For privacy-related inquiries and questions, contact: ruth.barshalev@gmail.com
General
This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and store the personal information of our website users. This policy clarifies our privacy practices, the types of information we collect, how it is used, and your rights regarding your data. Using this website constitutes your conscious consent to our privacy policy.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect personal information about users in various ways:
- Contacting Us: The information required to contact users includes name, phone number, and email address, and sometimes additional details to get relevant information from the inquirer so we can handle their request (e.g., content of the inquiry, address, etc.).
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comment form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and the browser’s user agent string, to help with spam detection.
- Media Uploads: If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors to the site can download and extract this data.
- Embedded Content: Posts on this site may include embedded content (such as videos and images) from other websites. This content may collect data about you, use cookies, and embed third-party tracking, especially if you have an account and are logged into that site (e.g., Facebook Pixel, Google tracking code).
Collection of Personal Details
The following types of personal details may be collected, stored, and used:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system.
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
- Information, such as your email address, which you enter when registering on our site.
- Information that you enter when creating a profile on our site—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details.
- Information, such as your name and email address, which you enter to subscribe to our email messages and/or newsletters.
- The information you enter while using the services on our website.
- Information generated during your use of our website, including when, how, and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information related to anything you purchase, services you use, or transfers you make through our website, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details.
- Information you post on our website with the intention of publishing it online, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments.
- Information contained in messages you send to us via email or through our website, including the message content and its metadata.
- Any other type of personal details you submit to us.
Before you disclose another person’s personal details to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the disclosure and the processing of those personal details in accordance with this policy.
We do not transfer users’ personal details to other parties without their prior consent, except in emergencies, as required by law, or for the purpose of preventing spam via an automated service. We may transfer general statistical data that does not contain identifying details to other parties.
Use of Your Personal Details
Personal details submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy, or on the relevant pages of the site. We may use your personal details for the following purposes:
- Managing our website and business.
- Personalizing the website for you.
- Enabling you to use the services available on our website.
- Supplying services purchased through the website.
- Sending statements, transaction invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you.
- Sending you non-marketing commercial messages.
- Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
- Sending our newsletter to you by email, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time that you no longer require the newsletter).
- Sending marketing messages related to our business and the businesses of carefully selected third-party companies that we believe may be of interest to you, by mail or, in cases where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technologies (you can inform us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing messages).
- Providing statistical information about our users to a third party (but this third party will not be able to identify any individual user from the information).
- Handling inquiries and complaints submitted by or about you and related to our website.
- Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.
- Verifying compliance with the terms of service that govern the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service).
- And for other uses.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The website uses cookies and other technologies to collect information. Cookies are small files transferred to your computer to identify you, improve your browsing experience, save your preferences, and tailor advertisements.
- Types of Cookies: The website uses both temporary cookies (which are deleted when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which are saved until you delete them or they expire).
- Saving Details: In some cases, cookies can save your details (name, email, and website address) for your convenience, so you don’t have to fill them in again. This saving is valid for one year.
- Managing Cookies: Most browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change the settings to refuse them. Disabling cookies may affect the website’s functionality.
- Additional Technologies: We may use Flash Local Shared Objects (LSO) or Web Beacons to collect information about your browsing habits and your interaction with the website.
It should be noted that we give you, the user, full control over the cookies you want your browser to save, by clicking on the floating button at the bottom of the screen, “Cookie Settings.”
Information Security We are committed to protecting your privacy and take all reasonable measures to secure the information you have provided. Personal information is stored on a secure computer server, which includes 2 firewalls, up-to-date security software and hardware, and additional protection systems, to prevent website breaches and data theft.
However, it should be noted that security is never absolute or perfect. We also emphasize that communication between the browser and the website is managed securely according to international standards.
Third-Party Websites Our website includes external links, and details about, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third party.
Data Retention and User Rights
- Data Retention Period: Data submitted in comments will be retained indefinitely to allow for automatic identification and approval of subsequent comments.
- User Rights: If you have an account on the site or have left comments, you can request to receive a file of the personal data we hold about you. Additionally, you can request that we erase any personal data we hold, with the exception of data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contact Us
For any questions or comments regarding this privacy policy, you can contact the website administrator via the email address provided at the top of this document.
