Privacy policy.

Last Updated: September 29, 2024

This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) explains how Mitzvah Minder, LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliated companies (collectively, the “Company, “we,” “us” or “our”) may gather, collect, record, hold, distribute, share, disclose or otherwise use your personal information and the rights and choices you have in relation to your personal information.

This Privacy Policy applies to all personal information collected during any written, electronic, and oral communications or collected online or offline (collectively, the “Services,” including through our mobile application or website at www.mitzvahminder.com all corresponding webpages, software applications or mobile applications that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”), and when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if the advertising and applications include links to this Privacy Policy.

By using our Site or Services, you agree to the collection and use of your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree to all of the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, then you should not use or access our Site or Services.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time and make changes to information previously collected, as permitted by law. If we make material changes, we will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page with an “Updated” effective date of the revisions. We encourage you to look for updates and changes to this Privacy Policy by checking this date when you access our Services.

Please note that our Site may contain links to third-party websites, such as advertisers and vendors. These links are intended for your convenience only. These third-party websites and services are not related to the Company and may have separate privacy policies and data collection practices. We have no responsibility for these websites or their privacy practices and encourage users to read the privacy policies of all websites they visit.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section 1: Information We Collect

Section 2: How We Use Your Information

Section 3: Sharing and Disclosure of Information

Section 4: Your Choices

Section 5: Children

Section 6: Date Security

Section 7: International Transfers of Personal Information

Section 8: Additional Notice to California Residents

Section 9: Communicating with the Company

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you access or use our Services, we may, either directly or by using our service providers, gather, collect, record, hold, distribute, share, disclose or otherwise use personal information about you and your child or children which you provide to us. Personal information is any information that relates to you, identifies you personally, or could be used to identify you including your name, mailing address, email address and telephone number. Personal information does not include anonymized or aggregated information. The types of personal information that we may collect about you are described below.

1.1. INFORMATION YOU VOLUNTARILY PROVIDE TO US. We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you:

  • complete forms on the Site, or in relation to our Services, or you contact us via telephone;

  • create an account with us;

  • purchase or otherwise request any of the Company’s offerings or services;

  • request any customer support;

  • request any information from or about the Company, such as a newsletter, e-alert, or any other information about our offerings, services, events or business partners;

  • communicate with any representative of our Company;

  • communicate with us via third-party social media sites;

  • participate in any event by us;

  • maintain employment with the Company;

  • apply for a job with the Company; or

  • otherwise communicate with us in any other way, whether in writing or orally.

In these instances, the types of personal information that we may collect from you may include:

  • Your name;

  • Zip Code

  • Billing address;

  • E-mail address;

  • Phone (or mobile) number;

  • Credit or debit card number and other information about the same (if you make a payment either directly to us or by using a third-party payment provider that handles payments and will receive your payment card information)

  • Information you provide when you report a problem with our Site or a purchase or other transaction with us by email, our Site, telephone, in writing or through other means;

  • Records and copies of your correspondence if you contact us; or

  • Transaction history with us.

In these instances, the types of personal information that we may collect about your child may include:

  • Name

  • Zip code

  • ElementarySchool

  • Middle School

  • Temple

  • Gender

  • B’nai Mitzvah date

In these instances, the types of personal information that we may collect about your [child’s] B’nai Mitzvah celebration may include:

  • Party Venue

  • Temple

  • Vendors such as but not limited to

    • DJ or band

    • Photographer

    • Videographer

    • Caterer

    • Graphic Designer

1.2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT BY OTHER MEANS

1.2.1. INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED

When you access or otherwise use our Site or Services, we automatically collect certain personal information about you, including:

  • Device Information. We (or our service providers) may collect information about the computer, tablet, phone or other device you use to access any of the Services, including the Internet Protocol address, hardware models, operating system and version, mobile network information and other unique device identifiers.

  • Interaction with Website.  We (or our service providers) may collect information about your browsing history and interaction with our Site.

  • Cookies and other Web-based Tracking Technologies: We (or our service providers) may use different technologies such as cookies, web beacons, or other types of small temporary files or web-based tracking technologies to gather certain information. A cookie is a small data file stored by your web browser on your computer or mobile device (hard drive) that helps us to improve the way we deliver our Services to you, helps us improve your overall experience using our Services, and/or helps us analyze the areas and features of our Services that are most popular or to detect fraud. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our Services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage. Like many other websites, cookies and these other web-based tracking technologies may be used by us (or our service providers) during your visit to the Sites or other Services in order to improve your individual experience as a user of our Site and Services, or to generally improve or enhance the overall functionality of the Services.

  • Social Media Information. If any of our Services offer any social media features, such as the Facebook Like buttons or similar social media interactive mini-programs, these features may collect your Internet Protocol address, which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on our Services. Your interactions with these features may be governed by the privacy policies of the company providing it.

1.2.2. INFORMATION WE RECEIVE FROM THIRD PARTIES IF APPLICABLE TO FURTHER INFORMATION

1.2.3 THIRD PARTY COLLECTION VIA WEBSITE

A number of third-party companies may collect personal information about you during your use of our Site, through the use of pixels.  These third parties are generally advertising / marketing partners.

The type of personal information gathered directly by these third parties includes IP address, unique personal identifier, online ID, consumer history / tendency, interaction with the website and preferences, characteristics, and behavioral information.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We will only use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use or as disclosed to you prior to such processing taking place. 

We are committed to protecting the privacy of children whose parents or guardians use our Services.  We will never share your child’s full name or fully identifying information on any of our Sites.

The purposes for which we may use or share your personal information include to:

  • Enable you to access our Site;

  • Enable to you make payments;

  • Enable you to communicate with others;

  • Enable you to search our databases;

  • Notify you via email, text and/or in-app;

  • Send support and administrative messages, and respond to your comments, questions, and customer service requests;

  • Communicate with you about offerings, services and events offered by us and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you, subject to the applicable law;

  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our Services;

  • Conduct screenings or to otherwise protect against fraud or unauthorized transactions, including by identifying potential unauthorized users or hackers;

  • Personalize your experience and the advertisements and content you see when you use any Services based on your preferences, interests, and browsing and purchasing behavior;

  • Comply with applicable laws or regulations or as requested by any judicial process or governmental agency (including without limitation for Company’s tax reporting), or as may be requested under any subpoena;

  • Keep you secure and safe while using our Services, which requires us to process your personal information to combat spam, malware, malicious activities or security risks;

  • Improve and enforce our security measures;

  • Facilitate your use of various social media sharing features or other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button) which you may use as part of social media pages;

  • Process your information to evaluate your application if you apply for a job or to provide services to the Company;

  • Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time your personal information is collected; or

  • Use with, or otherwise distribute, share or disclose to, any government agencies or third parties in order to comply with, or otherwise pursuant to, any subpoena, court order, or other governmental order, law or regulation (including without limitation tax reporting).

3. SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We will never share or sell the personal information of any minor.  We may share or disclose your personal information in the following circumstances:

  • Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may disclose your information with our affiliates or subsidiaries for any of the purposes described herein.

  • Service Providers and Contractors. We may share or disclose your personal information with our service providers, contractors or other third-party vendors that we retain in connection with the provision of the Services, including without limitation the following types of persons that we may engage:

    • Email, internet or other telecommunication service providers;

    • Cloud or other data storage and hosting service providers;

    • Third-party payment service providers, including without limitation third-party credit card processors (see “Third-Party Application Providers” below);

    • Analytics companies who assist us with various types of data analytics (see “Analytics Partners” below); or

    • Other third-party contractors we engage to assist us in providing our Services.

  • Third Party Application Providers. If a third-party application is used to support our Services, we may share or disclose your information to such third-party application providers, including without limitation third-party credit card processors or other third-party payment service providers.

  • Analytics Partners. We may use services provided by third-party analytics service providers or by using one of their tools, such as Google Analytics, to collect and process certain analytics data. These services may also collect data about your use of other websites, apps and online resources. Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google LLC, a corporation domiciled in the USA (“Google”) that tracks and reports Site traffic. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: policies.google.com/privacy. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics, available at: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

  • Advertising Partners. We may work with third-party advertising companies (collectively, “Advertising Partners”) to provide you with advertisements or other information that we think may interest you. These Advertising Partners may set or access their own cookies, pixel tags or similar technologies on our Site and Services or they may otherwise collect or have access to data about you which they may collect over time and across different online services. These Advertising Partners may also provide us with their own independent data about potential customers and such data could include data about you previously collected by the Advertising Partner.

  • Social Media Features. Our Services may offer social media features, including certain sharing tools or other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share actions that you take on our social media pages. Your use of such features enables the sharing of Personal Information with the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature.

  • Merger, Sale, or Other Asset Transfers. We may share or disclose or otherwise transfer your personal information to the Company’s professional advisors such as attorneys or accountants or other advisors (collectively, “Outside Professionals), potential transactional partners, or other third-parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell, liquidate, or transfer all or a portion of our assets. The use of your personal information following any of these events will be governed by this Privacy Policy.

  • As Required By Law, Subpoena or Similar Government Order. We may access, preserve, share, or disclose your personal information if we believe doing so is required or appropriate to: (i) comply with all laws or regulations, including any securities or tax reporting requirements of the Company; (ii) comply with any other law enforcement requests or legal process, such as a court order or subpoena; (iii) respond to your requests; or (iv) protect your, our, or others’ rights, property, or safety. We may be required to disclose your information to (a) taxing authorities as part of our tax reporting requirements, or (b) law enforcement authorities or other governmental agencies or via subpoena.

  • Company’s Outside Professional Advisors. We may share or disclose your personal information with any of the Company’s Outside Professionals to facilitate their advice.

  • Consent. We may share or disclose your personal information with your permission.

4. YOUR CHOICES

4.1. COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES

We may send you communications, messages or updates related to your transactions, security, the Company, our Services and Site, and promotions, events or other activities. If you do not wish to receive non-transaction/non-security related communications from us, you may opt-out by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the communication you received from us, or send an email message to support@mitzvahminder.com stating that you no longer want to receive these communications directly from us (an “Opt-Out”). Please note that Opt-Out and “unsubscribe” requests may not take effect immediately and may take a reasonable amount of time to receive, process and apply, during which time your information shall remain subject to the prior Privacy Policy. Additionally, you should be aware that any information provided to third-parties prior to your election to Opt-Out or unsubscribe will not be retrieved or rescinded, unless required by applicable law.

4.2. CORRECTION

You have the right to correct your personal information that you shared with us on our Site or Services. We are committed to ensuring that your personal information is kept accurate and up to date. However, it is your responsibility to correct, update, or modify any and all of your personal information as it appears in, or otherwise stored by, our Site, or as used in connection with our Services.

4.3. DO NOT TRACK

Some Internet browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” or “DNT” signals. Since uniform standards for “DNT" signals have not been adopted, our Site does not currently process or respond to “DNT” signals.

5. CHILDREN

This Site and our Services are not directed to children under the age of 16, and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from them. We ask that minors under the age of 16 not submit any personal information to us, and if you have reason to believe any such minor has provided us with personal information, please contact us at support@mitzvahminder.com and request that such information be deleted from our records.

6. DATA SECURITY

We have implemented reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All personal information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls, or on secure systems of our vendors and service providers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL or other encryption technology, or will use our third-party payment processors, who will use appropriate security procedures.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential and you should not share it with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Site like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Site.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Site. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site.

7. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your personal information may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country or other jurisdictions where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. 

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal information will take place to an organization or a country unless there are appropriate safeguards in place as required under the applicable data protection laws and ensuring the security of your personal information maintained. If you do not want your information transferred to or processed or maintained outside of the country or jurisdiction where you are located, you should not use our Site or Services.

8. ADDITIONAL NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

This section applies only to California residents. Pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) and all pertinent amendments and regulations, below is a summary of the “Personal Information” categories, as identified and defined by the CCPA (see California Civil Code section 1798.140 (o)), that we collect, the reason we collect your personal information, where we obtain the personal information, and the third-parties with whom we may share your personal information.

8.1 NOTICE AT COLLECTION

We generally collect the following categories of personal information about you when you use our Site or Services:

  • Identifiers such as a name, address, unique personal identifier, email, phone number, your device’s IP address, software, and identification numbers associated with your devices.

  • Customer records such as name, social security number, address, telephone number, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.

  • Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law such as age.

  • Commercial information such as records of offerings or services purchased, obtained, or considered by you.

  • Internet or other electronic information regarding your browsing history, search history, the webpage visited before you came to our Site, length of visit and number of page views, click-stream data, locale preferences, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, and system configuration information.

  • Sensitive personal information to the extent you have configured your device to permit us to collect such information.

For more information about the personal information we collect and how we collect it, please refer to Section 1, above.

We collect your personal information for the business purposes described in Section 2, above. The CCPA defines a “business purpose” as the use of personal information for the business’s operational purposes, or other notified purposes, provided the use of personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purpose for which the personal information was collected or another purpose that is compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected.

The categories of third-parties with whom we may share your personal information are listed in Section 2, above.

8.2  LENGTH OF RETENTION

The length of time we retain customer personal information collected from you depends on a variety of factors, including the following:

·         Whether you have consented to us maintaining and using it;

·         Whether and to what extent you have restricted or limited the use in some fashion pursuant to your particular consumer rights;

·         Whether and to what extent the information is still relevant to our legitimate business purposes within the use categories of the privacy policy; and

·         Whether we are actually executing that practice in the moment to accomplish the legitimate business purpose. 

We do not keep or use personal information that does not serve our legitimate business purpose and comply with this privacy policy.

8.3. PRIVACY RIGHTS

Right Against Discrimination. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described in this section. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your right to know, correct, delete opt-out of sales or sharing, or limiting the use of sensitive personal information.  This means we cannot, among other things:

·         Deny offerings or services to you;

·         Charge different prices or rates for offerings or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;

·         Provide a different level or quality of offerings or services to you; or

·         Suggest that you receive a different price or rate for offerings or services or a different level or quality of offerings or services.

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels.  Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information's value and contain written terms that describe the program's material aspects.  Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Right to Access. You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the Company’s collection and use of your personal information (and sensitive personal information) over the past 12 months. Specifically, you can request the following information:

  • The categories of personal information we collected about you.

  • The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.

  • Our business or commercial purpose is for collecting or selling that personal information.

  • The categories of third-parties with whom we share that personal information.

  • The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you.

  • If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose:

    • In the case of sales, a list identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and

    • In the case of disclosures, a list identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

  •  A copy of the specific personal information we collected about you during the 12 months before your request.

  • The right to access your information is not absolute and subject to certain exceptions. For instance, we cannot disclose specific pieces of personal information if the disclosure would create a substantial, articulable, and unreasonable risk to the security of the personal information, your account with us or the security of our system of networks.

Right to Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected and retained, subject to certain exceptions. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for the Company or its service provider(s) to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise exercise our rights or perform our obligations to you.

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

  • Debug offerings to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.

  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with Us.

  • Comply with a legal obligation.

  • Make other internal or lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Right to Correction. You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information maintained by us about you. Upon receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information.

Right to Opt-Out of Selling or Sharing of Personal Information. As described in this Privacy Policy, in certain situations we may share or sell your personal information with our partners, third-parties or affiliates for marketing or other purposes and could receive a benefit for such sharing. As a California resident you have the right to opt-out of such sharing or selling.  Email support@mitzvahminder.com for the Company’s notification to California residents about their right to opt-out of any such sharing or sale, and to exercise this right.    

Right to Limit Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. You have the right to opt-out of the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information for anything other than supplying requested offerings or services.  You also have the right to direct to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information at any time (the "right to opt-out").  To exercise this right, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by emailing support@mitzvahminder.com.

Please note that we can use sensitive personal information for the following purposes, and you do not have the right to limit the use and disclosure of sensitive personal information being used in the following ways:

 ·         To perform the services or provide the offerings reasonably expected by an average consumer who requests those offerings or services.

·         To detect security incidents that compromise the availability, authenticity, integrity, and confidentiality of stored or transmitted personal information, provided that the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.

·         To resist malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions directed at the business and to prosecute those responsible for those actions, provided that the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.

·         To ensure the physical safety of natural persons, provided that the use of the consumer’s personal information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for this purpose.

·         For short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, nonpersonalized advertising shown as part of a consumer’s current interaction with the business, provided that the personal information is not disclosed to another third party and is not used to build a profile about the consumer or otherwise alter the consumer’s experience outside the current interaction with the business.

·         To perform services on behalf of the business, such as maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing financing, providing analytic services, providing storage, or providing similar services on behalf of the business.

·         To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured by, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

8.4. EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

To exercise your right to access, data portability, correction, deletion, opt-out and or limit use / disclosure rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us by:

Emailing the Company at: support@mitzvahminder.com

You do not need to create an account with us to exercise your consumer rights.  We will only use personal information provided in consumer requests to review and comply with the specific request.

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request to the Company related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

  • To verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device that is owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by the business, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance the service or device that is owned, manufactured by, manufactured for, or controlled by the business.

  • Provide sufficient information that allows the Company to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, and

  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

We cannot respond to your request if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

9. COMMUNICATING WITH THE COMPANY

We welcome your questions and comments about this Privacy Policy. You can contact Mitzvah Minder by emailing us at: support@mitzvahminder.com.