MAZON Privacy Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE/YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Effective Date: May 5, 2026

LAST UPDATED: May 5, 2026

MAZON, Inc. (“MAZON,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy of Personal Data (i.e., information reasonably related to a specific individual).  This Privacy Notice describes how we process Personal Data collected through our websites, social media accounts, and other online interactions and communications such as email (collectively, our “Digital Properties”); in-person events; postal mail; and other online and offline interactions.

Scope: This Privacy Notice does not apply to the data about our own employees, contractors, agents, and job applicants.

Whenever you interact with us on behalf of another individual or entity, such as if you refer a friend to us, you must obtain their consent (or have the legal authority without consent) to share their Personal Data with us.

Changes: We may update this Privacy Notice from time to time.  Any updated Privacy Notice will be effective when posted.  Please check this Privacy Notice periodically for updates.

1. Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data about you from the following sources:

  1. Directly from you.  We may collect Personal Data you provide to us directly, such as when you contact us through our Digital Properties, interact with us in person, sign up for newsletters, communicate with us, or make a donation.
  2. Data collected automatically and through Cookies.  We may automatically collect information or inferences about you, such as through cookies, pixels, tags, scripts, and similar technologies (collectively, “Cookies”), when you interact with our Digital Properties.  This may include information about how you use and interact with our Digital Properties, information about your device, and internet usage information.
  3. From third parties.  We may collect Personal Data from third parties, such as service and content providers, business partners, social media companies or other parties who interact with us.
  1. From publicly available sources. We may collect Personal Data about you from publicly available sources, such as public profiles and websites.

We may combine information that we receive from the various sources described in this Privacy Notice, including third party sources, and use or disclose the combined information for the purposes identified below.

2. Types of Personal Data We Collect

We may collect the following types of Personal Data:

  1. Identifiers, such as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, and device identifiers (e.g., cookie IDs and IP address).
  2. Records about you, such as signatures; the content, timing and method of communications you have with us, such as calls and emails; and information you share with or upload to our Digital Properties, such as reviews and comments.
  3. Demographic information, such as age (including birthdates) and gender.
  4. Commercial information, such as information related to your transactions, including donations.
  5. Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as your browsing history, search history, preference information (including marketing preferences), and other information regarding your interactions with and use of the Digital Properties.  For more information about Cookies, please see Section 5 (Cookies).
  6. Non-precise geolocation data, such as your location as derived from your IP address.
  7. Audio, electronic, visual, or other sensory information, such as photographs and audio/video recordings.
  8. Education information.
  9. Inferences drawn from any of the information we collect about your preferences or behavior, including to assess the level of interest in our initiatives.
  1. Sensitive Personal Data, including precise geolocation and religious or philosophical beliefs (including synagogue affiliation).

3. How We Use Personal Data

We may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  1. To process donations and support our initiatives, such as making our Digital Properties available to you; processing your donations; signing you up for mailing lists; communicating with you about our events and initiatives; communicating with you (including soliciting feedback or responding to requests, complaints, and inquiries); hosting events and programs; and providing similar services or otherwise facilitating your relationship with us.
  2. For our internal business purposes, such as day-to-day operation of our organization; maintaining internal business records, such as accounting, document management and similar activities; enforcing our policies and rules; management reporting; auditing; and IT security and administration.
  3. For our internal research and improvement purposes, such as verifying or maintaining the quality or safety of our services and initiatives; improving our services and initiatives; designing new services and initiatives;developing and improving algorithms, artificial intelligence or machine learning tools and models; evaluating the effectiveness of our advertising or marketing efforts; and debugging and repairing errors with our systems, networks, and equipment.
  4. For legal, safety or security reasons, such as complying with legal, reporting, and similar requirements; investigating and responding to claims against us, our personnel, and our donors; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; protecting our, your, our donors’, and other third parties’ safety, property or rights; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents and health and safety issues (including managing spread of communicable diseases); and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
  5. In connection with a corporate transaction, such as if we acquire assets of another organization, or sell or transfer all or a portion of our organization or assets including through a sale in connection with bankruptcy and other forms of corporate change.
  6. For marketing and targeted advertising, such as marketing our services or initiatives or those of our affiliates, business partners, or other third parties.  For example, we may use Personal Data we collect to personalize advertising to you (including by developing audiences and identifying you across devices/sites); to analyze interactions with us or our Digital Properties; or to send you newsletters, surveys, questionnaires, or information about events.  You can unsubscribe from our email marketing via the link in the email or by contacting us using the information in Section 9 (Contact Information) below.

We may use anonymized, de-identified, or aggregated information for any purpose permitted by law.

4. How We Disclose Personal Data

We may disclose Personal Data to third parties, including the categories of recipients described below:

  1. Service providers that work on our behalf to provide the services you request or support our relationship with you, such as IT providers, Internet service providers, data and web hosting providers, software service providers, email marketing providers, payment processing companies, data analytics providers, and companies that provide business support services, financial administration, or event organization.
  2. Professional consultants, such as accountants, lawyers, financial advisors, and audit firms.
  3. Law enforcement, government agencies, and other recipients for legal, security, or safety purposes, such as when we share information to comply with law or legal requirements, to enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements or policies, and to protect our, our donors’, or third parties’ safety, property, or rights.
  4. Other entities in connection with a corporate transaction, such as if we acquire assets of another entity, or sell or transfer all or a portion of our organization or assets including through a sale in connection with bankruptcy and other forms of corporate change.
  5. Business partners that may use Personal Data for their own purposes, such as:
  • Advertisers, ad platforms and networks, and social media platforms;
  • Third parties whose Cookies we use as described in our Section 5 (Cookies) below; and
  • Partners who work with us on promotional opportunities.

Where recipients use your Personal Data for their own purposes independently from us, we are not responsible for their privacy practices or personal data processing policies.  You should consult the privacy notices of those third-party services for details on their practices.

  1. The public, such as when you have an opportunity to make comments regarding us that we may share with the public, including comments on our blog or social media posts.  Any Personal Data in comments, reviews, or other content that you share in public areas of our Digital Properties may be read, collected, or used by other users or the public.
  2. Entities to which you have consented to the disclosure.

5. Cookies

Our Digital Properties and authorized third parties use Cookies to collect information about you, your device, and how you interact with our Digital Properties.  This section contains additional information about:

  • The types of Cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them
  • The types of information we collect using these technologies
  • How we disclose or make information available to others
  • Choices you may have regarding these technologies

A.   Types of Cookies

We and the third parties that we authorize may use:

  • Cookies, which are a type of technology that install a small amount of information on a user’s computer or other device when they visit our Digital Properties.
  • Pixels, web beacons, and tags, which are types of code or transparent graphics that contain a unique identifier. In addition to the uses described below, these technologies provide information about interactions with our Digital Properties (including communications such as email we may send to you) and help us customize our marketing activities.  In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s device hard drive, pixels, web beacons, and tags are embedded invisibly on our Digital Properties.
  • Session replay tools, which record your interactions with our Digital Properties, such as how you move throughout our Digital Properties and engage with our webforms. In addition to the uses described below, this information helps us improve our Digital Properties and identify and fix technical issues visitors may be having with our Digital Properties.
  • Embedded scripts and SDKs, which allow us to build and integrate custom experiences on our Digital Properties. Embedded scripts are temporarily downloaded onto your device from our web server, or from a third party with which we work, and are active only while you are connected to our Digital Properties and are deleted or deactivated thereafter.

We may use both first-party Cookies, which are set by us, and third-party Cookies, which are set by other parties.  Some of the Cookies we use may last solely for your browsing session and are deleted when you close your browser, while others are persistent and stored after you close your browser.

B.    Purposes for Using Cookies

We and authorized third parties use these technologies for purposes including:

  • Strictly Necessary, such as providing you with privacy disclosures and choices, and for troubleshooting and security purposes (including preventing fraud and malicious behavior);
  • Functionality/Personalization, such as remembering language preferences and pages you have viewed in order to enhance and personalize your experience when you visit our Digital Properties;
  • Performance/Analytics, such as analyzing how our websites are used to understand which pages within our Digital Properties are most popular and how users move around them. For example, we use Google Analytics to help us improve the user experience. Google Analytics may use Cookies to perform their services.  To learn how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit: “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps” located at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites;
  • Targeting/Advertising, such as conducting advertising and content personalization on our Digital Properties and those of third parties, tracking activity over time and across properties to develop a profile of your interests and advertise to you based on those interests (“interest-based advertising”), providing you with offers and online content that may be of interest to you, and measuring the effectiveness of advertising campaigns and our communications with you—including identifying how and when you engage with one of our emails.

C.   Types of Data Collected

These Cookies collect data about you and your device, such as your IP address, location (both approximate and precise), cookie ID, device ID, Ad ID, operating system, device type, device settings and other device information, browser used, browser history, search history, pages viewed, search queries, login information, information entered into webforms, and information about how you interact with our Digital Properties (such as pages on our Digital Properties that you have viewed).

D.   Disclosures of Data

We may disclose information to third parties or allow third parties to directly collect information using these Cookies on our Digital Properties, such as social media companies, advertising networks, companies that provide analytics (including providers of ad tracking and reporting services), security providers, and others that help us operate our organization and Digital Properties.

E.    Your Choices

You may be able to control how we use Cookies through other mechanisms.  Please be aware that if you disable the use of Cookies, the functionality of our Digital Properties may be negatively impacted, and certain areas or features may not display or work correctly.  If you change computers, devices, or browsers; use multiple computers, devices, or browsers; or delete your Cookies, you may need to repeat this process for each computer, device, or browser.

  • Interest-Based Advertising. Some of the third parties we work with participate with the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”).  The DAA provides a mechanism for you to opt out of interest-based advertising performed by participating members at https://youradchoices.com/.  Opting out of interest-based advertising will not opt you out of all advertising, but rather only interest-based advertising from participants in the DAA.  If you are using a mobile device, you can manage interest-based ads on your device by adjusting the settings provided by your device manufacturer or the operating system provider: Manage settings on iOS devices; and Manage settings on Android devices.
  • Browser Settings. You can also refuse or delete Cookies using your browser settings.  If you want to disable the use of certain specific Cookies or remove them from your device, you can disable or delete them using your browser settings.  Please be aware that not all Cookies can be deleted through browser settings.  Please refer to your browser’s Help instructions to learn more about how to manage Cookies, or use the following links for instructions for commonly used browsers: Apple Safari; Google Chrome; Microsoft Edge; and Mozilla Firefox.
  • Do Not Track. Some web browsers may include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your preference to not have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected over time and across websites.  At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized.  As a result, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or similar mechanisms.

6. Data Security and Data Retention

Although we maintain reasonable security safeguards, no security measures or communications over the Internet can be 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

7. Children’s Privacy

Our Digital Properties are intended for individuals 18 years of age and older.  The Digital Properties are not directed at, marketed to, nor intended for, children under 18 years of age.  As a general rule, we do not knowingly collect any information, including Personal Data, from children under 18 years of age.  If you believe that we have inadvertently collected Personal Data from a child under the age of 18, please contact us at the address in Section 9 (Contact Information) below, and we will take prompt steps to delete the information.

8. External Links

Our Digital Properties may contain links to external sites or other online services that we do not control, including those embedded in third party advertisements or sponsor information.  We are not responsible for the privacy practices or data collection policies of such third-party services.  You should consult the privacy notices of those third-party services for details on their practices.

9. Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Notice, please contact us by phone at (800) 813-0557 or by email at mazonmail@mazon.org.

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