Privacy

Phoenix has no accounts and asks for no names, emails or passwords.

Kept only on your device

Your saved passages, your prayer streak, your Ruhi progress, your place (for prayer times and the Qiblih), your language and theme are stored in your own browser. They never leave your device unless you choose “Move to another phone” on the Saved page, and clearing your browser’s site data removes them.

Moving to another phone

If you make a transfer code, a copy of those items is kept on our database for at most 24 hours so your other device can fetch it. It is deleted as soon as the code is used, or after 24 hours if it never is. The copy has no name or email attached.

What is sent to other services

Searches. What you type is sent to Anthropic (Claude), to reword the question and sometimes write a short answer, and to Voyage AI, to search by meaning. Phoenix does not store your searches.

Your city. If you type a city instead of using your location, its name is looked up with Open-Meteo’s free place finder.

Prayers in other languages and sung prayers come from BahaiPrayers.net. Sung prayers play through YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com).

Feedback. If you send feedback, your message is stored so it can be read. Please don’t include personal details.

Usage counts. Phoenix may count which features are used (for example, how often a sung prayer is played), with a random number per browser so visitors can be counted without knowing who they are. No names, no searches and no network addresses are stored with these counts.

Like every website, the hosting service (Vercel) briefly keeps standard technical logs, such as network addresses, to keep the site running and secure.

Texts

The texts of the Writings are © Bahá’í International Community and come from the Bahá’í Reference Library. Phoenix is an independent study tool, not an official publication of any Bahá’í institution.