What the forms collect
- The newsletter signup: your email address.
- The contact form: your first and last name, your email address and your question.
- The application: your name and Hebrew name, date of birth, email, cell phone number and where you live at the moment, your ethnicity (you can choose “Prefer not to say”), whether you are a Baal Teshuvah, your yeshiva and how many years you were there, your secular education and professional background, your top priorities and your story, how likely you are to join the morning seder, your references, how you heard about us and when you would like to join.
- The giving form, on the Donate page and in the Donate popup: your name, email address, the amount, whether it is once or monthly, and your payment details. It also notes the page you gave from and, if you chose a sponsorship, the sponsorship and any dedication you write for it.
Where it goes
Our office. A signup, a message and an application each come to the Chaburah’s office as an email. Resend, an email delivery service, carries them there. Applications are read by our team.
A summary by AI. Before an application is emailed, Claude, an AI service made by Anthropic, reads the answers and writes a short summary for the top of the email. It may also search the web for public information about the applicant: work, a professional profile such as LinkedIn, a business, published writing and anything else in the public record, including anything adverse. It matches what it finds against what the applicant wrote (the city, yeshiva, age and email address). The summary is there to help our team read the application, and it decides nothing.
The newsletter list. The signup, the contact form and the application each add your email address to the newsletter list in Klaviyo, the service that sends it, along with which form you used and, if Klaviyo has no name for you yet, the name you gave. Every newsletter email has a link to unsubscribe. If you unsubscribed before, a question or an application leaves you off the list, and signing up again usually puts you back on.
Gifts. Donately runs the giving form, and Stripe or PayPal processes the payment. Your card or bank details go to them and never reach this website’s own server. The Chaburah’s Stripe account is connected to Klaviyo, so a payment through Stripe, with the payer’s name and email, can also reach Klaviyo, which sends a receipt email.
The site itself. Vercel hosts this website and, like any web host, receives your IP address and browser details with each page you open. The films, and the shiur recordings added since November 2026, play from files.vainer.ai, storage run by Vainer Marketing, which builds and looks after this site. The earlier shiur recordings stream from shiurim.chaburah.org, the shiurim server, which reads them from Google Drive. Each of the two receives the same details once you press play, and nothing loads from either before that.
Analytics. On chaburah.org, Google Analytics records the pages you visit, the kind of device you use and your approximate location, so we can see how the site is used. After a gift it also records the amount. It never receives your name or your email address.
Cookies, and what stays on your device
This site runs no advertising trackers. On chaburah.org, Google Analytics sets cookies of its own, so it can tell a returning visitor from a new one, and the site sets no other cookies of its own. On the Donate page and in the Donate popup, the giving form loads Donately, Stripe and PayPal, which may set cookies of their own.
Two more things are kept in your own browser. On the shiurim page, it remembers which shiurim you played, how far you got and your playback speed, so you can pick up where you left off, and none of that leaves your device. After a gift, the tab keeps your first name, email address, the amount, whether it is monthly and, for a sponsorship, what it sponsors and the dedication, so the next page can thank you by name and show them. Of these, only the amount is passed on, to Google Analytics as above. The tab forgets them when it is closed.
Keeping it safe
The whole site runs over an encrypted connection (HTTPS), and the forms have checks that keep out automated spam. What you send through a form arrives as an email, so please leave out anything you would not put in an email.
Questions
To ask about what you have sent us, or anything on this page, write to the office.
Chaburah is the DBA of Bais Heshy, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, 5218 17th Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11204.
Last updated November 11, 2026.