Voluntary Provision of Information via the Website. The Website includes various sections containing registration, contact, or other forms on which you will be requested to provide us with information and contact details as needed. Some of these registration forms are permanent, and others are periodic, depending on the Association’s various activities. For example:

• In order to report agricultural produce surpluses to the Association, you will be asked to provide your full name, telephone number, email address, and details of the relevant locality;
• To register to receive the Association’s newsletters, you will be asked to provide only your email address;
• To register to volunteer with the Association, you will be asked to provide your full name, telephone number, email address, locality, and to select the volunteer activity you wish to participate in, and state whether you have participated in the Association’s activities in the past;
• If you express interest in any of the Association’s job advertisements, you will be asked to select the desired position, give your full name, address, telephone number, and email address, and to attach a CV file;
• To contact the Association online, you will be asked to provide the subject of the inquiry on the contact form, as well as your full name, email address, and telephone number, and then to enter the content of your message;
• To make donations (in exchange for digital greeting cards and for printed Purim greeting cards) via the Association’s Ecard Website, you will be asked to provide your donor identification and contact details, recipient identification and contact details, donation and order details, greeting card selection and message content, delivery details, billing and payment details, receipt or invoice details and communications or special requests related to the order.

Automatic Collection of Browsing or Website Usage Data: The Association also collects information during the use of the Website, products, and/or services appearing on or referring to it or from it, including information about the user’s browsing habits. When you use the Website, products, and/or services appearing on or referring to it or from it, the Association may collect information about your habits regarding Website use, including forms you have completed, information you have read, pages you viewed, services that interested you, the location of the computer and the IP address through which you accessed the Website, the type of operating system you use and the type of device you have.

Events held by the Association. When registering for events and/or attending the Association’s events, you will be asked to provide details such as your full name, email address, telephone number, and the number of participants.

Communicating with the Association. When you communicate with the Association, it may document the communication. For example, your calls with Association representatives, emails and correspondence with the Association, agreements with the Association, data related to your volunteering with the Association, and other information you provide to the Association within the framework of your interactions may be documented.

You should be aware that you are under no legal obligation to provide the Association with Personal Information about yourself, and when you do so, it is with your consent and of your own free will. However, you should be aware that failure to provide certain information may prevent the Association from providing you with certain services when you use the Website.

When you provide Personal Information about a third party, you declare that you have received their express consent to provide the information to the Association for the purpose of using this information in accordance with this policy, and you undertake to show the provisions of this privacy policy to that third party. Unlawful provision of details about a third party and the provision of incorrect information may, in some cases, amount to a criminal offense, and the Association will not be responsible in this regard.

The Website may contain links to third-party sites or embed third-party content on the Website, within the framework of which data, information, and/or Personal Information about you will be collected. As stated in the Binding Documents, the Association is not responsible for those third parties, for the third-party content, and for the use you make of it. The Association is not responsible for the use that third parties make of the Personal Information you choose to provide to them or that they collect. Information collected by those third parties is subject to their own privacy policy and/or other similar documents, and we recommend that you read them carefully prior to using any third-party content and/or providing information about you to those third parties.

For example, the Website includes a link to donate to the Association. Clicking the link takes you to the Israel Gives website, an external site operated by Israel Contribution Ltd. [C.N. 514228766] and not by the Association. Therefore, use of the Israel Gives website is subject to that website’s privacy policy, not ours.

Fields that must be filled out will be explicitly marked. All the details you provide must be correct, up to date, and complete. The details and Personal Information you provide, as well as additional details about your use of the Website (as detailed further in this policy), will be held by the Association in accordance with the provisions of this policy.

However, providing incorrect details or failing to provide all required details may prevent you from completing registration on the relevant form, degrade the quality of the service provided to you, and impair our ability to contact you, if necessary.

Non-Identifying Data. The Association may collect non-identifying data, including aggregate, statistical, and other data derived from your Personal Information. The consents given within the framework of the Binding Documents will also apply to this data. You confirm that the Association owns this data and that it shall be entitled to make any use of it, and that you shall not be entitled to any compensation in connection with it or in connection with any Personal Information collected about you.

Additionally, the Association may use third-party services to collect and analyze anonymous, statistical, or aggregate information in connection with use of the Website, including information regarding your activity on the Website.

The Personal Information you provide and the details collected by the Association during your use of the Website will be used in accordance with the provisions of this policy or the law for the following purposes:

• To carry out the Association’s activity;
• To allow you to use the Website, the content contained on it, and the services offered;
• To carry out the purpose for which you provided Personal Information to the Association through any of the registration forms, such as collecting agricultural produce surpluses, sending newsletters, arranging your volunteering with the Association, registering for Association events, creating digital greeting cards on the Association’s Ecard Website, etc.
• For the purpose of managing the recruitment, screening, and placement processes for various positions in the Association for which you applied at the Website, such as for purposes of evaluation, preparation for an interview or for screening calls, performing background checks, including with recommenders or relevant parties mentioned in documents given to us, all in accordance with and subject to the applicable law;
• To improve and enrich the services and content on the Website, including creating new services and content suitable for user requirements and expectations, and changing or canceling existing services and content. The information to be used by the Association for this purpose will primarily be statistical information that does not identify you personally;
• Showing content of the Association and/or of third parties, including advertisements as defined in the Communications Law (Telecommunications and Broadcasting), 5742-1982 (“Advertisement”), direct mail and/or direct mailing services, as defined in the Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981 or as otherwise defined under applicable laws (“Direct Mail,” “Direct Mailing Services,” and “Privacy Protection Law”), as detailed below, in accordance with and subject to the provisions of the applicable law;
• To contact you when the Association believes there is a need to do so;
• For the analysis, control, and provision of statistical information to third parties. This information will not identify you personally;
• For the proper operation and development of the Website, including management, operation, and maintenance of the Website, detecting and preventing use that is unlawful or contrary to the Website’s Terms of Use and any of the Association’s services or content, including information security and preventing cyber events;
• To enforce the Website’s Terms of Use, to fulfill the requirements of any law, regulation, or other legislation, and to assist competent authorities and any third party when the Association believes in good faith that it must do so;
• For any other purpose specified in this Privacy Policy, in the Website’s Terms of Use, or any of the Binding Documents.

We process Personal Information based on the basis of one or more of the following legal grounds:

• Your consent, where required for specific processing activities;
• The necessity to perform a contract with you, including processing related to the provision of our services;
• Compliance with our legal obligations; and
• Our legitimate interests, including for internal research and development, and the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

As stated above, Personal Information may also be used for the purposes of sending marketing and advertising content, information about Association activities, advertisements, and other content of the Association and/or anyone on its behalf. For example, the Association may use Personal Information to offer you content that it believes will suit you by way of direct mail or in any other way.

This content can be sent by any means of communication, including postal mail, email, land-line and mobile phone, including recorded messages and SMS, Push, fax, social networks, and other means (sometimes with the assistance of third parties). Additionally, subject to your approval, the Personal Information collected will be transferred to advertisers and other third parties who may send you content and advertisements and contact you on their own behalf (for example, using direct mailing services) by the means mentioned above.

You may, at any time, notify your refusal to receive information and marketing content, advertisements, and/or direct mail from the Association, or from third parties as stated above (in general or regarding a particular type), and withdraw your consent by sending a removal notice to the address shown below to the Association’s service team. Within a reasonable time after receiving the request, the Association will stop sending content to you and an instruction will be given to stop making use of your Personal Information for direct mailing services; but the information needed for the Association’s purposes may continue to be held in the Association’s database subject to the provisions of law (including according to the other provisions of this Privacy Policy).

The Association will transfer Personal Information about you to third parties as required according to the Binding Documents and this Privacy Policy (for example, as stated in the section describing information use) and in the following cases:

• If this is necessary for the proper provision of Website services, such as when the Association is using outsourcing services for the ongoing operation of the Website, including providers of information-hosting, software, maintenance services, mailing, etc.;
• To third parties assisting the Association within the framework of screening management, recruitment, and placement processes, including companies providing background-check services, screening companies, recruitment consultants, legal advisers, etc.;
• Your details will appear within the framework of the Ecard you create on the Association’s Ecard Website and will be visible to the card’s recipient;
• If you violate the provisions of the Website’s Terms of Use, or any of the other Binding Documents, or if you perform actions through the Website, or in connection with it, that appear to the Association to be unlawful;
• If the Association receives a judicial order or a demand from an authority competent to do so, instructing it to provide your details or Personal Information to a third party;
• In any dispute, claim, lawsuit, demand, or legal proceedings, if any exist, between you and the Association or anyone on its behalf;
• In any case where the Association believes that providing the information is necessary to prevent harm to its own rights or the rights of others, including damage to your person or property or the person or property of a third party;
• The Association will be entitled to transfer your details and information collected following the use you made of the Website to companies or other organizations related to the Association, provided that they use this information only according to the provisions of this policy;
• For the purpose of providing and sharing anonymous, aggregate, and statistical information with other companies or organizations related to the Association;
• Its suppliers, business partners, advertisers, and any third party at the Association’s discretion for the purpose of exercising its rights or its business activity in accordance with the provisions of the applicable law. For example, your Personal Information may be provided to third parties for the purpose of sending advertising mail, notices, and newsletters;
• If the Association organizes its activity or the Website’s activity within another framework and if it changes its legal structure, including if it transfers the Website’s activity or any part of it to a third party – it will be entitled to transfer a copy of the Personal Information to the new entity, provided that this entity accepts the provisions of this policy concerning you;
• At your express request.

Your Personal Information will remain in the possession of the Association and/or third parties acting for and in accordance with the Association’s instructions, including information-hosting and backup-service providers. Personal Information may be stored in Israel or abroad, including in places where privacy protection laws are different from those practiced in Israel, and in such cases, the Association will act in accordance with the provisions of the applicable law regarding the transfer of information outside the borders of the country or any other applicable law. Your consent to this policy also constitutes consent to the retention of information abroad and its transfer outside the borders of Israel.

The Association uses cookies on the Website to ensure its proper, ongoing operation, including the collection of statistical data about Website use, verifying details, adapting the Website to your personal preferences, ensuring information security, etc.

Cookies are text files created by your browser at the command of the Website’s computers. Some of the cookies expire when you close the browser, while others are saved on the hard drive of your computer. Cookies can contain diverse information, such as the pages you visited, the length of time you spent on the Website, your location when you accessed the Website, the sections you visited, the information you requested while on the Website, etc.

The Website uses the following types of cookies, among others:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are required for the proper operation of the Website and cannot be neutralized in the Website’s systems or your browser settings. For example, they are used to identify account logins, maintain privacy settings, or protect information security.
• Functional Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember the user’s preferences (such as preferred language or time zone), thereby improving the user’s experience.
• Performance Cookies: These cookies collect anonymous information about how the Website is used to improve Website performance and the content shown on it.

The user can manage cookie usage preferences in the browser settings; however, blocking certain types of cookies may affect Website functionality and your experience on the Website.

In addition to first-party cookies, the Website also uses third-party cookies, which are cookies placed by external services we use for analysis, measurement, advertising, and improving the user experience. The third-party cookies embedded on the Website include:

• Google Analytics by Google, for analysis and measurement, and to assist us in understanding how the Website is being used – for example, which pages are popular, the length of stay on the Website, and browsing patterns. For more information about the types of cookies Google or anyone on its behalf collects and how they use these files, see further details at Google’s information center.
• For more information about removing yourself from the Google Analytics service, click here. Remember, however, that neutralizing cookies may prevent you from using some services and features on the Website or other websites. Additionally, you can delete the cookies on your computer at any time.
• LinkedIn Pixel by LinkedIn – an analytical tool that allows us to track page views and conversions, and thereby offer Website visitors relevant ads on LinkedIn in the future. Additionally, the tool helps us to identify returning visitors to the Website. More information about how LinkedIn uses this cookie can be found in LinkedIn’s cookie policy here.
• Facebook (Meta) Pixel – We use the Facebook (Meta) Pixel service to adapt advertisements to users based on browsing behavior. Meta Pixel plants cookies on your device and allows us to measure the effectiveness of advertisements, perform statistical analysis, and conduct market research. We do not have access to the information collected; that is kept by Meta, which may link it to your account and use it for advertising purposes in accordance with its policy. For more information about the Meta Pixel, click here.
• Google Tag Manager – a tool allowing performance tracking, implementations, engagements, etc. The tool’s privacy policy is at this link.
• Google Ads – a data analysis service to help us better understand how users arrive at the Website and use the service, and to use targeted advertisements that may be of particular interest to our users. For more information on Google’s privacy policy, click on this link.

If you do not want to receive cookies, you can disable them in your browser. To do this, consult the browser’s help file. In some of the services mentioned above, you will be able to request your removal from cookie collection about you using the “Opt-out” option.

The Association considers information security in its systems to be of high priority. To protect information, it operates systems, applications, and procedures for information security designed to minimize the risks of theft, harm, loss, or unauthorized access to information.

However, there is no certainty that these applications can guarantee that Personal Information will not be exposed or stolen from the databases. Therefore, the Association does not undertake, and you cannot reasonably expect, that the services and information systems used by the Association will be immune to unauthorized access to the information stored in them.

Users are asked to refrain from any collection, scraping, data mining, or other automatic use of Personal Information appearing on the Website, whether directly or with the use of technological tools. Personal Information collected or shown on the Website is intended for use in accordance with the purposes declared in this Privacy Policy. It is not intended for reuse, commercial processing, distribution, or copying in any other way. Any such use constitutes a violation of the Terms of Use and may also constitute an offense according to law.

The Association makes reasonable efforts to prevent such prohibited actions. By using the Website and its services, you acknowledge and agree to these limitations.

Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, you may have certain rights under relevant applicable laws regarding the collection and processing of your Personal Information. To the extent these rights apply and concern you, you can contact us via the contact details available below and ask to exercise the following rights:

• Rights of access to your Personal Information: You have the right to receive confirmation as to whether or not Personal Information concerning you is being processed, and access your stored Personal Information, together with supplementary information.
• Right of data portability: You have the right to request us to move, copy and transfer your Personal Information easily from one IT environment to another, in a safe and secure way, without affecting its usability.
• Right of rectification: You have the right to request rectification of your Personal Information in our control in the event that you believe the Personal Information held by us is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated.
• Right of deletion/erasure: You have the right to request that we erases or deletes Personal Information held about you at any time.
• Right to restriction or objection to processing: You have the right to request that we restrict or cease to conduct certain Personal Information processes at any time.
• Right to withdraw your consent: To the extent we process Personal Information on the basis of your consent, you have the right to withdraw your given consent at any time.

If you are located in the EEA or the United Kingdom, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority in your country. You can find a list of authorities in the EEA here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en. You can reach the UK supervisory authority here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/.

Please note that these rights are not absolute and may be subject to our own legitimate interests and regulatory requirements. You are welcome to contact us for any questions or requests through our contact details below.

We will make an effort to reply within a reasonable timeframe. Please feel free to reach out to us at any time.

We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of consent (as determined under the applicable laws where the individual resides; "Age of Consent"). By accessing, using or interacting with our Website, you certify to us that you are not under the Age of Consent. In the event we learn that we have collected Personal Information from an individual under the Age of Consent without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information upon discovery. If you believe that we might have any information from or about an individual under the Age of Consent, then please contact us through the contact details available below.

We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to run our operations, and as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies. Retention periods will be determined to take into account the type of information that is collected and the purpose for which it is collected, bearing in mind the requirements applicable to the situation and the need to destroy outdated, unused information at the earliest reasonable time.