Welcome to the TRS Digital Archives! Please do not share this Portal with anyone outside of the congregation, nor on social media (don't use the social sharing icons). TRS is a sacred community and this Portal contains information about congregants we want to keep private to our community. This Portal is not searchable by Google or other search engines, searching can only be conducted within the Portal's search bar. Please recognize this is a work in progress and will constantly be improved and updated (with your help!). The TRS Archives team welcomes your comments, suggestions and input. If you would like to contribute information about an archive item, please use the Sharing>Email icon from that item's Portal page and send the email to archives@templerodefshalom.org with information you know about that item, such as names, dates, event names, or other pertinent information so that we can add that info to the description or metadata. If you would like to contribute an Archive Item (photo, video, audio, document), please email archives@templerodefshalom.org with details about your item so we can determine appropriate action. 

Welcome to the TRS Digital Archives! Please recognize this is a work in progress and will constantly be improved and updated (with your help!). The TRS Archives team welcomes your comments, suggestions and input.

- If you would like to contribute information about an archive item, please use the Sharing>Email icon from that item's Portal page and send the email to archives@templerodefshalom.org with information you know about that item, such as names, dates, event names, or other pertinent information so that we can add that info to the description or metadata.
- If you would like to contribute a new Archive Item (photo, video, audio, document), please email archives@templerodefshalom.org with details about your item so we can determine appropriate action.

As our Archives contain details about our sacred community - our congregants past and present, **we ask that you not share this Portal or the contents within with anyone outside the congregation. Please do not use the sharing links nor share the URL of these pages**. The Archives are intended for individual sharing of our rich history within our community, and with specially invited academics, researchers, students and others interested in the history of Reform Judaism in the U.S.

This website is not searchable by Google or other search engines, searching can only be conducted within the Portal's search bar.

Temple Rodef Shalom is a Reform Judaism community serving Northern Virginia. We are a community built on the idea that the divine spark lives in each of us. The coming together of those sparks results in a collective that is aglow with talents, skills, and aptitudes that benefit us all.

Temple Rodef Shalom believes diversity makes us stronger…each and every person has a special gift to contribute…and each and every one of us can share a lesson in living our lives with meaning.

Temple Rodef Shalom has a rich history dating back to 1962, when our congregation was founded by 37 families who agreed to constitute a new Reform congregation. Most of the signers had been members of Temple Beth El in Alexandria; others were unaffiliated families looking for a congregation in or near Falls Church. More families joined throughout the summer. These, and the many families that joined before the Temple had its own building, will become known eventually as the Pioneers. The archival photos and documents that are stored here span as far back as the time of the Pioneers and are also as  recent as this year.

Other online TRS Resources:

- [https://templerodefshalom.org](https://templerodefshalom.org) 
- [https://templerodefshalom.shulcloud.com/](https://templerodefshalom.shulcloud.com/) 
- [https://www.youtube.com/@TempleRodefShalomNoVa](https://www.youtube.com/@TempleRodefShalomNoVa)  
- [https://www.facebook.com/TempleRodefShalom](https://www.facebook.com/TempleRodefShalom)  
- [https://twitter.com/rodefshalom](https://twitter.com/rodefshalom) 
- [https://www.instagram.com/templerodefshalom](https://www.instagram.com/templerodefshalom) 
- [https://www.pinterest.com/rodefshalom/](https://www.pinterest.com/rodefshalom/) 

About the Digital Archives

Temple Rodef Shalom Digital Archives

#### **TRS DIGITAL ARCHIVES TERMS OF USE AND PRIVACY POLICY**

The terms and conditions as defined here apply to this website only, as a sub-site of the official website of Temple Rodef Shalom (TRS) in Falls Church, VA. TRS is firmly committed to maintaining the privacy of visitors to its websites and to the privacy of the members of the TRS congregation.

##### **PRIVACY STATEMENT**

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Statement describes the types of information the TRS Digital Archives collects from and about you when you visit the TRS Digital Archives website, and the interaction of the TRS Digital Archives with social media (including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr, YouTube, LinkedIn, and Instagram), and any domains and online presences acquired in the future (collectively referred to as the “Site”).

This Privacy Statement, governed by our Terms and Conditions also explains how we may use and disclose such information, as well as your ability to control certain uses of it. By using the Site, you agree to the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement. If you do not, please do not use the Site.

##### **INFORMATION COLLECTION**

###### Information You Provide

The TRS Digital Archives (“we”, “our”, or “us”) collects personal information from you when you choose to share it with us. This may include when you use our Site, create an online account at the main TRS website, request information from us, use our service, participate in a survey or promotion, or otherwise contact us. The personal information we collect may include your name, address, email address, or telephone number.

You may be required to provide certain personal information to create your TRS member account in order to access your membership and other TRS resources, including this site.

###### **Information Automatically Collected**

We may use cookies, HTML tracking information, or other technologies to collect certain information about visitors to our Site and interactions with our emails, and to allow the TRS Digital Archives to keep track of analytics and certain statistical information which enables us to improve its Site and provide you with more relevant content on our Site.

For example, we may automatically collect certain non-personal information from you, including but not limited to your browser type, device type, operating system, unique device identifier of any of your computer(s) or device(s) that are used to access the Site, software version, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, geolocation, phone model, phone operating
system, and the domain name from which you accessed the Services. We also may collect information about your use of the Site, including the date and time you visit the Site, the areas or pages of the Site that you visit, the amount of time you spend viewing or using the Site, the number of times you return to the Site, other click-stream or site usage data, emails that you open, forward or click-through to our Site, and other sites that you may visit.

###### **Third Party Service Providers**

We may use third party service providers to support our Site or Apps. Some of these service providers may use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or Flash cookies to receive, collect, and store information on our behalf.

###### **Third Party Analytic Technologies**

Our third party analytics and advertising service providers may also use technology such as cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or Flash cookies. We use third party analytics and advertising tools (such as Google Analytics) that may automatically collect non-personal information from you when you interact with our Site. The Google Analytics features we use
include Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. This non-personal information is collected through the use of first party cookies, third party cookies, and web beacons. The information collected may include IP address, the website you came from (known as the referring URL), the type of browser, device and operating system you use, the time and date of access, the pages you visit within our Site (and the order in which you visit them), geographic information, and other information that does not personally identify you. This information may be collected by and shared with our third party analytics and advertising service providers, e.g., Google. These allow us, and our third party analytics service providers, to collect non-personal information about you and your use of our Site.

###### **Information Collected From Other Sources**

We do not collect or incorporate information of any sort through social media or other sources, but limit the collection of personal information solely to direct communication with our members either through the main TRS website or through communications on this site.

###### **Combination of Information**

We may combine the information we receive from and about you, including information you provide to us and information we automatically collect through our Site, as well as information across other computers or devices that you may use.

###### **Tracking Options and California Do Not Track Disclosures**

Certain parts of our Site require cookies. You are free to set your browser or operating system settings to limit certain tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Site or take full advantage of all of our offerings. Please refer to your Web browser’s or operating system’s website or “Help” section for more information on how to delete and/or disable your browser or operating system from receiving cookies or controlling your tracking preferences.

Our system may not respond to Do Not Track requests or headers from some or all browsers. [Learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for cookies.](http://www.aboutads.info/choices/)

##### **INFORMATION USE**

We may use the information we collect from and about you for any of the following purposes:

- To respond to your inquiries, contact, and communicate with you;
- To review the usage and operations of our Site and improve our content and
services;
- To provide you with customized Site content on the Site, or via email;
- To contact you when necessary;
- To use your data in an aggregated non-specific format for analytical and demographic purposes;
- To address problems with the Site;
- To protect the security or integrity of the Site; and
- As otherwise described to you at the point of data collection.

Additionally, if you use the Site to connect with third party services (e.g., social media) we reserve the right to restrict your access to this site to protect the confidentiality of the information within.

##### **INFORMATION SHARING**

We may disclose the information we collect from and about you as follows: (1) to enhance archive item descriptions and other metadata; (2) as necessary if we believe that there has been a violation of our Terms of Use; and (3) as described to you at the point of collection.

We may also share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their analytics uses.

##### **SERVICE PROVIDERS**

We may contract with third party service providers to perform functions related to the Site. These service providers will have access to your information needed to perform their business functions, but we do not permit them to use or share that information for other purposes.

##### **LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES**

The Site may have links to third-party websites, which may have privacy policies that differ from our own. We are not responsible for the practices of such sites.

##### **PUBLIC FORUMS**

Any information you may disclose on our Site becomes public information. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

##### **CHILDREN'S PRIVACY**

Protecting children’s privacy is important to us. We do not direct the Site to, nor do we knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen. If we learn that a child under the age of thirteen has provided personally identifiable information to the Site, it will use reasonable efforts to remove such information from its files.

##### **DATA SECURITY**

We have taken certain physical, administrative, and technical steps to safeguard the information we collect from and about our members and Site visitors. While we make every effort to help ensure the integrity and security of our network and systems, we cannot guarantee our security measures.

When you enter sensitive information on our forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).

##### **DATA STORAGE**

Your personal information is stored on servers in the United States; however, some of our brands, subsidiaries, organizations, and Service Providers may store information on servers hosted in other countries. As such, your personal information may be subject to the laws of other countries, where the data protection and other laws may differ from those of
the United States. Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the countries in which we operate.

##### **ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION**

To update your information stored by TRS, please sign into your account from the MyTRS portal. For any information about you in this site, you may submit correction or redaction requests to us at [archives@templerodefshalom.org](mailto:archives@templerodefshalom.org). In order to remove or redact such information, you must identify to us each and every exact location on this site that contains personal information about you which you wish for us to correct or redact.

##### **IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS**

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement or the practices described herein, you may contact us at [archives@templerodefshalom.org](mailto:archives@templerodefshalom.org).

##### **USER'S ACCEPTANCE OF THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT**

By visiting the Site, you signify your acceptance to the terms of this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Terms of Use and Privacy Statement, please do not use the Site.

##### **REVISIONS TO THIS STATEMENT**

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, add, remove, or otherwise revise portions of this Privacy Statement at any time. When we do, we will post the change(s) on the Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to these terms means you accept these changes. If we change the Privacy Statement in a material way, we
will provide appropriate notice to you.

Effective Date: June 13, 2023