Privacy

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important, so we’d like to explain what information we collect when you visit Jewish Journal Online (http://www.jewishjournal.com), why we collect it and how it is used. We’d also like to explain your options to access and control your information, our data security practices and other matters. This Policy is governed by our Terms of Service.

WE GIVE KIDS SPECIAL PROTECTION

Some areas of our Site are for children under 13. We generally don’t collect, use or give out personal information about kids without prior parental consent. We don’t use online games, prizes or other features to obtain more personal information from kids than we really need. We use reasonable security measures to protect any collected information (see below for more ways we protect kids). Web sites with features directed to children under 13 or which knowingly collect personal information from children, are required by U.S. law to obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting, using or giving out such information to others.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU? WHY?

We May Profile You Individually.
We may build a profile of your online habits, interests and activities when you use our Site. This profile is linked to your personal identity. We compile individual profiles from email addresses, and we use these profiles for the purposes described below (please scroll down to each topic for details).

We May Profile Users Pseudononymously
We may build a pseudononymous profile of your online habits, interests and activities when you use our Site. This profile will not reveal or be linked to your personal identity. We compile these profiles from information about user PCs (e.g., IP address or browser type), user navigation and browsing patterns, demographic information (e.g., gender, marital status, age, income, job), the personal preferences of users (i.e., favorite color, music, books), and we use these profiles for the purposes described below (please scroll down to each topic for details).

We May Collect Information Needed to Contact You Later:

If we collect personal contact information (as described below), you may not later be able to access, modify or remove it from our system. You may choose simply not to provide personal contact information by opting-out at the point of collection.
Parents: We won’t collect personal contact information from your child without your consent, except: we may respond once to their email, let them join an email newsletter (which you may cancel) and use the information to protect them, our system and to comply with the law. You can access, review and permanently remove such data by calling The Jewish Journal Subscriptions Department at 213-368-1661 or clicking on the unsubscribe button on the bottom of each newsletter which will automatically remove your child from our list. In addition, you may prohibit our giving such data to others. Any data sharing would be limited to our mail house, list brokers, magazine publishers, our bulk e-mail distributor and internal staff such as accounting, marketing and our web department.
We May Collect Your Name, Address and Phone Number. When you use our Site, we may request your name, street address, telephone number or other “real world” contact information. This information may reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Your Email Address. We may request your email address or other information needed to contact you online. This information may reveal who you are or be linked to you personally. We use it to complete and support the immediate activity requested, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Other Kinds of Information from You:

When you use our Site, we may collect personal information about you described below. You may not later be able to access, modify or remove the information.
We May Collect Purchase Information. We may collect information actively generated by the purchase of a product or service, such as a payment method. This information will not inherently reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Information About Your Computer. When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect information about your computer configuration, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address or ISP domain name. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to administer and run the Site, improve the Site for everyone, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Navigation and Click stream Data. As you browse our Site, we may gather navigational and click stream data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Demographic Data About You. We may request information about your demographic or social characteristics, such as gender, age and income level. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Keep Note of Your Personal Preferences. We may gather information concerning your personal likes and dislikes, such as your favorite color, taste in music, books or other Site content. This information will not reveal your identity or be linked to you personally. We use this information to customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, market things to you in the future (other than by telemarketing), build a profile of your habits, interests or activities to treat you as an individual, build individual profiles for ongoing research, analysis and reporting, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.
We May Collect Your Online Postings and Content. Certain features of our Site may allow you to contribute content, such as instant messages, chat room postings and the like. Although you may choose to identify yourself in your postings, contributing content does not inherently reveal your personal identity. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the Site, customize and personalize content to your request, improve the Site for everyone, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

CERTAIN EXCEPTIONAL DISCLOSURES

We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct. Disclosure may be required by law or if we receive legal process.

WHAT ARE COOKIES? WHY DO WE USE THEM?

Cookies are small files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit our Site. We use cookies to improve our Site and make it easier to use. Cookies permit us to recognize users and avoid repetitive requests for the same information. We also use cookies to help build a pseudonymous profile of your online habits, interests and activities as you navigate our site, which we use to individualize your visits. This profile is not linked to your personal identity. We also use cookies to help build a pseudonymous profile of your online habits, interests and activities as you navigate our site, which we use for general research, analysis and reporting. We mostly use “session cookies” that are automatically deleted after each visit. Cookies from our Site can’t be read by other sites. Most browsers will accept cookies until you change browser settings to refuse them.

HOW DO WE PROTECT INFORMATION WE COLLECT?

We offer secure web pages to collect certain kinds of user information and we store certain kinds of data in encrypted form. We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our Site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.

HOW LONG DO WE KEEP USER INFORMATION?

We generally keep user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We may alter this practice according to changing requirements. For example, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage space. We may keep other data for longer periods if the law requires it. In addition, information posted in a public forum could stay in the public domain indefinitely.
Data management requests are administered in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control. Note: we have greater control over recently collected data than for archived data. Once data is removed from the system and archived, it may not be feasible to accommodate specific requests. In those cases, our general data retention policy applies.

YOUR CONSENT TO THIS POLICY

By using our Site, you agree to this Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supersedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service take precedence over any conflicting Policy provision. We may change our Policy by posting a new version on our Site. If we collect personal information from children and later materially change our practices for collected data, we will obtain new parental consent for those practices.

LEGAL DISCLAIMER

This Site operates AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE, without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events beyond our direct control. This Policy is governed by California law, excluding conflicts of law principles. Any legal actions against us must be commenced in California within one year after the claim arose, or be barred.

IF YOU HAVE A PRIVACY QUESTION

If you have a privacy question about our Site, please email: Dennis Wilen at webmaster@jewishjournal.com . Or write: Los Angeles Jewish Publications, Inc., Attn: Dennis Wilen, 3580 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 1510, Los Angeles, California, 90010. Or call us at (213) 368-1661.
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