Privacy Policy (California Residents/CCPA)

Effective Date: June 1, 2026

Last Updated on: May 28, 2026

This California Privacy Policy describes how Mekor Chaim Inc. ("Company," "we," or "us") collect and process personal information about our consumers who reside in California. The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") requires us to provide our California consumers with a privacy policy that contains a comprehensive description of our online and offline practices regarding our collection, use, sale, sharing, and retention of their personal information, along with a description of the rights they have regarding their personal information. This Privacy Policy provides the information the CCPA requires, together with other useful information regarding our collection and use of personal information. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this policy.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to our collection and use of personal information from residents outside of California. Consumers residing in other locations should see our general privacy notice at: https://www.timepiece4torah.org/privacy-policy.

Personal Information Collected

We collect and use information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household ("personal information"). Personal information does not include:

Publicly available information, including from government records, through widely distributed media, or that the consumer made publicly available without restricting it to a specific audience.
Lawfully obtained, truthful information that is a matter of public concern.
Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

Personal Information Categories Chart

The chart below identifies which categories of personal information we collected from our consumers within the last 12 months and the expected retention period.

Category	Examples	Collected	Retention Period
A. Identifiers.	A real name, alias, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Zip code.	YES	Indefinitely
B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) ("California Customer Records").	A name, signature, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.	YES	Indefinitely
C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law ("Protected Classes").	Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, reproductive health decision making, military and veteran status, or genetic information (including familial genetic information).	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
DC. Commercial information.	Records of donations made	YES	Indefinitely
E. Biometric information.	Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
F. Internet or other similar network activity.	Activity on our websites, system usage, electronic communications with us, postings on our social media sites.	YES	24 Hours
G. Geolocation data.	Physical location or movements, such as the time and physical location related to use of our internet website, application, or device, and GPS location data from mobile devices of consumers who visit our websites or use our mobile apps	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
H. Sensory data.	Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information, including customer service call monitoring and store video surveillance	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
I. Professional or employment-related information.	Current or past job history	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)) ("FERPA Information").	Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
K. Inferences drawn from other personal information.	Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L. Sensitive personal information.	Further identified in the chart below.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE

Sensitive Personal Information Categories Chart

Sensitive personal information is a subtype of personal information consisting of the specific information categories listed in the chart below. Importantly, the CCPA only treats this information as sensitive personal information when we collect or use it to infer characteristics about a consumer.

The chart below identifies which sensitive personal information categories, if any, we have collected from consumers to infer characteristics about them in the last 12 months. We have not collected any sensitive personal information.

Sensitive Personal Information Category	Collected to Infer Characteristics?	Retention Period
L.1. Government identifiers, such as your Social Security number (SSN), driver's license, state identification card, or passport number.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.2. Complete account access credentials, such as usernames, account logins, account numbers, or card numbers combined with required access/security code or password.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.3. Precise geolocation, such as physical store visits or physical locations when visiting websites or using mobile apps.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.4. Racial or ethnic origin.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.5. Citizenship or immigration status.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.6. Religious or philosophical beliefs.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.7. Union membership.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.8. Mail, email, or text messages not directed to the Company.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.9. Genetic data.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.10. Neural Data, such as information generated by measuring a consumer's central or peripheral nervous system's activity that is not inferred from nonneural information.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.11. Unique identifying biometric information.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.12. Health information.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE
L.13. Sex life or sexual orientation information.	NO	RETENTION PERIOD: NOT APPLICABLE

Sources of Personal Information

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:

Directly from you, such as from the forms or other information you provide to the Company.
Indirectly from you, such as from your interactions with the Company's websites, mobile applications, social media platforms, and participation in promotions.

How We Use Personal Information

Personal Information Collection, Use, and Disclosure Purposes

We may use and disclose personal information, including sensitive personal information, we collect to advance the Company's business and commercial purposes, specifically to:

Develop, offer, and provide you with our products and services.
Meet our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts with you, including for billing or collections, or to comply with legal requirements.
Fulfil the purposes for which you provided your personal information or that were described to you at collection, and as the CCPA otherwise permits.
Improve our products or services, marketing, or customer relationships and experiences.
Notify you about changes to our products or services.
Administer our systems and conduct internal operations, including for troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical, and survey purposes.
Enable your participation in our websites' or mobile apps' interactive, social media, or other similar features.
Protect our Company, employees, or operations.
Measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
Make suggestions and recommendations to you and other consumers about our goods or services that may interest you or them.
Manage your consumer relationship with us, including for:

online account creation, maintenance, and security;
reaching you, when needed, about your account; and

Perform data analytics and benchmarking, for example, determining the popularity of our promotions.
Administer and maintain the Company's systems and operations, including for safety purposes.
Engage in corporate transactions requiring review of consumer records, such as for evaluating potential Company mergers and acquisitions.
Comply with all applicable laws and regulations.
Exercise or defend the legal rights of the Company and its employees and customers.
Respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law or court order.

Sensitive Personal Information Use and Disclosure Purposes

We do not collect sensitive personal information. Additional Categories or Other Purposes

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. If required by law, we will also seek your consent before using your personal information for a new or unrelated purpose.

We may collect, process, and disclose aggregated or deidentified consumer information for any purpose, without restriction. When we collect, process, or disclose aggregated or deidentified consumer information, we will maintain and use it in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the information, except to determine whether our deidentification processes satisfy any applicable legal requirements.

Disclosing, Selling, or Sharing Personal Information

Business Purpose Disclosures

We may disclose the personal information we collect, to third parties for the business purposes described in the Personal Information Collection, Use, and Disclosure Purposes section and in the table below, such as to engage third parties to support our business functions. As we do not collect sensitive personal information, we do not disclose, sell or share it.

We only make these business purpose disclosures under written contracts that describe the purposes, require the recipient to keep the personal information confidential, prohibit using the disclosed information for any purpose except performing the contract, and meet the CCPA's other contract requirements for engaging service providers or contractors.

The chart below identifies the categories of entities to whom we may in the future disclose our consumers' personal information for a business purpose over the preceding 12 months, along with the personal information categories disclosed and the disclosure's business purposes.

Business Purposes Disclosure Recipient Category, Personal Information Category, and Purposes Chart

Category of Business Purpose Disclosure Recipients	Personal Information Categories Disclosed	Sensitive Personal Information Categories Disclosed	Business Purpose Disclosures
Order Fulfillment and Shipping Providers	A. Identifiers. B. California Customer Records. D. Commercial information.	None	To deliver products you purchased from us or which you won in a promotion.
Customer Service Support Providers	A. Identifiers. B. California Customer Records. D. Commercial Information. F. Internet or other similar network activity. G. Geolocation data.	L.2. Precise geolocation.	To support customers with using our products and services, including troubleshooting.
Advertising networks	A. Identifiers. B. California Customer Records. D. Commercial information. F. Internet or Network Activity. G. Geolocation data.	L.1. Government identifiers. L.3. Precise geolocation.	To deliver location-based advertising.

Selling or Sharing Personal Information

We do not sell your personal information to third parties and have not sold it in the preceding 12 months. We do not share your personal information with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising purposes and have not shared your personal information in the preceding 12 months.

Your Rights and Choices

If you are a California resident, the CCPA grants you the following rights regarding your personal information:

Right to Know and Data Portability Requests

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information (the "right to know"), including the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you (a "data portability request"). Our response will cover the 12-month period preceding the request, although we will honor requests to cover a longer period that do not extend past January 1, 2022, unless doing so would be impossible or involves disproportionate effort. You may make exercise your right to know twice within any 12-month period. Once we receive your request and confirm your identity (see How to Exercise Your Rights), we will disclose to you:

The categories of:

personal information we collected about you; and
sources from which we collected your personal information.

The business or commercial purpose for collecting your personal information and, if applicable, selling or sharing your personal information.
If applicable, the categories of persons, including third parties, to whom we disclosed your personal information, including separate disclosures identifying the categories of your personal information that we:

disclosed for a business purpose to each category of persons; and
sold or shared to each category of third parties.

When your right to know submission includes a data portability request, a copy of your personal information subject to any permitted redactions.

For more on exercising this right, see Exercising the Rights to Know, Delete, or Correct.

Right to Delete and Right to Correct

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions and limitations (the "right to delete"). Once we receive your request and confirm your identity, we will delete your personal information from our systems unless an exception allows us to retain it. We will also notify our service providers contractors, and other recipients to take appropriate action.

You also have the right to request correction of personal information we maintain about you that you believe is inaccurate (the "right to correct"). We may require you to provide documentation, if needed, to confirm your identity and support your claim that the information is inaccurate. Unless an exception applies, we will correct personal information that our review determines is inaccurate and notify our service providers, contractors, and other recipients to take appropriate action.

For more on exercising these rights, see Exercising the Rights to Know, Delete, or Correct.

Personal Information Sales or Sharing Opt-Out and Opt-In Rights

You have the right to request that businesses stop selling or sharing your personal information at any time (the "right to opt-out"), including through a user-enabled opt-out preference signal. Similarly, the CCPA prohibits businesses from selling or sharing the personal information of consumers it actually knows are under 16 years old without first obtaining consent from consumers who are between 13 and 15 years old or the consumer's parent or guardian for consumers under age 13 (the "right to opt-in")

As we do not sell or share consumers' personal data, we do not currently provide these consumer rights..

Right to Non-Discrimination

You have the right not to be discriminated or retaliated against for exercising any of your privacy rights under the CCPA.

How to Exercise Your Rights

Exercising the Rights to Know, Delete, or Correct

To exercise the right to know, data portability, delete, or correct described above, please submit a verifiable request to us by either:

Calling us at [TOLL-FREE NUMBER].
Emailing us at privacy@mekorchaim.com.
An interactive form accessible at www.mekorchaim.com/rights and www.timepiece4torah.org/rights

Please describe your request in sufficient detail so we can properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. You or your authorized agent may only submit a request to know, including data portability, twice within a 12-month period.

Exercising the Right to Limit or Opt-Out

You can submit your request to limit or opt-out through:

An interactive form accessible at www.mekorchaim.com/rights and www.timepiece4torah.org/rights
Emailing privacy@mekorchaim.com
Calling (516) 680-3027;

You may also submit your request to opt-out of personal information sales and sharing through an opt-out preference signal.

Verification Process and Authorized Agents

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request to know, delete, or correct related to your personal information. To designate an authorized agent, you must provide the agent’s name, email address, physical address, and phone number and information about authorization. We may request specific information from you or your authorized representative to confirm your or their identity before we can process your right to know, delete, or correct your personal information.

We cannot respond to your request to know, delete, or correct if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relating to you.

For requests to limit or opt-out, we ask for the information necessary to complete the request, which may include, for example, the consumer's name, email address, or account username.

Responding to Your Requests to Know, Delete, or Correct

We will confirm receipt of your request within ten business days. If you do not receive confirmation within the ten-day timeframe, please email privacy@mekorchaim.com.

We endeavor to substantively respond to a verifiable request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will deliver our written response to your verified email address. Our substantive response will tell you whether we have complied with your request. If we cannot comply with your request in whole or in part, we will explain the reason, subject to any legal or regulatory restrictions. Applicable law may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to some or all the personal information that we hold about you, or we may have destroyed, deleted, or made your personal information anonymous in compliance with our record retention policies and obligations.

Any disclosures we provide will cover information for the 12-month period preceding the request's receipt date. We will consider requests to provide a longer disclosure period that do not extend past January 1st of that year, unless providing the longer timeframe would be impossible or involves disproportionate effort.

For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Response and Timing on Rights to Limit or Opt-Out

In response to your request to limit or opt-out, we will process your request, as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 business days from the date we receive the request. We will only use personal information provided from your request to comply with the request.

If applicable, we will also notify our service providers, contractors, and certain other downstream recipients of your request to limit or opt-out and instruct them to both:

Comply with your request.
Forward the request to their own downstream recipients, if applicable.

We may deny opt-out requests if we have a good-faith, reasonable, and documented belief that the request is fraudulent and will clearly explain our denial decision to the requestor.

How We Protect Your Personal Data

We use commercially reasonable administrative, physical, and technical measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss or destruction and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, no website, mobile application, system, electronic storage, or online service is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to, through, using, or in connection with the Services. In particular, e-mail, texts, and chats sent to or from the Services may not be secure, and you should carefully decide what information you send to us via such communications channels. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. You are responsible for taking steps to protect your personal data against unauthorized use, disclosure, and access.

We reserve the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will update the policy's effective date.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this policy, the ways in which we collect and use your information described here, or your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Phone: (516) 680-3027

Website: www.mekorchaim.com and www.timepiece4torah.org

Email: privacy@mekorchaim.com

Postal Address:

Mekor Chaim Inc.

1483 Broadway

Hewlett, NY 11557

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