Privacy

Who we are

Ohel Yaacob Congregation runs this website and the Ohel Yaacob iPhone app. Questions about your information go to ohelyaacob@gmail.com.

What we collect

We collect only what you give us, used only to do what you asked, and a simple count of visits to the website:

• Sponsorships, seats and donations: your name, email, phone and the details of your request.
• Card payments: handled by our payment processor. We never see or store your card number.
• Email updates: your email address, so we can send shul news. Every email has an unsubscribe link.
• Staff accounts: name, email and role, and the one-time sign-in codes we email to staff.
• Visits to this website: which pages are viewed, for roughly how long, how visitors arrived (for example from Google or an email) and whether on a phone or a computer. We use no cookies and store no IP addresses: each visitor is recognised for one day only, by a code that can’t identify them. Visit records are kept for 13 months.

The iPhone app

• You can use the app without an account.
• The app has no ads, no tracking and no analytics.
• When staff sign in, the app keeps their sign-in in the iPhone’s Keychain on that phone.
• Face ID or the passcode only unlocks the staff area. Apple handles it on the phone, and we never receive it.
• The sample member account is made up, and nothing typed into it is saved.

Who we share it with

We never sell your information or use it for advertising. We share it only with the services that run the shul’s website and email: our web host (DigitalOcean), our email delivery service (Amazon SES), and our card payment processor. Each one uses it only to provide that service.

Keeping and deleting it

We keep records as long as the shul needs them for its work and its books. To see, correct or delete your information, email ohelyaacob@gmail.com.

Children

The website and app are for adults and families managing their shul activities. We don’t knowingly collect information from children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes, we’ll update this page and the date below.

Last updated November 8, 2026.