Plainly put.

When you join: your name, email, whether you're a student, alumni or attorney, and your school or firm, with your class year (students and alumni) or practice area (attorneys). Students add a photo; others may. Optionally your role, where you're based, undergraduate school, campus organization, bar admission, LinkedIn link, and anything you add to your profile later, such as a headline or a short bio.

When you reserve a seat: the name for your place card, your email, whether you're a student, graduate or attorney, anything you tell us in the note, and whether you checked in. When you sign up for the Weekly Brief: your email, where you signed up and when you confirmed. When you post a job or write to us: what you send, and that you sent it.

We don't ask about your observance, background or family, and we don't collect phone numbers. But being part of a network for Jewish law students can say something about your religion, so we treat membership as sensitive: the Network is open only to approved members, and we never share member lists. If you mention an allergy or accessibility need in an RSVP note, we use it only to plan that event, and we clear notes 30 days after it.

To send the emails you chose, seat you well at events, credit campus partners, and show your listing in the Network: for students, only if and as far as they choose; alumni and attorneys are listed by name so students can find them, and choose anything more.

When you send a message through the site, we email it to the member with your email address as the reply-to, so they can answer you directly. Their address stays private unless they reply. When you ask for an introduction, an organizer reads your request and asks the other person (for a job listing, the person who posted it). We share your name and note with them, and connect you only if they agree.

If you have a full listing and say you're open to mentoring or coffee, your name and headline may appear under “New in the Network” in the Weekly Brief, in copies sent only to approved members. Change either setting and you'll be left out.

Photos are stored privately, not on a public web address. The site shows them only to approved members, through links that expire within 15 minutes, and removes location data from every photo when it's uploaded. We also keep the uncropped photo you uploaded, privately, so you can change the crop later; no one else sees it. Photos of our events, which we choose, are public.

Other approved members see what you chose to show in the Network. People you message or are introduced to see your name and email. Guests at an event see the name on your place card. Anyone can see job listings, which say “A member” unless you chose to show your name to members.

Apart from job applications (below), our organizers see everything we hold, to run events, review new members and photos, and handle reports. Copies of new-member notices and contact messages also reach our organizers' email inbox. Our service providers handle it for us under their own privacy terms: Vercel (hosting), Supabase (database, sign-in and photo storage, in the US), Resend (email) and Cloudflare (bot checks).

Sponsors and employers never receive member lists, emails or attendance, beyond what you send yourself when you apply for a job. We don't sell data, run ads or use ad trackers. We share information only if the law requires it or someone's safety is at risk.

When you apply for a job here, your name, school or firm, note, résumé and any cover letter go to the member who posted the listing, and to no one else. They're attached to the email the poster receives, and also wait on the poster's Applicants page. The site shows our organizers only how many people applied, not who or what they sent. Files are stored privately and open only through links that expire after ten minutes.

Each application keeps its own copy of your files. Our copies are deleted 90 days after the listing closes, or as soon as you withdraw. A résumé you keep on file to reuse stays until you replace or remove it, or delete your account. The copy in the poster's email is in their hands, and withdrawing can't recall it; our Terms require them to use it only for that position and not to keep it longer than they need.

The site uses only the cookies needed to keep you signed in. Your browser also remembers if you closed the Weekly Brief sign-up card, and keeps a half-finished Join form on your device for up to a day so you don't lose it; finishing or pressing “Start over” clears it. No advertising trackers. To see how many people visit and which pages they read, we count visits with Vercel Web Analytics: it sets no cookies, can't follow you from one day to the next or to other sites, and skips account, member-profile and admin pages. Our emails don't track opens or clicks, though some email apps load our typefaces from Google Fonts when they show them.

Like every website, our host sees your IP address when you visit. We keep IP addresses only in scrambled (hashed) form, for a few days, to block abuse, and our sign-in provider records each sign-in. Our forms use Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot check that sees your IP address and basic browser details.

Change your listing and email preferences, or delete your account, from your account at any time. Deletion takes effect at once. It erases your profile, photos, RSVPs, messages, introduction requests, contact messages, Weekly Brief subscription and any job listings still in review, and takes your name out of past Weekly Briefs we store.

A few things can't be pulled back. Job listings already live stay up until they close, credited only to “A member.” Emails already sent, including messages you sent to members, stay in the recipients' inboxes. Copies may remain for a short time in our providers' logs and backups. We'll delete copies in our own inbox if you ask.

Prefer that we do it, or not a member? Write to hello@chabadjd.com. We’ll remove an RSVP, Weekly Brief sign-up, contact message or your whole account within two business days.

Some things are deleted without your asking: a sign-up you never finished, after 7 days; a Weekly Brief sign-up you never confirmed, after 7 days; an account we declined, 30 days after we decided; and RSVP notes, 30 days after the event. If an email to you bounces or is marked as spam, we take that address off the Weekly Brief.

Everything else we keep until you delete your account or ask us to remove it: RSVPs, messages, introduction requests, contact messages and closed job listings. We keep a copy of messages and introduction requests so we can look into reports of misuse, and organizers read them only for that or to pass an introduction along. If you unsubscribe, we keep your address only so we don't email you again.

There are no passwords on this site. You sign in with a one-time code sent to your email, so there's no password for anyone to steal, guess or reuse.

Everything travels encrypted. Your data sits in a database where each member can read only their own record; every change goes through checks on our server first. Repeated attempts to guess codes or flood our forms are blocked.

If a breach ever exposes your information, we'll tell you by email without unreasonable delay, explain what happened and what to do, and notify New York authorities where the law requires.

If you think something is wrong, tell us at hello@chabadjd.com and we’ll look into it right away.

Chabad JD is for adults. You must be 18 or older to join or reserve a seat, and we don't knowingly collect information from anyone younger. If you think we have, tell us and we'll delete it.

The site doesn't take RSVPs or sign-ups, and we don't send email, from candle lighting to havdalah on Shabbat and Yom Tov, New York time.

If we change this policy in a way that matters, we'll email members before it takes effect and update the date below.

Chabad JD is an independent professional network. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by or endorsed by Chabad-Lubavitch, Merkos L'Inyonei Chinuch, Chabad on Campus International or any law school.