Privacy policy

Reut Sites and Photos Ltd. ("Reut", "we", "us" or "our") respects your privacy. This statement explains the accepted privacy policy of Sites and Photos, our website operated at sitesandphotos.com (the "Website"). It also covers our service, under which the Website's subscribers can obtain a personal, non-transferable, non-sublicensable, non-exclusive and limited right to use ("Rights of Use") images, photographs, drawings, maps and videos (the "Content"') of archeological sites and findings from around the world and in particular, the Mediterranean (the "Service"). It gives an overview, inter alia, of the way we use the personal information you provide us, and the details we collect during the use of the Website or the Service.

Registration to the Service
You are welcome to enjoy our Website without revealing your name or e-mail address .However, in order to use the Service you will need to register with it. When you register with the Service, you are required to provide personal information, including your full name, address, contact information (such as your telephone number or e-mail address) and billing information, including your credit card details, and any other information as we may deem necessary for providing you with the Service. The registration form designates clearly the fields for compulsory completion. If you do not provide us with these details, you will not be able to register with the Service. Any failure to supply accurate details might vacate your Rights of Use in the Service.

The information you provide when registering with the Service - or when you purchase rights of use in any of the Content - will be stored in our database. You are not required by law to provide such information, but without doing so we will not be able to provide you with the Service.

Use of Information
While you use the Website or the Service, we may collect and accumulate information pertaining to the patterns, frequency, duration and scope of your use.

We shall store such information in our database. Any use of such information, as well as any use of the data you provided during the registration with the Service or otherwise, shall be made only in accordance with this Policy or with the provisions of the law. Such use is restricted to the following purposes:

• To enable you to use the Service, including any features that we may add to in the future;
• To improve and expand the Service, create new services which correspond to the requirements and expectations of the Service's users, and modify or cancel existing features of the Service. The information used for this purpose shall be mainly statistical and will not identify you personally.
• To furnish you from time to time with information pertaining to the Service;
• To send you marketing and advertising information, whether published by us or received from third parties. Third party commercial information will not be sent to you unless you explicitly agreed to receive it during the registration with the Service or afterwards. At all times, you may retract your consent and cease to receive information of that kind. We will not transfer your personal details to any advertisers;
• To contact you as and when necessary;
• To analyze and provide statistical information to third parties, including advertisers. Any such information will not identify you personally;
• To provide your bank with the details necessary for your billing;
• To any other purpose, as specified in this Policy or in the Terms of Use governing the Service ( the "Terms");
• For the orderly and proper operation and development of the Service. No information used for this purpose will be transferred to any third party, except to the extent permitted under this Policy, as updated from time to time, or by law.

Transfer of Information to Third Parties
We will not transfer your personal details and any information pertaining to your use if the Service (as far as such details and information identify you personally), to any third party unless:

• You obtain Rights of Use in any Content. In this case, your bank, credit card company and any other financial institute or service provider needed to complete the transaction will be provided with the information they need;
• You breach the Terms in the Website or the End User License Agreement, or perform or attempt to perform any illegal action, or an action we reasonably deem as illegal, through the use of the Service. In such cases we may transfer any information we deem necessary;
• We receive a court order, or any other decree issued by a competent authority, instructing us to transfer your details or any information about you to a third party;
• There is a dispute, claim, action, demand or legal proceedings between yourself and us, or related to your subscription with the Service;
• We consider that transferring such information is necessary to prevent serious damage to your person or property or to the person or property of any third party;
• We have the right to transfer your personal details and the information collected through your use of the Website and the Service to other affiliated companies, provided however, that they use this information only in accordance with this Privacy Policy;
• We organize the operation of the Service through another legal entity, or if we merge with another entity or merge the activity of the Service with a third party activity, provided, however, that such entity shall subject itself to this policy;
• We may ask third parties to analyze statistical data regarding the use of the Website and the Service. Such entities collect and analyze information about the scope of the use of the Service, the frequency of the use thereof, etc. The information they collect for these purpose is statistical in nature. It does not identify you personally and is intended for the purposes of analysis, research and control.

Cookies
We may use Cookies while providing the Service. Cookies are a packet of information sent by our servers to your web browser and then sent back by the browser when it accesses the Website. The information is stored in a small text file called Cookie. We may use cookies to facilitate the operation of the Service, to obviate the need to enter your personal details into our systems every time you login, collect statistical data about the use of the Service, to verify information, adjust the Service to your personal preferences and for information security. Some of the Cookies will expire when the session ends and you exit your browser. Others are saved on your computer's hard drive. If you wish to block our Cookies, you may do so through your browser's settings. You are advised to read the Help file of your browser for further information. However, bear in mind that disabling Cookies may complicate or even prevent the use of the Service, or certain features thereof.

Data Security
We implement data security systems and procedures in order to prevent unauthorized access to the Service and a wrongful use of your account with the Service. Although such systems and procedures reduce the risk of unauthorized access to your Service account and unauthorized use of your personal details, they cannot provide absolute assurance. We therefore do not guarantee that the Website, the Service or its databases are immune from any unauthorized access or use.

Changes in the Privacy Policy
We may change the terms of this Policy from time to time. Should any substantive changes be made in this Policy, to the instructions referring to use of personal information provided by you, notification of such change will be posted on the Websites' homepage.