Privacy Policy

Information We Collect

• Name, email address, phone number, mailing or billing address, and account profile details.
• Donation details such as amount, purpose, donor name, donor email, dedication note, payment status, transaction/order ID, and receipt information.
• Temple shop order details such as cart items, shipping/billing details, order status, and payment confirmation details.
• Booking, seva, event, volunteer, contact, and form submissions you choose to send.
• Login/session information stored in browser storage for account and guest workflows.
• Technical usage data such as pages visited, device/browser information, approximate IP-derived information, timestamps, error logs, and live/recent activity indicators.

Payments

Donations are currently processed through PayPal. Temple shop checkout may use Stripe and PayPal. Payment processors receive information needed to complete, verify, refund, or reconcile a transaction. This application does not store full card numbers, CVV codes, or PayPal login credentials. Saved card functionality, when used, is managed by Stripe and represented in this application by processor-provided customer/payment method references.

How We Use Information

• Process donations, purchases, bookings, seva sponsorships, and event-related requests.
• Create and manage user accounts, guest donation flows, dashboards, donation history, shop orders, and saved addresses.
• Send receipts, confirmations, support replies, administrative emails, and temple communications.
• Verify payment status, prevent fraud, secure the site, troubleshoot errors, and maintain records required for nonprofit administration.
• Improve site content, donation flows, shop checkout, event listings, and user experience.

Cookies, Browser Storage, and Analytics

The site may use cookies, local storage, session storage, and similar technologies for login state, guest flows, cart behavior, account redirection, payment checkout, visitor counts, recent purchase/donation indicators, security, and preferences. Third parties such as PayPal, Stripe, Google services, maps, embedded media, social platforms, or analytics tools may set their own cookies or collect usage data under their own policies.

You can control cookies through your browser settings, but some checkout, login, cart, or dashboard features may not work correctly if required storage is blocked.

Sharing Information

We share information only as needed for temple operations and site functionality, including with payment processors, email providers, hosting/database providers, analytics or security services, shop order tools, and volunteers or staff who help administer donations, events, bookings, receipts, and support requests. We may disclose information if required by law or to protect rights, safety, or site integrity.

Retention and Security

We retain donation, order, account, booking, and communication records as needed for receipts, legal compliance, accounting, security, dispute resolution, and temple administration. We use reasonable safeguards, but no internet service can guarantee absolute security.

Your Choices

You may contact us to request access, correction, or deletion of personal information where legally required and operationally feasible. Some donation, tax, accounting, transaction, or security records may need to be retained. You can also choose guest checkout for eligible donation flows instead of creating an account.

Children

The site is intended for general temple community use and is not directed to children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information without appropriate consent, please contact us.

Updates

We may update this policy as the site, donation systems, payment processors, account features, analytics, or legal requirements change. The date above reflects the latest posted version.

Contact

Privacy questions can be sent to [email protected].