Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

www.7amleh.org

Effective date: 1 .1. 2023

7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media (the “Organization”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) respects your privacy and takes your personal data seriously. Please read the following to learn about our practices in processing personal data we receive through our website including any subdomains at www.7amleh.org (the "Website") and through additional sources and occasions, such as our social media accounts, on-line and offline events (collectively the “SM Accounts and Events”).

Contents:

What personal data we collect, and how is it Being Processed
How we share your personal data
Data transfers and global processing
Data Subject Rights
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Security of Processing
Data Retention
Changes to This Privacy Notice
California and Delaware “do not track” Disclosures
General
What Personal Data We Collect, How, and How is it Being Processed

1.1 The following table describes the personal data we collect through the Website, SM Accounts and Events, and for what purposes it may be processed:

Instance in which data is collected	Categories of personal data that are processed	Purposes of processing	Legal basis for processing (under GDPR)
When you subscribe to join our mailing list on our “join our mailing list” form available on the Website	Your first and last name and email address.	To contact you occasionally with communications to send newsletters and event invitations subject to applicable laws (for example, where required, subject to your consent).	Consent (Article 6(1)(a))
When you make a donation through the Website.	Cardholder name and email addresses as well as donation amount, frequency and currency information.	To process your donation To send you transactional communications in relation to the donation and documentation (e.g. thank you email, acknowledgment and receipts)
When you register to an event published on our website and SM accounts	First and last name, email address, phone number, gender and country/geographic location, disability, allergy/ special need or food preferences.	To contact you and send further details about the specific event To be added to our mailing list subject to your consent, for as long as you have not opted out (excluding transactional emails related to the event) To send SMS messages about the event If the training/event is offline to know if you need accommodation
When you register to our event through designated web pages	First and last name, titles, indication of your geo-location, email address, mobile phone number, gender, sector of your employment, session/workshops you choose to attend	To contact you and send further details about the specific event To be added to our mailing list To send SMS messages about the event To identify you when you are logging into an event
Information we obtain from you when you participate in our on-ground events	First and last name, titles, Email, mobile number, signature and organization/party he/she represents.	To provide you with the materials from the event To interest you concerning our future events To administer the event To ensure donors' knowledge that the event is carried out and participants attended
Data that you provide passively (by using the Website, by navigating the screens, clicking on buttons etc.). This data is collected using third party services by means of placing cookies, pixels or web beacons. For more information, please look at the Cookies section.	Your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.	To improve, modify and update services and content offered on the Website. To monitor and ensure the orderly and proper operation and development of the Website and associated services. To improve and customize the user experience and the content that is presented on the Website. To support our marketing efforts and to allow us to provide you with customized content.	Our legitimate business interest (Article 6)1)(f))

1.2 You are not obliged under any applicable law to provide us any of the above information and you may be able to opt not to disclose your personal data to the Organization. However, not providing the Organization with certain data may mean that we cannot provide you with certain functionalities, process any requests or allow you to participate in our events.

1.3 In addition to the above uses of your personal data, we will also process your personal data for the following purposes:

We use all the above personal data to operate, maintain, and provide to you the Website features and functionality and to provide you with the services as requested by you.
To prevent, detect and fight fraud or other illegal or unauthorized activities.
To ensure legal compliance – from our side (to legal requirements that apply to us) and from your side (compliance with legal requirements applicable to you).

1.4 We will not use your personal data for any personal profiling and automated decision making regarding you based on such profiling.

1.5 We limit access by our employees to your information only to those who were specifically authorized by the Organization to access your information, as part of their job.

1.6 We use anonymized, aggregate data, in order to gain insight on how you and other users use the Website, our social media accounts, participate in our events and try and improve it, as well as to plan our marketing and advertisements.

1.7 All of the above processing is based on our legitimate business interest (GDPR Article 6(1)(f).

2. How we Share Your Personal Data

2.1 No Sale to Third Parties: We do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party for advertising, marketing or any other purpose.

2.2 Service Providers: we employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them in order to provide the services to us. The categories of third-party recipients of the personal data from us are as follows: Cloud hosting services, email campaign automation, communication automation, social media advertisement, web page building tools and payment gateway services, analytics service providers. Our service providers do not have any right to use your personal information collected from our Website and/or SM Accounts and Events beyond what is necessary for the purpose of facilitating our provision of the Website and/or various events.

2.3 Compliance with the Law: We may disclose your information only to the extent we believe it is necessary under applicable law in order to comply with the law, such as to comply with a subpoena, regulation or legal request, respond to a government request, to address fraud or security issues, to protect the safety of any person, to enforce our agreements with you; to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing or to protect our own rights or property. This includes sharing such information with our legal counsels. If you are located in the EU, we may only do so based on legal requirements specified above by EU authorities.

2.4 Business Transfers: Subject to your consent, where such consent is required, if we are in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction to a successor in interest 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.

2.5 Anonymized Information: We may provide third parties with aggregated but anonymized information and analytics about our users however, before we do so, we will make sure that it does not identify you.

3. Data Transfers and Global Processing

3.1 The Website and/or SM Accounts and Events may be operated in countries other than your own location, and your personal data may be accessed and/or processed from and/or transferred to countries other than your own location. We may do this where data is accessed/processed:

By the Organization and its affiliates for operational, administrative, compliance purposes or users support teams in our various locations;
By our service providers, for the purposes we specified under the section “Service Providers”.

3.2 The safeguards we deploy for performing such transfers across boundaries:

Adequacy. If you are located outside of Israel and Palestine, and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to the Organization offices located in Israel and process it there. Any transfers to Israel are made on the basis of an adequacy decision made by the European Commission.
Model Clauses. We may use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and/or by the United Kingdom (UK) that are binding standards of processing of personal data committed contractually by third parties processing information for us and on our behalf.
Consent. In the absence of an adequacy decision or Model Clauses, and in the absence of any other right to transfer your data, your consent shall serve as the basis for such transfer. By accessing and using the Website and/or SM Accounts and Events, you agree and understand that your information may be transferred from the European Economic Areas (EEA), UK or other countries in which you may be using or accessing the Website, to other jurisdictions outside your own location. The transfer will be to such third parties as described under Section 2 (How we share your personal data).

3.3 The Organization will take steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Notice and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

3.4 Currently we process data in Israel, Palestine and also in the US through our service providers operating in the US.

4. Data Subject Rights

4.1 It is your responsibility to ensure that all personal data submitted to Organization is correct. Organization would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Depending on your location and on the laws that are applicable to you, you may be entitled to some or all of the following rights:

4.2 The right to access – You have the right to request Organization for copies of your personal data, which includes the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you are being processed and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the purposes of the processing; categories of personal data concerned; recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed; where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored; the existence of the right to request rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data or to object to such processing; the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source; the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling; the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer of your personal data outside the EEA. We may charge you a small fee for this service under certain conditions.

4.3 The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Organization correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Organization to complete the information you believe is incomplete.

4.4 The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Organization erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

4.5 The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that the Organization restrict the processing of your personal data, when: (a) You contest the accuracy of your personal data, for a period allowing the Organization to verify the accuracy of said data; (b) if you believe personal data has been unlawfully processed and you wish to restrict processing rather than delete it; (c) Organization no longer needs the personal data but you require to keep it in order to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim; or (d) You have exercised your right to object the processing (below) for a period allowing Organization to consider whether your legitimate grounds override those of the Organization.

4.6 The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time – this means you have the right to stop or prevent the Organization from processing your personal data (it could be in relation to part or all of your personal data, and for part or all of the processing purposes). When relating to processing for promotion purposes, you have an absolute right to object; while for other purposes, the existence of the right depends on what lawful basis the processing relies on.

4.7 The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Organization transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

4.8 If allowed by applicable laws, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time when the Organization processes your personal data based on your consent on any of these rights. However, withdrawal does not affect the legitimacy and effectiveness of how we process your personal data based on your consent before the withdrawal is made; nor does it affect any data processing based on another lawful bases other than your consent.

4.9 You may exercise these rights to the extent these rights apply to you by emailing the Organization to: info@7amleh.org. We will undertake to respond to your request within the applicable time frame prescribed by applicable law. Although we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your requests, in some circumstances we may deem your request unfounded or not eligible under applicable law. In such instances we reserve the right to refuse your request. We shall require, as a prerequisite to fulfilling any request, to verify your identity which we may do by asking you to provide certain information or identification to ensure that all data subjects’ privacy is protected.

4.10 If you think that the way we process your personal information does not comply with applicable data protection laws, you are of course invited to contact us and we will consider your request, but in any event you may contact the relevant competent data protection authority. You can obtain the contact information for all of the EEA data protection authorities at https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.

5. Cookies & Similar Technologies

5.1 A cookie is a small text file that is stored in your web browser that allows the Organization or a third party (such as third-party service providers) to recognize you. Cookies can either be session cookies or persistent cookies. A session cookie expires automatically when you close your browser. A persistent cookie will remain until it expires, or you delete your cookies.

5.2 Cookies that we may use can generally be categorized as follows:

Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary to load the Website or to allow users to use Website’s certain features.
Analytics Cookies: These cookies track information about how the Website is being used so that we can make improvements and report on our performance.
Preference Cookies: These first party cookies store your Website preferences.
Marketing Cookies: These are usually third party cookies by advertising platforms or networks in order to: (i) deliver ads and track ad performance, and (ii) enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant based upon your activities.

5.3 We may use additional tracking technologies to help understand user activities and preferences. For example, we use web beacons (also known as clear gifs, pixel tags or web bugs) to track user activities and communicate with cookies. You cannot opt out of web beacons used in web pages, but you can limit their use by opting out of the cookies they interact with. You can opt out of web beacons used in emails by setting your email client to render emails in text mode only.

5.4 We use the following cookies and other tracking technologies. We will update this list from time to time depending on the cookies we will be using.

	Name of cookie	Source (if third party cookies)	Purpose - what this cookie is doing	Expiration (lifetime of cookie)	Type (e.g., http, html, pixel)
Analytics	Google analytics		All website Data for analysis of performance on our webpage (most visited page…..)	Continuous	https
Marketing	Facebook		-View Count -Page View review the performance of 7amleh’s minisite (digital security minisite and privacy minisit)	Continuous	pixel
Functionality	Youtube embed		To embed in our web page only	Continuous	HTML

5.5 We may set cookies that monitor links to our Website that we send to you (if you have consented to receiving emails from us). These cookies are used to track visitors to our Website sourced from these emails. To avoid these types of cookies, please follow the explanation below on how to change your browser cookies settings.

5.6 In addition, we may use tracking technology (pixels) in emails to understand how often our emails are opened and clicked on by our users. If you do not wish this tracking to be affected, please change your email software or service (such as outlook, Gmail etc.) settings to not automatically download images (to the extent it is not already your default). In some instances, depending on your email or browser settings, cookies in an email may be automatically accepted (for example, when you have added an email address to your address book or safe senders list). Please refer to your email browser or device instructions for more information on this.

5.7 You can change your browser's settings to delete cookies that have already been set and to not accept new cookies. To learn more about how to do this, visit the help pages of your browser. Some useful information can also be found here: https://www.allaboutcookies.org/. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or do not accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

6. Security of Processing

6.1 We use appropriate physical, management, and technical measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, disclosure, use, modification, damage, or loss. We also provide training on security and privacy protection for employees to raise their awareness of personal data protection. However, please note that no security measure is perfect, therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you disclose.

7. Data Retention

7.1 We will retain your personal data for no longer than is necessary for the purposes stated in this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise extending the retention period is required or permitted by law or subject to our retention policies as may be in place from time to time. The data storage period may vary with scenario, product, and service.

7.2 The standards Organization uses to determine the retention period are as follows: the time required to retain personal data to fulfill business purposes, including providing products and services; maintaining corresponding transaction and business records; controlling and improving the performance and quality of the Website; handling possible user queries or complaints and locating problems; whether the user agrees to a longer retention period; and whether the laws, contracts, and other equivalencies have special requirements for data retention.

8. Changes to This Privacy Notice

8.1 We may update our Privacy Notice from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Notice on this page. We may notify you through different channels, for example, posting a notice on our Website or sending you direct notification.

8.2 You are advised to review this Privacy Notice periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Notice are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. California and Delaware “do not track” Disclosures

We do not monitor or respond to Do Not Track browser requests. Hence please ensure to change any settings of your browser and/or our Services, whenever you wish cookies to cease.

10. General

10.1 If you have any questions or suggestions, to exercise any of your rights, or if you have any other questions or complaints about our use of your personal data and your privacy please contact us at info@7amleh.org.

10.2 Where your personal data is processed by the Organization in accordance with this Privacy Notice, 7amleh - The Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media of 12 Allenby Rd., Haifa 330950, is the controller of the related personal data.

Privacy Policy

Privacy Notice

www.7amleh.org

Effective date: 1 .1. 2023

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