Terms of Service and Privacy – Celebrate Israel

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Terms of Service

All content provided on this blog is for informational purposes only and is Copyright ©2021 Celebrate Israel, all rights reserved. The owner of this blog makes no representations as to the accuracy or completeness of any information on this site or found by following any link on this site. The owner will not be liable for any errors or omissions in this information nor for the availability of this information. The owner will not be liable for any losses, injuries, or damages from the display or use of this information. These terms and conditions of use are subject to change at any time and without notice.

Licence of your provided content to Celebrate Israel

You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post, or display on or through, the Services provided by Celebrate Israel. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Celebrate Israel a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Celebrate Israel to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in these conditions.

You agree that this license includes a right for Celebrate Israel to make such Content available to other companies, organisations or individuals with whom Celebrate Israel has relationships for the provision of syndicated services, and to use such Content in connection with the provision of those services. Eg. Celebrate Israel makes content available via apps and browsers (mobile device interfaces) and other such applications.

You understand that Celebrate Israel, in performing the required technical steps to provide the Services to our users, may (a) transmit or distribute your Content over various public networks and in various media; and (b) make such changes to your Content as are necessary to conform and adapt that Content to the technical requirements of connecting networks, devices, services or media. You agree that this license shall permit Celebrate Israel to take these actions. Eg. Content maybe re-factored for various browsers or mobile devices.

You confirm and warrant to Celebrate Israel that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license.

Privacy Policy

Privacy and our website

We collect two types of information through our website:

Personal or individually identifiable information that you provide to us
Standard web server/visitor traffic information, regarding overall website traffic patterns. Our web server collects this basic information as part of their web log process. The logs include:

Service provider IP addresses
Browser versions
Referring websites
Duration of visits
Total visitor traffic.

This information helps us to understand how people use our website and assists us in managing our site to better serve our audience.
Celebrate Israel does not pass Standard web server/visitor traffic information onto any other third party, other than Google Analytics for site usage monitoring, and other than required by the laws of the Commonwealth and/or States of Australia, i.e. an applicable court order.

Member Passwords

Members’ passwords have been encrypted (technically a salted hash) in our database and no one, including moderators and administrators of Celebrate Israel, have access to them. To provide extra password security, members are encouraged to choose hard to guess passwords, such as a mixture of letters and numbers. Members should also not use the same password for all their online activities.

Cookies and browser information

The Celebrate Israel site software uses HTTP cookies to store session information and a login token that allows the site to remember you should you chose that option.
Celebrate Israel does use Google Analytics to monitor site usage but not Google advertising.
Celebrate Israel does not use cookies or any other mechanism (other than Google Analytics) to track behaviour (other than web logs as described above) nor does Celebrate Israel pass that information onto any other third party. More information on cookies is available here.

Individually identifiable information and how we use it

There are instances when Celebrate Israel may collect individually identifiable information from its web users. Eg member information, event registration, product ordering, merchandise sales etc.

First Name and Surname, Email Address, Street Address, Suburb/Town, State, Postcode, Telephone may be collected. In addition users may choose to provide other personal information.

In the case of financial transactions conducted online we process standard credit card information (card type, card number, expiry date) via a secure, encrypted SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) session using Paypal. SSL is the standard for secure web transactions. We maintain records of all financial transactions.

Occasionally, Celebrate Israel may contact individuals who have provided their individually identifiable information through the website in order to:

Conduct surveys and gather feedback to improve our quality of service to you.
Supply news and information.

Spam and Privacy

Celebrate Israel is a member of a global anti-spam network. If a member transmits or presents Spam anywhere on the Celebrate Israel website, we reserve the right to provide any/all information about that member stored within the site databases, to this anti-spam network.

Celebrate Israel will not sell, supply, or allow use of the member database, for any reasons other than those outlined elsewhere in this Privacy Statement.

Confidentiality

We respect your privacy. Celebrate Israel complies with the National Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth of Australia), specifically in relation to the amendments made by the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000 (Commonwealth of Australia).

Our commitment to the security of confidentiality is resolute and we aim to apply best practice to ensure privacy is protected and respected.
Privacy management is a continuous and evolving process and we regularly update our practices to accommodate changes in technology, the organisation’s function and legislation.

Inherent Risk of Blogs/Forums/Message Boards

Although Celebrate Israel will takes all reasonable precautions in our power to protect your personal privacy, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.

All personal information shared with us needs to be at your own risk. We also cannot be responsible for the inappropriate actions of others, either on or off the site.

A privacy complaints procedure

For further information about any matter relating to privacy please contact our Privacy Officer via the Contact page