Privacy Policy for the www.shlomifish.org Web Site

The Webmaster of the http://www.shlomifish.org/ Web site is committed to protecting the privacy of contributors and users of this Web site.

The Webmaster of this Web site intends to give you as much control as possible over your personal information, including registration data if and when applicable. As part of the normal operation of the http://www.shlomifish.org/ Web site, we may, at our discretion, collect information from you. This Privacy Statement describes the information we collect about you and how that information may be used.

Information Gathered through the http://www.shlomifish.org/ Web site

The Webmaster of this Web site will track the domains from which people visit the Web site in order to gain aggregate data that may be analyzed for trends and statistics. Subject to the provisions of this Privacy Statement, the Webmaster may use accumulated aggregate data for several purposes including, but not limited to, marketing analysis, evaluation of the Web site’s services, and business planning.

E-mail sent by visitors of this Web site

This Web site allows you to send E-mail messages to certain people and/or mailing lists, who are mentioned and/or advertised in this Web site. In such cases, the sender’s valid E-mail address will be included with such messages along with a note saying that this Web site was used to send the E-mail message in question. In order to prevent abuse, users may not opt-out of such a display, but may choose to refrain from using this Web site to transmit an E-mail message.

The Webmaster may, at his discretion, get a copy of those E-mail messages, for the purposes of ensuring the proper operation of this Web site, provision of additional and improved services to visitors of this Web site, and/or investigation of spam complaints. This includes E-mail messages sent to Sign Language interpreters.

Cookies

This Web site employs “cookies” to provide users with tailored information. A “cookie” is an element of data that a Web site, when visited by a user, sends to that user’s browser which, in turn, may store that element on the user’s hard drive or memory. This Web site uses cookies to better serve users of this Web site; any cookies sent by this Web site will be marked so that they will be accessible only by this Web site and affiliate Web sites subject to this Privacy Statement. However, at his or her option and at his or her sole expense and responsibility, any user may block or delete our cookies from his or her hard drive. However, by disabling cookies, certain site features and functionality may no longer work properly, or at all.

Other Notification

The Webmaster of this Web site may use user-provided E-mail addresses to contact users on an individual basis. At no time, unless such disclosure is required by law, a governmental agency, or specifically authorized by the user, will the Webmaster disclose individual user personal information to unrelated third parties that is not publicly available.

Links with other sites

This Web site contains links to other Web sites, whether owned or controlled by the Webmaster, or by unrelated third parties. Please note that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from those of this Web site. The Webmaster of this Web site is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of any linked Web site. We encourage you to read the privacy statement of any Web site you may visit.

Security

To secure site integrity, this Web site’s Webmaster may employ, at his discretion, measures, including but not limited to security audits, use of encryption tools and software, and other reasonable security measures and procedures.

Internal access to users’ private and nonpublic personal information is restricted to site administrators and individuals on a need-to-know basis.

Enforcement

In the event that the Webmaster of this Web site becomes aware that site security is compromised or nonpublic user information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including but not limited to external security attacks, the Webmaster shall take reasonable measures which it deems appropriate, including but not limited to internal investigation and reporting, and notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities, notwithstanding other provisions of this Privacy Statement.

If the Webmaster becomes aware that a user’s personal information provided via this Web site has been disclosed in a manner not in accordance with this Privacy Statement, the Webmaster shall make reasonable efforts to notify the affected user, as soon as reasonably possible and as permitted by law, of what information has been disclosed, to the extent that the Webmaster knows this information.

No Guarantees For Factors Beyond this Web site’s Webmaster control

While this Privacy Statement expresses the Webmaster’s standards for maintenance of private data, he is not in a position to guarantee that the standards will always be met. There may be factors beyond the Webmaster’s control (e.g., “script kiddies”, “crackers and other malcontents”) that may result in disclosure of data. As a consequence, the Webmaster disclaims any warranties or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of private information.

Third Party Advertising

This Web site uses various third-party advertising companies to display ads when you visit it. Those companies may use anonymous information (not including your name, address, E-mail address or telephone number) about your visits to this Web site (and Web sites operated by others) in order to provide advertisements on this Web site about goods and services that may be of interest to you.

Third Party Cookies

In the course of serving advertisements to users of this Web site, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique “cookie” on your browser.

Please note that the privacy policies of those third-party advertisers may differ from those of this Web site. The Webmaster of this Web site is not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of those advertisers. We encourage you to read the privacy statement of any Web site you may visit.

However, at his or her option and at his or her sole expense and responsibility, any user may block or delete third-party advertisers’ cookies from his or her hard drive. Disabling or removing such cookies is not expected to impair features of functionality of this Web site, although it may impair features or functionality of third-party advertisers’ Web sites.

Last modified: 12 May 2009