USER LICENSE, AND TRANSACTIONS CANCELLATION TERMS

The details furnished by you at the time of registering for the service shall be kept in the Publisher’s database. There is no legal duty to furnish the details; however, without furnishing them you will not be able to purchase the license to use the service.

At the time of registering for the service, you will be asked to choose a user name and password, for the purpose of identifying you every time you access the service. The Publisher may from time to time determine additional or other identification means.

The user name and password are designated for your personal use only and you may not convey them to others.

Kindly keep your user name and password secret in order to prevent abuse of your account.

There is a prohibition on including in the details you furnish and in the user name and password whilst registering for the service names, nicknames or expressions involving insult to another, slander, obscenity, rudeness, libel, injury to the good name of another, pornographic or blatant sexual content, indecent names, unlawful injury to minors and any other name, nickname or expression contravening a provision of the Israeli law or infringing the intellectual property of another or his right to privacy. The Publisher may, in its absolute discretion, refuse to accept any of the aforesaid.

License fees

The use of the service involves the payment of consideration to the Publisher (“license fees”).

You may always inspect the up-to-date license tracks and the payment terms of each track at Otzar HaHochma’s on-line shop. The license fees will be collected through the credit card whose details you provide at the time of purchasing the license for the service. Upon the approval of this agreement, you are permitting the Publisher to charge the account fees to your credit card, in accordance with the track chosen by you and the payment terms included therein.

The Publisher may from time to time:

• update the license tracks, the amount of the license fees and the payment terms and methods and add to, alter or terminate special deals it is offering. Notice of the update shall be published on the site’s home page and shall take effect a reasonable time after its publication, in accordance with the nature of the update;
• collect license fees in different amounts from different users, or not collect them at all.

Copyright

The copyright and other intellectual property rights in the site, the service, the software and any application, computer code, graphic file, voice file, video file, text file, including the retrieval software and its keys, the user interface, the system characterization, the user manuals and the help files, the graphic design of the software and its ancillary components (insofar as they are not in the public domain) belong to the Publisher alone, or to a third party, who has granted the Publisher permission to use them.

Any action not expressly permitted in this agreement in connection with the service is prohibited. In such context (but without derogating from the aforesaid) you may not copy, duplicate, circulate, market, translate, re-engineer, decompile, disassemble, adapt, re-code, create any development, change or derivative of the software, damage the software and/or the database, distort them or alter them, remove any copyright notice from the database content, rent out the license, lend it, sell it, grant any user rights therein or sub-licenses or take any action resulting in an infringement of the Publisher’s copyright in the database or the grant of rights in the database to any third party.

The aforesaid does not exhaust the prohibited database actions. As will be recalled, thousands of hours of work and effort were invested in the development of the database software, the compilation of the content and the creation of the database. According to the law the database is identical to a book, picture or other art creation. Prohibited actions in respect of these creations may also not be taken by you in respect of the database.

For your attention, the database and its content are protected through advanced technological means designated at preventing any unauthorized use. Infringement of the copyright in the database constitutes a civil wrong and criminal offence. Without derogating from the Publisher’s rights pursuant to these license terms and/or pursuant to the provisions of any law, if the copyright in the database is infringed, all your rights pursuant to this license will automatically expire.

The Publisher may include digital defenses in the database that will enforce the restrictions in this license. You are hereby obliged, as an essential and fundamental condition of this license, not to circumvent or crack or render superfluous the operation of these defenses and not to try and perform any of the aforesaid.

The use of the service

The license vests you with a right to use the service solely for your private and personal objects, and you may not use the service for any other object.

You may not use the service for any other purpose and within which, the database or any part thereof must not be featured in the public domain including classes and study institutions, Yeshivas or organisations or in any other way, unless you have secured the Publishers' written and prior consent and subject to the terms of such consent, if granted.

You may not operate any computer or other media application, including software of the Robots, Crawlers type and the like, designated for the automatic search, scanning, copying or retrieval or information and content in the database, in a manner not expressly permitted by the Publisher. You may not create or use means as aforesaid for the purpose of creating a compilation or collection containing information and content from the database.

You may not operate any computer or other media application that will enable the unauthorized use of the service.

You must and are obliged to leave the information and content downloaded from the site with the Publisher’s approval in the original format and together with the notices concerning the copyright and title in the content and information, as published on the site, and you may not howsoever change and/or delete and/or distort information as aforesaid.

The reproduction, duplication, circulation, publication, copying and/or transfer of the information published on the site (through any means, including, but not only, mail, fax, e-mail or other electronic means) is absolutely prohibited, save with the Publisher’s prior written approval. The use and/or publication of the information appearing on the site on other sites and/or any other place connected with the site is absolute prohibited. In addition, any development, change, translation and/or transformation of the information published on the site and/or based thereon, without the Publisher’s prior written approval, is absolutely prohibited.

The license you have purchased permits you to use the service on one PC only. You are not allowed to link this database or any part or component thereof to another PC or to a net of computers – including any link via a cable, phone lines, wireless, infra-red, internet, intranet or any other vehicle, designed for computer communication.

Privacy

The Publisher respects the privacy of its customers. At the time of using the service, there may be a build-up of data on the nature and scope of the use. Such data, as well as data furnished at the time of the service registration process, shall be used for the following objects:

• in order to allow you to use the service and other services offered from time to time on the site;
• in order to improve and enrich the nature and scope of the service and to create new services and contents suiting the requirements of the users of the service. The information used by the Publisher for such purpose shall essentially be statistical information that does not identify you personally;
• In order to send you information regarding the service, additional services and the publication, if you gave your consent for this. Even after you granted your consent you may at any time revoke it. For the removal of doubt the Publisher will not give your personal information to advertisers.
• to create contact with you (where necessary) or for the purpose of analyzing and furnishing statistical data to third parties, including publishers; The information used by the Publisher for such purpose does not identify you personally;
• for the proper operation and development of the service. The information used for such purpose shall not be conveyed to third parties, save insofar as permitted in the framework of this privacy policy.

The Publisher may convey the information to a third party, in accordance with a judicial or administrative order, or directive of any investigative authority pursuant to the law, or where it believes that the furnishing of the information is necessary in order to prevent grave damage to person or property, or in the framework of a dispute or proceedings between you and the Publisher.

Information security

The Publisher is applying information security systems and procedures on the site. Whilst these systems and procedures limit the risks of unauthorized penetration into the Publisher’s computers, they do not provide absolute security. Accordingly, the Publisher is not undertaking that the service will be absolutely immune to unauthorized access.

You warrant that the Publisher or any third party connected with the service are not liable and shall not be liable for any delays, changes, inaccuracies, failures, mistakes, disruptions, viruses, Trojan horses, Internet communication disruptions, damages, thefts and/or illegal penetrations into your personal computer through the Internet, as a result of the use of the site and/or the service.

Jurisdiction

In any event of conflict or dispute with the Publisher, you hereby undertake that the dispute will be deliberated solely in a courthouse in the State of Israel.