What we keep, and how to delete it

Without an account

Your progress (the sections and maamarim you have learned, where you stopped, the days you learned) and your display settings are kept only on your device, in your browser’s storage. We never see them. “Clear my progress on this device” on My learning removes them.

With an account

If you make an account, we keep on our server: your email address, your name, your progress (the same facts as on your device, so every device you sign in on shows the same), your reminder choice (whether you want the weekly email) and your time zone, so that email comes on Sunday morning where you are.

A password is optional: you can sign in with a link and a code we email you instead, each good once and for 30 minutes. A password is never stored, only a scrambled form of it (PBKDF2) that can check it but not reveal it. When you sign in, your browser keeps a sign-in cookie; we keep only a scrambled form of it, and it expires after 90 days or when you sign out.

An account whose email is never confirmed is deleted, with everything in it, after two weeks.

Your hachlata, the letter to the Rebbe, and Learning together

What you take on, on Take it on, is kept like your progress: on your device, and with an account in your account too.

The letter to the Rebbe. Only if you ask, we keep your Hebrew name, “son of” or “daughter of”, and your mother’s name, for the letter the editor brings to the Rebbe’s Ohel once a month. The letter is emailed to the editor alone on Rosh Chodesh; the names are never shown on the site. “Take my name out” forgets them at once.

The letter also gives totals for the month (how many took it on, learned, and finished maamarim), counted from accounts, with no names. Anything you write as a hachlata “in your own words” may be shown to the editor in that email, without your name.

Learning together. Only if you turn it on, the list on Take it on shows your first name and last initial, how many maamarim you learned this year, and whether you learned this week. Turn it off and you are off the list within a few minutes.

Invitations. Your account has its own invitation link. When someone makes an account through it, we keep which account invited them, and show you only how many joined. The link carries your first name, so a friend sees who invited them.

Your reading history

My learning shows a History of your reading: each maamar you read, where you began and where you stopped (the paragraph, the section and the line), the time and roughly how many minutes. It is kept on your device (the last 100 visits). With an account, the newest 50 are also kept with your progress, so History shows your reading from all your devices, marked “Another device” (we keep no device names or types).

Remove one visit with its ×, or all of them with Clear history on My learning; with an account, that removes them from the account and your other devices too. “Clear my progress” and deleting your account remove it as well.

Emails

We email you only to confirm your address, to reset your password when you ask, and, only if you turned it on, the weekly email on Sunday morning (never on Shabbos or Yom Tov). Every weekly email has a one-click unsubscribe link, and you can turn it off in Settings.

Emails are sent through Amazon Simple Email Service. The site runs on Cloudflare. Neither may use your information for anything else.

What we never do

We never sell, rent or share your information, never show ads, and use no analytics or tracking scripts. Our server does not log your IP address, and our logs never hold your email, name or messages.

Delete everything

Sign in, open Settings, and choose Delete my account. Your email, name, progress on our server, reminder choice, name for the letter, place on the list and sign-ins are deleted at once and for good. Your progress stays on your own device until you clear it there.

Questions? Use the suggestion box at the bottom of any page.