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PRIVACY POLICY

The Jewish Federation of Orange County (the “JFedOC,” “us,” “our,” or “we”) has developed this privacy policy out of respect for the privacy of individual consumers. This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and disclose about individuals who visit or interact with this website, make donations, or inquire about any of our events or services.

Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through the site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on the website, enroll in or subscribe to our newsletter or marketing communications, request information, or use any of the other interactive portions of our website. Through this website, we will collect information that can identify you and/or your activity. 

Additionally, whenever you communicate, interact, or engage with us online, or apply for a position of employment, we will be collecting personal information from you or about you in the course of our interactions or dealings with you.

Collection of Personal Information

JFedOC collects the following categories of personal information about visitors to our website:

  • Personal Identifiers & Contact Information, including, but not limited to, name, mailing address, email address, and phone number.
  • Commercial or Transactional Data, including information regarding donations, sponsorships, planned giving, and donation history. 
  • Employment and Education Information, including, but not limited to, information regarding corporate matching donation, and prior job experience and educational history if submitting a resume or inquiries through the website.
  • Internet Network Activity, including, but not limited to, the date and time of your visit to this website; webpages visited; links clicked on the website; browser ID; browser type and characteristics; device ID; operating system; form information downloaded; domain name from which our site was accessed; search history; and cookies.
  • Mobile Device Data, including device type, and software type.
  • Geolocation Data, including, but not limited to, IP Address and/or GPS location (latitude and longitude).
  • Form and other Electronic Submission Data, when you submit information through any interactive form on our website, such as through the “Contact Us” form and search bar queries.

How We Use Your Personal Information

  • To fulfill or meet the purpose for which you provided the information.
  • To provide your or our patrons and beneficiaries with the requested information or services.
  • To process and submit donations and facilitate giving.
  • To process, complete, and maintain records on transactions.
  • To retain your selection for Text opt in/opt out to ensure customers who opted out are not sent any text messages.
  • To provide and communicate recall notifications to our patrons and beneficiaries.
  • To schedule, manage and keep track of events and attendees.
  • To maintain records of when an offer or request is declined.
  • To respond to patron and beneficiary inquiries, including requests for information.
  • To provide interest-based and targeted advertising.
  • To improve user experience on our website.
  • To understand the demographics of our website visitors.
  • To debug, identify, and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of the website.
  • To contact you by email, telephone, mail, SMS, or other equivalent forms of communication regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, services, or other information you requested or asked the Company to provide to you.
  • To detect security incidents.
  • To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute those responsible.
  • To enforce or apply our Terms of Use.

Disclosure of Personal Information

The JFedOC may disclose your personal information to/with the following categories of service providers, contractors, or third parties:

  • Financial institutions
  • Government agencies
  • Marketing support vendors and vendors that support managing or hosting the website
  • Communication providers/vendors that facilitate, manage, and send/receive communications on our behalf via email, text/SMS, or phone.
  • Lead providers (referral sources)
  • Transaction support vendors (e.g., check guaranty, payment processors)
  • Data analytics vendors
  • Social media platforms
  • Recruiting firms, and/or staffing agencies
  • Talent acquisition management systems, and other vendors providing services for purposes of our human resources information system (HRIS) and management of job applicant data and recruiting process
  • Consulting and investigation firms, including HR consultants, safety consultants, and workplace investigators
  • Security and risk management vendors, including IT, cybersecurity, and privacy vendors and consultants
  • Insurance carriers, administrators, and brokers
  • Corporate entities (meaning an entity, as opposed to a natural person) that participates, provides, or hosts any event or service on our behalf

Sale of Personal Information

We do NOT and will not sell your personal information in exchange for money; however, we do receive other valuable consideration when we share data with our analytics providers, such as Google and Amazon.

Protection of Your Personal Information

We use reasonable and appropriate measures to safeguard the information you submitted to us through the Website or that we received about you through the Website, including:

  • We keep automatically collected data and voluntarily collected data separate at all times.
  • We use internal encryption on all data stores that house voluntarily captured data.
  • We use commercially reasonable tools and techniques to protect against unauthorized access to our systems.
  • We restrict access to private information to those who need such access in the course of their duties for us.

Third Party Vendors

We may use other companies and individuals to perform certain functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services and running special events or campaigns. Such parties only have access to the personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use or store the information for any other purpose.

Business Transfers

In the event we merge or offer services jointly with another organization, consumer information may be one of the assets transferred or shared as part of the transaction.

Compliance with Law and Safety

We may disclose specific personal information based on a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect our employees, community members, or the public.

Use of Cookies, Pixels, and Other Tracking Technologies

Our website may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data (text file) that a website – when visited by a user – places on the user’s device to remember information about the user, such as the user’s language preference or login information.

This type of cookie is set by us and is referred to as a “first-party cookies.” Our website uses first-party cookies primarily to make the website work as you expect it to. For example, we use the information we collect through first-party cookies to allow you to navigate between pages efficiently, analyze how well our website is performing, and understand the content that you spent the most time reviewing. In some cases, we use first-party cookies to store information that we use for targeted advertising.

We also incorporate cookies and similar technologies, such as pixels, tags, and web beacons, from outside our website’s domain (“third-party cookies”). Third-party cookies gather information to enable our vendors to provide a range of services to us, including targeted advertising and measuring the success of our advertising campaigns.

How we use cookies

We make use of cookies under the following circumstances and for the following reasons:

  • Provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features
  • Authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts
  • Identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the website
  • Compile data about website traffic and how users use the website to offer a better website experience
  • Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits, such as remembering your login details or language preference, to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the website
  • Track your browsing habits to enable us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to you, including advertising by third parties on our website

Information on Some of the Cookies in Use on our Site

 

For information on some of the cookies we use on our site and apps, please review the policies from our some of our vendors:

 

 

Essential Cookies   

Essential cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

Non-Essential Cookies

Non-Essential cookies are not essential to the website functionality but serve some other unique purpose in three subcategories:

  1. “Performance” cookies (sometimes referred to as static cookies) collect information about the user’s behavior on the website without collecting personal information, for example:
  • Pages the user visits.
  • Ads the user views.
  • Ads or site features that the user clicks.

 

  1. “Functional” cookies (sometimes called preference cookies) track and remember the user’s preferences and past choices on the website to provide a personalized user experience. For example, functional cookies can collect:
  • Usernames
  • Passwords
  • Regions

 

  1. “Targeting” cookies (sometimes called preference cookies) can track:
  • Content the user views
  • Links the user follows
  • The user’s browser and device information and IP address

 

Please note: Organizations can use targeting cookies to track and influence users by building user profiles or displaying advertisements.

Cookie Management

You can control and manage cookies associated with your browser. If you are interested in controlling and managing cookies from your browser including any set by our Website, please refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html for information on different ways to configure your browser’s cookie settings.

If you want to clear all cookies left behind by the websites you have visited, here are links where you can download three third party programs that clean out tracking cookies.

 

You may delete cookies from your web browser at any time or block cookies on your equipment, but this may affect the functioning of or even block the Website. You can prevent saving of cookies (disable and delete them) by changing your browser settings accordingly at any time. It is possible that some functions will not be available on our website when use of cookies is deactivated. Check the settings of your browser. Below you can find some guidance:

Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do not want web services to collect information about their online activity. We do not respond to DNT signals.

You can adjust your advertising preferences on mobile devices through your device settings. Below you can find some guidance based on your type of mobile device:

 

DAA

Many advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA), which maintains a self-regulatory program along with a website where people can opt out of interest-based advertising from its members. To opt-out of website interest-based advertising provided by the DAA’s participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info/.

  • To opt-out of data collection for interest-based advertising across mobile applications by participating companies, download the DAA’s AppChoices mobile application opt-out offering found here: https://youradchoices.com/appchoices.

Non-Participant Opt-Out Options

  • Some of our vendors do not participate in the DAA’s self-regulatory program for online behavioral advertising or have developed their own processes for allowing consumers to opt-out: https://branch.app.link/optout
  • Some devices and apps do not have access to web-based browser cookie opt-outs. To learn more about the advertising opt-outs provided by your mobile device's operating system (like iOS and Android) or the device manufacture, click here.

Aggregated or Pseudonymized Data

In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of our website, we conduct research on our website visitors’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the personal information provided to us. Such research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregated or pseudonymized basis. This aggregated or pseudonymized information does not identify you. We may share aggregated or pseudonymized data with partners for business or research purposes. We may also disclose aggregated or pseudonymized user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective partners, and to third parties for other lawful purposes.

External links

Our website contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information on the website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at the email address below.

International Visitors

We do not target, market to, or offer our products or services to consumers outside of the United States. You agree not to submit your personally identifiable information through the website if you reside outside the United States.

Consent to Terms and Conditions

By using this website, you consent to all terms and conditions expressed in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

As our services evolve and we perceive the need or desirability of using information collected in other ways, we may from time to time amend this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to check our website frequently to see the current Privacy Policy in effect and any changes that may have been made to them. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the revised Privacy Policy and the revised effective date on this website. Please check back here periodically or contact us at the address listed at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Consumers With Disabilities

This policy is in a form that is accessible to consumers with disabilities.

Questions About the Policy

This website is owned and operated by the Jewish Federation of Orange County. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected] or call (949) 435-3484.

**This policy was effective on November 17, 2025.