Privacy Policy

For inquiries and questions regarding privacy, please contact: roy@matzotaviv.co.il

General

This Privacy Policy addresses 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 we use it, and your rights concerning your data.

Your use of this website constitutes your informed consent to our Privacy Policy.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We collect personal information from users in a variety of ways:

Contact: The information required to contact users includes their name, phone number, and email address. At times, additional details may be needed to receive 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 comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser 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 website can download and extract this data.
Analytics and Advertising: The website has Google Analytics software installed, which collects details about users on the site’s pages, including demographic segmentation, interests, browsing time, and site usage. This data is collected without personal identifiers and is used solely to draw conclusions about website usage and to improve the user’s browsing experience.

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 referral source, visit length, page views, and website navigation paths.
Information, such as your email address, that you enter when registering on our website.
Information you enter when creating a profile on our website.
Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter to subscribe to our emails and/or newsletters.
The information you enter while using the services on our website.
Information generated while using 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, which includes your name, address, phone number, email address, and credit card details.
Information that you post on our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and comment content.
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 information you send to us.

Before you disclose the personal details of another person 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.

With Whom We Share Your Information

We partner with other businesses that assist us with marketing, communication, storage, and sales efforts, and we may share information about you for these purposes. These partners are not authorized to use your information for any purpose other than business activities with us.

Additionally, we may disclose information about you to any competent law enforcement agency, regulatory authority, governmental body, court, or other third party if we believe that it is required by law or necessary to protect our proprietary rights or other legal rights (including, but not limited to, the enforcement of our agreements or the rights of others).

Use of Your Personal Details

Personal details provided 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 your use of the services available on our website.
Supplying services you purchased through the website.
Sending you statements, transaction invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments from you.
Sending you non-marketing commercial communications.
Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested.
Sending you our newsletter if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter).
Sending you marketing communications 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 are no longer interested in marketing communications).
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 made by or about you and related to our website.
Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud.
Verifying compliance with the terms of service governing the use of the website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service).
And 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 customize ads.

Types of Cookies: The website uses both temporary cookies (which are deleted when you close the 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 saves for a period of 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 interaction with the site.

When you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is deleted when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.

It should be emphasized that we give you, the user, full control over the cookies you want your browser to save, by clicking the floating “Cookie Settings” button at the bottom of the screen.

Data Security

We are committed to protecting your privacy and take all reasonable steps to secure the information you have provided. We have implemented and continue to implement several measures designed to minimize the possibility of information being leaked and/or lost as a result of unauthorized access.

The aforementioned measures do not guarantee absolute protection of the collected information, but we do our best to prevent this situation (loss, leakage, or corruption of information).

We use several technical measures and procedures for data security, including:

Sharing collected information only at the minimum required level and only with parties that have received authorization for it, and subject to their privacy restrictions. If the information is shared, it is anonymous and cannot be used to identify any specific user.
Using secure servers for storing information.
Verifying the identity of parties requesting access to stored information on the website.
Using the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and additional encryption methods to secure orders made on our website.

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: Information submitted in comments will be retained indefinitely to allow for automatic recognition and approval of subsequent comments.
For registered users on the site, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except for their username, which cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and edit this information.
When the processing of your personal information is no longer required for ongoing legitimate business activity, we will delete it or make it anonymous.
User Rights: If you have an account on the site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you. In addition, you can request the erasure of any personal data we hold, with the exception of any 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 site administrator using the email address provided at the beginning of this document.