About Us

This page describes the privacy policy for Tikvat Israel. Our homepage on the Web is located at http://tivkatisrael.org.

We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:

Tikvat Israel Congregation
2200 Baltimore Road
Rockville, MD 20851 
USA

If you prefer, you may contact us by e-mail at webmaster@tikvatisrael.org, or by telephone at 301-762-7338.

Dispute Resolution and Privacy Seals

We have the following privacy seals and/or dispute resolution mechanisms. If you think we have not followed our privacy policy in any way, please contact us at 301-762-7338 for any concerns regarding protection of your privacy on our website. We will do our utmost to correct any errors or inconsistencies.

Additional Information

This policy is valid for 1 day from the time that it is loaded by a client.

Data Collection

P3P policies declare the data they collect in groups (also referred to as "statements"). This policy contains 1 data group.

Group "Access log information"

We collect the following information:

• Click-stream data
• HTTP protocol elements
• HTTP cookies

This data will be used for the following purposes:

• Completion and support of the current activity.
• Web site and system administration.
• Research and development.

This data will be used by ourselves and our agents.

The following explanation is provided for why this data is collected:

Our Web server collects access logs containing this information. These logs allow us to monitor activity on our site, geographic location of visitors to our site, and the days and times that our site is being accessed. This information is used to gauge how changes that we make to our site influence the frequency of visits to our site, and determine what changes seem to improve our usability to the general public.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology which can be used to provide you with tailored information from a Web site. A cookie is an element of data that a Web site can send to your browser, which may then store it on your system. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether to accept it.

Our site makes use of cookies in the following way: If you log into our Member's Area or our new online catalog for making payments on our site, a cookie will be set which allows our server to recognize that you are logged in, and will allow you appropriate access to certain functionalities of that area of our site, depending on your user-role. When you log off of the Member's Area, the cookie will be erased from your computer. If you have logged on to the Member's Area, but have not interacted with any of the functionalities of the Member's Area, you will be automatically logged off after one hour of "inactivity". To continue to use the Member's Area, you will need to log on again through the Login Page. If you choose to refuse to accept cookies, you will not be able to log onto the Member's Area, but you will still be able to browse all other areas of our website freely.

Compact Policy Summary

The compact policy which corresponds to this policy is:

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The following table explains the meaning of each field in the compact policy.

The compact policy is sent by the Web server along with the cookies it describes. For more information, see the P3P deployment guide at http://www.w3.org/TR/p3pdeployment.

Policy Evaluation

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 will evaluate this policy's compact policy whenever it is used with a cookie. The actions IE will take depend on what privacy level the user has selected in their browser (Low, Medium, Medium High, or High; the default is Medium. In addition, IE will examine whether the cookie's policy is considered satisfactory or unsatisfactory, whether the cookie is a session cookie or a persistent cookie, and whether the cookie is used in a first-party or third-party context. This section will attempt to evaluate this policy's compact policy against Microsoft's stated behavior for IE6.

Note: this evaluation is currently experimental and should not be considered a substitute for testing with a real Web browser.

Satisfactory policy: this compact policy is considered satisfactory according to the rules defined by Internet Explorer 6. IE6 will accept cookies accompanied by this policy under the High, Medium High, Medium, Low, and Accept All Cookies settings.