Last Revised: December 21, 2023

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Welcome to the Buy South North website (the “Website”), a website is operated by Nevo Networking and Community LTD (CC), registration no. 515591683, in order to assist eligible business owners from the southern and northern parts of Israel (including “Otef Aza” and “Kav Haymut”, respectively), who wish to offer gift cards through the Website, and that are affected by the war with Gaza and recent events near the Lebanon border, as listed in the online Website (Collectively “Nevo”, “We,” or “our”). Nevo is the one providing the business owners with the platform that enables them to sell gift cards.

 

Please read the following Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) as well as the Terms of Use as they govern your access and use of this Website.

 

We are committed to protecting the privacy and security of our customers and site visitors (“you”). We are fully committed to protect personal information relating to you (“Information” or “personal information”) and use it properly in compliance with data privacy laws. This Privacy Policy describes how we may collect and use Information relating to you, and the rights and choices available to our visitors and users regarding such information.

We strongly urge you to read this Privacy Policy and make sure you fully understand it before you access or use any of our services.

 

You are not legally required to provide us with any Information relating to you, and may do so (or avoid doing so) at your own free will and consent. However, not providing us with Information relating to you may not allow us to offer our full services on the Website. If you do not wish to provide us with Information relating to you, or to have it processed by us, please avoid any interaction with us or any use of our Website or services.

 

1. How we Collect and Use Information relating to you
We collect and use Information relating to you in a number of different ways:

 

• We may collect your personal Information, such as your name, address, email address, phone number, and other information that can be used to directly identify and contact you in order to:

1. Identify you when you visit the Website or contact us because we need to verify your identity. It helps us to keep Information relating to you safe. It is a legitimate interest for you and for us.

2. Deliver your purchases to you as part of our contract commitment to you.

3. Send you information about our products and services as detailed in the section

   about marketing messages below. Of course you can choose not to receive such messages. It is important for us to tell you about the best product and services we have to offer.

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• We may collect your purchase history in order to:

1. Provide customer service and support as part of our contract commitment to you.

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• We may collect information about your device (e.g., mobile device, laptop.), and how you use our Website as further described in Section 7 hereafter in order to:

1. Identify you when you visit our Website. That's the way we will be able to give you the best possible shopping experience.

2. Improve our Website and set default options for you (such as language and currency) improving your user experience in our Website.

3. Monitor visitors to our site and monitor the effectiveness of the system in order to protect our Website and to help make our service better.

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• We may collect information to and from social networks (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc.) you use to connect to our services in order to:

1. Identify you when you visit our Website to remember you. That's the way we will be able to give you the best possible shopping experience.

2. Offer social sharing features which will allow you to “Share” or “Like” on a social network. If you decide to use such features, it may allow the sharing and collection of information both to and from such social networks, so you should check the privacy policy of each social network before using such features.

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• We may also collect anonymous and aggregate Information (so that it does not identify you) and use it for purposes including testing our systems, research, data analysis, improving our Website and developing new products and services.

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To avoid any doubt, we will only use Information relating to you for the purposes set out in this section where we are satisfied that:

• Our use of Information relating to you is necessary to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you.

• Our use of Information relating to you is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have.

• Our use of Information relating to you is necessary to support legitimate interests that we have as a business, provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate, and that respects your privacy rights.

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2. Sharing Information relating to you:

We may share Information relating to you:

• With service providers such as payment service providers, warehouses, order packers, and delivery companies;

• We may also provide third parties with aggregated and anonymised information and analytics about our customers.

 

We may share Information relating to you in manners other than as described above, pursuant to your explicit approval, or if we are legally obligated to do so. Moreover, we may transfer, share, disclose or otherwise use non-personal information in our sole discretion and without the need for further approval.

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We may share Information relating to you in manners other than as described above, pursuant to your explicit approval, or if we are legally obligated to do so. Moreover, we may transfer, share, disclose or otherwise use non-personal information in its sole discretion and without the need for further approval.

 

3. Marketing Communications
If you allow us, we will send you messages with marketing content to help you to be updated with our products and services. You have full control regarding such marketing communications you receive from us and you will be able to opt out from receiving future messages either by email, text messages or any other method we choose to communicate with you.

 

We will ensure that we will honour your opt-out request once we receive it. Please keep in mind that you may still receive messages from us while we process your request.
Please note that opting out of marketing messages will not stop service communications, such as order updates.

 

4. Where do we store Information relating to you
Information relating to you may be stored in data centres located in the Australia, Europe, United States of America and Israel.

 

5. Data Retention and Data Transfers
We may retain Information relating to you for as long as needed to provide you with our services.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which we process it, and the applicable legal requirements.

 

All Information processed by us may be transferred, processed, and stored anywhere in the world, including, but not limited to countries which may have data protection laws that are different from the laws where you live.

 

We endeavour to safeguard Information relating to you consistent with the requirements of applicable laws. If our use of the Information is governed by laws restricting the transfer of personal information to other countries that do not provide an adequate level of protection to the personal data, we will use appropriate safeguards, in particular, by way of entering into appropriate contractual agreements with the relevant recipients, or by adhering to equivalent data transfer regulations to protect the security and confidentiality of such personal Information.

 

6. Your Rights Regarding Information relating to you
We believe that it is imperative that you have control over Information relating to you. That’s why we enable you to access, receive a copy of, update, amend, delete, or limit the use of Information relating to you. Please contact us with your request through the channels and addresses described in the ‘Contact us’ section.
Before disclosing the requested information, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law (e.g., if your request is unfounded or unreasonable).
We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe imposed by local laws.
You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection, but we still recommend that you contact us first.

    

Additional Information for EU residents
If you reside in the EU, you may request to:

• Receive confirmation as to whether or not information concerning you is being processed, and access your stored information, together with certain supplementary information;

• Receive information you directly volunteer to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;

• Request rectification of Information relating to you that is in our control;

• Request erasure of Information relating to you;

• Object to the processing of information by us;

• Request to restrict processing of Information relating to you by us;

• Request the transfer of Information relating to you to another party; or

• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

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However, please note that these rights are not absolute and may be subject to our own legitimate interests and regulatory requirements. If you have any general questions about the information we collect and the ways we use it, please contact us in the manner set out below.

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If you are in Europe, the U.K., or Switzerland, when we transfer Information relating to you to a location outside of Europe, we will make sure that (i) there is a level of protection deemed adequate by the European Commission or (ii) that the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place (i.e., the applicable module of the Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to Regulation (E.U.) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council from June 4, 2021, as available here, and the ICO’s International Data Transfer Addendum to the E.U. Commission Standard Contractual Clauses version B1.0, in force from 21 March 2022, as it is revised under Section ‎‎18 of its Mandatory Clauses), or (iii) we comply with Data Privacy Framework as applicable to data transfers to the United States, or (iv) we use another legally recognized transfer mechanism in the applicable jurisdiction and (v) that we have your consent for the transfer outside of Europe.

 

We may store and process personal information in the USA, Australia, Europe, Israel, or other jurisdictions, whether by ourselves or with the help of our affiliates and service providers.

 

Data storage providers are contractually committed to protect and secure your data. Among other things, we will ensure that there is an adequate level of protection or that relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place for the international transfer of our EU users’ data.

When we transfer EU personal information to a third country that the European Commission did not find will adequately protect Information relating to you, we ensure that it has taken additional measures to comply with the European data protection laws.

 

Additional Information for US citizens
If you are a US citizen using our services, please note:

• We collect Information relating to you for the business purposes described above in the section titled “How we Collect and Use Information relating to you”.

• We may disclose Information relating to you to an organization for a business purpose. When we disclose information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient organization to keep that information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract with us. We disclose Information relating to you for a business purpose to the categories of third parties listed above in the section titled “Sharing Information relating to you”.

• You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of the rights described in this section. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your right to know or delete the Information we collected about you.

• We do NOT sell (as such term is defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)) Information relating to you to third parties, and we have not sold personal information in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Policy.

 

7. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and other similar technologies in order for us to provide our service and ensure that it performs properly and to personalize your experience.
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See below accurate information about the type, categories, purpose and duration of cookies.