Scheherezade Publishing respects the privacy of users of the Internet site it manages, Scheherezade, (hereinafter referred to as “Scheherezade" or the “Site”). This statement explains the accepted privacy policy for the Site. It gives an overview, inter alia, of the way in which Scheherezade Publishing uses information provided thereto by the users of the Site or collected thereby during the use of the Site.

Use of Information
In the course of your use of the Site, it is possible that information pertaining to your habits, information or advertisements that you have read on the Site, the pages you watched, the location of the computer through which you had access to the Site and more, will be gathered or accumulated. Scheherezade Publishing shall store this information in its data bases. Any use of these data, as well as of the data you provide in the course of the registration to the mailing list in the Scheherezade Site, shall be made only in accordance with this Privacy Policy or with the provisions of the law – for the following purposes:

• To improve and expand the services and content offered on the Site, including creating new services and content which correspond to the requirements and expectations of the users of the Site and modifying or canceling existing services and content. The information used by Scheherezade Publishing for this purpose shall be mainly statistical information, which will not identify you personally.
• To purchase products and services on the Site – including publication of information and content on your behalf.
• To tailor advertisements you view during your visit on the Scheherezade Site to your special fields of interest. Any information used by Scheherezade Publishing for this purpose will not identify you personally by name or address.
• Scheherezade Publishing may e-mail you from time to time information pertaining to the Site or its other activities, as well as marketing and advertising material – whether information published by Scheherezade Publishing itself or information received from other posting advertisers for publication purposes. Any such information will be sent to you if you gave your explicit consent thereto, and you may retract your consent at any time and cease to receive information of that kind. However, Scheherezade Publishing will not transfer your personal details to any advertisers.
• To contact you (as and when necessary) or to analyze and provide statistical information to third parties, including advertisers. Any such information will not identify you personally.
• For the orderly and proper operation and development of the Site. No information used for this purpose will be transferred to any third party, except to the extent permitted under this Privacy Policy, as updated from time to time.
• For any other purpose, permitted under applicable law and/or subject to user consent, as Scheherezade Publishing deems right.

Transfer of Information to Third Parties
Scheherezade Publishing will not transfer your personal details and any information collected pertaining to your activities on the website (as far as such details and information identify you personally), to any third party, except in the following cases:

• Should you breach the Scheherezade Site’ Terms of Use, or should you perform or attempt to perform any allegedly illegal action, through the Site or in connection therewith. In these cases Scheherezade Publishing may transfer the information as shall be necessary;
• If Scheherezade Publishing shall receive a court order instructing it to transfer your details or any information about you to a third party;
• In any case of dispute, claim, action, demand or legal proceedings, if any, between yourself and Scheherezade Publishing;
• If Scheherezade Publishing considers that transferring such information is necessary in order to prevent serious damage to your person or property or to the person or property of any third party;
• Should Scheherezade Publishing organize the operation of the Site through another corporation – and should it merge with another entity or merge the activity of the Site with a third party activity – it shall be entitled to transfer to the new corporation a copy of the information collected about you on the Site or any other statistical information in its possession, provided, however, that said corporation shall subject itself to this privacy policy.
  

Cookies
Cookies are used for the ongoing and orderly operation of the Site, including for the purpose of collecting statistical data about use of the Site, adjusting the Site to your personal preferences and for purposes of information security. Cookies are text files created by your browser according to a command from the Scheherezade Site computers. Some of the Cookies will expire when you close down the browser and others are saved on your computer’s hard disk. If, for instance, you use Windows OS and your browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can find the saved Cookies in the folder c:>windows>cookies as well as in c:>windows>Temporary Internet Files. The Cookies contain a variety of information, such as the pages you have accessed, the amount of time you spent on the Site, the source from which you reached the Site, sections and information you have sought during your entries into the Site, and more. The information contained in the Cookies is encoded and Scheherezade Publishing takes precautions to ensure that only the Scheherezade computers are able to read and decipher the information stored therein.

If you do not wish to receive Cookies, you may cancel them by changing the definitions in your browser. Please read the Help file of your browser for this purpose. However, please bear in mind that disabling the Cookies may prevent you from using some of the services and the features on the Scheherezade Site or on other websites. Moreover, you can delete the Cookies from your computer any time. It is recommended that you do so only if you are sure that you do not wish Scheherezade Site to correspond to your individual preferences.

Third Party Advertising
Scheherezade Publishing permits other companies to manage the advertisements display scheme in the Scheherezade Site. The advertisements that you see during your visit on the Scheherezade Site are originated by the computers of these companies. In order to manage their advertisements, such companies post Cookies on your computer and places web beacons in the advertisements or in the site' pages. The web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, embedded in Internet pages, and are used to help collecting information about the site usage. The collected information does not identify you, and is only intended to match the displayed advertisements to your personal interests. The use made by such companies of Cookies and web beacons is subject to their own privacy policies and not to this Private Policy. Such companies have no access to the Scheherezade Site' Cookies and Scheherezade Publishing has no access to their Cookies. Should you wish to check the privacy policies of the companies that are managing the advertising scheme on the Scheherezade Site, you may do so via their own websites.

Collecting Information for Statistical Purposes
Scheherezade Publishing uses the assistance of StatCounter, which provides to it services of statistical analysis about the use of the Scheherezade Site. The company collects and analyzes information about the scope of the use of the site, the frequency of the use thereof, the access sources of users to the site, etc. In order to collect such information, the company uses cookies, which help it to monitor the activity patterns in the site and so, for instance, to examine the popularity of different contents and services on the site. The collected information is statistical in its nature, does not identify you personally and is intended for the purposes of analysis, research and control.

Data Security
Scheherezade Publishing implements data security systems and procedures on the Scheherezade Site. Although such systems and procedures reduce the risk of unauthorized entry into the Scheherezade computers, they do not provide absolute security. Therefore, Scheherezade Publishing does not guarantee that the services on the Scheherezade Site are absolutely immune to unauthorized access to the information stored therein.

The Right to Peruse Information
Under the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, any individual is entitled, whether himself or through a proxy so authorized in writing on his behalf or through his legal guardian, to access information pertaining to him that is contained in the data base. Any person, who peruses such information and finds it to be inaccurate, incomplete, unclear or non-updated, may contact the owner of the data base with a request to correct, amend or delete the data. Should the owner of the data base refuse to comply with such a request, he must inform the applicant of such refusal in the manner determined in the regulations. Any refusal on the part of the owner of the data base to permit access or comply with a request to amend or delete information may be appealed by the applicant in a magistrate’s court as determined in the regulations.

Changes in the Privacy Policy
Scheherezade Publishing has the right to change the terms of its Privacy Policy from time to time.