Terms of Service — Ilm Journal

Last updated: 15 October 2026

These are the terms you agree to when you use Ilm Journal. We've written them in plain English rather than legal language, because terms nobody can read aren't really terms.

If anything here is unclear, email hello@ilmjournal.co.uk and ask. We'd rather explain it than have you agree to something you didn't follow.

The short version

• Ilm Journal is a private study tracker. It's free to use for up to 3 books, classes or courses. Premium removes that limit and adds the Quran memorisation and revision tracking — £2.99/month or £24.99/year, with a 7-day free trial on either.
• What you write is yours. We don't claim any ownership of it, and there's no way for another user to see it.
• We don't promise the app will never break or never change. It's made by one person.
• You can delete your account, and everything in it, whenever you like.
• We're not a religious authority. The app records what you say you're studying — it doesn't check, endorse, or correct any of it.

Who we are, and what this covers

Ilm Journal ("the app") is provided by Shuceeb, contactable at hello@ilmjournal.co.uk. In these terms, "we" and "us" mean that person or company, and "you" means whoever is using the app.

By creating an account or using the app, you're agreeing to these terms. If you don't agree with them, please don't use the app.

Our Privacy Policy explains what the app knows about you and what we do with it. It's part of this agreement, and worth reading — it's the more useful of the two documents.

Who can use it

• You need to be at least 13 years old.
• One account per person. Please don't share an account with someone else — the app is built around one person's study log, and sharing it will only confuse both of you.
• Give a real email address you can actually receive mail at. It's the only way to reset a forgotten password, and if it's wrong you'll lose access to the account.

Your account

Keep your password to yourself. Anything done from your account is treated as done by you, so if someone else gets into it they can read and delete everything you've written.

We cannot recover a forgotten password. Passwords are stored scrambled, in a form nobody here can read — not us, not anyone. If you forget yours, the reset code we email you is the only way back in. If you also lose access to that email address, the account and everything in it is gone for good. That isn't us being unhelpful; there's genuinely nothing we can do.

If you think someone else has got into your account, change your password in the app and email us.

What you write is yours

You own everything you put into Ilm Journal — your study log, your notes, your teachers' names, your Quran records, all of it. Using the app doesn't give us any ownership of it, and we don't take a licence to publish it, reuse it, or show it to anybody.

There is no sharing layer in this app. No groups, no public pages, no feed, no way for another user to see your entries. That isn't a setting you have to find and switch on — it's simply not built.

We don't read what you write. The database is set up so that a signed-in user can only ever reach their own rows; it refuses anything else at its own level, rather than trusting the app to behave. As the people who run the service we do hold administrative access to the database, and we use it only to keep the thing running, to help you if you ask us to, or where the law obliges us. We don't browse people's study logs, and we never will.

You're responsible for what you enter. Only put in things you have the right to record. If you save a teacher's name or class details, that's your own record of your own studies — please be sensible about writing down other people's information.

What Ilm Journal is not

We want to be straight about this, because the app sits in a space where people might reasonably expect more than it offers.

It is not a religious authority. Ilm Journal takes no position on any school of thought, any teacher, any institution, or any book. It records what you tell it you're studying. It doesn't verify it, endorse it, rank it, or correct it. Nothing appearing in the app should be read as us recommending anything.

It never shows Quranic text. The Quran features record references only — surah and ayah numbers, and the dates you memorised or revised them. There is no Quranic text in the app, no translation, and no audio. What you have actually memorised, and how accurately, is between you and your teacher. A tick in this app is a note you made to yourself, not a certification of anything.

It is not a substitute for a teacher, and it isn't a course, a qualification, or a programme of study. It's a notebook that adds up.

No money moves through the app. If you record what a class costs, that's a note for your own records. We don't take payments, we don't pass payments on, and we're not part of any arrangement between you and a teacher or an institution. Any dispute about money, attendance, or the quality of a class is between you and them — we have no involvement in it and can't help resolve it.

Links you save are not ours. If you save a YouTube video or any other link and later tap it, your phone opens it elsewhere. What happens there is between you and that website, under their terms, not ours. We don't check those links and aren't responsible for what's on the other end.

Using it fairly

Only a short list, and none of it should be a surprise. Please don't:

• Try to get at anyone else's account or data, or get around the checks that stop you.
• Attack, overload, or interfere with the service, or try to break the app on purpose.
• Take the app apart to copy it, or resell or rent access to it.
• Use it for anything unlawful, or to store material you have no right to hold.
• Run automated tools against it, or pretend to be someone else.

If you do any of these we may suspend or close your account. For anything serious we'd do it without warning; for anything minor we'd rather email you first.

Free use, subscription, and change

There is a free version, and it doesn't expire. It holds up to 3 study items — books, classes and courses counted together — and doesn't include the Quran memorisation and revision tracking.

Premium removes the limit and unlocks the Quran section. It's £2.99/month or £24.99/year, and either one starts with a 7-day free trial. We'll always show you the price before your trial ends or you're asked to pay anything.

If a subscription ends, nothing you've written is taken away. You keep every item you already have, and you can still read, edit and delete them — you simply can't add new ones beyond the free limit, or use the Quran section, until you subscribe again.

Payment is handled entirely by Apple or Google, through your App Store or Google Play account — never by us directly, and we never see or store your card details. Subscriptions renew automatically until you cancel; you can cancel anytime in your App Store or Google Play account settings, and it'll stay active until the end of the period you already paid for.

If we ever change the price, we'll give you notice before it applies to you, in line with Apple's and Google's own rules about that.

Because it's made by one person, we have to be honest about what we can promise beyond that:

• We don't guarantee the app will always work. It may be unavailable, slow, or broken at times, sometimes without warning.
• We may change it. Features can be added, altered, or removed as the app develops.
• We may stop running it. If it ever comes to that, we'll give reasonable notice by email and try to give you a way to get your data out first.

We're not promising a fix by any particular time, and there's no support agreement here — but if you email us with a problem, a real person reads it.

Your data, and keeping a copy

Your study log lives on our database, and a copy is kept on your own phone so the app works without a connection. We take care of it, but no service is immune to loss, and this one comes with no warranty that your data will never be lost or damaged.

Right now the app has no export button. If something in your log would genuinely upset you to lose, keep your own note of it elsewhere until we build one. We'd rather tell you that plainly than have you find out the hard way.

Ending it

You can leave whenever you like. In the app: Settings → Account → Delete account. It's immediate and permanent — your login, your profile, every study item, and your whole Quran memorisation and revision history go in one action. There's no recovery period and no archived copy. Once it's done, neither you nor we can get it back, so please be certain.

We may close an account that breaks these terms, or where we're required to by law. If we close yours for any reason other than a serious breach, we'll email you first.

If the service shuts down entirely, we'll give reasonable notice as described above.

Where we stand legally

Nothing in this section takes away rights you have as a consumer that the law says can't be taken away — including anything to do with death or personal injury caused by our negligence, or with fraud.

Beyond that, and as far as the law allows:

• The app is provided "as is". We don't make promises about it being accurate, uninterrupted, error-free, or fit for any particular purpose you have in mind.
• We're not liable for indirect or knock-on losses — for example lost time, lost opportunities, or losses arising from data being unavailable or lost.
• If we are found liable for something despite the above, our total liability to you is limited to whichever is greater: what you've paid us in the 12 months before the claim, or £20 if you were on the free version or still in your trial.

We think that's fair for a small tool made by one person. If you need guarantees beyond it, this probably isn't the right tool for you, and we'd rather say so up front.

If you got the app from the Apple App Store

Apple requires us to spell out a few things, so:

• This agreement is between you and us, not Apple. Apple isn't responsible for the app or its contents.
• Apple has no obligation to provide support for the app. Any support questions come to us at hello@ilmjournal.co.uk.
• If the app fails to work as it should, you can tell Apple and they'll consider refunding what you paid, under Apple's own refund policy — we're not involved in that decision. Beyond that, Apple has no other warranty obligation in relation to the app.
• Apple is not responsible for handling any claim you have about the app — including product liability claims, claims that it doesn't meet a legal requirement, or claims under consumer protection law.
• If anyone claims the app infringes their intellectual property, we deal with it, not Apple.
• You confirm you're not in a country subject to a US Government embargo, and not on any US Government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
• Apple and its subsidiaries can enforce these terms against you as a third-party beneficiary of this agreement.

Changes to these terms

If we change these terms we'll update this page and change the date at the top. If it's a significant change, we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.

Carrying on using the app after a change means you accept the new terms. If you don't accept them, delete your account — and that's a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

Which country's law applies

These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and its courts have jurisdiction over any dispute.

If you're a consumer living somewhere else, this doesn't take away the protection of your own country's consumer law, or your right to bring a claim in your own local courts.

Contact

Shuceeb hello@ilmjournal.co.uk