Privacy Policy

Privacy Statement

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Statement describes the types of information Temple Beth Torah (“TBT”) collects from and about you when you visit the TBT (“we,” or “our”) website, our presence on social media (including Facebook, X, Pinterest, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram), and any domains and online presences acquired in the future (collectively referred to as the “Site”),

This Privacy Statement, governed by our Terms and Conditions, also explains how TBT may use and disclose such information, as well as your ability to control certain uses of it. By using the Site, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement. If you do not, please do not use the Site.

Information Collection

Information You Provide

TBT collects personal information from you when you choose to share it with us. This may include when you use our Site, create an online account with us, make a purchase, request information from us, sign up for newsletters or our email list, use our service, participate in a survey or promotion, or otherwise contact us. The personal information we collect may include your name, address, email address, or telephone number. If you make a purchase from us or make a donation, we may collect a credit/debit card number or other financial information.

Information You Provide Through Social Media

You may be required to provide certain personal information to create your TBT account or to receive certain offers. If you use a third party login to create your account (such as Facebook Connect) or otherwise link to us, we may receive certain information about you from the third party (such as a social network) based on your registration and privacy settings on those third party services.

Information Automatically Collected

We may use cookies, HTML tracking information, or other technologies to collect certain information about visitors to our Site and interactions with our emails and online advertisements, and to allow TBT to keep track of analytics and certain statistical information which enables TBT to improve its Site and provide you with more relevant content and advertising on our Site and other sites.

For example, we may automatically collect certain non-personal information from you, including but not limited to your browser type, device type, operating system, unique device identifier of any of your computer(s) or device(s) that are used to access the Site, software version, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, geolocation, phone model, phone operating system, and the domain name from which you accessed the Services. We also may collect information about your use of the Site, including the date and time you visit the Site, the areas or pages of the Site that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the Site, the number of times you return to the Site, other click-stream or site usage data, emails that you open, forward or click-through to our Site, and other sites that you may visit.

Third Party Service Providers

We may use third party service providers to support our Site or Apps. Some of these service providers may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or Flash cookies to receive, collect, and store information on our behalf.

Third Party Analytic Technologies

Our third party analytics and advertising service providers may also use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or Flash cookies. We use third party analytics and advertising tools (including Google Analytics, Bing Webmaster Tools, Facebook’s Marketing APIs, Twitter Analytics, YouTube Analytics, and Sprinklr) that may automatically collect non-personal information from you when you interact with our Site, advertising, and social media. The Google Analytics features we use include Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, DoubleClick Platform Integrations, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This non-personal information is collected through the use of first party cookies, third party cookies, and web beacons. The information collected may include IP address, the website you came from (known as the referring URL), the type of browser, device and operating system you use, the time and date of access, the pages you visit within our Site (and the order in which you visit them), geographic information, and other information that does not personally identify you. This information may be collected by and shared with our third party analytics and advertising service providers, including Google, Bing, Facebook, X, and YouTube. These allow TBT, and our third party analytics and advertising service providers, to collect non-personal information about you and your use of our Site, advertising and social media.

Information Collected From Other Sources

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including social networks that you use to connect with TBT. This information may include name, user name, demographic information, updated address or contact information, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as from social media and online activity.

Combination of Information

We may combine the information we receive from and about you, including information you provide to us and information we automatically collect through our Site, as well as information across other computers or devices that you may use, and from third party sources.

Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures

Certain parts of our Site require cookies. You are free to set your browser or operating system settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Site or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your Web browser’s or operating system’s website or “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your browser or operating system from receiving cookies or controlling your tracking preferences.

Our system may not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers. Learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for cookies.

Information Use

TBT may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes:

• To respond to your inquiries, contact, and communicate with you;
• To process payment card transactions for services you purchased from us;
• To contact you with information, newsletters and promotional materials from TBT or on behalf of our partners and affiliates
• To review the usage and operations of our Site and improve our content and services;
• To provide you with customized Site content on the Site, or via email;
• To contact you with information, newsletters and promotional materials from TBT or on behalf of our partners and affiliates;
• To contact you when necessary;
• To use your data in an aggregated non-specific format for analytical and demographic purposes;
• To address problems with the Site or our business;
• To protect the security or integrity of the Site;
• As otherwise described to you at the point of data collection; and
• To use and disclose your credit/debit card information only to process payments and prevent fraud

Additionally, if you use the Site to connect with third party services you authorize us to use information from and about you, on your behalf, to interact with these third party services based on your requests.

Short Message Service (SMS) Information

No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. This includes your text messaging originator opt-in data, consent, and personal information.

Information Sharing

TBT may disclose the information we collect from and about you as follows: (1) with affiliated organizations; (2) to our third party service providers that provide business, professional or technical support functions for us, including to the extent necessary or desirable to complete your transaction; (3) as necessary if we believe that there has been a violation of the TBT Terms of Use or of our rights or the rights of any third party; (4) to respond to judicial process or provide information to law enforcement or regulatory agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; and (5) as described to you at the point of collection.

TBT may also share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.

TBT will not sell or transfer your email or phone number to any non-TBT affiliated entity for the purposes of lead generation or “affiliate marketing.”

Also, TBT may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, information we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personal information provided through this Site in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Statement.

Service Providers

TBT may contract with third party service providers to perform functions related to the Site. These service providers will have access to your information needed to perform their business functions, but we do not permit them to use or share that information for other purposes.

Links to Other Websites

The Site may have links to third-party websites, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the practices of such sites.

Public Forums

Any information you may disclose on our Site, in blogs, on message boards, in chat rooms, or on other public areas on the Site or other third-party websites that this Site may link to, becomes public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

Children’s Privacy

Protecting children’s privacy is important to us. We do not direct the Site to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen. If TBT learns that a child under the age of thirteen has provided personally identifiable information to the Site, it will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from its files.

Data Security

We have taken certain physical, administrative, and technical steps to safeguard the information we collect from and about our customers and Site visitors. While we make every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures.

When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card information) on our forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

Data Storage

Your personal information is stored on servers in the United States; however, some of our Service Providers may store information on servers hosted in other countries. As such, your personal information may be subject to the laws of other countries, where the data protection and other laws may differ from those of the United States. Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the countries in which we operate.

Access to Your Personal Information

To update your information stored by TBT, you may sign in to your account and update your personal information.

If You Have Questions

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or the practices described herein, you may contact us at 805-647-4181 or temple@templebethtorah.com.

User’s Acceptance of This Privacy Statement

By visiting the Site, you signify your acceptance to the terms of TBT’s Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Statement, please do not use the Site.

Revisions to This Statement

TBT reserves the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, or otherwise revise portions of this Privacy Statement at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes. If we change the Privacy Statement in a material way, we will provide appropriate notice to you.

Effective Date: November 1, 2024