Privacy Policy

Last updated 10 August 2026.

Short version: we keep your email, your questions, and the answers to them. Your questions are sent to an AI provider to be answered, and to Sefaria to check the citations. Payment details go to Stripe and never reach us. We count visits with a cookieless analytics tool that cannot identify you. There are no advertising trackers on this site. Ask us anything at info@asktorah.org.

Who is responsible

Ask Torah runs Ask Torah and decides how the data below is handled. Contact: info@asktorah.org.

What we store

• Your account. Your email address and a hash of your password. We cannot read your password.
• Your questions and their answers. Stored against your account so your history works and so a follow-up can refer back to what you already asked. This includes anything personal you happen to type into a question, so please don't include more than the question needs.
• Your usage counts. How many threads you have used this month, and any rollover or top-up balance.
• Billing references. If you subscribe, your Stripe customer and subscription identifiers, your plan, and when it renews. Never your card number — that goes straight to Stripe and we never see it.
• Declined questions. When the site refuses a question as out of scope, it may keep the question text without any link to your account, purely so we can tell whether it is refusing the wrong things. These are deleted automatically after 30 days.
• Server logs. Ordinary operational logs from our host, which include IP addresses and can include the text of a question when something goes wrong and it needs diagnosing. Kept short-term.

Cookies

Two, both first-party and both necessary. A signed session cookie keeps you logged in. For visitors who are not signed in, that same cookie counts how many questions have been asked this month so the free allowance means something. Our visitor analytics sets no cookie of any kind. There are no advertising cookies on this site — which is why you have not been asked to accept any.

Counting visits

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages they read. It is deliberately the least invasive option we could find: it sets no cookies, stores no identifier on your device, does not follow you to other websites, and is not connected to any advertising business.

What it records is the page address, the referring site, and a coarse country and device type. What it cannot do is tell one visitor from another over time, or connect a visit to your account, your email, or the questions you have asked while signed in. We see totals, not people.

We are telling you this plainly because a page address here is more revealing than on most sites — an address like /q/asking-forgiveness-before-yom-kippur says something about what somebody wanted to know. That is exactly why we chose a tool that keeps no profile and no cookie, rather than a conventional advertising analytics product.

Who else sees your questions

• OpenRouter, and through it the AI model that writes the answer. Your question text is sent to them to be answered.
• Sefaria, to check that each source an answer cites actually exists and says what it claims. We send the reference, not your question.
• Stripe, for payments, if you subscribe or buy a top-up.
• Our hosting provider, which stores the database the site runs on.
• Cloudflare, which counts visits as described above. It receives the address of the page you are on — never the text of a question you type, and never anything tied to your account.

That is the whole list. We do not sell your data, we do not share it for advertising, and we do not use your questions to train anyone's model. If an answer is ever published to the public archive on this site, it is rewritten and reviewed by a person first and is never attributed to you.

How long we keep it

Your account and your question history are kept for as long as your account exists, or until you delete the history yourself — see “Your choices” below. Declined questions are purged after 30 days. Billing records are kept as long as tax and accounting rules require.

Your choices

You can delete your questions yourself, without asking us. Sign in and open your dashboard: there is a link there to erase your whole history, and it shows you how many answers that is before it does anything. On a paid plan you can also delete answers one at a time from your history page. Either way it is immediate and we keep no copy. This works on the free plan too — reading your history is a paid feature, erasing it is not.

You can also ask us for a copy of what we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete the account itself. Email info@asktorah.org and we will do it by hand, normally within a few days. Deleting your account does not automatically cancel a subscription — cancel that from your dashboard first, or ask us and we will do both.

Security, honestly

Passwords are hashed, the site is served over HTTPS, and session cookies are signed. This is a small independent site, not a bank: please don't put anything into a question that would genuinely hurt you if it leaked.

Children

Ask Torah is not intended for children under 13, and we don't knowingly keep accounts for them. If one exists, tell us and we will remove it.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes, and anything material will be announced on the site rather than slipped in quietly.