Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to Mada Alalam. We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting the information you provide when using our website and application.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect or process, how we use it, and how we protect it.

2. Information We Collect

When you create or use an account, we may collect:

• Email address
• Password credentials
• Account creation and update information
• Account-related activity, such as favorite articles, followed news sources, sports teams, interests, and article reactions such as likes or dislikes
• Authentication information and account identifiers used to manage your account, including when signing in with Google through Firebase Authentication

If you enable notifications, Mada Alalam uses Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) and may process a device notification token and device platform information to deliver notifications to your device.

When you use personalized features, the application may store your selected interests, followed sports teams, and article reactions such as likes or dislikes in connection with your account.

When you use the weather feature, the application may request access to your approximate device location to provide weather information relevant to your location.

Some guest favorites and certain notification-related data may be stored locally on your device.

3. Password Security

Your password is not stored as plain text. Passwords are securely hashed before being stored in our database.

You should never share your account password with another person.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect to:

• Create and manage your account
• Authenticate your account, including Google sign-in through Firebase Authentication
• Provide personalized features based on your selected interests and preferences
• Save and manage your favorite articles
• Manage followed news sources and sports teams
• Record article reactions such as likes or dislikes
• Provide weather information
• Deliver news notifications
• Maintain and improve the application
• Protect the security of our services

5. Notifications and Location

If you enable notifications, we use Firebase Cloud Messaging to deliver news notifications to your device. A device notification token may be sent to our server together with device platform information for this purpose.

When you use the weather feature, we may use your approximate location to provide weather information relevant to your location. You can control notification and location permissions through your device settings.

6. News Content

Mada Alalam aggregates news information from third-party news sources and RSS feeds.

News articles, images, trademarks, logos, and other third-party content may belong to their respective owners.

Where available, Mada Alalam provides a link to the original article so that users can access the original publisher's website.

7. Third-Party Services

Mada Alalam uses third-party services to provide certain features, including Firebase Authentication for account authentication, Firebase Cloud Messaging for notifications, and services used to provide weather information.

The application may also display news content, links, and YouTube content provided by third parties.

When you access third-party websites, content, or services through Mada Alalam, those services may have their own privacy policies and terms of service. Mada Alalam does not control the privacy practices of third-party services.

8. Account Data

You can update certain account information through your account settings.

You can also request deletion of your account through the account deletion feature provided by the application.

You may also request account deletion through our official website if you cannot access your account through the application.

When an account is deleted, associated account data is removed from our application database, subject to any technical, legal, security, or other legitimate requirements that may require limited retention.

9. Data Security

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no internet service can guarantee complete security of information transmitted or stored online.

10. Children's Privacy

Mada Alalam is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can review and take appropriate action.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our services, technology, or legal requirements.

Any updated version will be published on this page with a revised "Last updated" date.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your information is handled, you can contact us through our official website:

You may also contact us using the support email address provided on our Contact Us page.