Privacy Policy

Visuality Systems Ltd (hereinafter “VS” or “we”) is glad you are visiting our website and are interested in our company and products By accessing and using the website, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to any of the provisions as set hereunder in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the website. This Policy may be updated from time to time. Therefore, we ask you to check back periodically.

1. INTERNATIONAL USERS
Our main office is in the state of Israel. If you use the website outside of Israel, please note that your information will be saved, stored and processed in Israeli databases and will be governed by Israeli law. By using the website, you give your consent to the above and to any provisions under applicable data storage and usage laws in Israel.

2. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

Due to the fact that some of the services are provided by third parties located in various locations worldwide, your information may be transferred to, and stored on, computers located at these other countries – outside of your country or legal jurisdiction (the “Transfer”). Additionally, the privacy laws of these countries may differ from those in your jurisdiction. By using our services and/or providing us with your personal information, you are giving us your consent to this Transfer.

3. COMMUNICATIONS AND PROMOTIONS

By sending a form inside our website, and upon choosing the “receive advertorial emails”, you agree to receive emails with promotional content related directly or indirectly to our services, including, for example, service suggestions and other news about products and services offered by us and our selected partners. You can opt-out of these communications at any time using the ‘unsubscribe’ link provided in them, or by contacting us by email, after which we will no longer send you promotional emails. We may still send you non-commercial emails which are necessary in order to provide you with the services.

4. DATA PROTECTION

For us, data protection is not mere lip service and for that reason we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We handle your data with the utmost care and confidentiality and use it only within the confines of the applicable data protection provisions and of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) in particular.

Responsibility for processing personal data

VS bears responsibility for lawfully processing your data.

A. Processing usage data

When you visit our websites we store the name of your internet service provider, the website from which you visit us, those of our websites that you visit, the date and duration of your visit and information on the device (brand, model, operating system) and web browser you have used. We also collect your IP address, the last four places of which are however anonymized. We process this usage data to facilitate your access to our services in technical terms (e.g. to adjust our services to the terminal device you are using), and to recognize and stop any misuse. we also use usage data in anonymized form for statistical purposes and to improve our website. The legal foundation for processing personal usage data is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR. If you contact us by telephone, e-mail, post, contact form or in any other way with an inquiry or if we contact you, we also process your personal data, e.g. name, email address, telephone number and the content of the message. This information is processed exclusively for the purpose of ensuring your inquiry is dealt with correctly. Your data is used only to the extent necessary for this purpose. The legal basis for the processing of the aforementioned data is provided by Art. 6 (1)(1)(b)GDPR, if this is in connection with the initiation or performance of a contract, e.g. in the case of complaints, or by Art. 6 (1)(1) GDPR, because we have a legitimate interest in exchanging business correspondence with you. Communication data is deleted if it is no longer needed for communication with you and any statutory retention requirements have expired. Telephone conversations with our customer support are only recorded with your prior consent for quality assurance or training purposes and deleted after no more than 90 days. The consent to the recording of the conversation is of course given on a voluntary basis. You can withdraw the consent at any time with effect for the future, for example by asking the employee on the telephone to stop recording the conversation. Your data is processed on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR). For our Customer Support Services, we use service providers with which corresponding contract data processing agreements have been concluded pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR

B. Duration of the processing of usage data

We’ll always delete your data when we receive a request from you to do so. Please take a look here, to learn how to make such a request. In the unlikely event that we are still obliged under the law to keep your data, we’ll inform you about that.
We will not store or otherwise process your data for “unlimited period” in other cases. If we rely on legitimate interest for processing, your data will be kept as long as we are in a business relationship with you. If we don’t start a business relationship with you, your data will be stored in our systems for some limited time for our analytics to be done. In no case we will keep it for more than 2 years, the period which is necessary for communicating with your company as our potential client and after which we treat old analytics outdated, so your personal data is not needed anymore.
Don’t forget that you may always command us to delete all the information have about you as described here

C. Use of first-party cookies

We use what are known as cookies on various pages to make visiting our websites attractive and to facilitate the use of certain functions. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your terminal device. Some of the cookies we use are deleted at the end of the browser session, i.e. once the browser is closed (termed session cookies). Other cookies remain on your terminal device, allowing us or our partners to recognize your browser on your next visit (termed long-term cookies). Cookies cannot be used to provide access to other files on your computer or to determine your email address.

The cookies utilized on this website are listed on the cookie information list. The legal basis for processing personal data usage of the defined cookies is governed by Art. 6 (I) 1st subparagraph (f) GDPR.

Personal data is only processed using cookies for marketing purposes or to generate statistics if you have given us your consent to this. The legal basis for this is provided by Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR.  YOU CAN WITHDRAW YOUR CONSENT AT ANY TIME WITHOUT STATING REASONS BY CLICKING ON THIS LINK AND ADJUSTING THE FUNCTIONS PERMITTED.
Cookies are stored on your terminal device and you have full control over their use. You may deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings of the web browser. Cookies that are already stored may be deleted at any time. This may also be done by automated means. Should cookies be deactivated for our websites, you may possibly not be able to use all of the functions on the websites to the full extent.

D. Use of third-party cookies

We also partner with third-party ad networks to manage our advertising on other websites and with third-party analytics companies to assist us with analyzing the use of our own website. These third-party companies use cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, postbacks, and related technologies to collect information about your activities on this and other websites to provide you targeted advertising based upon your interests and to provide measurement and analytic services. Specifically, we use the following third-party services:
Google Analytics, Google Ads, Tag Manager, Facebook, Outbrain, Taboola, Youtube, Twitter, Linkedin, Google Optimize, HubSpot CRM.

i. Web analysis using Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). The office responsible for users in the EU, the EEA and Switzerland is Google Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, Ireland. Google Analytics uses cookies permitting the use of the website by you to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is as a rule transferred to a Google server in the USA where it is stored. The website of VS uses Google Analytics with the additional component “anonymize IP”. This means that your IP address, collected by Google Analytics, will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Treaty on the European Economic Area before it is transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will your full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened once it has arrived there. Google uses this information on behalf of VS to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to render further services connected with website and internet use vis-à-vis the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data. The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is provided by Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR. You can withdraw this consent at any time as described above by adjusting your cookie preferences. You can also delete cookies which have already been stored in your browser’s settings. If you do this, it may be the case that you no longer have full use of all of the functions of the websites. More detailed information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or at https://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

ii. Use of the remarketing or “Similar Target Groups” function of Google Inc.

VS uses the remarketing or “Similar Target Groups” function of Google LLC. This function enables VS to approach visitors to the website with advertising in a targeted manner by placing personalized, interest-based advertisements for users of the website when they visit other websites within the Google Display Network. Google uses cookies to analyze website use, which forms the basis for creating interest-based advertisements. To this end, Google stores a small file with a sequence of numbers in the browsers of the visitors to the website. The visits to the website and anonymized data on the use of the website are collected via this number. Personal data of visitors to the website are generally not stored. Should you then visit a different website within the Google Display Network, advertisements will appear which are highly likely to take account of product and information areas selected beforehand.
The legal foundation for processing personal data by using cookies is Article 6 (1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR. You can withdraw this consent at any time as described above by adjusting your cookie preferences.
You can also delete cookies which have already been stored in your browser’s settings. If you do this, it may be the case that you no longer have full use of all of the functions of the websites. Further information on Google remarketing and Google’s privacy policy can be viewed at: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

iii. Tag Manager by Google

Google Tag Manager is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) to enable tags to be created, updated and managed. Tags are small code elements on our website which, among other things, serve to measure traffic and visitor behavior and to determine the impact of online advertising and social channels. Whenever you visit our website, the current tag configuration is sent to your browser. In that way you receive instructions as to which tags are to be triggered. The tool itself does not collect any personal data but it ensures that other tags are triggered which, in turn, may possibly collect data. You will find further information on the functioning of Google Tag Manager Tags at https://support.google.com/tagmanager/answer/2772432?hl=de&topic=2574304&ctx=topic and in the use policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

iv. Use of Google Ads Conversion Tracking

We use as a Google Ads customer Google Conversion Tracking, an analysis service provided by Google LLC. A cookie (“conversion cookie”) is placed on your computer by Google Ads if you have been directed to our website via a Google Ad. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used to identify individuals. If you visit certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that someone has clicked on the ad and been directed to our website. Every Google Ads customer receives another cookie. Cookies cannot be tracked therefore across the websites of Ads customers. The information obtained with the help of the conversion cookies is used to generate anonymous conversion statistics for Ads customers who have decided to use conversion tracking. The Ads customers learn the total number of users who have clicked on their advertisement and were directed to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information with which users can be personally identified.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is provided by Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR. You can withdraw this consent at any time as described above by adjusting your cookie preferences.
You can also delete cookies which have already been stored in your browser’s settings. If you do this, it may be the case that you no longer have full use of all of the functions of the websites. Further information on terms of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/  or at https://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.

v. Facebook conversion tracking

This website uses for marketing purposes the conversion tracking of “Facebook Pixel”, a service provided by Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”). The office responsible for users in the EU, the EEA and Switzerland is Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canals Square, Dublin, Ireland. We use this service to analyze and statistically evaluate the general use of our website and in doing so track and assess the effectiveness of Facebook advertising (“conversion tracking”). To this end, Facebook processes data collected on our websites through cookies and similar technologies.
The data collected in this connection is anonymous to us and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about the identity of users. However, this data is transferred for analysis purposes by Facebook to a server in the USA, where it is stored For cases where personal data is transferred to the USA, Facebook has signed up to the EU-US Privacy Shield. Further information on this can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome.
If you are a member of Facebook and have allowed Facebook to do this via your account’s privacy settings, Facebook can also link the information collected by us about your visit to your member account and use this for the targeted placement of Facebook ads. You can view and change the privacy settings of your Facebook profile at any time at https://www.facebook.com/ads/settings/.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is provided by Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR.  You can withdraw this consent at any time as described above by adjusting your cookie preferences.
You can also delete cookies which have already been stored in your browser’s settings. If you do this, it may be the case that you no longer have full use of all of the functions of the websites.

vi .Outbrain

On our website we use technologies (widgets) provided by Outbrain Inc. (“Outbrain”), 39 W 13th Street New York, NY 10011 USA.
We do not collect or process any personal data of users in connection with the use of Outbrain widgets. With Outbrain we record the visibility of our content and assess the attention focus. This is used to ensure the optimal arrangement and placement of our editorial content in order to track and assess its effectiveness.
The content displayed in the widget is controlled content and technology wise by Outbrain, with our users being made aware of further content of third-party websites which may be of interest to them. In order to display this further content which may be of interest, Outbrain uses cookies. Further information on the cookies used by Outbrain can be found at https://www.outbrain.com/legal/#cookies. As the controller, Outbrain provides information on the collection and use of usage and other data in Outbrain’s privacy policy, which can be viewed at https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy. Insofar as personal data is transferred from the European Economic Area by Outbrain to other countries whose applicable laws do not provide the same level of data protection as in the European Economic Area, Outbrain ensures a suitable level of protection is provided with measures required by law.
The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is provided by Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR. You can withdraw this consent at any time as described above by adjusting your cookie preferences.
You can also opt out of the use of usage and other data by Outbrain at any time at https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#privacy-policy. After declaring your opt-out, Outbrain’s content/recommendations will no longer be controlled based on content searched by you.

vii. Taboola

Use of technologies belonging to Taboola Inc. (Taboola Inc., Atrium Tower, 2 Jabotinsky St., 32nd fl., Ramat Gan 5250501 Tel Aviv) allows us to utilize user-specific advertising based on surfing behavior and customer interests. Taboola uses cookies (or similar technologies) to determine which websites you visit frequently and record your movements on our website. Taboola gathers device-related data and protocol data and creates usage profiles using pseudonyms. The usage profiles are not merged with the data about the bearer of the pseudonym and do not allow conclusions to be drawn on personal data. To do this, we communicate your IP address to Taboola. This processing is carried on the legal basis of our legitimate economic interest (Art. 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR.) You can object to inclusion in the tracking via the following link: https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy#user-choices-and-optout. Once you have successfully opted out, you will no longer see personalized content/adverts.

viii. Social media and social plugins

We also offer you comprehensive personal support via our pages in the social media. Should you have a query about any of the social media, we will forward it to the responsible department. The data are used exclusively for purposes of replying to your query and are not passed on to third parties. The legal foundation for processing personal data in the context of dealing with your query is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR. In order to contact us via the social media, you need to register with these services. The companies behind such services may possibly process personal data. We have no influence over the nature, extent and processing of these data.

ix. Use of Facebook plugins

Our website makes use of the social plugin (“plugins”) of social network Facebook operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). You will find an overview of Facebook plugins and their appearance at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins.
If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser will make a direct connection to the servers of Facebook. The content of the plugin is conveyed directly to your browser by Facebook and integrated into the page. Such integration allows Facebook to receive the information that your browser has accessed the relevant page of our website even if you have no profile on Facebook or are not logged on to Facebook at that particular moment. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a server of Facebook in the USA where it is stored. If you are logged on to Facebook, Facebook will be able to directly associate the visit to our website with your Facebook profile. If you interact with the plugins, by making a comment for example, this information will likewise be transmitted directly to a Facebook server where it is stored. The information will also be published on your Facebook profile and shown to your Facebook friends. We wish to point out that in our capacity as the website provider we are not informed of the content of the data transmitted or of their use by Facebook. Please consult Facebook’s notes on data protection for the purpose and extent of the collection of data by Facebook along with your rights in that regard and possible settings to protect your privacy at: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
Should you not wish Facebook to directly associate your Facebook profile with the data collected via our website, you need to log off from Facebook prior to visiting our website. You are also able to prevent Facebook plugins from being loaded at all by using add-ons for your browser, e.g. by way of a “Facebook blocker”.
The legal foundation for processing personal data by using the plugin is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (f) GDPR.

x. Use of YouTube plugins

The social plugins (“plugins”) of social network YouTube, a service provided by Google LLC, are used on our website.
If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser will make a direct connection to the servers of Google. The content of the plugin is conveyed directly to your browser by Google and integrated into the page. Such integration allows Google to receive the information that your browser has accessed the relevant page of our website even if you do not possess a YouTube account or are not logged on to YouTube at that particular moment. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a server of Google in the USA where it is stored.
If you are registered with YouTube, Google will be able to directly associate the visit to our website with your respective account. We wish to point out that in our capacity as the website provider we are not informed of the content of the data transmitted or of their use by Google. Please consult Google’s notes on data protection for the purpose and extent of the collection of data by Google along with your rights in that regard and possible settings to protect your privacy at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Should you not wish Google to directly associate your account with YouTube with the data collected via our website, you need to log off from YouTube prior to visiting our website. You are also able prevent Google plugins from being loaded at all by using add-ons for your browser, e.g. by way of script blocker “NoScript”: https://noscript.net/.
The legal foundation for processing personal data by using the plugin is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (b) or (f) GDPR.

xi. Use of Twitter plugins

Our website makes use of the social plugins (“plugins”) of microblogging service Twitter operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (“Twitter”). You will find an overview of Twitter plugins and their appearance at : https://about.twitter.com/en_us/company/brand-resources.html.
If you access a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser will make a direct connection to the servers of Twitter. The content of the plugin is conveyed directly to your browser by Twitter and integrated into the page. Such integration allows Twitter to receive the information that your browser has accessed the relevant page of our website even if you have no profile on Twitter or are not logged on to Twitter at that particular moment. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a server of Twitter in the USA where it is stored.
If you are logged on to Twitter, Twitter will be able to directly associate the visit to our website with your Twitter account. The information will also be published on your Twitter account and shown to your contacts. We wish to point out that in our capacity as the website provider we are not informed of the content of the data transmitted or of their use by Twitter. Please consult Twitter’s notes on data protection for the purpose and extent of the collection of data by Twitter along with your rights in that regard and possible settings to protect your privacy at: https://twitter.com/privacy.
Should you not wish Twitter to directly associate your Twitter account with the data collected via our website, you need to log off from Twitter prior to visiting our website. You are also able prevent Twitter plugins from being loaded at all by using add-ons for your browser, e.g. by way of script blocker “NoScript”: http://noscript.net/.
The legal foundation for processing personal data by using the plugin is Article 6(1) first subparagraph (b) or (f) GDPR.

xii. LinkedIn Conversion Tracking and Insight Tag

The LinkedIn Insight Tag is a piece of lightweight JavaScript code that we have added to our websites to enable in-depth campaign reporting and to help us unlock valuable insights about our website visitors. We use the LinkedIn Insight Tag to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about members interacting with our LinkedIn adverts.
The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of metadata such as IP address information, timestamp, and events such as page views. All data is encrypted. The LinkedIn browser cookie is stored in a visitor’s browser until they delete the cookie or the cookie expires (there’s a rolling six-month expiration from the last time the visitor’s browser loaded the Insight Tag).
You can opt out of cookies from LinkedIn on your LinkedIn settings page and recommend you read their Cookie Policy for more information.

xiii. HubSpot CRM

This website uses a HubSpot tracking code which uses cookies or similar technologies to track visitors of this website and gathers demographic information about them. HubSpot keeps track of the codetrails.com websites and pages you visit within HubSpot. This data is used to deliver customized content and promotions to users whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. For more information about HubSpot’s Privacy Policy, click here.

xiv. Google Optimize

Google Optimize is used to keep track of your involvement in website experiments. By “experiment” we’re not talking about lab coats and electrodes. In this context, an experiment could be something like an A/B split test. This is where half of the people who visit our website see one webpage and the other half see an alternative version so that we can test which version works best.
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The legal basis for the processing of the aforementioned data is provided by Art. 6 (1) first subparagraph (a) GDPR.

E. Your rights

You have a right to be informed of personal data processed by VS and, where the relevant statutory requirements are met, a right to rectification, erasure and restriction of processing. You also have the right to receive the personal data provided by you in a structured, common and machine-readable format. This includes the right to transfer such data to a different data controller. So far as such is technically possible, you may also request that VS transfers the personal data directly to the other data controller.

I. Disclosure of collected data

Visuality will not disclose, sell or transfer any of the collected data, to any third parties (e.g., advertisers or business partners), except in the following cases:

 (i) Visuality receives your permission;

 (ii) if Visuality believes in good faith that the law requires such disclosure or transfer; or

 (iii) if required by third party contractors and service providers who work with Visuality, to provide the website’s service.

Notwithstanding the aforesaid, Visuality may also disclose collected data, in special cases when it has reason to believe that disclosing such information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be violating Visuality’s License Agreement or may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally), Visuality’s rights or property, other Users, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities. You thus authorize Visuality to disclose any collected data about you to law enforcement or other government officials if Visuality, in its sole and absolute discretion, believes that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate. Although, Visuality uses industry standard practices to protect your privacy, Visuality does not ensure, and you should not expect, that your collected data or any private communications will always remain private. Since Visuality’s website may contain links to other websites, Visuality is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such linked websites.

F. Security

Visuality uses industry standard efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of the collected data, such as [add any relevant information such as firewalls encryption, token authentication, monitoring technology]. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, Visuality cannot ensure the security of any information that you transmit to Visuality or any information that you receive from Visuality online, and you transmit such information at your own risk. Once Visuality receives your transmission, it uses its best effort to ensure security on its systems.
To exercise the aforementioned rights and in the event of queries and complaints relating to the use of your personal data you may approach the data protection officer of VS:

5. CONTACT DATA PROTECTION OFFICER

You have the right to approach the responsible data protection commissioner with a complaint: Yohay Lasri, [email protected]