Privacy Policy
Your information privacy is extremely important to us. We have prepared this Privacy Policy to explain how we collect, use, protect, and disclose information and data when you visit the Self-Realization Fellowship Hollywood Temple ("Hollywood Temple," "we," "our," or "us") website at hollywoodtemple.org (the "Site"), and use any services offered by Hollywood Temple (collectively, the "Services"). This Privacy Policy also explains your choices for managing your information preferences, including opting out of certain uses of your Personal Information.
"You" as used in this Privacy Policy includes your child if your child has contact with Hollywood Temple such as by registering for and participating in youth programs offered by Hollywood Temple.
By using the Site or Services, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy. Please read it carefully.
1. Managing Your Information Preferences
You can review, correct, update, delete, or change your Personal Information by emailing us at info@hollywoodtemple.org. You can also opt out of receiving certain emails and other communications from us by using the "unsubscribe" link in the emails, or by emailing us at info@hollywoodtemple.org. You are able to opt out of receiving our eNewsletter and most emails from us; however, you may not be able to opt out of receiving all emails from us, such as emails about the status of your registration. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please email us at info@hollywoodtemple.org.
2. Information We Collect
Personal Information
We collect information that personally identifies you, such as your name, address, phone number, email address, and other personally identifiable information that you choose to provide us with or that you choose to include when submitting forms on our Site ("Personal Information"). You may be asked to provide Personal Information when you register for activities, submit a contact inquiry, or apply to volunteer with us.
Correspondence and Communications
If you correspond with Hollywood Temple via email, the postal service, or other forms of communication, we may retain such correspondence and the information contained therein and use it to respond to your inquiry and to improve our Site and Services. If you do not wish to receive further communications from us, you may express your preference by emailing us at info@hollywoodtemple.org.
We may use a third-party email provider to send emails including to our email distribution and subscription lists. This provider may use cookies and tracking technology in our emails to understand how you interact with them.
Volunteering
When you apply to volunteer with Hollywood Temple, you may provide information about your background, history of volunteering, interests, and other information relevant to serving as a volunteer.
Usage Data and Cookies
We and our third-party partners may collect information about your device and your use of our Site through cookies and other tracking technologies. This may include your browser type, operating system, IP address, pages you view, links you click, and approximate city-level location. We use this information for analytics and to monitor and improve the Site.
We use cookies (small text files placed on your device) to collect this information. Most browsers accept cookies by default. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, though certain features of the Site may not function correctly if you do. We may use Google Analytics to analyze how users use our Site. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the Personal Information we collect for the following purposes:
- To provide you with the Site and Services and send you relevant communications about your registration or inquiry
- To maintain, support, and improve our Site and Services
- To deliver our eNewsletter and other updates about Hollywood Temple programs and resources
- To determine your suitability to volunteer with us and to manage your volunteer activities
- To answer your questions and communicate with you about Hollywood Temple
We share Personal Information with our monastics, employees, and volunteer staff in order to provide you with services and to accomplish our operational and religious purposes. If you volunteer with Hollywood Temple, we may share your contact information with other volunteers for organizational and administrative purposes.
We will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing or commercial purposes without your consent.
Please note that our Site contains a link to the main SRF website for donation processing. Any information you provide on that external site is governed by SRF's own Privacy Policy, not this one.
4. Service Providers
We share Personal Information with authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf, such as hosting and maintaining our Site or managing email communications. We provide Service Providers only with the information necessary for them to perform these services. Each Service Provider must agree to use reasonable security practices to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, and is prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
5. Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement
We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with the law. We may disclose Personal Information about you to such parties if we believe it is necessary to respond to legal requests, protect the safety or rights of Hollywood Temple or any third party, prevent illegal or unethical activity, or comply with the law.
6. Security
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us. Although no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, we strive to protect your personal data so that it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. We cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit on or through the Site, and accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure or misuse.