Ahdut ve Geula Terms of Service
Last Updated on September 11, 2016
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These terms of service constitute a binding agreement between yourself, a natural person who chose to use the Ahdut ve Geula website and Dalia Arazi Ltd, an Israeli Corporation who operates the site.
We acknowledge that terms of service may be a long and complicated document, which may be hard to read, and therefore we present to you, in advance, the summary of this agreement, which is unbinding and shall not be used to interpret the agreement. Please take the time to read the full agreement, as it will affect your rights and obligations relating to the website.
Arazi allows content creators and users to present their works to the public in various forms (the “Content”).
The only Content you may present is Content which you own, and does not infringe on third party rights.
Other users may respond or comment on users' content, view and even share them with friend on social networks.
Users may charge users money for viewing Content through the service.
In such cases, Arazi shall charge the users a commission for presenting the content and collecting the funds.
While you use the service, some personally identifiable information about you may be collected. Some of this information may be conveyed to users, and some to other 3rd parties who provide Arazi the payment services.
Finally, no matter what, Arazi shall not be liable for any damage caused as a result of the service, its unavailability or malfunctions, no matter what.
1 Eligibility & Registration: By accepting these terms, you warrant that you adhere to the specified terms and, if you are acting’s as an agent of a corporation, that all of such corporation's end-users and employees who have access to the Services agree and adhere to such terms as well:
1.1 Eligibility: You are eligible to enter into this Agreement and (1) your ability to enter into any agreement was not revoked by any competent or judicial authority; (2) you are an adult, or obtained your parents' and/or your legal guardians' consent to enter into this Agreement; (3) Arazi did not prohibit you to enter into this Agreement in the past; (4) you do not live in a proscribed state or are a member of a terror organization; (5) you hold all the permits, if you act on behalf of a corporation, to enter into this agreement.
1.2 Personal Use Only: Your use of the services shall be solely personal; you shall not convey, distribute or public any content or part of the services to any 3rd parties apart where specifically possible by the service itself (such as the Facebook “Share” button). Any commercial use of the services shall be made through the services themselves.
Moreover, in respect to sharing content from the Website, you are prohibited to copy the website's content in full, either if they are editorial content or user generated content (apart from content who you are the owner of). For example, you cannot publish photos that others published through the website by uploading them to Facebook.
1.3 Ethical and Adequate Use: you shall use the services only in a bone-fide manner and refrain from any activity which may prevent, interrupt or delay the services to any other person. You shall not use the services to send spam, send unsolicited communications, harass, stalk or threaten other users or any computerized system.
Moreover, you shall not use automated means, such as software, crawlers, robots or scripts to harvest information, process it, caching it or otherwise provide the content to any 3rd party. You shall not create any script software or code that changes, disrupts, diminishes or adds functionality to the services.
1.4 No License: Apart from where you are specifically granted the right to do so, you are prohibited from using Arazi’s and the other user’s intellectual property.
1.5 Authentication: When registering to the service, Arazi may authenticate your identity through various services, such as Facebook Connect, and may, according to its sole discretion, request additional identification. If you register through your electronic mail address, then Arazi may authenticate such address by sending an electronic message to such address, and it may include a link or information to authenticate your identity as the account holder.
1.6 Securing Your Account: Due to the sensitivity of information stored on your behalf on service and the potential risk, you may be required to enter a password for your account. Please do not allow others to use your account.
Arazi strongly encourages the use of strong accounts (such as, ^e6usrh$@V&K% or correcthorsebatterystaple , but don't use these two) and that using the same password for more than one user or in more than one website is considered a bad practice. For more information about strong passwords and how to find strong passwords that are easy to remember please read the following pages:
http://www.baekdal.com/insights/password-security-usability
https://xkcd.com/936/
1.6.1 One Account for One User: Arazi's policy is to have one account for one person, and one person for one account. You cannot hold more than one account, and you cannot allow others to access your own account. If you are a corporation, then you can provide access to your account for specific employees, but you will be the one held liable for any damage which they may cause.
1.6.2 Providing your Password to others: You are specifically prohibited from sharing your email and password with any 3rd party.
1.6.3 Retaining Your Login Details: Arazi discourages the use of password managers to store your passwords.
1.6.4 Notice: You are required to inform Arazi, immediately, upon any case where you believe that your account was breached and in any case you are in knowledge of any unauthorized use of any Arazi account.
1.6.5 Arazi's Liability: Arazi shall not be liable in any case where you did not adhere to these security guidelines and shall not be able to assist you in any manner should you refrain from using Arazi's best practices as published from time to time.
2 The Services: The Services which may be provided by Arazi are the following, where Arazi may, from time to time, amend, add or depreciate some of the services, with respect to the website's dynamic nature. Some of the services may be provided to certain users, and some may be provided against payment.
2.1 Creating Content: Arazi may allow you to create Content as a user, design it (according to the system's functionality), create spaces, choose the cover photo and advertising and create tests for the Content.
Arazi may limit your storage space, size of photos and length of texts, all with accordance to the services' functionality.
Please keep in mind that after editing and publishing the Content, you may not be allowed to change it.
2.2 Charges: Arazi may allow you to select whether to charge other users payment for viewing your Content, or present your Content free of charge. Where, in accordance to the payment clause under this Agreement, if the Content is with charge, then Arazi may be entitled to a commission for its services, and where the Content may be free of charge, then Arazi may be entitled to a payment for its hosting and presentation of the Content.
2.3 Professional Index: Arazi shall allow you to register in a professional index where you can present a short text describing your services and links to your portfolio, in order to promote your business.
2.4 Viewing Mess: Arazi may allow you to view other Mes, against payment or free of charge, dependent on their owner's selection.
2.5 Comments and Sharing: Arazi shall allow you, through 3rd party services, to comment on contents or share them through social networks, all through the limitations of the services' functionality.
2.6 Display of Advertisements: Arazi may allow you to present advertisements, where the revenue share between yourself and Arazi shall be determined by any manner published by Arazi.
2.7 Widgets: Arazi may allow you to integrate social widgets or tools, either for payment or for free.
3 Payment and Fees: The services shall be provided to you with consideration of the payments, and all with respect to the services granted. You acknowledge that when a payment shall be requested from you in order to use a service from the range of services provided, you shall be notified.
3.1 Payment to view Content: Some of the Content presented in the website and prepared by other users may require payment to view. In such cases, Arazi shall charge a fee to view such Content, and convey the fee to the users.
3.2 Payment to present Content: In any case you shall wish to present your Content to the public free of charge, then Arazi shall be entitled to charge a fee from you for presenting the Content.
3.3 Rates: Arazi shall, from time to time, deem rates for the service, including commissions for presenting the service or revenue share fees. Such rates may be annual, monthly, weekly, daily or one-time fees.
3.4 Commissions: Should you present a paid Content, then Arazi shall be allowed to charge a fee for its services, according to the rate schedules as presented in the website from time to time. This commission shall be paid and deducted from any sums that Arazi shall charge to view the Me.
3.5 Payments: The payments according to these terms may be made by credit card, PayPal or any other mean that Arazi shall approve.
3.6 Refunds: As Arazi's services are intangible goods and contain intellectual property, then you may not be entitled for a refund for any of your payments.
3.7 Paying users: Should you choose to present a Content and collect payments for viewing it, you shall be provided once every quarter a report which includes the revenues generated by selling permission to view the Content to other users, after a deduction of bad debt, collection costs, Arazi's commission, clearing charges and any other expense which Arazi required to collect the payments. Should the amount be higher than 500 ILS, then it shall be paid, within 60 days of the end of the quarter, by check, and/or PayPal, against a duly invoice which you shall issue to Arazi upon payment. Should the fee be lower than 500 ILS, then it shall be accrued to your credit on the next quarter, until you reach 500 ILS.
Arazi may pay you either with cash or cash equivalent.
3.8 Withholding: In any case that Arazi shall receive a complaint relating to any user generated content you created, it shall be entitled to withhold any payment you may be entitled to in relation to such content, and even convey it to the complainant according to its sole discretion.
4 User Generated Content Policy: By either providing Arazi with textual, audiovisual, visual or other material or by using Arazi's Service to create content, You hereby accept Arazi Content Policy as set forth. You acknowledge that any violation of the Content Policy may cause termination of Your Service, removal of your content and legal action by both Arazi and the person whose rights were infringed. For the purpose of this Policy, the term Content shall refer to: (i) images and/or text used in creating content through the services, as well as comments, including comments using the website Facebook page; (ii) images or videos retrieved from 3rd parties in such items; (iii) description, text and information processed through Service; (iv) submissions made through Service.
4.1 License: You hereby warrant that you are the sole owner and proprietor of any Content you distribute through the service.
For the service, You hereby grant Arazi an irrevocable, permanent, unlimited, world-wide, royalty-free, sub licensable, non-exclusive license to use your Content and to allow users to view Your content according to the functionality of Service and through or other 3rd party services, including the creation of derivative works and the creation of three dimensional works.
4.2 Publicity License: You hereby grant Arazi the permission to use your name, image, information and likeness in relation to the content you posted. Meaning, that Arazi may use your face and profile photo to promote the content and even send them to 3rd parties to promote the content.
4.3 Offensive Content: You hereby warrant that Your Content is not offensive and does not infringe the right of any 3rd party, including, but not only:
4.3.1 Intellectual Property Infringing: Your content does not infringe any 3rd party copyright, design, patent, trademark, trade secrets or any other intellectual property rights.
4.3.2 Pornography: Your Content does not contain any text, image or depiction including nudity, profanity, sexual activity, sexual innuendos, sexually offensive or otherwise obscene.
4.3.3 Slanderous: Your Content does not slander, defame or otherwise harm the good name of others.
4.3.4 Hate Speech and Racism: Your Content does not include any hate speech or racist opinions, as well as does not incite others to violent acts against persons solely based on their inclusion in a specific group.
4.3.5 Scams: Your Content is not used to initiate any scam, market manipulation, pyramid scheme, phishing or otherwise any use which may be used to extract goods and/or money from others, including any virtual property.
4.4 Warranty: You hereby warrant that You are either the sole proprietor or a designated licensee of any content You post through the service and that no other party's rights are infringed or violated by your use of the content and the Service. You moreover warrant that no legal claim, dispute or lawsuit was filed against You or threatened against You for publishing content through the Service.
4.5 Notice & Takedown: In order to protect Your rights, Arazi has set up this Notice and Takedown Mechanism to help You protect Your Content and to ensure that no unauthorized use is made.
4.5.1 Prescreen and Moderation: You acknowledge that Arazi cannot pre-screen all Content, but that it shall have the right (but not the obligation) in its sole discretion to refuse or remove any Content or User Account that is available via the Service. Arazi shall have the right to remove any Content or User Account that violates these Terms of Service or is otherwise objectionable, or for any other reason.
4.5.2 Disclosure of Content: You acknowledge and agree that Arazi may preserve Content and may also disclose Content if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such preservation or disclosure is reasonably necessary to: (a) comply with legal process; (b) enforce these Terms of Service; (c) respond to claims that any Content violates the rights of third-parties; or (d) protect the rights, property, or personal safety of Arazi, its Users, and the public. You understand that the technical processing and transmission of the Service, including your Content, may involve (a) transmissions over various networks and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices.
4.5.3 Harmless: You agree and warrant to hold Arazi and its users harmless and to immediately indemnify Arazi or its users for any claim of copyright infringement, trademark dilution or patent infringement for any use of Content according to these Terms of Service. You also agree to indemnify Arazi and/or its users for any 3rd party lawsuit for copyright infringement due to their use of Content made available by you.
4.6 Takedown: Arazi values your right and others rights, and therefore shall comply with all state regulations regarding 3rd party rights. Should you encounter any Content which you believe to be in violation of any of your rights, good name or copyrights, Please file an infringement complaint to our Content officer at support@mecypedia.com
Arazi shall examine your complaint and shall forward it to the user who published said content for his answer, if possible.
Should your complaint be false, harassing or in order to prevent legal use of Service, you shall bear all liability to compensate the user which you reported as infringing and/or Arazi. In your complaint you will be required to inform Arazi with: (i) a written statement regarding what content infringes your rights and proof that You hold those rights; (ii) what is the exact item URL of the content; (iii) notification that you believe that the use made by the content is not considered fair-use, criticism, consumer protest or any other protected speech.
4.6.1 Moderation: Pursuant to any report, and promptly thereafter, Arazi will moderate the Content and review your request; Arazi shall notify the user who posted the Content on Your complaint, either by SMS or through a push notification, including your information and request his response, if possible.
4.6.2 Removal or Restoration: Should the user who posted the content fail to respond within 96 hours, Arazi shall remove the content; had he responded, Arazi will inspect his response and should any material questions of fact or law arise, Arazi shall forward his personal information to you.
4.7 Indemnification:You hereby warrant and agree to hold Arazi harmless and to indemnify Arazi for any damage, loss, expense, legal expense or cost incurred as a result of (i) Your posting of any Content in direct violation of Arazi Content Policy, including any false representation; OR (ii) any claim, complaint or notification filed maliciously or negligently against any User where no such claim had any legal standing.
5 Privacy: While using the services, Arazi may retain certain personally identifiable information about you. Therefore, it is important you read this Privacy Policy to understand the uses of such information.
5.1 What Personal Information Is Retained? Arazi may retain some personal information that you provided it, including your name, contact details, your email, your profile in social networks, the IP Address which you used service from and similar information. Arazi may moreover store a cookie on your computer to authenticate your identity.
5.2 What Non-Personal Information Is Retained? Arazi may also retain some non-personal information about you, including your browser type, the pages that referred you to the service, your use of the service, the pages you viewed and more.
5.3 Who Else Has Access To Your Information? The information about you may be accessed by Arazi's employees, contractors and 3rd parties who provide it with services; moreover, if you pay for viewing a profile, then some of the information may also be transferred to the user who created the profile.
5.4 How is the Information Processed? Your information is processed in several ways: personal information is used by Arazi to authenticate your identity, publish content, contact you (including by newsletters), provide you with services and enforce these terms. Moreover, non-personal information may use Arazi to improve the service, display advertisements or provide profiles to Arazi's advertisers.
5.5 Which 3rd Parties Have Access To Your Information? The website uses several 3rd party services to provide you with better access, advertisements, sharing of information through social networks and other services. You should inspect each of these services' privacy policy.
5.6 Newsletters and Contacts: Should you provide Arazi with your contact information and register to its Newsletter, then you provide your consent that Arazi may send you promotional messages as defined in article 30A to the Telecommunications Act, and to provide your information to Arazi's business partners for such contact.
5.7 Can You Review Or Delete The Information? In order to review or delete your information, you should send an email to support@mecypedia.com
6 Warranty: Arazi does not warrant for Service and supplies it on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. Your Use of Service is at your own risk and under your liability. Arazi makes no warranty that (i) the Service will meet your requirements and (ii) the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free and (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the service will be accurate or reliable and (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained by You through service will meet your expectations, or (v) any errors in the service will be corrected.
7 No Liability: For no case and for no reason shall Arazi be held liable for any damage, direct or indirect, consequential, exemplary, physical or special, to you, any other user or any 3rd party due to its misperformance of duties herein. Arazi provides Service on an AS-IS basis and shall not be held liable, to the extent permitted by law, by any case of misconduct, negligence, gross negligence, malice or any other mean, to any damages or loss of property, virtual property, reputation and business reputation, user account information including login information, loss of profit, loss of good name, all resulting from the use or inability to use Arazi services.
8 Amending These Terms: Arazi may amend these terms from time to time, and it may update you on such amendments. Should you decide that any amendment does not represent your understanding with Arazi, then you can, by yourself, terminate these terms. In such case, your content shall remain stored on the service and be used by Arazi's policy as applicable in the relevant dates. In any case these terms shall not have any retroactive effect and shall not apply without your consent. Therefore, you warrant to inspect, from time to time, these terms.
9 Terminating The Services: Arazi shall have the right to terminate these terms, the services or any service provided by it for any reason, for all users or to you alone, for any reason and without reason, including, without limitation, for lack of use or if Arazi believes that you breached these terms or acted in a way that might harm the spirit of these terms. Arazi may also, and according to its sole discretion, cease from providing the service or any part thereof, with or without notice. You acknowledge that any termination of your access to the service or services under these terms may occur without prior notice and acknowledge that Arazi may immediately terminate the services or remove your content. Moreover, Arazi shall never be liable for any damage occurred by you or any 3rd party as a result of terminating these terms.
10 3rd Party Content: Arazi may, at its own discretion and for its causes, include within Service any links for 3rd party websites, advertisements or any other 3rd party content. Arazi does not warrant for 3rd Party Content or availability thereof nor does it endorse it. Arazi shall not be held, or claimed to be held, liable for any 3rd Party Content, its legality or illegality, its adequacy with regulations and its quality.
11 Entire Agreement: These terms constitute your entire understanding with Arazi and shall only be amended by written instrument. Any waiver, delay or postponement by Arazi shall not be considered as an amendment.
12 Jurisdiction: This agreement shall be governed exclusively by the laws of the state of Israel and any dispute arising between the parties shall be exclusively brought to the competent courts of Tel-Aviv.
13 No Class Action: You hereby warrant not to engage in any class action against Arazi and to seek any damages caused to you personally.