Congregation B’nai Israel

Privacy Policy

Last modified: February 6, 2026

Introduction

Welcome to the website of Congregation B’nai Israel (“CBI” or “we“).  We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.cbiboca.org (our “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by CBI or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), unless otherwise stated herein; or
  • Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (please see the section entitled Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Our Website and member portal are powered by ShulCloud, a third-party platform. By using this Website, you acknowledge that certain personal information you provide (such as contact details and financial information) will be processed through ShulCloud’s systems to facilitate membership management, donations and event registration.  For more information on how your data is stored and protected by our service provider, please visit Shulware.com/Privacy to view the current privacy policy.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address, and telephone number (“personal information“);
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

 

Information You Provide to Us 

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided when placing an order, registering on our Website or subscribing to our newsletter. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
  • Health information you may provide through your correspondence with us.
  • Your search queries on the Website.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies 

Aside from any information you may actively disclose to us as you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, network information, operating system, and browser type.

We may use the information we collect automatically for internal purposes such as to improve the content of the Website, estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about  your preferences, and to deliver a better and more personalized service by, for example, speeding up your searches and recognizing when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit CBI, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, please see the section entitled Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information.

 

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, including content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, please see the section entitled Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information.

 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To present our Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To send periodic emails regarding orders you place with us.
  • To better serve you in responding to your customer service requests.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you register on our Website, you give us and our agents permission to send you e-mails and text messages including updates, promotions and reminders related to the services we offer.  If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile or send us an email stating your request to cbi@cbiboca.org. If we have sent you a promotional email you can unsubscribe using the link in the email.  If we have sent you a promotional text, you can reply “STOP” to any message to unsubscribe.  For more information, please see the section entitled Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, (including, for example, ShulCloud for managing member data and financial transactions and Jewish Family Services for our annual Passover appeal), who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of CBI’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by CBI about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use [INSERT LINK TO WEBSITE TERMS OF USE] and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of CBI, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

How Long We Retain your Information

We keep your personal information for as long as needed or permitted for the purpose(s) described in this privacy policy and consistent with applicable law. In addition, we might keep the information for longer based on criteria such as applicable rules on statute of limitations, any legal requirements to retain your personal information in light of compliance obligations, any relevant litigation or regulatory investigations, and the duration of your use of our website and receipt of our services.

 

Controls for Do Not Track Features

Some web browsers transmit “do-not-track” (DNT) signals to websites via a DNT feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected.  We honor DNT signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a DNT browser mechanism is in place.

 

Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Opting-Out. If you do not wish to have your personal information, including your email address or phone number used for marketing or other similar purposes, you may stop that use by sending us an email stating your request to cbi@cbiboca.org, or unsubscribing using the link located at the bottom of our marketing emails or replying “STOP” to our marketing texts.
  • Promotional Offers from CBI. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by CBI to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile or by sending us an email stating your request to cbi@cbiboca.org. If we have sent you a promotional email or text, you may unsubscribe using the link located at the bottom of our email or replying “STOP” to our text.

You may be entitled under applicable laws to request, subject to some exceptions, the following:

  • That we provide you transparency about our privacy practices;
  • That we provide you copies of your personal information that we process;
  • Provide portability of your information, subject to some exceptions;
  • That we correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete; and
  • That we delete your personal information.

To make a request or to express a privacy concern, you or your authorized agent should send an email with your state of residence and “Privacy Rights” in the subject line to cbi@cbiboca.org.  In the body of your email, please state your first name, last name, mailing address, email address and telephone number. We will use this data to locate your profile within our system.

We will verify and respond to your request consistent with applicable law, taking into account the type and sensitivity of the personal information subject to the request. For your protection, and to protect the privacy of others, we may need to verify your identity before completing what you have asked us to do. We may need to request additional personal information from you, such as your home address, email address and government issued ID, in order to protect against fraudulent or spoofed requests.

If an authorized agent of a consumer submits a request to know or request to delete, the agent must submit a writing to CBI that is signed and dated by the consumer. The consumer’s first name, last name, mailing address, email address, and telephone number must be included on the signed authorization. The signed authorization must expressly state that the agent is authorized to submit requests to know and requests to delete on the consumer’s behalf, receive the consumer’s personal information in response to a request to know, and to receive communications on the consumer’s behalf related to the requests.

If you object to us using your personal information or wish to withdraw permission for us to use your personal information, after initially giving it to us, we will respect your choice in line with applicable law. While we will do our best to limit the ability such withdrawal has on our ability to provide you services and information you requested, some of the functionality and features available on our services may change or no longer be available to you.

Under certain U.S. state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision.  To appeal a request you feel was denied in error, please respond to the contact information provided in the response denying your request.  We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including an explanation of the reasons for the decisions.  If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.

We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.

Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see the section entitled Your State Privacy Rights for more information.

 

Minors

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at cbi@cbiboca.org.

 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into your account.  You can  request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us by sending us an email at cbi@cbiboca.org. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

 

Your State Privacy Rights

State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their personal information.  Residents of certain states, such as California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia may have additional personal information rights and choices such as the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about them and how we have processed it, to correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete their personal information.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect.  In the past twelve (12) months, we may have collected the categories of personal information described above in the Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It section.  We may also collect other personal information outside these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, or by phone or mail in the context of delivering our services and responding to your inquiries.

Sources of Personal Information; How We Use and Share Personal Information.  Learn more about the sources of information we collect in the section, Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It.  Learn more about how we use your personal information in the How We Use Your Information section.  Learn more about how we disclose your personal information in the Disclosure of Your Information section.

We have not disclosed, sold or shared any personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the past twelve (12) months. 

Your Rights.  You have rights under certain U.S. state data protection laws.  These rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law.  Please see the section entitled Rights and Choices Regarding Your Information for more information about rights that may be available to you and how to exercise them.

California “Shine the Light” Law.  California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine the Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year.  If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us at cbi@cbiboca.org.

Financial Incentives for California Residents. We do not provide financial incentives to California Residents who allow us to collect, retain, sell or share their personal information.  We will describe such programs to you if we do.

 

Data Security

Security is a top priority for us. We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. We use regular Malware Scanning and all information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Your personal information is stored on our secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.  Any payment transactions will be encrypted using Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

 

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 Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

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 Website. 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 Website.  Our policy does not extend to anything that is inherent in the operation of the internet, and therefore beyond our control, and is not to be applied in any manner contrary to applicable law or governmental regulation.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time without prior notice.  It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.  You can determine when this privacy policy was last revised by checking the updated date. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to ensure you understand our privacy practices.

 

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, you may contact us at: cbi@cbiboca.org or call us at: 561-241-8118.