LironCert, a website under the laws of the State of Israel, operates by an individual (hereinafter: “LironCert”). LironCert values and respects your privacy and want you to trust that your information is respected while you use www.lironcert.com (hereifafter: “Website” or “The Website” or “We”), that is why we will follow the terms set forth below, describing and guiding our treatment of your private information. The terms of the Privacy Policy detailed below form an integral part of the Terms of Use of our website. All definitions and terms appearing in the Privacy Policy shall have the same meaning ascribed to them under the Terms of Use, unless context demands otherwise.

This Privacy Policy details how your PII (as defined below) is collected via the Website is used and processed by LironCert.

IMPORTANT: By visiting LironCert’s Website you (“YOU“) give your consent to the Terms and Conditions of this Privacy Policy and consent that certain PPI (Defined below) that you submit or that is processed, used, or collected through or in connection with the website will be processed by LironCert and its affiliates in the manner and for the purposes described in the following privacy policy.

The definition here for “PII” to mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person; An identifiable natural person is the one who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

You are not legally required to provide us with PII, However, some use of the website requires that you provide PII. If you choose to withhold or delete any PII requested by us, it will not be possible for you to use the website. If you do not agree to the terms and conditions set forth herein please do not use the website.

1. PII We Collect and How We Use It. In order to provide and improve our Website, to understand the usage trends and preferences of the website users, for marketing and customer relations purposes, or for business purposes, we may collect and process PII, including the following types of PII:

1.1. Information You Provide. For some of the features of the Website, we may ask you to provide PII, including: Full name and e-mail address.

1.2. User Information. When you use the Website, we may automatically receive and record information from your device and browser, including without limitation technical and behavioral information, information and statistics, IP address, geolocation data (including country and city), device identifiers, internet service provider, connection speed, search history, type of browser, browser version, browser ID, device ID, cookie information, regional and language settings and software and hardware attributes, network status (WiFi / Cellular), and operating system information. Our systems may automatically record and store technical information regarding the method and nature of your use of the Website, including without limitation which pages or widgets of the Website you viewed, exit and entrance pages, images you viewed, videos you watched, impressions, the number of views they get and any actions you make in the Website, and your use time. We use your IP address to help with server problem diagnosis and to administer the Website. We may also perform IP lookups to determine which domain you are coming from to more accurately gauge our users’ demographics. We use all of the PII that we collect to understand the usage trends and preferences of our users, including recent visits to our Website and how you move around different sections of our Website for analytics purposes and in order to make our Website more intuitive.

1.3. User Communications. When you send an email or other communication to LironCert, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our Website.

1.4. Aggregate and Analytical Data. In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Website, we may conduct research on our customer demographics, interests and behavior, use of the Website, and other statistics, based on the PII, the information submitted on our Website and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents and business partners and also disclose aggregated information in order to describe our Website to current and prospective business partners or investors and to other third parties for other lawful purposes. This aggregate information does not identify you or any other individual personally.

1.5. Third-Parties. We may receive information about you from partners or a third-party service that we use for running advertisement campaigns or for website security purpose, for example, if ads are published on third-party websites and platforms (in which case they may pass along details on a campaign’s success).

2. Cookies. The Website may use Cookies and data files for its ongoing, proper operation, including the collection of statistical data on the use of the Website, verification of details, and customization of the Website to your personal preferences and for information security purposes.
In order to collect the data described herein we use temporary cookies that remain on your browser for a limited period of time. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to discover the identity of the user. A cookie is a small piece of information which is sent to and stored on your browser. Most browsers allow you to block cookies but you may not be able to use some features on the Website if you block them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie (this enables you to decide if you want to accept it or not). We may use the following third party cookies under their respective terms: google.com, cloudflare.com. We may use Web beacons to deliver cookies, count visits and to tell if an email has been opened and acted upon.

3. Links. Links to third party services, widgets, features, sites and applications may be provided by LironCert as a convenience to our users. LironCert and/or its representative is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of other sites and applications and you visit them at your own risk. This Privacy Policy applies solely to PII collected or used by us.

4. Minors. Our website is restricted to users who are 16 years of age or older. We do not permit users under the age of 16 to use the website and we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 16.

5. Data processing. The following or the legal basis under which we process your information in the manners specified above:

5.1. Performance of a contract to which you, the data subject, is a party – many of the uses described above are actions that involved processing of your information in order to meet our undertakings to you and respond to your requests and indications within the website.

5.2. Legitimate interests: We may use your information where we have legitimate interests to do so. For instance, we analyze users’ behavior on our website or services to continuously improve our offerings, we suggest offers we think might interest you.

5.3. Legal requirements – we process information for fraud detection and other legal purposes (such as accounting regulations).

5.4. Consent – some of the information you provide is based on your agreement and will to provide it, such as the feedback that you provide to us through the dedicated form or in any other way, expressing your opinions and recommendations regarding the Website. In addition, we may ask you from time to time, through the Website, to provide your consent for specific uses. It is your right to withdraw consent at any time, either by contacting our e-mail address below.

6. PII Sharing.

6.1. We use third party services to host our website and database or other related service in which your information is stored;

6.2. We use third party services to help us improve website security by using content delivery network service and web security services.;

6.3. We use third parties to help us operate and improve our website. These third parties assist us with various tasks, including analytics, customer care, and marketing, advertising, and security operations.

6.4. We use third party service providers to manage our mailing lists and communications, whether through mobile text messaging or via bulk emailing services.

6.5. We may transfer your information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, or other form of restructuring or reorganization, a well as in case of dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control – to whomever assumes control instead of us on the information, and to the applicable legal authorities as well as legal counsels and other professional counsels involved such as accountants, and other officers of the government or of the applicable judiciary instance.

6.6. We may disclose your information if reasonably necessary: (i) to comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government / law enforcement investigation or other legal requirements; (ii) to assist in the prevention or detection of crime (subject in each case to applicable law); or (iii) to protect the safety of any person (iv) if disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (v) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our users, business partners or other interested parties; (vi) to enforce our agreements with you; and (vii) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

6.7. In certain instances, or for other purposes not mentioned here, we may ask for your consent to share your information with third parties. In such cases we will only share such information subject to your consent.
We may use and share non-personal information (meaning information that, by itself, does not identify who you are such as device information, general demographics, general behavioral data, geolocation in de-identified form), under any of the above circumstances.

7. PII Security. While LironCert procures and employs appropriate measures (given that nature of the information, processing activities, purposes of the processing and sensitivity of the information provided) and procedures in order to protect your information and reduce the risk of unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure or destruction of such information, these measures and procedures do not ensure absolute security. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, LironCert does not guarantee that the website and/or its services will be completely immune to unauthorized access to the information on the website, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
In case we have any reason to believe that there is any risk to breach of security, or if we detect such threat or risk, LironCert may suspend without notification, all or any part of the website and/or services.
We encourage any user to let LironCert know immediately if you have any grounds to believe that a security incident happened or whether you think your information is subject to a security breach. For these purposes please contact LironCert (info AT lironcert.com)

8. Data Retention. We retain your PII only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or to comply with any applicable legal or ethical reporting or document retention requirements.
Legal basis for our processing, in case(s):

8.1. We must keep it to comply with applicable law;

8.2. We must keep it to evidence our compliance with applicable law (for instance, records of consents to our Terms, Privacy Policy and other similar consents are kept for five years);

8.3. There is an outstanding issue, claim or dispute requiring us to keep the relevant information until it is resolved; or

8.4. The information must be kept for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention and enhancing users’ safety and security.

9. Data Integrity. LironCert processes PII only for the purposes for which it was collected or used and in accordance with this Privacy Policy or any applicable service agreements or Terms. We review our data collection, usage, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, use, store and process the PII needed to provide or improve our Website. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the PII we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to update or correct their PII whenever necessary. Nothing in this Privacy Policy is interpreted as an obligation to store PII, and we may, at our own discretion, delete or avoid from recording and storing any and all information.

10. Transfer across boundaries of the information. Our provision of our website or service, involves cross-border data transfers, from any location from which a user may access the Website or service, to the United States of America and to Israel. For the avoidance of doubt, where the service allows for users to be located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), their personal information is transferred to countries outside of the EEA.
Our legal basis for performing such transfer across boundaries are:

1. Model Clauses. We use standard contract clauses, that are binding standards of processing of personal data committed to contractually by third parties processing information for us and on our behalf, approved by the European Commission.

2. In the absence of Model Clauses, Your consent. By using the Website or service, you agree and understand that your information may be transferred from the EEA or other countries in which you may be using the Website or service, to other countries outside your own location (including outside the EEA), and specifically to the USA. You agree to such transfer, and you may understand that data processed in the USA is subject to different data protection laws, which may sometimes grant lesser degree of protection that the privacy laws and regulations applicable within the EEA for example.

3. With respect to the transfer of your information to our third party cloud service providers, we are using the Privacy Shield framework, as a mechanism to transfer your information safely.

11. Data subjects rights. If you are located in the EEA, you have the following rights with respect to your data under the EEA applicable law.
• Delete your Account. In case you have an active account on this website, you can stop all information collection and processing and request deletion of all of your information, for this purpose please contact LironCert (info AT lironcert.com). If you delete your account, we will not have any information about you and will not be able to re-associate your activity with previous activity.
• Keep in mind, we may reject requests for certain reasons, including if the request is unlawful or if it may infringe on trade secrets or intellectual property or the privacy of another user.
• Also, we may not be able to accommodate certain requests to object to the processing of personal information, where (i) the processing is based on our legitimate interest, in which case we are not obliged to allow portability of the information; (ii) the processing is based on our need to perform our contract with you, in which case we are not obliged to allow the right to object to the processing of the information.
• In certain countries, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the appropriate supervisory authority in charge of data protection, in case you think that we are breaching any of your right relating to your personal data. The complaint may be lodged at the country which is your place of residence, your place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
If you are located in Israel – if the information in LironCert’s database is used to personally contact you, on the basis of your belonging to a certain population segment, determined according to one or more attributes of people whose names are included in the database (“Commercial Offer”), then you are legally entitled, under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 5741-1981, to demand in writing that the information about you be deleted from the database. In such a case, LironCert will delete only the information it requires in order to send you Commercial Offers as aforesaid. LironCert will continue to legally keep information it requires for the purpose of managing its business or collecting payments due to it, including the documentation of commercial and other activities you performed in the Website, but this information will no longer be used for sending you offers. If, within 30 days, no notice stating that the information LironCert was requested to delete was indeed deleted in accordance with this section, then you will be entitled to approach the court, in the manner prescribed in the regulations under the law, for the court to order LironCert to do so.
You may exercise the above rights by sending a request to info AT lironcert.com.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy. LironCert may change from time to time the provisions of the Privacy Policy. If material changes are made in this Policy, in the provisions dealing with the use of personal information provided by you, then a notice regarding this matter will be published on the Website.

13. Questions. Our email for any concern or question relating to this privacy policy is: info AT lironcert.com .

Last Date Updated: October 9, 2023.