This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you of our policies and practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of any information you submit to us through the www.firstisrael.com (the “Website”). This includes “Personal Information,” which is information about you that is personally identifiable such as your name, phone number, e-mail address, and other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing, as well as “Anonymous Information,” which is information that is not associated with or linked to your Personal Information and does not permit the identification of individual persons.

1. Acceptance
By using or accessing the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy covers any and all actions on the Website.  If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you should first contact our privacy staff at www.firstisrael.com

2. Regarding Children
Children under the age of 13 are not permitted to use the Website and we do not intentionally collect or maintain Personal Information from those who are under 13 years old. Protecting the privacy of children is very important to us. Thus, if we obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information permanently from our databases. We recommend that children between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain their parent’s permission before submitting information over the internet. By using the Website, you are representing that you are at least 18 years old, or that you are at least 13 years old and have a parent’s or guardian’s permission to use the Website.

3. Collection and Providence of Information and Content

Personal Information that You Provide

In general, we collect Personal Information that you submit to us voluntarily through the Website. We collect information in the form of the content that you submit during your use of the Website. Additionally, we collect any information that you voluntarily enter, including Personal Information, into any postings, comments, or forums within the Website’s community.

E-mail and E-mail Addresses

If you send an e-mail to us, or fill out our “Contact Us” form through the Website, we will collect your e-mail address and the full content of your e-mail, including attached files, and other information you provide. We may use your email address to contact you.

Information Collected Via Technology

As you use the Website, certain information may also be passively collected and stored on our or our service providers’ server logs, including your Internet protocol address, browser type, and operating system. We also use Cookies and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URL) to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit and the solutions and information for which you searched and viewed, or on which of the advertisements displayed on the Website you clicked. This type of information is collected to make the Website and solutions more useful to you and to tailor the experience with the Website to meet your special interests and needs.

An “Internet protocol address” or “IP Address” is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet. In some cases your IP Address stays the same from browser session to browser session; but if you use a consumer internet access provider, your IP Address probably varies from session to session. For example, we, or our service providers, may track your IP Address when you access the Website to assist with ad targeting.

“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing a website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience with the Website. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. In order to use our services offered through the Website, your web browser must accept Cookies. If you choose to disable Cookies, some aspects of the Website may not work properly, and you may not be able to receive our services.

We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements on the Website. These advertisers and ad servers may use Cookies and/or “Web Beacons” (which are usually small, transparent graphic images) in order to monitor information related to served advertisements. Clicking on such advertisements will direct you to the website of a third-party and the advertiser. This Privacy Policy does not cover the privacy practices of any advertisers or ad servers.

4. Use and Disclosure of Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise share for marketing purposes the Personal Information that we collect with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so.

In general, Personal Information you submit to us is used by us to provide you access to the Website, to improve the Website and the Services (as defined in the Terms of Use), to better tailor the features, performance, and support of the Website and to offer you additional information, opportunities, promotions and functionality from us, our partners or our advertisers at your request. Additionally, we do share your content preferences and other information with the social network with which you have connected to the Website (if any), along with those companies and persons you have asked us to share your information with.

We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work on behalf of or with us to provide some of the services and features of the Website and to help us communicate with you. Examples of such services include sending email, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, and providing customer service. We require our third-party service providers to promise not to use such information except as necessary to provide the relevant services to us. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the manner identified in this Privacy Policy, you may not use the Website.

Additionally, we may create Anonymous Information records from Personal Information by excluding information (such as your name) that would otherwise make the Anonymous Information personally identifiable to you. Generally, we aggregate this information and use it in statistical analysis to help us analyze patterns in the use of the Website. This Privacy Policy does not limit our use or disclosure of any Anonymous Information in any way, and we reserve the right to use and disclose Anonymous Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties in our discretion.

We may share some or all of your Personal Information with First Israel affiliated companies that are under a common control, in which case we will require them to honor this Privacy Policy.

In the event we go through a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of ours or that acquirers’ assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to (a) comply with relevant laws or to respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us; or (b) to protect and defend our rights or property, you, or third parties. You hereby consent to us sharing your Personal Information under the circumstances described herein.

In any case in which the ownership of First Israel’s business shall change, your user information may be transferred to the new owner so the service can continue operations. In any such transfer of information, your user information would remain subject to the promises made in any pre-existing Privacy Policy.

5. Links
The Website may contain links to other websites. We are of course not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the Privacy Policy of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by First Israel or posted on the Website.

6. Third Party Advertising
Advertisements that appear on the Website are sometimes delivered (or “served”) directly to users by third party advertisers. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. These third party advertisers may also download cookies to your computer, or use other technologies such as JavaScript and “web beacons” (also known as “1×1 gifs”) to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. Doing this allows the advertising network to recognize your computer each time they send you an advertisement in order to measure the effectiveness of their ads and to personalize advertising content. In this way, they may compile information about where individuals using your computer or browser saw their advertisements and determine which advertisements are clicked. First Israel does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third party advertisers. Third party advertisers have no access to your contact information stored on the Website unless you choose to share it with them.

This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by First Israel and does not cover the use of cookies or other tracking technologies by any of its advertisers.

7. Your Choices Regarding Your Personal Information
We offer you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. When you receive promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further promotional communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly at tshapiro@firstisrael.com. If you submit your name, email address and/or phone number via the website and subsequently wish for us to modify or delete this information you can contact tshapiro@firstisrael.com  and ask for this information to be modified/deleted from our system.

Despite your indicated email marketing preferences, we may send you administrative emails regarding the Website, the Services and confirmations of closed Offers, in which you elected to participate, including, for example, administrative and transactional confirmations, and notices of updates to our Privacy Policy if we choose to provide such notices to you in this manner.

8. Feedback
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your Personal Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You agree that any such comments and any email we receive becomes our property. We may use feedback for marketing purposes or to add to or modify our services without paying any royalties or other compensation to you.

9. Security
First Israel takes appropriate precautions to protect our users’ information and content. We have physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards which protect your account information. If you have any questions regarding the security of Website, please contact us tshapiro@firstisrael.com

10. Terms of Use, Notices and Revisions
Your use of the Website, and any disputes arising from it, is subject to this Privacy Policy as well as our Terms of Use and all of its general provisions including warranty disclaimer, limitation of liability, indemnity and choice of law. We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy and/or our Terms of Use at any time. Any and all changes and/or clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the Website. You must refer to this policy on an ongoing basis and preferably before each use of the Website so that you understand our current privacy policy. Unless stated otherwise, our current Privacy Policy applies to all information that we have about you and to any of your account.

11. Contacting the Website
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at tshapiro@firstisrael.com