Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Last Updated: August 18, 2026
Tzedakah.Life respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly and transparently.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, stored, and shared when you visit Tzedakah.Life, create an account, subscribe to communications, participate in courses or other programs, request materials, post comments, use our digital tools, interact with the Tzedakah.Life GPT, or otherwise communicate with us.
Tzedakah.Life is a public educational service associated with Colel Chabad. Throughout this policy, “Tzedakah.Life,” “we,” “our,” and “us” refer to Tzedakah.Life and those operating services on its behalf.
1. Our Approach to Privacy
Tzedakah.Life exists to help people understand, practice, and teach Jewish giving. We believe that respect for people includes respect for their personal information.
Our basic principles are simple:
We collect information when it is reasonably necessary to provide or improve our services.
We do not intentionally collect more personal information than we need.
We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration.
We use trusted service providers when necessary to operate the website and its services.
We encourage users not to submit sensitive or confidential information unless it is genuinely necessary.
We aim to give users reasonable choices regarding the information they provide and communications they receive.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
2. Information You Provide Directly
The information we receive depends on how you use Tzedakah.Life.
Newsletter and Email Subscriptions
When you subscribe to newsletters, weekly insights, educational updates, or similar communications, we may collect information such as:
Email address
Name, if requested
Subscription preferences
Information about your interaction with our emails, where supported by our email provider
We use this information to provide the communications you requested and to improve the relevance and usefulness of our educational material.
You may unsubscribe from promotional or educational emails at any time by using the unsubscribe link included in the email or by contacting us.
3. Accounts and Membership
Some parts of Tzedakah.Life may permit or require you to create an account.
Depending on the services available, we may collect:
Name
Email address
Login or authentication information
Membership level
Course or webinar registrations
Saved or bookmarked content
Learning or content preferences
Account activity
Subscription status
Communications with our support team
We may use this information to maintain your account, provide member-only features, remember preferences, personalize available content, administer courses and programs, and communicate with you regarding your membership.
Passwords and authentication credentials may be managed by a third-party authentication provider rather than directly by Tzedakah.Life.
4. Paid Memberships, Courses, Webinars, and Other Transactions
Tzedakah.Life may offer paid memberships, courses, webinars, events, products, or other services.
Where payment is required, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment processor.
Depending on the transaction, Tzedakah.Life may receive information such as:
Name
Email address
Billing or transaction status
Amount paid
Product, course, membership, or event purchased
Transaction or receipt identifier
We generally do not need to receive or independently store your complete payment-card information when payment is processed through an outside payment provider.
The payment provider's own privacy policy and terms govern its handling of payment information.
We may retain transaction records where reasonably necessary for accounting, administration, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, or legal and tax requirements.
5. Free Pushka and Physical Materials
If you request a free pushka, educational materials, a kit, or another physical item from Tzedakah.Life, we may collect information necessary to fulfill that request, including:
Full name
Email address
Phone number, where provided
Street address
City
State, province, or region
Postal or ZIP code
Country, where applicable
Information necessary to communicate about or fulfill your request
We may provide necessary shipping information to fulfillment companies, postal services, couriers, or other service providers involved in delivering the requested item.
We do not use your mailing address for unrelated purposes merely because you requested an item from us.
6. Comments, Questions, Feedback, and User Contributions
Tzedakah.Life may allow visitors to post comments, submit questions, participate in discussions, provide feedback, or send other material.
We may collect:
Name or display name
Email address
Comment, question, or message
Date and time submitted
Technical information associated with the submission
Other information you voluntarily include
Where a feature identifies an email address as private, the email address will not ordinarily be displayed publicly with the comment.
Anything you intentionally post in a public comment area may be visible to other visitors.
Please do not include private, sensitive, confidential, financial, medical, identifying, or otherwise inappropriate information in public comments.
We may moderate, remove, restrict, or retain comments where reasonably necessary for site administration, security, compliance, or community standards.
7. Contacting Us
If you contact Tzedakah.Life by email, a contact form, telephone, WhatsApp, social media, or another communications service, we may receive your:
Name
Email address
Telephone number
Account or social-media identifier
Message
Attachments
Other information you choose to provide
We use this information primarily to respond to you and maintain appropriate records of our communications.
Communications sent through WhatsApp, social-media platforms, or similar services are also subject to the privacy practices of the company operating that service.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
8. Website and Technical Information
When you access Tzedakah.Life, our website and service providers may automatically receive certain technical information.
This may include:
IP address
Browser type
Device type
Operating system
Approximate geographic region derived from an IP address
Pages viewed
Referring page or website
Date and time of visits
Links clicked
Session information
Error and diagnostic information
We may use this information to:
Operate the website
Maintain security
Diagnose technical problems
Understand how visitors use the site
Improve navigation and content
Prevent misuse, fraud, or abuse
Measure the effectiveness of our services
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
9. Cookies
Tzedakah.Life and its service providers may use cookies, local storage, pixels, or similar technologies to operate and improve the website.
These technologies may be used for purposes such as:
Essential Functions
To keep the website functioning, maintain sessions, authenticate members, preserve security, or remember basic settings.
Preferences
To remember choices or settings that make the site easier to use.
Analytics
To understand how visitors interact with pages, resources, courses, and other content.
Communications
Email providers may use technologies that indicate whether an email was delivered, opened, or whether a link was clicked.
Where required by applicable law, we will request appropriate consent before using nonessential cookies or similar technologies.
You may also be able to restrict or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling certain cookies may affect the operation of some website features.
HOW WE USE INFORMATION
10. Purposes for Which Information May Be Used
We may use information collected through Tzedakah.Life to:
Provide and operate the website
Create and maintain member accounts
Provide requested educational materials
Provide courses, webinars, memberships, and programs
Process or administer transactions
Fulfill requests for pushkas or other physical materials
Send newsletters and educational communications
Respond to questions and requests
Manage comments and community features
Remember user preferences
Recommend or personalize educational content
Improve our articles, lessons, tools, and services
Analyze website performance and usage
Maintain security
Detect fraud, abuse, or technical problems
Maintain appropriate financial and administrative records
Comply with applicable legal obligations
Protect the rights, safety, and integrity of Tzedakah.Life, its users, and others
We may also use information in aggregated or de-identified form where it no longer reasonably identifies an individual.
TZEDAKAH.LIFE GPT AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
11. The Tzedakah.Life GPT
Tzedakah.Life may provide a customized artificial-intelligence tool known as the Tzedakah.Life GPT.
The GPT is designed as an educational and research tool related to tzedakah, Jewish texts, Jewish giving, and related subjects.
The GPT operates through the OpenAI/ChatGPT platform and therefore involves data processing by OpenAI.
12. Information You Submit to the GPT
When interacting with the Tzedakah.Life GPT, you may voluntarily provide:
Questions
Prompts
Messages
Research requests
Text entered into a conversation
Follow-up questions
Feedback
Files or other material where the platform permits them
Please do not submit sensitive information.
In particular, we recommend that users do not provide sensitive personal, financial, medical, legal, confidential, proprietary, or otherwise private information when using the Tzedakah.Life GPT unless there is a compelling reason to do so and the user understands how the relevant platform handles that information.
13. Who Can See GPT Conversations?
Tzedakah.Life does not receive access to individual users' private ChatGPT conversation histories merely because we created or published the Tzedakah.Life GPT.
OpenAI controls the ChatGPT platform and determines how conversations are stored, processed, retained, reviewed, or used according to the user's account type, settings, OpenAI's policies, and applicable law.
For consumer ChatGPT accounts, users may have controls affecting whether their conversations are used to improve OpenAI's models.
Users should review their ChatGPT Data Controls and OpenAI's current privacy information for details.
14. GPT Research Sources, Actions, and Third-Party Services
The Tzedakah.Life GPT may use approved information sources, research tools, APIs, actions, or other integrations to help respond to a request.
Where use of a particular integration requires information from a user's request to be transmitted to another service, that information may be processed by the provider of that service under its own privacy policy and terms.
Tzedakah.Life seeks to configure its GPT around appropriate research and educational uses, but users should understand that OpenAI and any external service actually used in processing a request operate under their own policies.
Tzedakah.Life does not control the independent privacy practices of those providers.
15. Tzedakah.Life Does Not Build GPT User Profiles
Tzedakah.Life does not intentionally use the GPT to independently create or maintain personal profiles of individual GPT users.
Any platform-level retention, account history, memory, model-improvement use, or similar functionality made available by ChatGPT is controlled by OpenAI and the user's applicable settings rather than by Tzedakah.Life.
16. AI Accuracy and Educational Disclaimer
Artificial intelligence can make mistakes.
Information produced by the Tzedakah.Life GPT is provided for educational, informational, and research purposes and should be reviewed critically.
GPT-generated content:
Does not constitute legal advice
Does not constitute financial or tax advice
Does not constitute medical or other professional advice
Does not constitute a binding halachic ruling or rabbinic decision
Should not substitute for consultation with an appropriate rabbinic authority or qualified professional when such guidance is required
Opinions, interpretations, or information generated by an AI system do not necessarily reflect the views of Tzedakah.Life, Colel Chabad, or any affiliated organization.
THIRD PARTIES
17. Service Providers
Tzedakah.Life may use outside companies and service providers to help operate our services.
Depending on the feature being used, these providers may include companies that provide:
Website hosting
Cloud infrastructure
Content management
Account authentication
Database services
Email distribution
Analytics
Payment processing
Video hosting
Webinar or event technology
Shipping and fulfillment
Customer support
Security and fraud prevention
Artificial intelligence and research services
We may provide these service providers with information reasonably necessary for them to perform their services.
Their use of information is also subject to their respective agreements and privacy practices.
18. Links to Other Websites and Organizations
Tzedakah.Life contains links to third-party websites, charitable organizations, educational sources, videos, payment services, social-media platforms, and other external resources.
When you leave Tzedakah.Life or interact directly with another service, that organization's privacy policy applies.
Tzedakah.Life is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or operation of an independently operated third-party website or service.
We encourage users to review the privacy practices of websites to which they provide personal information.
19. Donations and External Giving Platforms
Tzedakah.Life may provide educational information about charitable giving or links through which users can support Colel Chabad or other charitable organizations.
Where a donation is completed through another organization or payment platform, information submitted during that transaction may be collected and processed directly by that organization or payment provider.
The recipient organization's or provider's privacy policy will govern its handling of donor and payment information.
Tzedakah.Life should not be assumed to receive all information submitted through a third-party donation service.
WHEN INFORMATION MAY BE SHARED
20. Disclosure of Information
We may disclose personal information:
To service providers performing services on our behalf
To fulfill something you have requested
With your direction or consent
When reasonably necessary to process a transaction
To comply with applicable law, court process, or lawful governmental request
To investigate fraud, misuse, security incidents, or violations of applicable rules
To protect the rights, property, security, or safety of Tzedakah.Life, its users, Colel Chabad, or others
As part of a reorganization or transfer of the operation of the service, subject to appropriate protections
We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration.
DATA RETENTION AND SECURITY
21. How Long We Keep Information
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including to:
Provide requested services
Maintain an active account
Fulfill orders or requests
Maintain necessary transaction and accounting records
Respond to inquiries
Maintain security
Resolve disputes
Meet legal or regulatory obligations
Different categories of information may have different retention periods.
When personal information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete it, anonymize it, or securely retain it where continued retention is required or permitted.
Information controlled directly by third-party providers, including OpenAI, payment providers, email providers, or authentication services, is retained according to their policies.
22. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information against unauthorized access, misuse, alteration, loss, or disclosure.
However, no website, database, email system, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Users should therefore exercise reasonable care regarding the information they transmit online.
If you believe information associated with Tzedakah.Life has been compromised, please contact us promptly.
CHILDREN AND FAMILIES
23. Children's Privacy
Tzedakah.Life includes stories, games, educational resources, activities, and other material intended to help families and educators teach children about tzedakah.
The presence of children's educational content does not mean that children should independently provide personal information to Tzedakah.Life.
Where personal information, account registration, purchases, shipping information, or other identifying information is required, children should use those services with the involvement and permission of a parent, legal guardian, teacher, school, or other responsible adult as appropriate.
The Tzedakah.Life GPT is intended to be used by minors only with appropriate parental, educational, or institutional supervision and subject to the age requirements of the platform on which it operates.
If you believe a child has submitted personal information inappropriately, please contact us so that we can review the matter.
YOUR CHOICES AND RIGHTS
24. Your Information
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have rights regarding your personal information, which may include the ability to:
Ask whether we hold personal information about you
Request access to certain personal information
Request correction of inaccurate information
Request deletion of certain information
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Object to or restrict certain processing
Unsubscribe from marketing or newsletter communications
Request information regarding certain disclosures of personal information
Not every right applies in every jurisdiction or circumstance, and some information may need to be retained for legal, financial, security, or operational reasons.
To make a privacy-related request, contact us at:
We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.
25. Email Choices
You may unsubscribe from newsletters and other nonessential email communications by using the unsubscribe link contained in the message.
We may still send service-related communications where necessary, such as account, transaction, registration, security, or administrative messages.
26. Cookies and Browser Choices
Most browsers allow users to block, restrict, or delete cookies.
Where Tzedakah.Life provides a cookie-consent or preference tool, you may also use that tool to manage applicable nonessential cookies.
Because browser-based “Do Not Track” mechanisms are not implemented consistently across the Internet, our response to those signals may vary depending on available technology and applicable legal requirements.
INTERNATIONAL USE
27. International Data Processing
Tzedakah.Life serves an international audience.
Information may therefore be processed or stored in countries different from the country in which you live, including through service providers that operate internationally.
Privacy and data-protection laws differ among jurisdictions.
Where required by applicable law, reasonable measures may be used to protect personal information when it is transferred internationally.
LEGAL BASES WHERE APPLICABLE
28. Basis for Processing Personal Information
Where applicable privacy law requires a specified legal basis for processing, Tzedakah.Life may process information on one or more of the following grounds:
Consent — when you voluntarily subscribe or otherwise agree to a particular use
Performance of a service or agreement — when processing is needed to provide something you requested
Legitimate interests — such as operating, securing, improving, and understanding the use of our services, where those interests are not overridden by applicable privacy rights
Legal obligations — when information must be processed or retained to comply with applicable law
POLICY CHANGES
29. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Tzedakah.Life may update this Privacy Policy periodically as our services, technology, or legal obligations change.
When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
For significant changes, we may also provide additional notice when reasonably appropriate.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
CONTACT US
30. Privacy Questions and Requests
Questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or Tzedakah.Life's privacy practices may be directed to:
Tzedakah.Life
A public service of Colel Chabad
Email: info@tzedakah.life
Website: Tzedakah.Life
Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to your request.
Our goal is simple: to use personal information responsibly, collect only what is reasonably necessary, and allow Tzedakah.Life to remain a trusted place to learn about, teach, and practice the mitzvah of tzedakah.