How this site works

Every page is pre-built and delivered from a CDN as plain files. Once loaded, everything happens inside your browser: searching the library, filtering books, playing recitations, remembering where you stopped reading. The site never asks a server who you are, because there is no server to ask.

What we never collect

No names, no email addresses, no identifiers, no location, no fingerprints, no behavioural profiles. We run no analytics — not even the “privacy-friendly” kind — and we embed no third-party trackers, pixels or advertising networks. We couldn't follow you around the internet if we wanted to, because we never learn you were here.

The only information we ever see is what you choose to put in an email you send us yourself.

Stored only on your device

A few preferences — your light/dark theme, transliteration and translation toggles, and playback volume — are saved in your browser's local storage so the site greets you the way you left it. This data lives on your device only, is never transmitted, and disappears the moment you clear your browser data.

Third-party media

Two kinds of media load from their original homes, and only when you press play:

• Recitations — streamed from iqbal.com.pk (International Iqbal Society) when you press play on a poem.
• The featured film — the Shikwa recitation video embedded on our About Us and Contact pages is served by YouTube (in its privacy-enhanced mode) when it loads. Once you interact with it, YouTube's own policies apply.

Until you press play, nothing is requested from these services.

Copyright & credits — the honest part

We claim no ownership of anything on this site except the code that presents it. Every work belongs to its original source:

• The poetry of Allama Iqbal is in the public domain. The texts presented here are verified against the editions of Iqbal Academy Pakistan — this site is a tribute, not an authoritative publisher.
• Recitations by Zia Mohiuddin are streamed via iqbal.com.pk (International Iqbal Society); all rights remain with the reciter and the society.
• The Shikwa recitation film embedded on this site is the work of ADDX ZONE on YouTube; all rights remain with its creator.

This is a non-commercial project with no revenue of any kind. If you are a rights holder and believe something here needs attention, write to us and it will be resolved with respect.

Changes

If this policy ever changes in a way that matters, the change will appear on this page with the date updated.