CLEAR AND HUMAN
Privacy Notice
This notice explains what information Maagal collects, why we use it, who may receive it, and the choices available to you. Maagal is operated by Aaron Gawronsky, an individual in Israel (“Maagal,” “I,” “me,” or “we”). For privacy questions or requests, email maagalivritevents@gmail.com.
In short: Your learning information and personal goals are for your account and learning service. We do not publish them by default. A named instructor or administrator may access information for support when that access is enabled and described in the feature. Sharing a deck, progress card, map location, or class recording has separate controls or notice. We do not sell learner personal information or give it to anyone for advertising.
1. Who can use Maagal
Maagal currently accepts adults only. To create an account you must be at least 18 and at least the age of legal adulthood where you live, if that age is higher. We do not currently offer a parental-consent pathway or accounts for minors. The signup age check is a self-attestation; we do not currently verify age documents. If you believe a person under this age has an account, contact us and we will review it and take appropriate steps, including closing the account.
2. Information we collect
- Account and profile: first name, optional last name and city, email, password credential handled by our authentication provider, timezone, language and Hebrew level, optional introduction, avatar, and account preferences. You may provide more profile details than are required.
- Learning and planning: onboarding answers about motivation, connection, goals, obstacles and experience; card reviews and scheduling data; study activity and counts; personal pronunciation recordings you choose to make and save; and your personal learning purpose, target horizon and study availability. The current stored long-term goal is readable by the learner account under the inspected database policy. The planned expanded goal system may include 18-month, 36-month or Flexible plans; life-outcome statements, personal reasons, preferred study days and time windows, private if/then plans, separate recommended and learner-selected commitments, progress summaries, and self-reported “I can” capabilities. A personal reason may reveal sensitive facts about family, religion, identity, work or life circumstances. In that expanded system, named instructors and administrators may read goal information for support after matching access controls are enabled. Learners will receive an in-product notice before that access expands. Goals are not public unless a separate sharing choice is later offered and selected.
- Classes and community: Circle/workshop registrations, attendance status and corrections, and the information needed to organize a class. If you turn on the community globe, Maagal stores the city/country and location coordinates used to place your approximate location; signed-in members may see a rounded community-map point. Your exact stored coordinates are not the displayed point. A profile, deck or progress item may be visible to others only according to the sharing choice you make for that feature.
- Recordings and submissions: Maagal may store audio you record for your own pronunciation practice in private account storage. Feedback you submit may include text, screenshots, short screen recordings, optional microphone/tab audio, and (for administrator-only reports) a video. Only authorized administrators can review private feedback submissions.
- Communications and choices: account confirmation, password-reset, booking and service emails; your separate choices for optional updates and reminders; and records that you accepted a version of the Terms, acknowledged this Notice, and confirmed adult eligibility when signing up. Required service emails are not marketing consent.
- Device and service data: the browser may store an authentication session, theme and layout preferences, timezone, and temporary activity or booking state. The site’s hosting, authentication, database and security providers may process technical data such as IP address, device/browser details, request time and diagnostic or security logs. The exact provider log contents and deletion schedule depend on their systems and settings.
3. How we use information
We use information to create and secure accounts; provide Hebrew cards, reviews, tools, recordings and progress views; plan and manage Circles; remember your preferences; send necessary account and service messages; respond to support requests; maintain and protect the service; investigate abuse; and meet legal obligations. Maagal administrators can access information needed to administer accounts, respond to support and safety issues, and operate the service. Instructors can access the roster, bookings and attendance information for sessions they lead. Administrators can review onboarding and feedback submissions. The current long-term goal record is learner-readable; the upcoming goal support system may give designated instructors and administrators access to the specified goal information, after notice and matching access controls are in place. We use personal learning information only for service operation and support, not to make a verified proficiency judgment from time studied, review counts, Circle attendance or a self-reported “I can” milestone. These measures remain distinct: time studied does not establish proficiency, attendance does not establish participation quality, and a self-report is not a verified assessment.
Some optional sharing features let you choose to publish a deck, an aggregate progress snapshot or an approximate community location. These choices are separate from accepting the Terms and acknowledging this Notice. A person with an unlisted link may be able to see the item. Other people or services may save a copy before you revoke a link or change visibility.
4. AI and language tools
Some current AI-assisted Hebrew features send the text you enter to Maagal’s server-side function and then to Anthropic to generate a response. Do not put private reasons, health details, or other sensitive information into an AI prompt. AI output may be wrong, incomplete or inappropriate; review it before relying on it. Maagal does not grant itself permission through this Notice to train models on private goals, class recordings or personal pronunciation recordings.
A planned goal-drafting tool is intended to run an open-source model in your browser, with an editable deterministic fallback. That feature is not covered as an existing data flow here: model assets may be downloaded from an external host, and we will verify the actual network behavior and update this Notice before enabling it. Do not assume that all Maagal AI runs locally or that no information ever leaves your browser.
5. When information is shared
- Service providers: Netlify hosts the website; Supabase provides authentication, database, private file storage and server functions; Amazon SES sends service email; Anthropic processes prompts for certain AI features; and a geocoding provider processes a place query when you use the community-location feature. The production geocoder is intended to use geocode.maps.co, with an OpenStreetMap Nominatim-compatible fallback in code; the configured production endpoint must be checked before publication.
- Class platforms: Circles use a meeting service selected by the organizer (meeting links can be hosted by Zoom or another provider). That provider may process account, device and meeting information under its own terms.
- Learning links: if you select “Hear an example” on a card, Maagal opens Youglish with the Hebrew word or words you selected in the link. Youglish then receives the request under its own terms and privacy practices. Dictionary and social links similarly take you to the service you choose.
- People you choose: Other members can see information you deliberately make public or share with a link, including public/unlisted learning packs, a progress snapshot or your approximate map point. Maagal does not publish private goals by default.
- Legal and safety reasons: We may disclose information if reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect a person’s safety, prevent fraud or abuse, or protect Maagal and its users.
- Service transfer: if Maagal or substantially all of its service assets are transferred, information may be transferred with them subject to applicable law and this Notice. We will give notice where the law requires it.
These providers may process information in countries other than the one where you live, including Israel, the United States or other countries where they or their infrastructure operate. We do not yet publish a verified region-by-region map of storage, support access, logs, backups and transfers. We will complete that provider review before treating this Notice as final.
6. Recording in Circles
Circles are not normally recorded. A host may record a particular session; any such recording may be kept for up to one year and can be viewed only by instructors and administrators. A host must give clear notice before recording begins. If you do not want to be recorded, do not join that recorded session and contact us about another option. Meeting-platform providers may also process the live session under their own terms. Do not record, photograph or distribute another participant’s image, voice or contributions without permission and any consent required by law.
7. How long we keep information
There is not one fixed deletion period for every category. We keep account and learning records while needed to provide the service and administer the account. You can delete individual pronunciation recordings using the controls provided; an aggregate speaking-activity total may remain after an individual take is removed. Closed feedback reports are scheduled for deletion 21 days after closure. Circle recordings are kept for no more than one year. Booking, attendance and correction history, email-consent records, security records and legal records may need different periods. A minimal policy-acceptance record may remain after account closure with its direct account link removed.
We have not verified every vendor’s backup and log retention schedule. Copies in provider backups or disaster-recovery systems may remain until those systems overwrite them. We will not promise immediate removal from every backup. We are establishing a documented retention schedule and account-closure checklist; until that work is complete, contact us if you need a specific deletion request reviewed.
8. Your choices and privacy rights
You can update profile details, control optional marketing/update and reminder preferences, choose community-map participation, manage deck visibility, stop progress links, and delete saved recordings using available account controls. You may ask us to access, correct, delete, restrict or provide your personal information, or object to or withdraw consent where applicable. You may also complain to the privacy regulator in your place of residence. Rights and exceptions vary by law; we will assess a request under the laws that apply to you.
To make a request, email maagalivritevents@gmail.com from your account email where possible. We may ask for information needed to verify that you control the account. We will respond within applicable legal time limits. Some information may need to be retained or restricted for legal claims, security, fraud prevention or legal obligations.
9. Security and international service
We use account permissions, private storage and other safeguards intended to protect information, but no website or transmission method can be guaranteed completely secure. Tell us promptly if you suspect unauthorized account access. Maagal is operated from Israel and can be used internationally; information may be processed across borders as described above.
10. Changes and contact
We may update this Notice when our practices or legal obligations change. We will update the version date on this page and give notice of material changes through the site or by email when appropriate. The signup record notes the Notice version acknowledged. For privacy requests and questions, contact Aaron Gawronsky at maagalivritevents@gmail.com.