Privacy Policy
The privacy of our website visitors is of great importance to us, and we are committed to protecting it. This policy explains how we handle your personal information.
By consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy upon your first visit to our website, you permit us to use cookies each time you visit.
Informed Consent Under Israeli Law
In accordance with Amendment 13 to the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, we are required to obtain your informed, free, and explicit consent before collecting and processing your personal information.
- Informed consent: We clearly explain what information is collected, why it is collected, and how it is used.
- Free consent: You are free to refuse or withdraw your consent at any time.
- Explicit consent: We request separate consent for each purpose, including analytics and marketing cookies.
- Separate consent: We request consent individually for each purpose and do not assume blanket consent.
Information We Collect
- Technical information about your device, including your IP address, geographic location, browser type and version, and operating system.
- Information about your visits and use of the website, including referral source, session duration, page views, and navigation paths.
- Information such as your email address that you provide when registering on our website.
- Information you submit when creating a profile, such as your name, profile picture, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational background, and employment details.
- Information such as your name and email address that you provide when subscribing to our email notifications or newsletter.
- Information you enter while using the services available on our website.
- Data generated through your use of the website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it.
- Information related to any purchases, services, or transactions made through our website, including your name, address, phone number, email address, and payment details.
- Content you intentionally publish on our website, including your username, profile pictures, and comments.
- Information contained in messages you send us by email or through the website, including message content and metadata.
- Any other personal information you choose to submit to us.
Before disclosing another person’s personal information to us, you must obtain that person’s consent for both the sharing and the processing of their personal data in accordance with this policy.
Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information submitted through our website will be used for the purposes set out in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- Administering our website and business operations.
- Personalizing our website for your experience.
- Enabling you to use the services available on our website.
- Delivering goods and services purchased through our website.
- Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders, and collecting payments.
- Sending non-marketing commercial communications.
- Sending email notifications you have specifically requested.
- Sending our newsletter, where you have opted in (you may unsubscribe at any time).
- Sending marketing communications relating to our business and carefully selected third-party partners that may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically consented, by email or similar technology (you may opt out at any time).
- Providing aggregated statistical information about our users to third parties (who will not be able to identify any individual user from this data).
- Handling inquiries and complaints submitted by or about you in connection with our website.
- Maintaining the security of our website and preventing fraud.
- Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent via our private messaging service).
- Other lawful uses as they arise.
If you submit personal information to us for publication on our website, we will publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you grant us. You may use the privacy settings on our website to limit the publication of your information, and these can be adjusted through the privacy controls available on the site. We will not share your personal information with any third party for the purposes of their direct marketing without your consent.
Disclosure of Personal Information
We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, directors, insurers, professional advisors, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors, to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (meaning any subsidiaries, parent company, or its subsidiaries) to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
We may also disclose your personal information:
- As required by applicable law.
- In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings.
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction.
- To any purchaser or prospective purchaser of any business or asset we are selling or considering selling.
- To any person whom we reasonably believe may seek a court or other competent authority order to disclose such information, where it is reasonably likely that such disclosure would be ordered.
Except as provided in this policy, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties.
International Data Transfers
Information we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred between any countries in which we operate, to enable us to use the information in accordance with this policy.
Information we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in Israel: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.
Personal information that you publish on or submit for publication on our website may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent its use or misuse by others.
You expressly consent to the international transfers of personal information described in this section.
Important note: Under Israeli law, transferring data to countries without an adequate level of protection requires your explicit consent or compliance with specific conditions. We are committed to meeting all relevant requirements of Israeli law for any international data transfers.
Retention of Personal Information
This section sets out our data retention processes and policy, designed to help ensure we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.
Personal information we process for any purpose will not be retained longer than is necessary for that purpose.
Notwithstanding the above, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
- As required by law.
- If we believe the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or future legal proceedings.
- To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including providing information to others for fraud prevention and credit risk reduction.
Security of Your Personal Information
We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.
- All personal information you provide will be stored on secure, password-protected servers with firewall protection.
- All electronic financial transactions carried out through our website will be protected by encryption technology.
- You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.
- You are responsible for keeping your website password confidential. We will never ask you for your password, except when you log in to our website.
Amendments
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a revised version on our website. You should check this page periodically to ensure you are aware of any changes. We may also notify you of changes by email or through our website’s private messaging system.
Your Rights Under Israeli Law
In accordance with Amendment 13 to the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, you have the following rights:
- Right to know: To receive complete information about data collection, the purpose of its use, and the third parties with whom it is shared.
- Right of access: To request and receive a copy of the personal data held about you (subject to providing adequate proof of identity such as an ID card or passport).
- Right to rectification: To request the correction of inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated information.
- Right to erasure: To request the deletion of your personal data (the right to be forgotten).
- Right to object: To object to the processing of your data for marketing or other purposes.
- Right to data portability: To receive your data in a structured, transferable format.
- Right to restriction of processing: To request that processing of your data be limited in certain circumstances.
- Right to provide separate consent: To give individual consent for each purpose, including analytics and marketing cookies.
We may withhold personal information you request to the extent permitted by law.
You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes. In practice, you will either be asked to expressly agree to the use of your personal data for marketing purposes in advance, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of such use.
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes links to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of any third parties.
Updating Your Information
Please notify us if the personal information we hold about you requires correction or updating.
Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either ‘persistent’ cookies or ‘session’ cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before that date; a session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain personally identifiable information, but personal information we hold about you may be linked to information stored in and obtained from cookies.
The names and purposes of the cookies we use on our website are listed below:
- We use Google Analytics on our website to: identify a computer when a user visits the site; track users as they navigate the site; enable the use of a shopping cart; improve the usability of the website; analyze site usage; manage the website; prevent fraud and improve site security; personalize the website for each user; and serve targeted advertising that may be of particular interest to specific users.
Most browsers allow you to refuse cookies. For example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking ‘Tools’, ‘Internet Options’, ‘Privacy’, and then ‘Advanced’.
- In Firefox (version 24), you can block all cookies by clicking ‘Tools’, ‘Options’, ‘Privacy’, selecting ‘Use custom settings for history’ from the dropdown menu, and unchecking ‘Accept cookies from sites’.
- In Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the ‘Customize and control’ menu, then clicking ‘Settings’, ‘Show advanced settings’, and ‘Content settings’, and selecting ‘Block sites from setting any data’ under the ‘Cookies’ heading.
Blocking all cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all features available on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer. For example:
- In Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (instructions available at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835).
- In Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking ‘Tools’, ‘Options’, ‘Privacy’, selecting ‘Use custom settings for history’, clicking ‘Show Cookies’, and then ‘Remove All Cookies’.
- In Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the ‘Customize and control’ menu, then clicking ‘Settings’, ‘Show advanced settings’, ‘Clear browsing data’, selecting ‘Delete cookies and other site data’, and clicking ‘Clear browsing data’.
Deleting cookies will negatively impact the usability of many websites.
Contact
For questions, requests, or complaints regarding our privacy policy, please contact us:
- Email: elizarweb@gmail.com
- Website: https://galitcohenart.com
If you are not satisfied with how your request has been handled, you may contact the Israeli Privacy Protection Authority:
- Website: Privacy Protection Authority
- Phone: 02-509-7000
- Email: privacy@justice.gov.il
Last updated: 17/08/2025
This policy complies with the requirements of Amendment 13 to the Israeli Privacy Protection Law and is updated in accordance with legislative changes.