Last updated: November 23, 2023
Cats with Pens (“Cats with Pens”) operates ThinkingTorah.com and may operate other websites. It is Cats with Pens’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Cats with Pens collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Cats with Pens’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Cats with Pens’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Cats with Pens may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Cats with Pens also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on CatsWithPens.com blogs/sites. Cats with Pens only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Cats with Pens’ websites choose to interact with Cats with Pens in ways that require Cats with Pens to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Cats with Pens gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at CatsWithPens.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Cats with Pens are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Cats with Pens collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Cats with Pens. Cats with Pens does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Cats with Pens may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Cats with Pens may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Cats with Pens does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Cats with Pens discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Cats with Pens’ behalf or to provide services available at Cats with Pens’ websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Cats with Pens’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Cats with Pens will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Cats with Pens discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Cats with Pens believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Cats with Pens, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Cats with Pens website and have supplied your email address, Cats with Pens may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Cats with Pens and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Cats with Pens takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cats with Pens uses cookies to help Cats with Pens identify and track visitors, their usage of Cats with Pens website, and their website access preferences. Cats with Pens visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Cats with Pens’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Cats with Pens’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Cats with Pens, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Cats with Pens goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Cats with Pens may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Cats with Pens and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
As of the date of this update, there are no third party ads on Thinking Torah.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cats with Pens may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Cats with Pens’ sole discretion. Cats with Pens encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a CatsWithPens.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.