Privacy Policy
Mitchazkim
Effective Date: January 4, 2026
Welcome to Mitchazkim ("the App," "we," "us," or "our"). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you use our App, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
1. Information We Collect
We collect several types of information from and about users of our App, including:
**Personal Information:**
• Registration and Profile Details: When you register for the App or update your profile, we may collect your full name, email address, and role (user/admin).
• User Preferences: Information about your interests, notification settings, preferred font size, theme, and prayer nusach.
• Progress and Usage Data: Your Tehilim progress, saved bookmarks, personal notes, and daily study content you have viewed.
• User-Generated Content: If you use the forum, "Ask the Rabbi" feature, or other functionalities allowing content submission, we will collect the information you provide.
**Usage and Diagnostic Data:**
• Interaction Data: Information about how you interact with the App, including pages visited, content consumed, and duration of use.
• Session Identifiers: Unique identifiers for your App session.
• Technical Data: Your device type, IP address (anonymized where possible), and browser information.
**Location Data (with your explicit consent):**
• We may request access to your device's location (via GPS) or ask you to manually enter a location (such as a city). This information is used on a temporary basis and is not permanently stored within a user entity or for tracking purposes. It is used for two primary purposes:
- Daily Times (Zmanei Hayom): To provide you with accurate and relevant daily times for prayers, sunrise, and sunset based on your current or entered location.
- Finding Synagogues: To display synagogues near your current or entered location.
• Locations of synagogues you mark as favorites are stored in the App, but these are not your personal location data.
• Device location data is collected only after you provide explicit consent, and you can revoke this permission at any time through your device settings or within the App.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
• To Provide and Maintain the App: To operate the App and its features, including personalized content, Tehilim progress tracking, and bookmark management.
• To Personalize User Experience: To tailor content, design, and settings to your preferences.
• To Improve the App: To understand how our users interact with the App to develop new features and enhance existing ones.
• To Communicate With You: To send you notifications, updates, or other information you have requested.
• For Analytics and Statistics: To analyze usage trends, monitor, and analyze App usage.
• For Security and Fraud Prevention: To protect the App and its users from malicious activity.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose your information in the following circumstances:
• With Service Providers: To third-party companies who perform services on our behalf (e.g., data hosting, analytics services, technical support).
• For Legal Compliance: When required to do so by law, or in response to valid requests by public authorities.
• With Your Consent: We may share your information with other third parties when you give us your explicit consent to do so.
• We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
4. Data Security
We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure; therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
5. Your Rights
Subject to applicable data protection laws, you may have the following rights: to access, rectify, erase, restrict, or object to the processing of your personal data. To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
6. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
7. Children's Privacy
Our App is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. If we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we will delete such information from our servers immediately.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top of this document. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: cohen.yehonatan@outlook.com
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