Terms of Use | Bedomaich Chayi | Public Cord Blood Bank

Terms of Use for the CordBlood.org.il Site

Every user of this site will accept the terms and conditions mentioned for the full length of this page. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of all the conditions listed here. It is worded in the masculine for convenience only and applies equally to females; the same applies to singular and plural expressions.

All Rights Reserved

© All Copy Rights Reserved. All rights on this internet site are reserved to the public cord blood bank – Bedomaich Chayi. No one may copy or reproduce or photograph pictures or information from the site in any form including various technological methods – whether analog or digital. All copyrights and intellectual property rights, including the name and trademarks, site design, content published on the site by the Bedomaich Chayi public cord blood bank and any program, application, computer code, graphic file, text file, text, and any other material included in it – is reserved exclusively for the Bedomaich Chayi public cord blood bank. No one may copy, distribute, publish, misuse, publicly display, and/or provide to any third party any part of the above without the consent of the administraters of the public cord blood bank and/or the directors of the Bedomaich Chayi public cord blood bank – explicitly in writing and in advance.

Content

Information ("information") appearing in its various forms, the variety of different graphics and all media types: text, photo, illustration, drafting, drawing, charts, etc., etc. on the site (the "site") of the public cord blood bank Bedomaich Chayi (the "public bank") and provided by the site administration (the "site administration") that includes the public bank - is informative only. The information is intended to assist and serve as a helping tool to the user. It is not a substitute for professional consulting with your doctor and/or a substitute for medical guidance received from a medical specialist. Do not rely on information from this site to make decisions of personal, legal, medical, or financial nature. The services and information provided on this site deal with cord blood issues in general and cannot be adjusted to the private needs of each person. Therefore, to obtain medical treatment and/or personal counseling, one must contact one's doctor. An initial, non-binding consultation, can be obtained on the site's forum.

Content of the site is based on professional and objective information, sometimes expressing a specific medical view and sometimes the writer's personal opinion. The public bank site's administration undertakes to arrange expert, professional review of all information and content uploaded to the site and of the periodic updates, but is not responsible for any errors or mistakes, omissions, additions, defects, and/or any other deficiency found in the information. The information appearing in the site includes nothing that can charge the public bank and/or on any other body associated with the public bank with any obligation towards the reader and/or user of the information and/or someone representing him and/or the public bank.

Comments

When sending a request to the administration or adding a new message to the forum, the user guarantees that the content of the new comment will be appropriate and not compromise the rights of any third party whatsoever. In addition, the material will not contain anything that is unlawful, inappropriate, undignified, and/or a threat, slander, libel, and/or defamatory, racist, an advertisement, and/or damaging to the reputation of the public bank and/or its contributors, and that the comment will not be in violation of any law whatsoever.

The site is not responsible for any content and information that various users uploaded in the various setions of the site, and they are the sole responsibility of the user. The site may filter and/or delete any comment that does not meet the accepted and stated criteria at its discretion. If the comment violates copyrights of any kind, the user empowers the site to divest itself of all responsibility and transfer any claim regarding the matter to the user. Without limiting the foregoing, the site may require from the said copyright infringer appropriate compensation for damages caused to the site through this.

Privacy

User privacy is important to the public bank and the site administration, and activities will proceed with strict maintenance of privacy. In the framework of the site's activities, there is automatic collection of various types of information of surfing habits and user's use of the site. This information does not identify the user personally but is collected exclusively as statistical information. Implementation of conclusions resulting from analysis of this information is meant to improve and streamline the experience of every user on the site. Using the site implies the user's consent to the terms of use appearing on this page, and with this, the user allows the operators of the site to use the information collected to draw conclusions and statistical clarifications, including its publication and/or transferal to a third party - so long as the information does not identify the user personally. All this is subject to the provisions of relevant law.

Using the site and using its various services implies the user's consent for the site administration to actively implement in real time and with periodic analysis, computerized monitoring of the user's use of the site through the use of cookies and/or parallel and/or similar measures. The public bank and site administration may use any such said information for supervising and/or monitoring, and also for the development and promotion of the services including guarding and securing the status quo, and dealing with the quality and proper functioning of the various services of the site and/or for the purpose of complying with the provisions of any law, and/or for the needs of the public bank and the site administration. This includes statistical services and analysis of surveys of the public bank and site administration.

Also, the site administration may use visitor information to improve the use of the site, in cases where contact information of a user was transferred to the site, and the site desires to contact the user for the purpose of improvement, optimization, and adjusting the site to the user's personal preferences and needs. The site will not transfer to a third party or various advertising companies information that can identify the user personally, unless the user wants this or agrees to this. Under no circumstances will personal or identifying information of user be transfered without receiving his consent. Providing personal information in the course of making contact and filling forms on the site will be deemed as consent to transfer information to third parties.

Using the database and using the various options and services offered by the site administration and the public bank, so long as the user did not say otherwise to the site and public bank, is considered as consent that the site will make use of his personal information for sending updates and/or advertising information and/or marketing information and/or other material through the e-mail address entered as contact information and/or with his registration to the site. If the user does not agree to this, he must notify the site of this explicitly and in writing.

The site is particular to maintain the provisions of any law and regulation, including provisions relating to the Privacy Protection Law, and will indeed safeguard the privacy of  users and not reveal to anyone not authorized by law - lists or documents that list the name and address of the user, or any other related information connected with him, and also any information relating to the user's use of the site. This excludes information and data publicized by the user himself.

Without detracting anything from that said above and below, the site has the right, if necessary, to disclose user information and information about the user's usage habits on the site, in accordance with an order issued by a court and/or in any judicial proceedings. All this, if a situation arises where a clarification between client and site and/or public bank become necessary, and/or in case of breach of terms by the user, and/or in the event that the site administration and/or public bank, according to their sole discretion, deems that it is necessary to prevent serious damage to their person or property or anyone else's, and/or in the case of cooperation and/or merger of the activities of the public bank and/or site with any third party.

Promotional Material

The user's consent, as stated above and below, constitutes consent to receive promotional material according to the Law. We hereby clarify, that despite the said consent of the user, the user is entitled to retract from this agreement by sending an email to the site in which appears a request to cancel the sending of promotional material and/or to be removed from the mailing and/or distribution list.

So long as the user did not cancel his/her consent to receive promotional material, the site is permitted, in accordance with the provisions laid down by law, to use the personal information of the users who gave their personal information to the site, and also of users registered in the site, and/or to transfer the personal information of users to a third party in order to provide users with additional marketing material and/or updates that may interest them, whether by e-mail, SMS messages, and other means, whether materials the user chooses to receive by registering for the selected service in the place assigned for this purpose on the site, or materials that the public bank and/or site and/or third party decides to transfer to users.

Limitation of Liability

The site is not a sales site and operators of the site are not and will not be considered as selling and/or as offering to sell products and/or services of any kind to users, or as supplying or providing medical care, outpatient services, or any other medical service of any kind. Information on the site is intended for general and informational purposes only. This information should not be seen as a substitute for medical advice or guidance, which should always be received from the attending physician.

Displaying the contents of the user and/or third party programs and/or directing the user to a third party and/or placing internal links and/or external links in the site shall not be construed as an offer to the user, and/or as an expression of support, encouragement, approval or endorsement of the site to the contents and/or products and/or services offered by others and/or the various links. Any reliance and use (whether action or inaction) of the user and/or any third party, in reaction to any content, information, publicity material, coupon, products, services, opinions and attitudes, displayed or advertised on the site and/or on sites linkable to from the site, is at the discretion of the user and/or any third party, and his exclusive responsibility.

Without limiting the foregoing, contents displayed on the site based on information of third parties and/or advertisers (including, inter alia, articles, surveys, etc.) are the sole responsibility of that third party and/or the respective publisher. Without limiting the foregoing, the site administration and public bank are not responsible for the content of advertisements advertized on the site by advertisers. All promotional material placed on the site by an advertiser is his sole responsibility. The site administration does not edit and/or supervise the content of advertisements placed on the site and is not responsible for their contents. However, the site reserves the right to remove advertisements, if they are found offensive, at its exclusive discretion.

The site does not edit and/or monitor the content or services uploaded to the site by users and/or any third party and is not responsible for such contents and/or any outcome that might arise through reliance on the contents and/or from using them. However, in accordance with users' request, the site reserves the right to edit, remove content, messages, images and video content, and/or to refuse to upload them in the event they are found, at its discretion, offensive and/or for any other reason. The site administration does not control and is not responsible for information and/or services supplied and/or advertized by others and/or a third party through them, whether directly or indirectly, including services and site contents of others and/or a third party to which there is a link from the site. The site does not guarantee that all links are intact nor that it is possible to reach an active site through them at all times.

The site administration is not responsible for the availability of the site, and/or the content, form, reliability, credibility and accuracy of the contents of users and/or a third party, and included in this, it is not responsible for damage to or infringement of any intellectual property rights, including trademarks and trade secrets in connection with the contents of the users and/or of a third party, or in connection with any other use of the site.

If a user contacts a third party, all terms of the contact will be concluded directly between the user and the third party, and the site administration will not be party in the contact. The site administration will not be liable in any way regarding the contact between a client and a third party, including the reliability and/or stability of the third party, and/or the quality of the product, and/or the service provided and/or offered to the user by the third party. The site aministration does not bear any responsibility for any damages and/or other claims that may result to the user from these contacts. In the event that the site operators try voluntarily and ex-gratia, to help solve a problem and/or request of a user, this assistance shall not be construed in any way as casting any responsibility on the site operators and/or the site administration.

The site administration and site operators will not be liable for any damage, loss, or expense incurred by any user and/or third party in connection with any act and/or omission originating from any third party. The site operators will not be liable for any omission and/or action of any kind, that generates a connection between a user and any third party and/or arising from this connection, even if the user first learned about the third party from the site.

Under no circumstances, will the site and site operators be responsible, nor bear any damage, direct, indirect, incidental, consequential, specific, financial or otherwise, caused to the user or any third party in connection with the information, content, products and/or services appearing on the site and/or a third-party's site, including loss of income and/or prevention of profit incurred for any reason, and including personal injury and/or negligent care. Without limiting all we have said, the site administration and site operators will not be liable for any said injury caused or arising from or relating in any way to using the site, or from any information, content, products or services obtained through the site and/or caused and/or resulting from any other kind of use of the site, whether based on agreement or torts, absolute liability and/or any other cause.

The user will have no complaint, claim, or demand against the site, including concerning the nature of the contents and their quality, the information, the services, and products mentioned on the site, their abilities, their limitations, and their suitability for the needs of the user and/or responses (if any) that arise from users. He hereby waives any claim and/or demand and/or request, as said, against the site operators, and/or the site and/or their representatives.

The site does not warrant that the services will not be disrupted, will be provided regularly without interruption, will take place securely and without errors, and be immune to unauthorized access to computers of the site administration, or damage, malfunctions, or failures of hardware, software, communication lines and systems, of the site and/or the site administration, and/or any of its suppliers and/or any of its representatives. Provision of services by the site system depends, among other things, on a third party, and the system is not responsible for any act or omission of a third party and will not be liable for any damages and/or loss and/or destruction and/or expense incurred by a user and/or any third party as a result of and/or in connection with any act or omission, as said.

Intellectual Property

Intellectual property rights on the site of a range of services offered, including names and trademarks, copyrights and trade secrets associated with operation of the site and the provision of said services, with site design, technological information connected with using and/or operation of the site, and with any file or graphic, textual, or multimedia application found on the site, but excluding users' content, are exclusively of the public bank and site administration (or a third party who gave the site permission to use them in the framework of the site and said services).

The user will not copy, distribute, publish, publicly display, disclose to third parties, or make any commercial use whatsoever with any part of the contents without obtaining explicit consent from the site administration and the management of the public bank – in advance and in writing.

Changes and Updates

The site system may remove from the site contents and/or certain pages and/or various services. Its discretion alone will determine this matter without needing to update the user about it. This includes any restriction or termination or freezing or blocking of the site's services in cases where the user made use that may cause any damage to the site and/or interference to the services provided by it, interference to other users, or in a way that is a civil or criminal misdemeanor, or in a way that arouses reasonable suspicion that the visitor acted in a way contrary to and/or violating the site's terms of use.

The site administration may alter, modify, terminate, block, freeze, cut off, or limit the services provided on the site at any time, including but not limited to, according to its exclusive discretion, for the purpose of maintenance activities including upgrades and/or repairs of the systems connected to the site and those using it, and also in times of national emergency and/or for reasons of national security.

The above restrictions do not impose on the site administration and/or the public bank any obligation and/or responsibility, nor do they derogate from the user's obligation to act at all times in accordance with the terms of use appearing on the site.

The site system can alter from time to time, at will, and according to its exclusive discretion, the URL of the site, its structure, its design, and its appearance, the various services provided on the site, the availability of these services, their scope, and any other aspect related to them and involving them - and all, without updating the user regarding the change. The user will have no claim and/or demand against the site administration and\or public bank for making changes, repairs, and upgrades as said, and/or for mishaps that occur during their implementation.

Updated Terms of Use

The site administration and the public bank reserve the right to update and change inaccordance to changing requirements, from time to time, at their exclusive discretion and without giving notice of this to the user and/or to any person and/or other party. Updated conditions appearing on the site supersede all previous versions and/or not updated versions of terms of use on the site. Also, if there is any contradiction between the Hebrew version of this document and versions in other languages, the Hebrew version will be authoritive.