PRIVACY POLICY

Gornitzky Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is designed to inform you as to how Gornitzky & Co. (referred to as the “Gornitzky”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy) handles your Personal Data when you visit or interact with our website at gronitzky.com (the “Website”), including with respect to registering for or attending events hosted by us.

“Personal Data” means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified.

Please read this Privacy Policy and regularly check this page to review any changes we might make to the terms.

1. The Data We Collect About You
2. How We Collect Your Personal Data
3. How We Use Your Personal Data
4. Sharing Your Personal Data with Third Parties
5. International Transfers
6. Third-Party Links
7. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
8. Minors
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
10. Your Rights
11. Contact Us

1. The Data We Collect About You

When you use this Website or contact us through it, we may collect the following types of Personal Data:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, company name, position and country.
• Contact Data includes first name, last name, email address, physical address and telephone number.
• Candidate Data (relevant for career applicants) includes first name, last name, email address, telephone number, curriculum vitae (CV) and the data contained therein, and any other information that you provide to us as part of a career application that you choose to file through our Website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our Website, such as data on when you entered the Website and how long you stayed in the Website or on a specific page, and websites from which you entered our Website or that you will visit when you leave our Website.
• Technical Data includes information on your internet connection (such as your IP address and internet service provider name), or on the device and software that you are using to access the Website (e.g., your web browser type and computer operating system).
• Additional Inquiry Data includes additional information that you may provide when you contact us.

We also collect, use and share aggregated, anonymized and/or de-identified data such as statistical data for any purpose, including such data that is derived from your Personal Data. Such information does not reveal your identity, and therefore is not considered to be Personal Data. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.

Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties.

If you provide to us any Personal Data relating to others, you must make sure you have permission to do so.

2. How We Collect Your Personal Data

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

• Direct interactions. You may provide us your Identity, Contact, Candidate and Additional Inquiry Data by contacting us (e.g., contacting us through the Website, sending us an email with your inquiry or feedback at events we hold). You may also provide us with your Identity and Contact Data when you subscribe to receive client updates and publications from us.
• Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our Website, we automatically collect Technical Data and Usage Data. We collect this data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.
• Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive Technical Data and Usage Data about you from third parties, such as Usage Data that we may receive from analytics providers.

You are not legally obligated to provide any Personal Data to us. Any Personal Data that you choose to provide to us, is provided of your own free will, however you acknowledge that we may not be able to provide the service you seek or comply with your request without the receipt of certain Personal Data.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

Below is a description of the ways we use your Personal Data:

• Provide Services, execute an agreement with you, or enter into such an agreement;
• Responding to Inquiries. We use your Identity Data, Contact Data and Additional Inquiry Data to respond to your requests or queries and to manage our relationship with you, including by notifying you about changes to our Privacy Policy.
• Communications and notifications. If you subscribed to our mailing list or joined our alumni organization, we will use the data you have provided to send you newsletters and updates based on your chosen interest field. We may also update you about events organized by third parties or us. You can unsubscribe from our mailing list anytime by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the newsletter.
• Website Management and Improvement. We use your Usage Data and Technical Data to improve our Website, troubleshoot technical issues, protect and enhance the services offered on the Website, and ensure its proper operation, user experience, including by personalizing and customizing our content.
• Legal Purposes. In the event of a legal dispute between you (and/or a party on your behalf) to us (and/or a party on our behalf), we may use your Personal Data to the extent necessary in connection with handling such dispute.
• We may also use your Personal Data as: (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to maintain security of the Website and prevent fraudulent or illegal activity; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, property, or personal safety of our firm, users, employees, and affiliates.
• Consent-Based Purposes. We may use your Personal Data for purposes to which you have consented.
• Other Specified Purposes. We may use your data for any other purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.

Note that we may process your Personal Data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

4. Sharing Your Personal Data with Third Parties

We may share Personal Data with third party service providers that provide us services, for the purposes listed above.

For example, we may share your applicable Identity Data, Contact Data, Usage Data and Technical Data with web analytics providers, email and marketing service providers and other vendors that assist us in maintaining the Website (including hosting services). For additional information, please see the description above in the section titled Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

If you registered to an event that we are hosting, we may also share your Personal Data with our partners in hosting the event.

We may also share your Personal Data with legal and regulatory authorities to the extent required by applicable law, our professional advisors (e.g. lawyers, accountants) to the extent necessary for the provision of their services to us; and third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge our business (or parts thereof) or our assets, or parties whose business we wish to acquire. In addition, we may share your Personal Data for any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect such information or pursuant to your consent or direction.

5. International Transfers

We may transfer your Personal Data to countries outside of the country in which you reside, that do not necessarily provide the same level of data protection as the country in which you reside.

6. Third-Party Links

Our Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or interacting with such content may allow your data to be shared with the relevant third-party. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements; we therefore recommend that you read the Privacy Policy of every website you visit.

7. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Our Website uses cookies and other tracking technologies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well. By accessing our Website, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.

Types of cookies:

• Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the Website, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions.
• Performance Cookies. These cookies collect information about the use of the Website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.
• Functional Cookies. These cookies enable the Website to remember a user’s choices – such as the user’s language and other personal choices – while using the Website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user listen to audio, or watch videos on the Website.
• Media Cookies. These cookies can be used to improve a Website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by us.
• Session Cookies. These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. Session cookies permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.
• Persistent Cookies. These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our Website correctly or at all. Further details on how to disable cookies in different web browsers can be found here:

Microsoft Edge / Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Safari: http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/#/sfri11471

In addition, our Website may use Google Analytics (or similar services offered by other providers) to collect information about the use of our Website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our Website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before entering our Website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

Hotjar. We use Hotjar or similar services to optimize the services provided through our Website. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our services with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ interaction with our Website and their devices. This includes a device’s IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our Website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. For further details, please see the “about Hotjar” section of Hotjar’s support site.

We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our Website and your use of newsletters or other communications that we send via email. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails.

Third parties may use cookies and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our Website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services.

8. Minors

To use the Website or to otherwise provide us with your Personal Data, you must be at least 18 years of age, or older, if otherwise required by the laws of the country where you reside. We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 18.

If you are a parent or legal guardian and have concerns about your child’s privacy, or if you believe that your child may have provided us with their Personal Data, please contact us using the Contact Details below. When you approach us as a parent or legal guardian, we may request that you provide us with the information needed to confirm your identity.

9. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change, modify or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at our discretion at any time. In the event of such changes, we will post an updated version of this Privacy Policy, and your continued use of our Website following any amendment will constitute your acceptance of its revised terms.

10. Your Rights

In order to exercise rights granted to you under the Israeli Protection of Privacy Law, 1981, you may contact us in writing via the Contact Us details listed below:

• You (by yourself or a third party on your behalf, authorized in writing), may view the Personal Data we hold about you, according to the provisions of the Protection of Privacy Regulations (Conditions for Review of Data and Procedures for Appeal on a Denial of a Request to Review), 1981 (the “Regulations”);
• You shall include in your request all details required under the Regulations, including your full name, ID number, address (including postal code), and the reasons for the request and the type of data you wish to view.

In the event that the Personal Data we hold on you is incorrect, incomplete, inaccurate or not up to date, you may request us to correct or delete such data.

What We May Need From You

When you approach us with a request to exercise one of your rights, we may request that you provide us with information needed to confirm your identity as a security measure to ensure that your Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it.

11. Contact Us

For inquiries regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]

Last updated: November 3, 2024