Coordinates, dates and on-device calculations
Your selected coordinates are used on your device to calculate the Qibla bearing, estimated distance and magnetic-model adjustment. City presets and the magnetic model come with the site. The calculator does not upload coordinates to a calculation or geocoding service, create an account or record a sequence of your movements.
The selected point remains available while you use the page. Saving it for another visit requires the remember-location option. Browser history, restored tabs, copied links and downloaded files can retain information independently of that option.
The prayer-times tool also calculates on your device, using astronomical routines and time-zone data bundled with the site. It does not call an online prayer-time service, require an account, or send prayer notifications or audio. It requests your device location only when you select its location button, and a manual or device point needs you to confirm its time zone. The selected point, date, calculation settings and any Ramadan range are held in the open page, and monthly and Ramadan timetables are built in your browser. The prayer-times tool does not write that point or those settings to local storage, but copied links and language links can carry them, as described in the sharing section below. Example timetables and the dated historical mosque timetable are bundled reference content, not information about visitors.
The Islamic calendar and Hijri date converter calculate dates in your browser from data and methods bundled with the site, without calling a calendar service. They do not request your location, use the prayer-times settings or read or write browser storage, and they do not save your date selections. To show today’s date, they read your device’s time zone and civil calendar date; no location is involved.
Location and compass access
Selecting Use my location requests one position from your browser. The finder does not continuously track your location. Your browser and operating system decide whether to allow access and how to obtain the position; their location services follow their own settings and policies. MDN’s Geolocation API guide explains the browser feature.
Select Enable live compass to start the orientation feature. Some browsers ask for motion or orientation permission. The readings support the on-screen compass and are not uploaded as a sensor history. Select Stop compass to stop the feature. The site does not request camera or microphone access.
You can use city presets or manual coordinates with these permissions denied. To review or revoke an existing permission, open your browser’s settings for this site. Clearing a saved location does not revoke permission.
Saved locations and display preferences
Remember this location on this device is optional and starts unchecked on a first visit. Selecting it saves the chosen coordinates, label, source and any supplied position-uncertainty value in this browser’s local storage. On a later visit to a language homepage, a valid remembered point can be restored; a saved device position is labelled as saved, rather than a fresh location fix. A city page normally starts from its own reference; an explicit shared-location link can override it.
Select Clear saved location, or uncheck the remember option, to request removal of the saved point. Reset finder clears the active result but keeps an existing saved point. If the browser reports that removal failed, use its site-data settings to clear storage. Other people using the same browser profile may see a remembered place, so leave remembering off on shared devices.
The light or dark theme is saved separately as a display preference. It contains no coordinates. The prayer-times tool, Islamic calendar and date converter do not save their selections in local storage. Local storage can remain until you remove it or the browser clears it; see MDN’s local-storage documentation. Clearing site data removes these stored choices, but not links or files you have saved elsewhere.
Opening the optional map
Selecting Open map loads image tiles from OpenStreetMap. Those requests reveal your IP address and the map tiles being viewed to the provider. The tiles identify a geographic area, and panning or zooming can request more of them. The browser can also send ordinary connection information and a referring-site address.
The map library is served with this website. Choosing a point does not require a separate address-lookup service. You can leave the map closed and use the numeric bearing. Once the map has loaded, hiding it does not undo requests already made.
The provider’s OpenStreetMap privacy policy describes its processing, and its tile usage policy explains the map service’s conditions.
Contact form messages
Typing into the contact form does not submit a message. The site does not save form fields in its own browser storage. Your browser may separately offer autofill.
The form asks for your name, an email address for replies and your message. When you select Send message, the site sends these details through Google’s email service so that your enquiry can be handled. The finder’s coordinates, prayer-time settings, sensor readings and other tool information are never attached automatically. Include only what is needed to explain your question.
Contact details and messages received through the form are used to understand and respond to the enquiry or investigate the reported issue.
Website requests, tracking and outside services
Loading this website sends connection information, including an IP address and requested page address, to the infrastructure delivering it. Hosting and email services can process access, security and delivery records separately from the on-device calculation. Their storage and retention settings are distinct from this browser’s saved-location controls.
The website code does not add analytics, advertising or tracking-cookie scripts. Fonts and interface libraries are served with the site. This does not prevent hosting infrastructure, your browser or a service you choose to open from processing its own connection data. External reference links lead to websites with their own policies.
Privacy questions and changes to this notice
Qibla Finder Online operates this website. For a privacy question or a request concerning a message you sent, use the contact form. Give the relevant date, the reply email address you used and a short description so the message can be identified. Do not send passwords or identity documents in an initial enquiry.
Saved coordinates stay in your browser, so use its site-data controls to remove them. Requests about records held by an external provider may also require contacting that provider. The controls above do not erase browser history, another person’s copy of a shared link or records held by an email or map service.
This notice is updated when the site’s features or data handling change. Check this page before using a newly added external feature. The terms of use explain the scope of the tools, and About Qibla Finder Online explains their purpose.
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