Trust & Governance

1.1About this page

Muslim travelers use HalalTrip to decide where to eat, stay and pray. This page explains where our information comes from, how it is checked, what our commercial relationships can and cannot influence, and how to tell us when something is wrong. It is written for travelers, businesses we list, partners and journalists.

1.2Scope

This page covers halal status, Crescent Ratings and awards, prayer times and Islamic dates, commercial relationships, contributions and corrections, AI assistants, and data privacy. It supplements, and does not replace, our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

2.1What the CHDA code tells you

Restaurants on HalalTrip carry a CHDA (CrescentRating Halal Dining Assurance) code. CHDA is CrescentRating’s assessment of halal assurance as Muslim diners experience it: who stands behind the halal status, how the kitchen is set up, and whether alcohol is served. It is not a halal certification and not a religious ruling.

• How CHDA worksCrescentRating's explanation of the codes and what each letter means.

2.2Where the information comes from

Halal status is based on evidence: certification by a local halal authority, a CrescentRating audit, a certificate we have seen, or what the owner declares, and the code says which. Information from visitors is reviewed by CrescentRating's operations team before it changes a listing.

2.3We report, we don't certify

3.1Crescent Ratings

Crescent Ratings come from CrescentRating's audits of hotels and other places against its published criteria. HalalTrip shows a rating or accreditation level only while it is current. Being listed on CrescentRating's website is not, by itself, a rating, and we never show it as one.

3.2HalalTrip Gastronomy Awards

Award winners are decided through the HalalTrip Gastronomy Awards judging process. Sponsors and partners of the awards do not decide who wins, and an award shows the edition and year it was won.

4.1How prayer times are worked out

Prayer times are calculated from the position of the sun for each place. By default we use the method of the country's Islamic authority, for example MUIS in Singapore, JAKIM in Malaysia, Kemenag in Indonesia and Diyanet in Türkiye, and you can choose another method at any time. Where an authority publishes its timetable, we check our times against it: our Singapore and Malaysia times are tested against the MUIS and JAKIM timetables and agree to within a minute.

4.2How Islamic dates are set

Islamic dates start from the Umm al-Qura calendar, Saudi Arabia's official calendar. When a country's Islamic authority announces the start of a month, such as Ramadan or Shawwal, our team adds it and that country's dates follow the announcement. Until then, dates are shown as expected. Some authorities, such as MUIS in Singapore, set their months by calculation; we say so on the page.

5.1How HalalTrip earns money

HalalTrip is funded by advertising and destination campaigns, partnerships, sponsorship of our programs, and commissions from some booking links (for example to activities and travel packages).

5.2What commercial relationships cannot change

6.1What visitors send us

Travelers can suggest new places, suggest edits to listings and submit home-based businesses. Every submission is reviewed by our operations team before anything is published. Photos stay private until we accept them, and we never publish the sender's contact details.

6.2Reporting an error

If something on HalalTrip is wrong or out of date, use "Suggest an edit" on the listing, or email info@halaltrip.com with what you found. We review every report and correct the listing where it is warranted.

7.1HalalTrip in AI assistants

Our MCP server lets AI assistants answer questions about prayer times, the Ramadan timetable, the Qibla and Islamic dates with the same calculations and announced dates as our pages, and each answer links to the page that shows it. It is read-only, needs no account and receives only the place and date of each question. Bulk harvesting of our data and training AI models on it are not allowed (Terms of Service, Section 6).

• HalalTrip in your AI assistantWhat it answers and how to connect it.

8.1Our commitments

We collect and use personal data only as described in our Privacy Policy, and we do not sell personal data. We protect it with access limited to authorized staff, encryption of data in transit and regular review of our security practices.

• Read our Privacy PolicyHow we collect, use, share and protect personal data.

9.1Our policies

The commitments on this page are given legal effect in these documents:

• Terms of ServiceThe terms for using HalalTrip's website, apps and tools.
• Privacy PolicyHow we collect, use, share and protect personal data.
• Cookie PolicyThe cookies we use and how to manage your choices.