Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective date: October 20, 2026. This version replaces the policy dated September 1, 2026.
At Jewish Federation of San Diego, your privacy is very important to us, and we want to provide you with the following information so that you can better understand our practices when it comes to this increasingly crucial issue. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how we collect, share and protect information about you.
This Privacy Policy applies to the Federation and governs consumer data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Federation, “we,” “us” and “our” include Jewish Federation of San Diego, and our website, www.jewishinsandiego.org. The Federation’s website is used to provide information about activities and fundraising opportunities in the Jewish community. By accessing and using our website, you agree that you have read and understand this Privacy Policy and you consent to the privacy practices (and any uses and disclosures of information about you) that are described in this Privacy Policy.
PRIVACY OF DATA
The Federation never sells or trades donor lists. We do not sell or trade our mailing, e-mail or donor lists with external organizations. We will, on occasion, fulfill mailing and e-mail requests on behalf of our beneficiary agencies or other Jewish organizations in the Greater San Diego area. We agree to such communications to promote events or programs that we believe are beneficial to the Jewish community as a whole.
All requests are reviewed individually by the Federation. In no case is any personal information exchanged directly with staff members of other organizations. The Federation will either contact you directly or via a contractor that has agreed not to disclose your information to others. Personal information such as address, e‑mail address, demographics, giving levels and histories are never divulged to our beneficiary agencies or other Jewish organizations during this process.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Through your involvement with the Federation, you may be asked to fill out or update information such as your name, address, e-mail address, telephone and cell phone numbers, fax number, credit card information or details about your Jewish community interests. This is most often done through donations and reservations that are made on our website, written out on pledge cards and/or invitation response cards, or taken over the telephone in conversation with a Federation staff member.
We also may collect other identifying information from or about you in connection with your use of our website. For example, we may collect and store the content of, and data regarding, any correspondence you may have with us or our representatives, regardless of the subject matter or the mode of communication by which such correspondence is made. As with many other websites, the Internet servers used to operate our website may collect certain information pertaining to you and the software, equipment and communications method that you use to access the Internet and our website. This information can include: IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of our services, to maintain quality of our services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of our website.
The Federation encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from our website so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. The Federation is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of our website.
HOW THE FEDERATION USES YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Federation uses the information you provide us solely to provide services at your request; to inform you about services, programs, events and other communal information that you may find interesting or useful; and to confirm donations, reservations or other interactions that you undertake within the context of your involvement with the Federation. We may disclose the information you provide us only to those of our contractors and their employees that need your information to process it on our behalf, to provide services to you that you have requested or to contact you on our behalf. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to the Federation and they are contractually required to maintain the privacy and security of your information. Service providers process payments, store donor and gift records, host this website, and store operational records for this checkout. These providers are engaged to process data on the Federation’s behalf and are not a sale of our mailing or donor lists.
The Federation will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on the Federation or our website; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Federation; or, (c) act under necessary circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of our website or the public.
DO NOT TRACK AND OTHER SITES
If your browser sends a Do Not Track signal, or if Global Privacy Control is on, our page analytics, our hosting provider’s page view counts, our email marketing service’s website analytics, and our page-load measurement do not run. Those signals do not turn off the website, a donation, a form, sign-in, or the logs our host keeps to run the service. They also do not stop every other request a page makes. Some pages embed a video player. A player either loads from a privacy-enhanced host, or stays on its usual host and is asked not to track. A web font service supplies the typeface, so loading a page sends that request to that service. On the gift form, when employer matching is turned on, that service’s script loads and the company name you search is sent to the employer-match service.
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TOOLS
A notice at the bottom of public pages asks you to accept or decline cookies. Your choice is stored so we do not ask on every page. Accept turns on our own page analytics. Those analytics record the page address, the page title, clicks on links and buttons, the kind of device, browser, and operating system, the screen size, the language, the referring site, and UTM tags from the link that brought you here. They record which sections come into view, how far down the page you scroll, and named steps such as starting or completing a gift. They use a random ID that is kept only for that browser tab. They do not record your name, email, gift amount, or anything you type into a form. Accept also turns on our hosting provider’s page view counts on our public pages. They record the page address without its query, except UTM tags, the referring site, the country, and the kind of device, browser, and operating system. They set no cookies. Decline leaves those analytics off.
A separate measurement of how fast the page loaded does not set a cookie and does not wait for that notice. It sends the page path, the kind of device, the connection type, and the timing to our own server. It does nothing when Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control is on.
Signing in to My Giving sets a cookie that keeps you signed in. Signing in as staff sets a staff sign-in cookie. We do not set these cookies when you are just browsing.
The newsletter form on our contact page is provided by our email marketing service. Unless you accept cookies, that form loads with analytics turned off. Accept also turns on that service’s website analytics on our public pages. It sets cookies that recognize your browser when you come back, and it records the pages you visit on this site. If you type your email address into a form on one of those pages, such as the newsletter signup, it can connect those visits to that address. It does not run on pages where you sign in, give, buy tickets, apply for a grant or a job, or open a personal link from an email. Decline leaves it off, and it does not run when Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control is on.
CHILDREN AND TEENS
The Federation is committed to protecting the privacy of all individuals, including children and teens who participate in our programs.
General Website Use: Our website is designed for a general audience. We do not knowingly collect personal information from visitors under 13 through general website browsing. If we learn we have inadvertently collected such information outside of an authorized program context, we will promptly delete it.
Teen Program Participants (Ages 13–17): The Federation collects personal information from teens in connection with Federation-sponsored programs. This may include name, date of birth, contact information, emergency contacts, health and dietary information, travel documents (for travel programs), and photographs captured during activities. We collect this information with written authorization from a parent or legal guardian as part of program enrollment.
Children Under 13: The Federation does not generally offer programs requiring online data collection from children under 13. If a program involves participants under 13, we will obtain verifiable parental consent before collecting any personal information, consistent with COPPA protections.
Use of Information: Information collected from participants under 18 is used solely for program administration, health and safety, communications with families, and documentation of activities. We do not sell or share participant information for marketing purposes. We may share information with program partners and service providers only as necessary to operate the program.
Retention: We retain participant information only as long as necessary to fulfill program purposes, meet legal obligations, or resolve disputes. When no longer needed, we securely delete or de-identify it.
Parental Rights: Parents and guardians may review, correct, request deletion of, or withdraw consent for their child’s information by contacting info@jewishinsandiego.org or writing to: Jewish Federation of San Diego, 4950 Murphy Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92123.
Security: We maintain reasonable safeguards to protect minors’ personal information. Access is limited to authorized staff and volunteers with a legitimate need to know.
CALLS AND TEXT MESSAGES
By providing your telephone number to Jewish Federation of San Diego, you consent to receive calls. Providing that number does not, by itself, consent to text messages. Text messages require the separate opt-in described in this section. By opting in, you agree to receive text messages from Jewish Federation of San Diego at (877) 414-3351. Message frequency varies. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out and HELP for help. Consent is not a condition of giving.
We will not share or sell your text messaging opt-in data, consent, or related personal information with any third parties, unless required by law.
That call consent stays in place until you tell us not to call. This website does not place automated calls. When you give by phone, you are already talking with a person. If you have asked us not to call, we honor that.
Text messages from us come from Jewish Federation of San Diego at (877) 414-3351. They are not sent by marketing partners. We use that number for two things.
Text to Give. You opt in by texting a keyword, such as GIVE, to (877) 414-3351. We reply with a secure link to our own donation page. We do not text that program to a number that has not texted us. We reply once, plus our contact card the first time you text us, so you can save our number. The full program, including HELP and STOP, is on our Text to Give terms.
Sign-in codes. If you add a mobile number for sign-in, or a mobile number is already on your record and you ask for a code, we text a one-time code from (877) 414-3351. The same is true when staff or a grant reviewer signs in by text. The code works once and expires in 15 minutes. Message frequency varies. We do not text a gift receipt, an event reminder, or a number that was typed only on a gift form or an event registration. Those reminders and receipts go by email.
Reply STOP to (877) 414-3351 and we stop texting that number. Reply HELP for help. You may also revoke consent to texts in any other reasonable way, including by email or by calling the number under Updating Your Information. Staff honor a request to stop texts sent by email or phone within 10 business days. Stopping texts does not, by itself, withdraw the consent to calls in the first paragraph of this section. Consent to texts is not a condition of giving.
Our text-message service delivers these messages for us. We keep the number and the message so we can reply and honor STOP. Sending them through that service is not a sale of your number. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.
We email you when you ask us to, and when you need a record of something, like a gift. Gift receipts, event confirmations, and event reminders are email. Sign-in can also be an email link or an email code. Those messages are sent through our email service.
If you join the newsletter on our contact page, a newsletter email service sends the newsletter. Marketing email identifies Jewish Federation of San Diego and includes our postal address, 4950 Murphy Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92123. You can use the unsubscribe link in any marketing email, or contact us below and ask us to stop.
SERVICE PROVIDERS
Service providers help us run this website. They handle information on our behalf. Giving them that information is not a sale of our mailing list or our donor list. We share personal information with these categories of providers:
- Payment processing.
- Donor database.
- Email and text delivery.
- Website analytics.
- Printed mail.
- Website hosting and data storage.
- E-signature.
- Employer gift matching.
CALIFORNIA PRIVACY AND CHARITABLE STATUS
Jewish Federation of San Diego is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Our employer identification number is 95-1319015. Our address is 4950 Murphy Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92123. A solicitation on this site names the organization and that address. We do not sell or trade our mailing, email, or donor lists.
The California Consumer Privacy Act and the California Privacy Rights Act apply to a “business,” which the statute defines as an entity organized or operated for the profit or financial benefit of its owners that also meets the statute’s thresholds (California Civil Code section 1798.140). The Federation is a 501(c)(3) and is not organized for the profit of owners, so those statutes generally do not apply to us. This policy does not promise the statutory request rights under those laws. You can still ask us to correct your contact information or to stop a kind of contact, using the addresses below.
Any donor may ask what personal information we shared in the prior calendar year with other parties for those parties' own direct marketing. Send that request in writing to the address below, and we will answer it. California Civil Code section 1798.83, sometimes called Shine the Light, describes this kind of request. We do not share donor or mobile opt-in information for another organization’s marketing.
UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
You can change your information and your preferences at any time. If you want to be removed from any contact, or from one kind of contact, such as all mail, a certain type of mail, phone calls, or emails, contact Ashley Bendas, Senior Director of Marketing & PR, at ashleyb@jewishinsandiego.org and tell us your preferences. To ask a privacy question, call (858) 571-3444 or email info@jewishinsandiego.org, or write to Jewish Federation of San Diego, 4950 Murphy Canyon Road, San Diego, CA 92123.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
From time to time, we may change this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices because of changes in relevant and applicable legal or regulatory requirements, in our business practices, in our attempts to better serve your needs and in response to user feedback. When we do so, we will post a revised Privacy Policy on our website and a new effective date at the top of this page. Any such change will be effective immediately upon posting on our website. The Federation encourages you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to be informed of any such changes and how the Federation is protecting and using your information.
TO LEARN MORE
At the Federation, the privacy of our contact information has always been, and always will be, an issue of utmost care and concern. Should you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us:
