settings. You can unlink it there at any time.
Your profile picture, if you add one.
Your mobile number, if you choose to give it.
Recordings of your own recitation.
What you write or send: chat messages, voice notes, photos, videos, files, comments, stage tags and answers.
What you do in the app, so it can keep your place and show your progress: what you listen to and for how long, where you stopped, your practice, challenges, game scores and badges.
Your settings, the notifications we send you, and the devices you turn notifications on for.
If you pay a subscription, a record of which months are paid. We never see or store card details.
Your answers when the app asks, such as accepting the Amānah Agreement.

If you play Name the Reciter as a guest

The name you type, the month and year you were born, your games, your scores and your messages in game chats.

If you make a Name the Reciter account

Your name, your email address and your password (kept only in a scrambled form that cannot be read back), or, if you sign in with Google, the ID, name, email and picture Google gives us. The month and year you were born. Your games, scores and messages in game chats, and a profile picture if you choose one.

If a parent or guardian makes a Name the Reciter account for their child

The parent's email address and password, the child's name and the month and year the child was born, and when the parent gave their permission. The child's games, scores and quick messages in game chats.

If you ask for an account

Your name, the username you would like, your mobile number and your message.

On every visit

Our server keeps a log of requests, including your internet (IP) address. This keeps the service working and secure.

The microphone is used only while you are recording. Voice chat in Name the Reciter goes directly between players and is never recorded.

What we don't do

No adverts, no tracking across other websites, no analytics companies, and we never sell your information.

Cookies and your device

We use two cookies, both needed for the site to work:

one keeps you signed in, for 30 days;
one keeps a guest player's place in the game, for 30 days, or a Name the Reciter account signed in, for a year.

The site also saves settings on your device, such as dark mode and the screen you were on. It keeps a recording safe on your device while you are still making it.

Why we use it

To provide the service you signed up for.
To keep it secure, fix problems and improve it.
To text you or send notifications, but only if you give your number or turn notifications on. You can turn either off at any time in Settings.

Who can see what

Other members see your name and picture, what you post in chats you share, and any recording you publish, to the people you choose. Leaderboards show your name unless you hide it in Settings.
In Name the Reciter, players see each other's names, scores and game chat. A Name the Reciter account's name is on the game's leaderboards, and its picture is shown only once an admin has checked it.
Admins see what they need to run the site: the stage tags and answers you send for review, and activity such as what is played and when.
Your private recordings and private chats cannot be opened by anyone else, admins included, unless you share them.

Services that handle data for us

Hetzner (Germany): our server and database.
Cloudflare: stores recordings, pictures and other uploads, protects the site, and relays game voice chat when players cannot connect directly. Voice chat is never recorded.
Twilio (USA): sends our text messages, so it receives your number and the message.
Anthropic (USA): powers the help assistant and helps us sort written comments, and checks that every name chosen in Name the Reciter is respectful. It receives the text alone: the question, the comment or the name on its own, never who wrote it, your email or your recordings.
Apple, Google and Mozilla: deliver notifications to your device, if you turn them on.
Google sign-in: if you sign in to Name the Reciter with Google, Google tells us your account's ID, name, email and picture, and nothing else. If you link Google to your Divine Echoes account on the website, we keep only its ID and email address.
Google Fonts: supplies the lettering, so Google receives your internet address when a page loads.

Where information leaves the UK, it is protected by the safeguards UK law requires.

How long we keep it

Your account and everything in it: until you delete it or ask us to.
Game clips: deleted two days after a game ends.
Server logs: 90 days.
Guest players: 12 months after their last game.
Name the Reciter accounts: until you delete them or ask us to.

When you delete your account, your recordings, messages, uploads, history and the texts we sent you are deleted straight away. Stage tags you published stay on their recordings, credited to Divine Echoes, so the library stays complete. Problem reports and questions you asked the help assistant are kept without your name.

Deleting your account

Members: Settings, then Account, then Delete my account.
Name the Reciter accounts: in the app, You, then Privacy, then Delete my account.
Guest players: open this page from Name the Reciter, on the phone or computer you play on, and a Delete my game data button shows here.
Or email support@divineechoes.org.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can:

ask for a copy of your information;
ask us to correct it or delete it;
ask us to stop using it.

Email support@divineechoes.org and we will reply within one month. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Children

Divine Echoes is for people aged 13 and over. Under 13s may become members only with a parent's or teacher's permission.

Name the Reciter asks everybody who plays without being a member when they were born. If you are under 13 you cannot play as a guest, and nothing you typed is kept; a parent or guardian can make an account for you instead, with their permission. If you are 13 to 17, or play on an account a parent made, you play as everybody does, but chat with the quick messages only, never typed messages or voice chat, and you are not shown what other players type. An account a parent made is never shown on the leaderboards. We keep only the month and year you were born. If you chose the wrong date you can correct it in the app (You, then Privacy) or on the game page; a date a parent gave can be changed by emailing us.

Changes

If this policy changes we will update the date at the top, and tell members in the app if the change matters.