HAM-LET Privacy Statement

1.  Introduction

This privacy statement (“Statement”) applies to Ham-Let (Israel-Canada) Ltd and all its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, "Ham-Let", "we," or "us").

 

The security and privacy of your information are very important to us. Whether you are purchasing one of our products or services or just visiting our website, we want you to trust us with managing and protecting the information that you provide us with. We have prepared this statement to explain more about who we are and how we collect and manage your information.

 

By using any of our products or services (including our website) and/or by agreeing to this Statement, e.g., in the context of registering for any of our products or services or by any other means, you understand and acknowledge that we will collect and use personal data as described in this Statement.

 

The website is not directed toward children or minors, and an individual must be aged eighteen (18) or over to use our system.

 

2. Who we are and how can you contact us

Ham-Let (Israel-Canada) Ltd.

PO Box 824

Nazareth Illit, 17000, Israel.

Tel.: +972-4-6414141

Fax: +972-4-6418377

Email: privacy.enquiries@ham-let.com

Our website: www.Ham-Let.com

 

Ham-Let is the "Controller" for the purposes of EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR").

 

Questions, comments, requests and complaints regarding this Statement and the information we hold are welcome and should be addressed to us by using the contact details above. All requests will be dealt with promptly and efficiently.

 

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the relevant supervisory authority for data protection issues. however, we will appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the authorities, so please feel free to contact us in the first instance.

 

3. Information we may collect from you

"Personal Data", or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.

 

We collect personal data from you voluntarily when you provide such personal data to us, or via our services with which you interact. We may also be given other personal data relating to you by other persons, or we may obtain such other personal data about you as may be provided to us in the course of our legitimate business activities.

 

You do not have to provide us with your information, but in some cases, if you do not, it may mean that you are unable to use our services.  For example, we may be unable to complete a requested reservation unless you provide us with your address.

 

While providing services to you, we may collect and process the following data, which might contain your Personal Data:

  • Identity Data - includes full name, username or any similar identifier, photo as provided by you, marital status, title, date of birth and gender;

  • Contact Data- includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers, website;

  • Reservations Data– includes information about your reservations as well as past reservation, products you have purchased etc.;

  • Financial Data- includes payment card details, bank account, etc.;

  • Usage Data - includes information about how you use our website and services;

  • Technical Data - includes internet protocol (IP) address, the device you are using, browser type and version, screen resolution, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website;

  • Marketing and Communications Data- includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

 

We may also collect and process any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data, Criminal information), but that’s only if and when you provide such data, upon your sole discretion.

 

All the data provided by you, might be kept and arranged inside your "profile" in our website. We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your Personal Data but is not reveal your identity.

 

4. The ways in which your Personal Data is being Collected

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

 

  • Direct interactions - You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms (e.g. "Contact Us" or "Newsletter Subscription", "Sign-up process" etc.) or by corresponding with us by phone, email or otherwise.

  • Automated technologies or interactions- As you interact with our website or any other system operated by us, we may automatically collect Personal Data (please refer to the description below, under "Cookies Usage").

  • Third parties or publicly available sources- We may receive Personal Data about you from various third parties and public sources, e.g.: advertising and social networks, analytics providers, search information providers.

 

 

5. Cookies Usage

Like many other websites, our website, may use Cookies or Other Technologies (such as "pixel tags", "web beacons", links in emails, JavaScript, device IDs assigned by Google or Apple, Adobe data or similar technologies, collectively "Cookies").

 

Cookies are a small text file that is placed onto an Internet user’s web browser or device and is used to remember as well as obtain information about that party. Cookies and Other Technologies allow us and third parties, to obtain information about your visits to our websites, including to analyze your visiting patterns. We use this information to process your reservations or requests and to deliver online and mobile advertisements, messages, and content for us and others that are specific to your interests. Cookies may be used on a website in order to improve your experience. In some instances, where permitted under the applicable law, cookies may also be used for certain advertising campaigns.

 

We may use various types of Cookies:

Essential Cookies– which are necessary for the website to work properly;

Functional Cookies– designated to save your settings on the website - your language preference or other view preferences;

Session Cookies– used to support the functionality of the website – such Cookies are stored only temporarily during a browsing session and are deleted from your device when you close the browser.

Targeting Cookies- these cookies are used to collect information from you to help us to improve our products and services as well as serve you with targeted advertisements that we believe will be relevant to you.

Social networks Cookies -plug-in Cookies which enable the sharing of information with your social networks accounts in a smooth and seamless manner.

Analytics Cookies -give us aggregated information which enables us to improve the way our website works.

Please note that the data collected by use of Cookies may be linked to and combined with any other data, including Personal Data.

Managing cookies and opting out: aside from some Essential and other technical Cookies as described above, you can always choose to configure your browser to reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set, but in some cases certain services, features, and functionality may not be available to you.

You can always delete your browser history in order to delete any cookies from your computer.

 

6. The Legal Basis for the usage of your Personal Data

We will only process and use your Personal Data when the law allows us to, i.e. when we have a Lawful Basis for such usage. Such lawful and legal basis can be any of the following:

  • Processing actions which are related to your reservations, to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered between you and us. For example, making and managing your order and providing you with our services and products;

  • Our use of your information is necessary to meet responsibilities we have to our regulators, tax officials, law enforcement, or otherwise meet our legal responsibilities;

  • Our use of your information is in our legitimate interest as a commercial organization. For example, to operate and improve our services and to keep people informed about our products and services (including for profiling and targeted advertising). In these cases, we will look after your information at all times in a way that is proportionate and respects your privacy rights, making sure our legitimate interest is not overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms;

  •  Your consent for the process of your Personal Data, upon your sole discretion and free will to use our website for making online purchases;

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In general, and as detailed above, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your Personal Data.  Yet, in any case in which you have provided your consent to our processing of your information, you can withdraw this consent at any time by contacting us through the contact details provided above.

 

7. The purposes of the processing

We process your Personal Data for completing and fulfilling your orders and reservations. In addition, we might use your data in order to: enable you to use our services in the most effective way, including the personalization of your experience by presenting content tailored to your interests; to manage your data in the website and to send you administrative information; to meet or comply with any applicable rules, laws, regulations, codes of practice or guidelines issued by any legal or regulatory body; assess or evaluate the effectiveness of our system and services, as well as any technical and organizational measures designated for the protection of your Personal Data; protect our rights and legitimate interests, as well as defend against any lawsuit, legal claim or complaint; to conduct any other activities that are required to provide our services and the proper use of our website.

 

8. Transfer and disclosure of Personal Data

We are not in the business of selling your Personal Data. However, we may disclose your Personal Data to third parties in a variety of circumstances in the ordinary course of operating our business, such as:

-          Disclosure of your data to third-party service providers, providing us with services supporting our ordinary course of business, e.g. storage providers, providing us with system, storage and computing services, or billing and delivery services;

-          Transfer of data inside our group of companies and to our affiliates, as part of our daily conduct and in order to provide you with better and additional services;

-          Use of third-party services supporting our marketing efforts, in accordance with applicable law;

-          When we have a legal obligation to do so, or when where are allowed to do so under our legitimate interests.

 

In any such transfer we will take steps to make sure such transfer is carefully managed to protect your privacy rights:

-          transfers within our group and affiliates, will be subject to internal policies and procedures made to ensure that your data receives an adequate and consistent level of protection as required by applicable law;

-          transfers to any subcontractor or processor will be subject to contractual terms ensuring the security and protection of any Personal Data, in accordance with applicable law provisions;

-          any transfer of data which originates in the European Union ("EU") to a country outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), shall be made in compliance with the provisions of chapter 5 of the GDPR. Such transfer can be made to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangements are in place to protect your privacy rights, e.g. the EU-US Privacy Shield;

 

any requests for information we receive from law enforcement or regulators will be carefully validated before the disclosure of any Personal Data.

 

9. Links to other sites

Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

 

10. How we secure your information

We are committed to protecting the security of your Personal Data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access and use. However, the collection, transmission and storage of information can never be guaranteed to be completely secure. Yet, we take steps to ensure that appropriate security safeguards are in place to protect your information, and we will continue to revise our policies and implement additional security features.

 

 

11. Retaining your information in our systems

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. We maintain a data retention policy which we apply to all the records we hold, ensuring minimization of retention periods.

 

In addition, we will retain your customer data under your "profile" for your convenience and for future reservation, until you ask us to delete your profile. Such deletion requests will be dealt promptly, but we might keep some of the reservation data (billing history, invoices, etc.), in accordance with our legal obligations as well as our legitimate business interests.

 

In some circumstances we may anonymize your Personal Data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may save and use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

 

12. Data Subjects' rights under EU data protection laws - GDPR

Under EU law, EU residents and individuals, have certain rights to apply to us to provide information or make amendments to how we process data relating them:

 

  •  Right to access your Personal Data - you can ask us to confirm whether or not we have and use your Personal Data, and if so, you can ask for a copy of your data;

  •  Right to correct your Personal Data- you can ask us to correct any of your Personal Data which is incorrect, after verifying the accuracy of the data first;

  • Right to erase your Personal Data- you can ask us to erase your Personal Data if you think we no longer need to use it for the purpose we collected it from you. you can also ask for such erasure in any case in which the process of your data was based on your consent, or where we have used it unlawfully or where we are subjsect to a legal obligation to erase your Personal Data.any request for such erasure will be subject to our obligations under the law (e.g. our obligation to keep some records for tax or customs purposes);

  • Right to restrict our use in your Personal Data- you can ask us to restrict our use of your Personal Data in certain circumstances;

  • Right to object to how we use your Personal Data- you can object to any use of your Personal Data which we have justified by our legitimate interest if you believe your fundamental rights and freedoms to data protection outweigh our legitimate interest in using the information;

  • You can always require us to refrain from using your data for direct marketing purposes;

  • You can ask us to transfer your information to another organization and/or provide you with a copy of your Personal Data.

 

These rights apply in certain circumstances in accordance with the provision of the GDPR (or any other applicable law). In addition, we may not always be able to do what you have asked, for example, if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if we are otherwise legally entitled to deal with the request in a different way. However, we encourage you to contact us with any such request, and we will be happy to assist you.

 

 

13. Special Notification for California Residents

Individual customers who reside in California and have provided their personal information to us may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Such requests must be submitted to us through the contact information Specified above.

 

 

14. Changes to this Privacy Statement

We reserve the right to change this statement from time to time at our sole discretion. If we make any changes, we will post those changes here so that you can see what information we gather, how we might use that information and in what circumstances we may disclose it. By continuing to use our site or our services or otherwise provide data after we post any such changes, you accept and agree to this statement as modified.

 

Effective as for April 2019