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Last updated: September 10, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Living Torah (“Living Torah,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects information about you when you use the Living Torah website at livingtorah.us and related services (the “Service”). By using the Service, you agree to this Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.
The reader — the Torah text, parasha by parasha — is public and can be used without an account. Reading it creates no account data; the preferences you set there (Hebrew display, calendar) are stored only in your own browser. The rest of this Policy mostly concerns the chat, memory, settings, and billing, which require an account.
To generate chat responses, we send the contents of your messages (and relevant context, including your memory note and the passages retrieved for the answer) to third-party AI language-model providers — currently Anthropic (Claude). To search the texts, we send the text of your query to Google (Gemini) to compute an embedding. These providers process your messages on our behalf to return a response. Under these providers’ current terms applicable to their developer APIs, content submitted through the API is not used to train their models; however, we do not control these third parties, and you should review their policies:
Please do not submit sensitive personal information (for example, precise health, financial-account, or government-identifier details) in your messages.
We do not sell your personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We share information only as follows:
We retain your account information, settings, and message history for as long as your account is active and as needed to provide the Service. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify your personal information within a reasonable period, except where we must retain it to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, prevent abuse, or enforce our agreements (for example, payment and tax records). Backup copies may persist for a limited time.
We use a single strictly necessary cookie to maintain your authenticated session. Reader preferences set while signed out live in your browser’s local storage and are never sent to us. We do not use advertising cookies or sell/share data for targeted advertising. Because we do not track you across third-party sites, we do not respond differently to “Do Not Track” signals, but we honor recognized opt-out preference signals (such as Global Privacy Control) where required by law as a request to opt out of sale/sharing — which we do not do in any event.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect your information — including encryption in transit, hashed passwords, and access controls. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, however, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to know what personal information we collect, use, and disclose; to access and obtain a copy of it; to correct inaccurate information; to delete it; and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights. We do not sell your personal information and do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, so there is no “opt-out of sale/sharing” to exercise; we also do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that would trigger the right to limit. To exercise your rights, contact us using Section 11. We will verify your request and may ask for information to confirm your identity. You may use an authorized agent.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process your personal data on the following legal bases: performance of our contract with you (to provide the Service); our legitimate interests (to secure and improve the Service); your consent (where requested); and compliance with legal obligations. You have the rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, and object to processing, and to data portability, and the right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. Where we transfer data to the United States or other countries, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
Residents of other states with comprehensive privacy laws (such as Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, and others) may have similar rights to access, correct, delete, and obtain a copy of their personal data, and to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, or certain profiling. Because we do not sell personal data, share it for targeted advertising, or engage in such profiling, those opt-outs do not apply; you may still exercise your access, correction, and deletion rights via Section 11.
The Service is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.
We are based in the United States and operate the Service there. If you access the Service from outside the United States, you understand that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States and other countries where we or our service providers operate, which may have different data-protection laws than your country.
We may update this Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will update the “Last updated” date and, where appropriate, provide additional notice. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Policy.
Questions or requests regarding your privacy? Contact us at management@schwartztutoring.com.