Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 29, 2026

Mekor Chaim Inc. ("Company", "we", "our", or "us") respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes how we collect, process, retain, and disclose personal data about you when providing services to you through our websites www.mekorchaim.com and www.timepiece4torah.org (the “Websites”) and services that link to this policy (our "Services") and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies only to information we collect:

Through the Services.
In communications, including email, text, chat, and other electronic messages, between you and the Services.
In connection with promotions on our Websites and on social media platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, X, WhatsApp, etc.)

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party that does not link to this policy; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Services.

We may provide additional or different privacy policies that are specific to certain features, services, or activities.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. By interacting with our Services or providing us with your information, you agree to the collection, use, and sharing of your information as described in this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see How We Retain Your Personal Data). Your continued use of the Services after we make changes as described here is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children's and Minors' Data

Our Services are not intended for, and we do not knowingly collect any personal data from, children under the age of 18. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 18 years old without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

The Personal Data That We Collect or Process

"Personal data" is information that identifies, relates to, or describes, directly or indirectly, you as an individual, such as your name, email address, telephone number, home address. Our third party payment provider (such as accept.blue, PayPal, or Venmo) collects and stores your credit card or debit card information or other financial information and any identification. We do not collect or store that information.

The types and categories of personal data we collect or process include:

Contact information, including name, address (such as home address, work address, or other address), email address, phone number, and other contact information you provide to us. Location information, including general geographic location such as Zip Code.
Device information, including your IP address, device identifiers, operating system and version, preferred language, hardware identifiers, browser type and settings, and other device information.
Content and information you elect to provide as part of your profile.
Images, voice recordings, and videos collected or stored in connection with the Services, if you have consented to such information collection.
Identity document information, such as Social Security and driver's license numbers, if you have consented to such information collection.

If you are a California resident, to access our supplemental California privacy statement, visit www.timepiece4torah.org/privacy-policy-ca.

We also collect:

Statistics or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal data. For example, we may aggregate personal data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Services feature.
Technical information. Technical information includes information about your internet connection and usage details about your interactions with the Services, such as clickstream information to, through, and from our Services (including date and time), products that you view or search for; page response times, download errors, length of your visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), or methods used to browse away from a page.

If we combine or connect non-personal statistical or technical data with personal data so that it directly or indirectly identifies an individual, we treat the combined information as personal information.

How We Collect Your Personal and Other Data

You Provide Information to Us

We collect information about you when you interact with our Services, such as when participate in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, or promotions or send us an email or mail.

Automatically Through Our Services

As you navigate through and interact with our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect information that may include personal data. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, operating system, and browser type, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies including details of your interactions with our Services, such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data, and which resources and Services features that you access and use.

We may use these automatic collection technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party sites or other online services (behavioral tracking).

Using automatic collection technologies helps us to improve our Services and to deliver a better and more personalized experience.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on your device when you interact with the Services. You may refuse to accept or disable cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or device. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain features of the Services.

To the extent any of these automated technologies are considered a personal data sale, targeted advertising, or profiling, under applicable laws, depending on where you live, you may opt out from use of these automated technologies for such uses by emailing us at privacy@mekorchaim.com. Please note that some Services features may be unavailable as a result.

When you interact with the Services, there are third parties that may use automatic collection technologies to collect information about your or your device. These third parties may include:

Your device manufacturer.
Your internet or mobile service provider.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal data or they may collect information, including personal data, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, platforms, and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

From Business Partners and Service Providers

We may receive personal data about you from other sources and combine that with information we collect directly from you. For example, we may obtain information about you from service providers that we engage to perform services on our behalf, such as email platform providers, content delivery services, payment processors, promotions services, gift card program providers, analytics, security and anti-fraud services, and data brokers. We also may receive personal data from business partners that we engage to share consumer information with us, including your personal preferences and demographic information such as age, gender, and income level so that we can better provide you with a personalized experience, including personalized content, offers and services.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data, to:

Provide you with the Services and any contents, features, information, products, or services that we make available through the Services.
Fulfill and manage payments through our third-party payment provider.
Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
Provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
Improve our Services, including by analyzing your information and creating aggregated data derived from your information) to develop, maintain, analyze, improve, optimize, measure, and report on our Services and their features and how users interact with them.
Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
If you win $600.00 (six hundred dollars or more), to issue an IRS 1099 form to you for that calendar year, we will collect your legal name, Tax Identification Number (“TIN”), residence address, account information, and the total amount paid to you during the tax year.

For any other purpose with your consent.

The usage information we collect, whether connected to your personal data or not, helps us improve our Services and deliver a better and more personalized experience by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience sizes and usage patterns.

For more information, see Your Rights and Choices About Your Information.

We use location information we collect to send you announcements and your donation history.

To Whom We Disclose Your Information

We may disclose aggregated and anonymized information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may also disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our organization and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Mekor Chaim Inc.'s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal data held by Mekor Chaim Inc. is among the assets transferred.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal data:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our www.timepiece4torah.org/terms or {promotions URL} and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of our organization, our members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

The categories of personal information we may disclose include:

Your Rights and Choices About Your Information

This section describes mechanisms you can use to control certain uses and disclosures of your information and rights you may have under state law, depending on where you live.

Advertising, marketing, cookies, and other tracking technologies choices:

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or other tracking technology files, or to alert you when these files are being sent. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect information through other tracking technologies by emailing us at privacy@mekorchaim.com. If you disable or refuse cookies or similar tracking files, some Services features may be inaccessible or not function properly. Some browsers include a "Do Not Track" (DNT) setting that can send a signal to the online services you visit indicating you do not wish to be tracked. At present, there is no standard or agreement on how to respond to “do-not-track” signals that may be sent by web browsers. Some browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) that can send a signal to process your request to opt out from certain types of data processing, including data sales as defined under applicable laws. When we detect such a signal, we will respect your choices indicated by a GPC or other opt-out setting as required by applicable law. You can learn about opting out of many advertisers’ use of cookies to tailor advertising to you by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info/. You may also visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org/.
Promotions by the Company. If you do not wish us to use your information to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt out by emailing us at privacy@mekorchaim.com or texting STOP after receiving a text message.

Location data choices:

Location Data. You can choose whether or not to allow the Services to collect and use real-time information about your device's location through the device's privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some Services features may become inaccessible or not function properly.

Your State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residency, you may have certain rights related to your personal data, including in the following states:

Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to:

· Confirm whether we process their personal information.

· Access and delete certain personal information.

· Correct inaccuracies in their personal information, considering the information's nature processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah).

· Data portability.

· Opt-out of personal data processing for:

· targeted advertising (excluding Iowa);

· sales; or

· profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah).

· Either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.

Important: The exact scope of these rights vary by state. There are also several exceptions where we may not have an obligation to fulfill your request.

To exercise any of these rights, please email us at privacy@mekorchaim.com. To appeal a decision regarding a consumer rights request Emailing us at privacy@mekorchaim.com.

Nevada provides its residents with a limited right to opt out of certain personal data sales. Residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights may submit a request to this designated address: privacy@mekorchaim.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute's opt-out requirements.

If you are a California resident, additional information applies to you. To access our supplemental California privacy statement and learn more about California residents' privacy rights, visit { hyperlink URL}.

If you are located in California, California’s “Shine The Light” law (California Civil Code Section 1798.83) permits California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information, if any, for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those third parties. California residents may also request that certain information be deleted, but exceptions apply. California law also provides that you are not to be discriminated against if you exercise these rights. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information or opt-out of the sharing of your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes, please submit your request in writing to privacy@mekorchaim.com.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, email, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

How We Retain Your Personal Data

We keep the categories of personal data described in this policy for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described or for as otherwise legally permitted or required, such as maintaining the Services, operating our organization, complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and for safety, security, and fraud prevention. This means that we consider our legal and business obligations, potential risks of harm, and nature of the information when deciding how long to retain personal data. At the end of the retention period, personal data will be deleted, destroyed, or deidentified.

If you are a California resident, visitwww.timepiece4torah.org/privacy-policy-ca for more information about the retention periods that apply to the personal data categories we collect.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update this policy from time to time, and we will provide notice of any such changes to the policy as required by law. The date the privacy policy was last updated is identified at the top of the page. We will notify you of changes to this policy by updating the "last updated" date and posting the updated policy on the Services. You should check our Services periodically to see the current policy and any changes we have made to it.

Contact Information

To exercise your rights or ask questions or comment about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, contact us at:

Mekor Chaim Inc.

1483 Broadway
Hewlett, NY 11557

privacy@mekorchaim.com

To register a complaint or concern, please email us at privacy@mekorchaim.com.