Privacy Policy

General: Congregation Beth Shalom of the Blue Hills (CBSBH) believes that personally identifying information, such as your name, postal and email address or telephone number, is private and confidential. You can have general access to our site without providing any personally identifying information. CBSBH collects personally identifying information only when you voluntarily submit it, such as when you email comments, request information, sign up for a discussion group, or register for an event.

Release of information to Third Parties: CBSBH does not release your personally identifying information to third parties unless you have given us permission to do so or unless such release is required to comply with the law or to protect the rights or safety of CBSBH for our Website users. Information that is collected will not be sold, shared, or rented to any outside company or organization. Information that is collected will be used solely for the purpose for which it is given.

Your Email and IP Address: We use your email address and IP address to diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. Your IP address provides information about how you and others navigate through and use our site. Your IP address may also be used to gather broad demographic information. An IP address that is collected on our site becomes the property of CBSBH. CBSBH does not sell, market or distribute these addresses to any other organizations and will not use it for purposes other than indicated in this policy.

Internet and Email: Information submitted to us via our website, or via email passes as clear text and is unencrypted. Safeguards are put in place to assure safe delivery of the electronic messages sent via email and through our website, but there is no assurance that such messages will not be intercepted. To submit confidential information to our office, please utilize fax, U.S. registered mail, or a courier. If you send us information through electronic mail you agree that we may do the same in communicating with you.

Password Protected Information: Some portions of our website can be accessed only with an applicable password. The password provides some additional privacy protection but the password protected content will still be viewable by our members who will be given the password. We cannot guarantee to you that content entered into a password protected portion of our website will not be seen or copied by other members who have the password. You should not enter information onto our website that you do not want disclosed to other members of our Synagogue.

Credit Cards: We use PayPal to process all credit card transactions on our website. PayPal maintains its own privacy and security policy. We believe that all credit card transactions through our website are safe and secure, however since they are being processed by a third party we cannot guarantee they will be processed correctly or that they will remain private. For more information about PayPal’s security and privacy policies log on to www.paypal.com.