Privacy
Updated: 9 November 2026
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Data controller
LinkedYid is published by Moshe Uzan, a private individual based in Jerusalem, Israel. He decides how the data described on this page is used and answers any request about it.
Without an account
No profile is built. Apart from the language cookie, the site itself sets a cookie only for signing in or for an invitation to teach; your settings, your recent searches and the videos you started stay in your browser's storage; to show the titles of these videos, the home page asks our database for them by their identifier, with no account and no date (see “Cookies and storage on your device”). While you type a search, the text is sent to our server to suggest results: it is not written to our logs and stays in our server's memory for one minute at most; our database host keeps a technical record of requests for one day. As for any website, our host processes your IP address while serving pages and protecting the site against abuse.
With an account
We keep your email address, your password in encrypted form, your display name if you set one, your language, your time zone, your progress through the videos and the days you studied. If you register for a live class, we keep that registration until you cancel it or delete your account; the session's teacher sees how many people registered, never who. A registration brings two email reminders, the day before and within the hour before, sent through our email provider; unregistering stops them. If you follow ravs, we keep that list for you alone, to show you their live classes (“My ravs”) and put them first; neither the ravs, nor other members, nor the administration can see it. You can change it at any time; it is in your data export and is deleted with your account. Your filters on the “Live” page stay on your device. Until you choose one yourself, the time zone is read from your device settings, never from your location. Sign-in and password reset emails are sent to your address. If you choose “Continue with Google”, Google sends us your email address, your name and the address of your profile picture, which we keep in your account and never display; we have no access to your Google account. Google then knows you are signing in to LinkedYid, under its own privacy policy. If you report a problem with the site, we keep your text, the attached screenshots and, if you accept, technical diagnostics (open page, language, display, screen size, browser, time zone, time, latest technical errors of the page); only the administration reads them. If you add a profile photo, it is cropped and stripped of its metadata (including where it was taken), then checked automatically before it is saved; signed-in members see it next to your questions and replies, and can report it. When you choose a password, the site checks with the Have I Been Pwned service that it does not appear in a known data breach: only the first 5 characters of a fingerprint (SHA-1 hash) of your password are sent, never the password itself, and the comparison is made on our servers. When you are signed in and a page of the site is open, your account counts as “online”; the site’s administrator sees your public name among the members online. Nothing is kept: your presence ends when you close the page, and a tab left aside for more than five minutes no longer counts. The site’s administrator sees the list of accounts. For each one: the display name, profile photo, email address, role (member or teacher) and teacher page if there is one, the sign-up and address confirmation dates, the date of the last sign-in, the date of the last activity on the site within the last 90 days, the language, the time zone, how the account signs in (email, Google), the date of the 18+ confirmation, the number of posts, comments, questions, replies, study days and live class registrations, and the account’s latest questions and posts. The administrator uses this to run and protect the site; this information is shown to no one else.
Recommendations
Explore and the home feed are ranked in your browser. For everyone, the order takes into account the publication date, public views on YouTube, the languages you read (the site's, your browser's and the “Content languages” line in your settings: what is in those languages comes first, the rest follows), the order of series and a share of chance that changes every day (for the home feed, see also “The home feed”). Without an account, the videos started on this device count too, as do the languages of those you watch there, without leaving your browser. With an account, nothing personal is used for this ranking without your agreement: a card asks you once, and we keep your answer and its date with your account. If you agree, your browser reads, under your session, your progress, your likes, your comments on videos, the ravs you follow and your live class registrations, which we already keep for you, and ranks the videos and posts from them; on the home page, it also remembers on this device the posts already shown and the time spent reading them, without sending them to us; it also remembers on this device the languages of the videos you watch and of the texts you write. No profile of your interests is saved on our servers, the ranking is made again at each visit, and nothing is sent elsewhere. You can change your mind at any time in your settings (“Personalise recommendations”): you then see the order offered to everyone, what the device remembered for this ranking is erased (as when you sign out), and your choice applies on all your devices. Your progress is still saved, so that you can pick up your videos where you left off. To open the site in your language and to order questions and Havrouta listings, our server also reads the languages your browser sends with each page; it does not keep them.
Cookies and storage on your device
The site keeps on your device only what it needs to function and display its pages; nothing is used for advertising or to follow you from site to site. Cookies and storage strictly necessary for the service you request do not require your consent. A language cookie (linkedyid-langue), set when you choose a language, remembers it for a year so the site opens in that language; without it, the site opens in your browser's language. When you are signed in, authentication cookies from Supabase, our sign-in service, keep you signed in; they last up to 400 days, renew when you visit and are deleted when you sign out. When you select “Sign in”, a one-hour cookie (linkedyid-retour) remembers the page to return to; an invitation to teach is kept the same way for one day (linkedyid-invitation). Right after you sign in, a five-minute cookie (linkedyid-reprise) tells the home page whether there are videos to resume. For display, your device also remembers your public name, your photo, your roles on the site, whether there are videos to resume, the number of your notifications and Havruta updates, your answer about personalised recommendations and, if you teach, the address of your channel (linkedyid-compte); all of it is deleted when you sign out. Your browser's storage also keeps your settings (theme, sidebar, live class filters, playback speed), your audience measurement choice, your recent searches and the videos you started, for “Resume studying” and to rank recommendations (see “Recommendations”): the list of these videos stays on your device, but to show their titles the home page asks our database for them by their identifier, with no account and no date; the rest is not sent to us. While the tab is open, your browser also keeps what you are writing in a question, a report or an application to teach. The browser's cache also keeps the “Offline” page and the site's logo, so it can show without a network. You can delete all of this in your browser's settings. Once started, a service's player may set its own cookies (see “Videos and recordings”). What Havruta keeps on your device is described below. You can choose whether to allow audience measurement (see “Audience measurement”).
The home feed
The order of the home feed is decided in your browser. For everyone, it takes into account the date, your languages (see “Recommendations”), public YouTube views and the numbers of likes and comments already shown on each post. Without an account, your browser remembers on this device the posts already shown, to show first what you have not seen; this list never leaves the device, and reading time is not measured. With “Not interested”, “Already watched”, “Fewer like this” or “Fewer from this rav”, you choose what you see less of; “Undo”, on the folded card, takes the choice back. Without an account, these choices stay on the device. With an account, we keep them with your account so they apply on all your devices: only you see them, they are included in your data export, and each stays recorded until you delete your account. “Fewer from this rav” is also cleared when you follow that rav, and lowers their content for 30 days only.
Supporting a rav
If you teach and add a donation link, we keep the address of your donation page, the date and version of the terms you accepted, and the administration's verification. Once verified, the link is public on your channel and under your lessons; it is part of your data export and disappears when you remove it or delete your account. When you support a rav, you pay on his payment provider's page, which receives it under its own rules; LinkedYid records neither the click nor the gift.
Dedicating a lesson
To dedicate a lesson, you give the dedication (its wording and names: a first name, ben or bat and a parent's first name, or a free text), a signature if you wish, and an email address. We also keep the page's language, your time zone, your account if you are signed in, and the date you ticked the 18-or-older box and accepted this processing. A dedication can reveal a religious belief, through its names as through its intention (in memory, recovery), and a recovery can reveal a person's health: this data is processed with your explicit consent. For a living person, you choose to show their first name or to have the line say “a loved one”. A child's first name shows only if you attest that you are the child's father or mother. A free text and a signature are reviewed by the administration before anything shows. The line appears under the lesson only during the chosen period (24 hours, or a Hebrew day), and search engines do not quote it in their snippets. The lesson's rabbi sees its text, dates and signature, never your email or the price; only the administration sees the order. The rabbi is notified of each confirmed dedication on his lessons, in the site's notifications: he sees there the line as it shows under the lesson, and its day. This notification is erased with the names, or when the dedication is cancelled or refunded, and after 90 days at most. On his phone, if he turned notifications on, it only says that a video received a dedication, without any name. You pay on PayPal's page, which processes the payment on its own account and passes the publisher, as for a donation, the name and email of your PayPal account, the amount and the date; the site keeps only the PayPal order number and its status, never your payment details. A refund also goes through PayPal, and we keep its date. The confirmation email holds two private links: yours, to manage the dedication, and the card's, which you can give to the family, and from which the person named or their family can withdraw it. The site signs these links and keeps only a fingerprint of them; whoever holds them can use them. Names are erased at most two hours after an order left unpaid, at most 30 days after the end of an order cancelled, refused or withdrawn, 30 days after that period for a living person or a free text, and at once if you delete your account: an upcoming dedication is then cancelled and refunded, and one on display is withdrawn. A deceased person's name stays on their card until you delete it from your link. When a rabbi dedicates his own lesson, the names are erased 30 days after that period. The order itself (email, amount, date, PayPal number, consent and timestamped log) is kept for the period tax law requires, also after the account is deleted. To limit the number of orders, a fingerprint of your network, never your IP address, is kept for a day at most.
If you donate
The site records nothing about your donations: you pay on PayPal's page. PayPal passes the publisher the name and email address of your PayPal account, the amount and the date, and your postal address if your PayPal settings share it. The publisher keeps them to issue the receipt and keep the accounts, for as long as tax law requires. A donation unlocks nothing more on the site.
Applying to teach
Your proposal, references, commitment, the administration's replies and the messages you exchange with the team remain private: only you and the administration read them. A new message shows in the bell, without its text. Your teacher display name and teaching language are saved after approval. Application data is kept until account deletion and included in your data export. When the LinkedYid team or a teacher invites someone to teach, we keep the suggested name, title, teaching language and a note for the time of the invitation. An invitation left unanswered is erased thirty days after it ends. The link is personal and works once. We send no message: the person who invites sends it themselves. An accepted invitation stays with the account as the record of admission, and appears in the data export. To invite teachers, the team looks at public YouTube channels of Torah classes. We keep the public information of these channels (name, description, subscriber and video counts, date of the last video) for at most thirty days. A dismissed channel keeps only its YouTube ID, so that it is not suggested again. No one is signed up or published without their consent. Members' suggestions ("Do you know a rabbi?") are read by the team only. To have a channel removed from this list, write to us. If the administration withdraws one of your videos, live classes or series, then lifts that withdrawal, we keep who did it, when and why; the reason reaches you in the bell. Only the administration reads this record; it is included in your data export, without the name of who withdrew it, and deleted with your account.
Sensitive data
Studying on LinkedYid may reveal an interest in Judaism, or even a religious belief. We process this information only to provide the service, share it with no one, and never use it for advertising. It ranks what is recommended to you only if you agree: this ranking happens in your browser, no profile of your interests is saved on our servers, and you can withdraw your agreement in your settings (see “Recommendations”).
Your posts and comments
You choose who reads each post. “Public” (the default, accepted when you create your account): anyone can read it, including through search engines, with your public name and its comments. “Members”: only signed-in members read it, and it is never indexed. You can change this choice or delete a post at any time: it then leaves the public pages, and search engines remove it on their next visit. A public name that is not your real name is accepted. An attached photo has the same visibility as its post; it is checked automatically, stored without any metadata (no location, device or date), and erased with the post or with your account. You confirm that it shows no children and that everyone visible has agreed to appear in it. The language of each text (post, comment, question, reply) is recognised from the text itself, without any outside service, and stored with it: it helps screen readers and search engines, and is used to show the text first to people who read that language.
Havruta
To show you the listings meant for you, we ask you once whether you are a man or a woman. Tied to religious practice, this answer is sensitive data: it only separates men's and women's listings, no other member reads it, and only the administration can correct it, at your request; your listings are then paused, pending requests that no longer fit are cancelled, and started havrutot that no longer fit end. On the map, your device can read your live location, to place your blue dot and measure distances: at once if your browser already allows it, otherwise when you tap "My location" (your browser asks you first). That location is not kept anywhere and leaves your device in two cases only: when you make it the place of a listing, and, rounded to about a kilometre, when you type a listing's address (see the place search below). To show listings, our server only receives the area the map shows, widened and rounded. Until your location is known, the map opens on the approximate area our host infers from your connection's IP address, or else on the city of your time zone; this area is neither kept nor shown to anyone else. Your location stops being read when you leave the map or when the page moves to the background. Once your browser has given your location, the device remembers only that you allowed access to it, never the location itself, so that reading resumes automatically the next time you open the map; this note is erased if you later deny that access, and when you sign out. The device remembers when you last opened the map, to mark listings posted since; this is erased when you sign out. It also remembers your recent searches on the map, for your account only and also erased when you sign out, and, while the tab is open, the state of your lists (folded listings, your place in Messages, the way back to the map). When a request is accepted, a short animation plays; the device notes each request for which the animation has already played, so it does not play again, and this note is erased when you sign out. For an in-person listing, you choose its place: your current location, an address you type, a point you tap on the map, or a public place verified by the administration (synagogue, beit midrash, library). Outside a public place, that point is stored as you give it, with the listing: signed-in members on your side see the listing on the map to within about 5 metres of that point (you see it at its exact point), with your public name and an approximate distance ("Less than 1 km away") and, if you can travel, a circle with the radius you chose (2, 5, 10 or 20 km); from further out, they see how many listings an area holds, placed at the centre of those listings. The map draws no buildings, and street numbers appear on it only for a member you have already met (an accepted session between the two of you that has already taken place, with no block either way). A listing at a verified public place appears at that place's exact location, with the place's name and address. The point need not be your address: choose a spot you are comfortable showing. The point is erased when the listing becomes online only or moves to a public place, when you delete the listing, and at the latest a quarter of an hour after it expires. The map's background comes from OpenFreeMap, which receives your IP address and the area you are looking at. When you look for a place, the text you type and a point rounded to about a kilometre go through our server, which asks Photon (the place search run by komoot, a German company): the map's centre when you search from the map; your current location when you type a listing's address, or the map's centre if your location is not known. Photon receives that text, that rounded point, the page's language and a zoom level, never your IP address or your account. Our server keeps the search and its answer in memory for about ten minutes, without writing them to any log. A place you look up only moves your map, unless you make it the place of a listing. Your listings (subject and subtitle, your note, level, what you have already studied, language, places, the moments of your week and how often, the intended length of study, the price of a lesson for each session length) are seen for 30 days by signed-in members on your side. An online listing also shows your time zone and the time there (for example "Jerusalem time"), nothing more precise. A request keeps the time slot, the length of study you suggest, your note and the answer. Either of you can pause or end a havruta once it has started, and a block ends it: the database keeps the dates of its pauses and of its end, and who made them, read only by the two of you. From the moment a request is sent, you and the other member can write to each other, while it is pending before its time slot, or once it has been accepted. You can also write to the author of a listing without proposing a time: the database then keeps a first contact (the listing, its subject, both accounts and its date), which keeps the conversation open while you write to each other, until 30 days after the last message, or until either of you closes it (requests still pending between you are then closed too). For 90 days you can no longer write to someone who refused your request or closed the conversation, nor send them a new request. None of this applies between two members who already study together (an accepted session links them): their requests stay, and they can keep writing to each other. Your messages are read only by the two of you; the administration does not read them, and nothing more can be read or written if either of you blocks the other. For the "read" ticks, the database keeps the time up to which each of you has read the conversation, and the other can see it. A new message shows in the bell with its sender's name, without its text; a device notification shows neither. The contact details you choose to share (email, phone, WhatsApp, video call link, an address to host), usually when accepting a request or afterwards, are seen by the other member only once the request is accepted, and no longer at all if either of you blocks the other; the administration does not read them. You can change or remove them. A lesson between a teacher and a student of a different gender takes place online or at a verified public place. A request, an answer and a reminder one hour before the session reach the bell, and by email within a few emails a day. A report is read by the administration; a block is not shown to the blocked member. Shared contact details are erased 90 days after the havruta ends (its last session, or when it is ended; never while it continues) or 30 days after a refusal or a cancellation, appointments one year after that end, refused or cancelled requests after 90 days, messages one year after they are sent, or sooner once neither a request nor a first contact links you any more, a first contact 90 days after it ends (closed, or 30 days without a message), listings 90 days after they expire, handled reports after one year. “Notify me” saves a search: havrouta, lessons or both, the text or field searched, and either “online” or a place you chose in the place search, kept by its centre rounded to about one kilometre and by the name of that centre's district or city, which our server asks Photon for (for example “Golders Green, London”), with the radius you chose; never what you typed, nor your device's location. When a new listing on your side matches it, our database tells you in the bell, and on your devices if you turned them on, without naming its author; the author does not know you follow the search. Your alerts are seen by you only, never by the administration; you can pause or delete them at any time, and they are erased one year after they are created. Three days before one of your listings ends, the bell offers to renew it; the database notes that it did so for that end date, and the note goes with the listing. All of it appears in your data export and disappears with your account.
Videos and recordings
YouTube videos are served from youtube-nocookie.com, which sets no advertising cookie. A teacher may also publish a recording hosted elsewhere: Google Drive, Vimeo (loaded without visit tracking), SoundCloud, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Internet Archive, Dropbox, or the site that serves the file. Your browser contacts none of these services before you click “Play” or “Listen”: their images go through the site. Once playback starts, the service receives your IP address and applies its own privacy policy, as for any listening on its site. With an account, your playback position is saved for YouTube and the files your browser plays; for the other services' players, only the opening of the video is noted. LinkedYid uses YouTube API Services: to show videos, channels and playlists, and to check that a channel belongs to the teacher importing it. The Google Privacy Policy applies. LinkedYid does not access any Google or YouTube account.
Audience measurement
Traffic is measured only if you accept, and declining takes the same action as accepting. Measurement uses no cookies, no identifiers and no profiling. No data is sold or shared for advertising. Google Analytics is not used. If you accept, your visit also counts, without a name or an identifier, in the number of visitors on the site right now.
Why we may process this data
Your account data is used to provide the service you asked for. The host's technical logs serve our legitimate interest in keeping the site secure. Audience measurement, loading a video and ranking recommendations from your activity rely on your consent, which you can withdraw at any time. Donation and dedication order details are kept to meet our accounting obligations. The limits that protect sign-in against repeated attempts, including for visitors without an account, rest on the same legitimate interest in keeping the site secure.
Who processes data for us
Supabase (database and accounts, hosted in Frankfurt, European Union). Vercel (site hosting and audience measurement, United States). Resend (email delivery, Ireland). Cloudflare (domain name and forwarding of messages sent to the contact address). Google (YouTube videos after your click, and the Gmail mailbox receiving contact messages). OpenAI (United States: automatic check of a photo, for your profile or a post, when you add it, the photo being neither kept nor used to train its models; and, when a teacher announces a live class in one sentence, reading of that sentence alone to fill in the form, without it being used to train its models; OpenAI keeps it for 30 days at most, for abuse monitoring). None of them may use your data for their own purposes. PayPal (PayPal Israel Payment Services Ltd., Israel) is different: if you donate or dedicate a lesson, you pay on its page and it processes the payment on its own account, under its own privacy statement; we never receive your card number or bank details. Services hosting a recording (see “Videos and recordings”) receive nothing before you click; afterwards they process your listening on their own account, under their own policy.
Transfers outside the European Union
The data controller is based in Israel, a country recognised by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection. Data processed in the United States is handled by providers that participate in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework or are bound by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses.
Children
Accounts are for people aged 18 or older: every account holder confirms it, at sign-up or at first sign-in, and the date of that confirmation is kept with the account. A child never has an account on this site. A child exists only as a record attached to their parent's account, which the parent can delete at any time, with complete deletion. No child email address or phone number is stored, and no private channel between an adult and a child exists in the product.
Your rights
You may access your data, correct it, have it erased, restrict its use, object to its processing and receive it in a readable format. From your account you can already export all your data and permanently delete your account: deletion is immediate and irreversible. For any other request, write to us; we answer within one month.
Retention
Your account data is kept as long as your account exists and disappears with it. Messages sent to the contact address are kept as long as needed to answer. Technical logs are kept briefly by our providers, for security. The screenshots and diagnostics of a problem report are deleted when the problem is fixed, and the whole report 90 days after it was sent at the latest. Your profile photo is kept until you change or remove it, or delete your account. For these limits, the site keeps a fingerprint of the IP address and email address used to sign in, create an account or receive a link, never the address itself; it is erased once a day has passed, at the next request. To limit how many sentences are read when a live class is announced, a fingerprint of the teacher's account is kept the same way, for a day at most.
Complaints
If you believe your rights are not respected, you may contact the data protection authority of your country (in France, the CNIL) or, in Israel, the Privacy Protection Authority. Please write to us first: most questions are easily resolved.
Any question about your data: contact@linkedyid.com