PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated April 28, 2023
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community (“you,” “the Farmily”) at GrowTorah Inc. (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices with regard to your personal information, please contact us at ops@growtorah.org.
This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you:
Visit our website at growtorah.org
Engage with us in other related ways ― including any sales, marketing, or events
In this privacy notice, if we refer to:
“Website,” we are referring to any website of ours that references or links to this policy
“Services,” we are referring to our Website, and other related services, including any sales, marketing, or events
The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.
Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT DATA AM I SHARING WITH YOU?
2. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY DATA?
3. WILL ANYONE ELSE SEE MY DATA?
5. ARE YOU TRACKING MY ACTIVITY ON THIS WEBSITE?
6. WILL MY DATA BE STORED FOREVER?
8. WHAT LEGAL RIGHTS TO PRIVACY DO I HAVE?
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
10. IF I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, DO I HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO THIS POLICY?
11. WILL THIS POLICY BE UPDATED AT ANY POINT?
12. 12. CAN I GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS POLICY?
13. CAN I LOOK AT, CHANGE, OR REMOVE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU HAVE COLLECTED FROM ME?
1. WHAT DATA AM I SHARING WITH YOU?
Everything you tell us directly
TL;DR: To better serve you and the rest of the Farmily, we are keeping track of the information you give us about yourself.
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Website or otherwise when you contact us.
The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Website, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:
What You Tell Us Directly. We collect email addresses; names; and other similar information.
Donation or Purchase Information. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by Givebutter, Donorbox, Stripe and Paypal. You may find their privacy notice link(s) here: https://givebutter.com/privacy, https://donorbox.org/privacy, https://stripe.com/privacy, and https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.
All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Everything your device shares with us
TL;DR: When you interact with our Website or Services, the device you use automatically shares some information about you.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Website and other technical information. The information we collect and process may be associated with other data you provide that is collected by Google Analytics as you interact with the Website and other websites on the internet.
This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. We use various types of tracking software to monitor your activity on our website and communications.
This is the data we’re collecting:
Data about when and how you visit us. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our Website and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type and settings and information about your activity in the Website (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called 'crash dumps') and hardware settings).
Data about the device(s) you use to visit us. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet or other device you use to access the Website. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system and system configuration information.
Data about where you are when you visit us. We collect location data such as information about your device's location; the precision of that data may vary. How much information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Website. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting on your device. Note however, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.
2. WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH MY DATA?
TL;DR: We’re using your data to interact with you, provide you with resources and Services, and comply with relevant legislation.
We use personal information collected via our Website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we collect or receive:
To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at ops@growtorah.org and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Website.
To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Website.
To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our Website, subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the "WHAT LEGAL RIGHTS TO PRIVACY DO I HAVE? " section below).
Deliver targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
3. WILL ANYONE ELSE SEE MY DATA?
TL;DR: While interacting with you and providing you with resources and Services, we may need to share your information with a third party. We won’t do it unless we have your implicit or explicit consent; we can’t conduct our organizational activities without doing so; or we are required by law to do so.
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Google Maps Platform APIs. We may share your information with certain Google Maps Platform APIs (e.g., Google Maps API, Place API). To find out more about Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link. We obtain and store on your device ('cache') your location. You may revoke your consent anytime by contacting us at the contact details provided at the end of this document.
Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Website, which will enable them to collect data on our behalf about how you interact with our Website over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, pages or features, and better understand online activity. Unless described in this notice, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes. We have contracts in place with our data processors, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will also not share your personal information with any organization apart from us. They also commit to protect the data they hold on our behalf and to retain it for the period we instruct.
4. WHO ELSE WILL SEE MY DATA?
TL;DR: A list of the various types of third-party entities with whom we might share your data is below.
We only share and disclose your information with the following categories of third parties. If we have processed your data based on your consent and you wish to revoke your consent, please contact us using the contact details provided in the section below titled "CAN I GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS POLICY?".
Ad Networks
Cloud Computing Services
Communication & Collaboration Tools
Data Storage Service Providers
Finance & Accounting Tools
Government Entities
Payment Processors
Sales & Marketing Tools
5. ARE YOU TRACKING MY ACTIVITY ON THIS SITE?
TL;DR: This website and our communications with you use multiple types of analytics software to track your interactions with us.
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information related to your usage of this Website.
6. WILL MY DATA BE STORED FOREVER?
TL;DR: We will hold onto the information we collect for the length of time necessary to provide you with any relevant services and fulfill any legal requirements related to data storage.
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer storage period is required or allowed by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). As of the date this policy was posted, no purpose outlined in this privacy policy will necessitate storing your personal information for a period exceeding than 2 years (24 months).
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal data, we will either delete or anonymize such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your data has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
7. IS MY DATA SAFE?
TL;DR: We take appropriate measures to safeguard all the data we collect.
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal data we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic data transfer over the Internet or data storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that unauthorized third parties will be unable to defeat our security and unlawfully collect, access, steal, or modify your data. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, submitting your personal information to or retrieving it from our Website is at your own risk. You should only access our Website securely.
8. WHAT LEGAL RIGHTS TO PRIVACY DO I HAVE?
TL;DR: You have the right to look at, edit, or delete your personal information at any time. If you live in the United Kingdom (UK) or European Economic Area (EEA), you are afforded additional protections.
In some regions (e.g. the EEA and UK), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to ask for access to and receive a copy of your personal information, (ii) to ask us to delete or change it; (iii) to limit the processing of your personal information; and (iv) if relevant, to transfer your data to a different site. In some situations, you may also have the right to refuse the processing of your personal data. To submit that type of request, please use the contact details provided below; we will respond to and fulfill any request in compliance with any relevant statutes.
You have the right to withdraw your consent to having your data processed at any time. Please note, however, that your withdrawal of consent does not declare or cause the processing of your data beforehand to have been unlawful, nor does change the legality of the processing of your personal data if relevant laws or regulations do not require your express consent.
If you live in the UK or the EEA and you think we are processing your personal data in a way not in compliance with relevant statutes, you can submit a complaint to your local data protection supervisory authority. Find their contact information here: https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you live in Switzerland, you can find contact information for the data protection authorities here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
Cookies and other related technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and/or reject cookies. If you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could impact the operation of our Website. To opt-out of interest-based advertising, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
9. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities tracked and collected. At this stage no universal feature for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. Because that is the case, this Website may not currently respond to DNT browser requests or other features that communicate your preference not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, a revised version of this privacy policy will be added to this page.
10. IF I LIVE IN CALIFORNIA, DO I HAVE ADDITIONAL RIGHTS WITH REGARD TO THIS POLICY?
TL;DR: California residents are entitled to additional privacy protections.
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (the "Shine The Light" law), allows our users who live in the state of California to request and receive from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for the purpose of direct marketing and the names and addresses of all entities with whom we shared your personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you live in California and would like to submit that type of request, please send us your request in writing using the contact information provided below.
If you are a minor (under 18 years of age), live in California, and have a registered account with our Website, you have the right to request removal of any information that you publicly post on the Website. To request that we remove your public posts, please contact us using the contact information provided below, including the email address associated with your account and a statement that you are a California resident. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Website, but please be aware of the possibility that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).
11. WILL THIS POLICY BE UPDATED AT ANY POINT?
TL;DR: We will update this policy if necessary to comply with any future changes to related statutes or regulations.
We may update this privacy policy periodically. The updated version will be indicated by an updated "Revised" date on this page, and the new version will be effective as of it being posted on the site. If we make substantial changes to this policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review the content of this page frequently to be informed of how we are collecting and protecting your information.
12. CAN I GET IN TOUCH WITH YOU FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THIS POLICY?
TL;DR: Yes.
If you would like more details about this privacy policy or how it’s applied, you can contact us via email at ops@growtorah.org, or via postal mail:
GrowTorah
282 Elm Avenue
Teaneck, NJ 07666
13. CAN I LOOK AT, CHANGE, OR REMOVE THE PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU HAVE COLLECTED FROM ME?
TL;DR: Yes.
Depending on the relevant laws and regulations in your country, you might be entitled to ask us to show you information we have gathered from you, request edits, or potentially request that we delete it. To ask about personal information of yours we may have stored, or to submit a request to receive a copy of it, change it, or have it removed from our databases, click here.