Welcome to www.taubcenter.org.il (the “Site“), operated by the Taub Center for Policy Social Studies in Israel (CC) (“Taub Center“, “we” or “us“). Thank you for visiting our Site.

Acceptance of Terms of Use

Please read these Terms of Use (the “Term of Use“) carefully before using our Site. The Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy constitute binding agreements between Taub Center and you. By visiting the Site, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, and all other policies that we may publish from time to time through the Site, which are incorporated here by reference.

IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO ANY PART OF THESE TERMS OF USE OR THE PRIVACY POLICY, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SITE.

Privacy

Your privacy is very important to us; please review our Privacy Policy in order to better understand our commitment to maintaining your privacy.

By using the Site, you agree:

  1. that you have the adequate legal capacity to enter into these Terms of Use and to form a binding agreement, for yourself or for the person or entity on behalf of which you are using the Site, and that you will use the Site only for lawful purposes and in accordance with these Terms of Use. You further represent and warrant that you are of legal age in your jurisdiction in order to enter into a binding contract, that you will not knowingly use the Site to violate any law, regulation or ordinance or any right of Taub Center or any third party, and that any information that you provide to us or through using the Site will be complete, accurate and current at all times;
  2. not to copy, modify, create derivative works of, download, adapt, reverse engineer, emulate, migrate to another service, translate, compile, decompile or disassemble the Site, any content offered by on the Site in any way, or publicly display, perform, transmit or distribute any of the foregoing without Taub Center’s prior written and specific consent and/or as expressly permitted under the Terms of Use;
  3. not to use any “robot”, “spider” or other automatic device, program, script, algorithm, or methodology, or any similar or equivalent manual process, to access, acquire, copy, or monitor any portion of the Site (or its data), or in any way reproduce or circumvent the navigational structure or presentation of any part of the Site, nor obtain or attempt to obtain any materials, documents, services or information through any means not purposely made available through the Site;
  4. not to act in a manner which is and/or might be perceived as damaging to Taub Center’s reputation and goodwill or which may bring Taub Center into disrepute or harm;
  5. not to impersonate any person or entity or provide false information on the Site, whether directly or indirectly, or otherwise perform any manipulation in order to disguise your identity or the origin of any message or transmittal you send to Taub Center and/or any other users;
  6. not to reverse look-up, trace, or seek to trace another user of the Site, or otherwise interfere with or violate any other user’s right to privacy or other rights, or harvest or collect personally identifiable information about visitors or users of the Site without their express and informed consent;
  7. not to upload to the Site or otherwise use it to design, develop, distribute and/or otherwise transmit or execute, any virus, worm, Trojan Horse, time bomb, web bug, spyware, malware, or any other computer code, file, or program that may or is intended to damage or hijack the operation of any hardware, software, or telecommunications equipment, or any other actually or potentially harmful, disruptive, or invasive code or component;
  8. not to sell, license, or exploit for any commercial purposes any use of or access to any content published on the Site, except as expressly permitted by the Terms of Use;
  9. not to remove or alter any copyright notices, watermarks, restrictions and signs indicating proprietary rights of Taub Center or any of our licensors, including copyright mark [©], creative commons [(cc)] indicators, or trademark signs [® or ™] contained in or accompanying any content published on the Site; and
  10. not violate, attempt to violate, or otherwise fail to comply with these Terms of Use or any laws or requirements applicable to your use of the Site.

Your failure to abide by any of the above, or any misrepresentation made by you in connection with your use of the Site, may result in the immediate denial of any further right to access the Site, without derogating from any other remedy available under this contract or under any applicable law.

Intellectual Property

All rights, title and interest in and to the Site, including any and all copyrightable materials or any other content which is or may be subject to any intellectual property rights under any applicable law (including any artwork, graphics, images, website templates and widgets, literary work, source and object code, computer code (including html), applications, audio, music, video and other media, designs, animations, interfaces, the “look and feel” of the Site, methods, products, algorithms, data, interactive features and objects, advertising and acquisition tools and methods, inventions, trade secrets, logos, domains, customized URLs, trademarks, service marks, trade names and other proprietary identifiers, whether or not registered and/or capable of being registered (collectively, the “Intellectual Property“), and any derivations thereof, are owned by and/or licensed to Taub Center. The Terms of Use do not convey any right or interest in or to Taub Center’s Intellectual Property (or any part thereof), except only for the right to use the Site in accordance with these Terms of Use. Nothing in the Terms of Use constitutes an assignment or waiver of Taub Center’s Intellectual Property rights under any law.

Without limiting or diminishing Taub Center’s Intellectual Property rights described above, given the nature of Taub Center’s activities, which involve dissemination of certain socially valuable information intended to benefit the public, we understand that the Site’s content may sometime be used in accordance with certain ‘fair use’ exceptions under applicable law (e.g. private study, research, criticism, review, journalistic reporting, quotation, or instruction and examination by an educational institution). It is hereby clarified that in all such legally permitted uses of the content posted on the Site, Taub Center expressly reserves all moral rights in such content, which means, among other things, that you would be required to copy or reproduce any such content without affecting its accuracy, to include appropriate attributions to Taub Center and its respective authors, and otherwise ensure the integrity of such content.   

Third Party Services

The Site may give you access to third party websites and/or may enable you to engage and procure certain third party services or products (collectively, “Third Party Services“). You acknowledge and agree that regardless of the manner in which such Third Party Services may be offered to you, Taub Center merely acts as an intermediary between you and such Third Party Services, and does not in any way endorse any such Third Party Services, nor shall it be in any way responsible or liable with respect thereto. Any and all use of such Third Party Services shall be done solely at your own risk and responsibility, and may be subject to such legal terms that govern such Third Party Services, which you are encouraged to review before engaging with them.

Disclaimer of Warranty

THE USE OF THE SITE, CONTENT AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE AND ANY SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE SITE ARE AT YOUR SOLE RISK AND ARE PROVIDED ON AN “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE” BASIS. TAUB CENTER EXPRESSLY DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE MAKE NO WARRANTY THAT: (I) THE SITE OR ANY CONTENT OR SERVICES OFFERED THROUGH THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR REQUIREMENTS; (II) YOUR USE OF THE SITE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE OR ERROR-FREE; AND (III) THE QUALITY OF ANY GOODS, PRODUCTS, SERVICES, INFORMATION OR OTHER MATERIALS OBTAINED BY YOU ON OR THROUGH THE SITE WILL MEET YOUR EXPECTATIONS. ANY CONTENT, SERVICES AND/OR OTHER MATERIALS ACCESSED, DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED THROUGH THE USE OF THE SITE IS DONE SO AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK, AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM AND/OR OTHER DEVICE (ELECTRONIC OR OTHERWISE) USED BY YOU TO ACCESS THE SITE, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA THAT RESULTS FROM THE DOWNLOAD OF ANY SUCH CONTENT, SERVICES AND/OR OTHER MATERIALS; AND (C) NO INFORMATION, WHETHER ORAL OR WRITTEN, OBTAINED BY YOU THROUGH THE SITE SHALL CREATE ANY WARRANTY NOT EXPRESSLY STATED IN THESE TERMS OF USE.

Limitation of Liability

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, TAUB CENTER DISCLAIMS ALL LIABLITY FOR ANY LOST PROFITS, DATA LOSS, COST OF PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES, OR DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, PUNITIVE, EXEMPLARY OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES WHATSOEVER, WHETHER UNDER CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, NEGLIGENCE OR ANY OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS SITE, ANY CONTENT ON OR ACCESSED THROUGH THE SITE, OR ANY THIRD PARTY SERVICE LINKED THERETO.

Indemnity

You agree to defend, indemnify and hold us harmless from and against any and all claims, damages, obligations, losses, liabilities, costs, debt and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) arising from your violation of: (a) any term of these Terms of Use or the Privacy Policy; (b) any third party right, including any copyright, property, or privacy right; or (c) any applicable law.

Miscellaneous

These Terms of Use (including the Privacy Policy) are the entire agreement between you and us with respect to your use of the Site, supersede all prior or contemporaneous communications and understandings (whether oral, written or electronic) between you and Taub Center with respect to Site and your use thereof.  If any provision of these Terms of Use and/or the Privacy Policy is found to be unenforceable or invalid, that provision will be limited or eliminated to the minimum extent necessary so that these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy will otherwise remain in full force and effect and enforceable.

These Terms of Use are personal to you, and are not assignable, transferable or sub-licensable by you, except with our prior written consent. We may assign, transfer or delegate any of our rights and obligations hereunder without your consent.

Our failure to enforce any part of these Terms of Use shall not constitute a waiver of our right to later enforce that or any other part of these Terms of Use. Waiver of compliance in any particular instance does not mean that we will waive compliance in the future. In order for any waiver of compliance with these Terms of Use to be binding, we must provide you with written notice of such waiver through one of our authorized representatives.

These Terms of Use and your use of the Site will be governed by and interpreted in accordance with the laws of the State of Israel, excluding any otherwise applicable rules of conflict of laws, which would result in the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than Israel. The courts located in Tel-Aviv, Israel shall have sole and exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising in connection with these Terms of Use. You and Taub Center hereby expressly consent to the personal jurisdiction of Tel-Aviv’s courts in Israel, and expressly waive any right to object to such personal jurisdiction or the convenience of such forum.

Subject to any applicable law, all disputes between you and Taub Center shall only be resolved on an individual basis and you shall not have the right to bring any claim against Taub Center as a plaintiff or a member of a class, consolidated or representative actions (or any other legal proceedings conducted by a group or by representatives on behalf of others). ANY CLAIM RELATED TO THESE TERMS OF USE MUST BE BROUGHT WITHIN ONE YEAR. THE ONE-YEAR PERIOD BEGINS ON THE DATE WHEN THE CLAIM FIRST COULD BE FILED. IF IT IS NOT FILED, THEN THAT CLAIM IS PERMANENTLY BARRED. THIS APPLIES TO YOU AND YOUR SUCCESSORS.

Taub Center may change, suspend, update, limit access to or terminate the Site and/or change any of these Terms of Use with or without prior notice – at any time and in any manner. Your continued use of the Site following the implementation of any changes to these Terms of Use constitutes acceptance of those changes, which will apply to your continued use of the Site going forward. Your use of the Site is subject to the Terms of Use in effect at the time of such use. You are encouraged to revisit the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy frequently in order to be fully apprised of your rights and obligations in connection with your use of the Site.

 

Last updated: June 2, 2021