Privacy Policy

Ethics Policy
SoCal Jewish News strives to maintain the highest journalistic standards in its newsgathering policies and practices. Besides being objective, accurate and timely, its award-winning team of journalists is committed to being sensitive and respectful to sources, issues and diverse points of view. 

SoCal Jewish News is diverse and inclusive, covering the entire community of all ages and from all walks of life: Ashkenazi, Sephardic, Jews of Color, AAPI, Persian, Mizrahi, LGBTQ+, interfaith Jews, Jews by Choice, Jew-adjacent, Jew-curious and those of other faiths who partner with Jewish groups and organizations.

SoCal Jewish News reports on issues and events that affect the Southern California Jewish community so readers can be informed and advocate for themselves.

The SoCal Jewish News team corrects its mistakes and welcomes diverse input and constructive criticism. To contact the SoCal Jewish News team, email editor@socaljewishnews.com.

Privacy Policy 
SoCaljewishnews.com (the “Website”) has created this Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate its firm commitment to your privacy. The following discloses our information gathering and dissemination practices for the Website.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to the Terms of Use. By visiting this Website you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please do not use or access this Website or our services. 

PERSONAL INFORMATION
As used in this policy, “personal information” means information that would allow a party to identify you such as, for example, your name, address or location, telephone number or email address. When you visit our Website we collect and store any information you enter on our Website, or that you provide to us in offline contacts we have with you. We also collect information that is collected and stored automatically when you browse our Website. When you use the Website, our servers (which may be hosted by a third party service provider) may collect information indirectly and automatically (through, for example, the use of your “IP address”) about your activities while visiting the Website and information about the browser you are using. Information may be collected from visitors to the Website in the following areas:

  • NAME/ADDRESS/EMAIL/ETC. — You may have an opportunity to communicate with us by email. You may also choose to provide your name, mailing address and/or email address to post comments or to receive communications from us. By submitting your information to us, you grant socaljewishnews.com the right to retain and use your information for, among other things, your use of our Website and to send you information. 
  • ADDRESS — You may provide your address to receive communications from us. By submitting your address to socaljewishnews.com, you grant us the right to retain and use your address to send you information regarding the Website. 
  • INFORMATION COLLECTED AND STORED AUTOMATICALLY — When you browse our Website, you and your web browser may also transmit information that is automatically collected. We do log your IP address (the Internet address of your computer), the web pages you visit and the time of your visit, and other click-stream data. This information may be combined with other personal information you have provided. This information is automatically provided by your browser, and we may use such information to improve the performance of our site, to determine how best to provide useful information to users, and to make improvements to the Website.
  • COOKIES INFORMATION — We may also place small data files, called “cookies,” in the browser file of your computer’s hard drive. These cookies automatically identify your browser to our server whenever you interact with the Website. We use the cookies to record Website statistics. Most browsers automatically accept the cookies, but you usually can change your browser setting to prevent the acceptance of cookies. Certain web pages may not function properly if you choose not to accept cookies. We do not support the “No Track Browser” option or signals.
  • GOOGLE ANALYTICS, GOOGLE AD MANAGER, GOOGLE ADSENSE — We use Google Analytics to measure our audience and how visitors use our site. We use Google Ad Manager and Google AdSense to display banner ads on our site and measure their performance.

NOTICE 
Our general policy is that we will not disclose any personal information to any unrelated third party without your consent. However, if socaljewishnews.com is required to provide a third party with your personal or even non personal information whether by subpoena or otherwise, then we will use reasonable means to notify you promptly of that event, unless we are prohibited by law from doing so or is otherwise advised not to notify you on the advice of legal counsel.

ANTI-SPAM
Socaljewishnews.com does not sell email addresses. 

CHILDREN
Socaljewishnews.com is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under the age of 13. Consistent with the federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without requiring parental consent.

SHARING
Socaljewishnews.com may share aggregated demographic profiles with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person. 

LINKS
Socaljewishnews.com contains links to other sites and is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This Privacy statement applies solely to information directly collected by socaljewishnews.com. 

SECURITY
Socaljewishnews.com takes precautions to protect Users’ information. All User-related information is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices. 

CREDIT CARD AND PAYMENT INFORMATION
You may pay money to socaljewishnews.com directly or through PayPal or other on-line payment services on our site. When you use a website service to pay socaljewishnews.com, your personal information is sent to, handled by and stored by those websites in accordance with their respective privacy policies and terms of use. You should read and understand the privacy policy and terms of use of any website you use to pay money to Socaljewishnews.com. When you pay money to socaljewishnews.com directly by check, we use your personal information to process your payment.

NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES
Socaljewishnews.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to change, modify or otherwise alter these terms and conditions at any time. Such changes and/or modifications shall become effective immediately upon the posting thereof.  Please review the privacy policy and terms and conditions periodically. Continued use of socaljewishnews.com following the posting of changes and/or modifications constitutes acceptance of the revised terms and conditions. 

Socaljewishnews.com privacy policy became effective July 2021.

QUESTIONS?
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at editor@socaljewishnews.com.