Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting Edco Technologies Ltd website.

In the event that E&M Computing Ltd. or any of its affiliates (together hereinafter: “Edco Technologies Ltd“) asks you for any information, you are hereby advised that we are committed to collecting, maintaining, and securing personal information about you in accordance with the applicable Privacy Policy below (this “Privacy Policy”), as well as applicable laws, rules and regulations. This Policy applies to personal information (as defined below) collected from Edco Technologies Ltd online resources and communications (such as this website, via e-mail and other online tools) that display a link to this Policy (the "Site"). This Policy does not apply to third-party online resources to which Edco Technologies Ltd’ Site may link, where Edco Technologies Ltd does not control the content or the privacy practices of such resources.

If you are NOT a resident of the EU/EEA, the following privacy policy will apply to you. If you ARE a resident of the EU/EEA, please refer to our EU Privacy Policy below.

General Privacy Policy

1. Data gathering

1.1.         Data on the Site are submitted by you voluntarily, and in some cases, data may be collected automatically. Some of the data collected include information that can be reasonably used to identify you, including your first and last name, your address and/or email and your phone number, location, etc. (“Personal Information”).

1.2.         The gathering of Personal Information from the Site is carried out in two ways:

1.2.1.     Directly, for example, when you provide information to receive services or when you address various inquiries to us or fill out forms.

1.2.2.     Indirectly, through the technology of the Site, such as your IP address, the pages you are viewing on this site, your operating system and browser type.

2. Reasons for Gathering Data

2.1.         We use Personal Information to provide you with the information you request, for the purpose of online applications, for other purposes that are described at the time of data collection and for any other purpose set forth in this Privacy Policy.

2.2.         We analyze information related to the IP address to determine what is most effective about the Site and to help us identify ways to improve and optimize the Site.

3. Data Storage and Usage

3.1.         We store Personal Information, as needed to provide services to you and occasionally, for a longer period, as required by law. We may collect, inter alia, your first and last name, address and/or email, phone number, location, details you filled in “Contact Us”, etc.

3.2.         Edco Technologies Ltd uses the Personal Information only in ways that are consistent with the objectives for which it was collected, and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

3.3.         Any information or content that you post or fill in the Site in any form (which is not Personal Information), will not be considered proprietary or confidential, and all those exposed to it, including Edco Technologies Ltd, may use it in any way they see fit. It is clarified that Edco Technologies Ltd and anyone on its behalf are not liable or responsible whatsoever in connection with such information or content.

3.4.         Service is provided to you based on the information you submitted, which will be stored in the Edco Technologies Ltd database in accordance with the requirements of the law, with Edco Technologies Ltd procedures, and with the provisions of this Privacy Policy. Edco Technologies Ltd is entitled to transfer such information to third parties at your request and/or at its discretion, for its and/or your benefit. Edco Technologies Ltd is entitled to make the following use of the information you submitted: (1) use it for its administrative, business, and commercial purposes, including for contacting you, direct mailing, marketing and advertising campaigns, by mail, telephone, fax, or electronic mail; (2) making it available to affiliated companies and/or third parties in order to obtain proposals for products/services that Edco Technologies Ltd believes may be of interest to you. If you request to be excluded from direct mailing lists and/or not to transfer your information to third parties, as set forth above, you must request it from us by email or by registered mail, using the Contact Link that appears on the Site. In the absence of such a request, it will be considered that you consented for Edco Technologies Ltd to use the information you submitted as described above.

3.5.         In addition to the foregoing, Edco Technologies Ltd may use the Personal Information provided by you for the purpose of big data analysis, machine learning and other artificial-intelligence processes, whether directly or through third parties on its behalf as well as in joint ventures, without time limitation. To the extent possible with respect to the purpose of such uses, Edco Technologies Ltd will apply reasonable anonymization measures to reduce the identification potential of such Personal Information.

4. International Transfers of Personal Information

To the extent that we transfer Personal Information outside of Israel, such transfer is carried out in compliance with local privacy laws in relation to the collection, use, and saving of Personal Information. You are responsible for the processing of your Personal Information on third party sites or services (such as cloud service providers), including compliance of the data with applicable regulation, even if you asked us to upload the information for you or on your behalf.

5. Your Rights

5.1.         Edco Technologies Ltd allows you to use the Site and the services contained therein that are offered by it, for personal, non-commercial use only.

5.2.         You are entitled to know whether we hold Personal Information about you, and you may review your Personal Information and correct inaccuracies, subject to the law.

6. Protecting Your Personal Information

Edco Technologies Ltd respects the privacy of users of its Sites. Below is a review of how we use the information you provide or that is collected about you during your use of the Site.

6.1.         Disclosure

6.1.1.     We do not sell, trade, or disclose to any third-party Personal Information derived from the use of the services or from visiting the Site.

6.1.2.     Notwithstanding the above, it is possible that we will transfer Personal Information to our service providers, some of whom are outside of Israel, including jurisdictions that do not provide the same level of protection of personal information as provided in Israel, and you agree to such transfers, as may be required. In this case, we make sure that your Personal Information will be adequately protected, in accordance with the law and our internal policies.

6.1.3.     Additionally, certain exceptions may apply, among others, if the disclosure is required by law or if it is necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of Edco Technologies Ltd, of our clients, or of third parties, if the Personal Information is publicly available, or if such disclosure is reasonably necessary.

6.2.         Security

6.2.1.     We implement on our Site information security systems and procedures, and continue to improve them in accordance with the availability of appropriate new technologies. These systems and procedures reduce the risk of unauthorized entry to comp Edco Technologies Ltd users, but do not provide absolute security. Therefore, Edco Technologies Ltd does not guarantee full security of the services provided on the Site and is not responsible for unauthorized access of the data stored on it.

6.2.2.     The site may contain links to and from the sites of third parties. Following these links leads to third-party sites operating under different terms of use and privacy policies from those of Edco Technologies Ltd, and Edco Technologies Ltd has no responsibility or obligations with respect to these sites, their content, their visual elements, the data found there, or the policies that apply to them.

7. Regulation

7.1.         Edco Technologies Ltd observes the privacy laws of Israel in relation to personal data you provided on the site.

7.2.         From time to time we verify that our Privacy Policy conforms to the relevant privacy laws.

8. Monitoring

8.1.         The Site uses “cookies” for a variety of purposes, including for the routine and proper operation of the Site, as well as to collect statistical data about its use, to verify information, to adapt the Site to your personal preferences, and for the purpose of information security. Cookies are text files that your browser creates according to commands from Edco Technologies Ltd computers.

8.2.         Some cookies expire when you close your browser and others are saved on the hard drive of your computer.

8.3.         Deleting and blocking cookies will affect your use of the Site, and portions of it may not work.

8.4.         We may use web beacons or other monitoring technologies.

8.5.         You cannot remove these monitoring technologies, which are part of the Site. But in cases they work with cookies, cancelling the cookies will prevent monitoring your user activity on the Site, in other words, although the web beacons continue to monitor your use as an anonymous visitor, your personal information is not recorded.

9. Targeted Email

9.1.         We may occasionally send you email containing information about our services, as well as marketing and advertising information on our behalf or on behalf of third parties, and you hereby agree to receive such marketing information from us.

9.2.         You can choose to cancel at any time receiving such commercial information by contacting us through the "Contact Us", but you may not choose to cancel the receipt of service messages or other communications required as part of our services.

10. Updates to Privacy Policy

From time to time, Edco Technologies Ltd may revise this Privacy Policy. Any such changes to this Privacy Policy will be promptly communicated on this page. Continued use of our Site after receiving notice of a change in our Privacy Policy indicates your consent to the use of information provided to Edco Technologies Ltd in accordance with the amended Edco Technologies Ltd Privacy Policy.

EU Privacy Policy

This Policy applies to you if you are an EU/EEA resident. If you are NOT a resident of the EU/EEA, please refer to our general Privacy Policy.

1. How We Collect and Use Information

1.1.         Information for Customer Support and Inquiries.

We collect and store personal information, such as name, company, address, email address, telephone number, business affiliation and contact information, when you submit inquiries or requests with respect to our products or services, or when you contact us for the purpose of purchasing products and services. We will use such information to contact you only for the purposes for which you sent the inquiry.

1.2.         Information for Marketing and Promotional Purposes.

We also collect and store personal information, such as name, company, address, email address, telephone number, business affiliation and other contact information, if you subscribe to our newsletter or wish to attend our events, for the purpose of sending you product information, marketing, business and promotional materials or information on our future events. We do so only if you have given your explicit, free and informed consent for such purposes. In line with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") we will always give you the opportunity to opt in to our mailing list and without your consent we will not add you to our mailing list to receive direct marketing or market research information.

1.3.         Information for the Maintenance and Improvement of our Site and services.

We may also use your personal information, such as web server logs, IP addresses, cookies and web beacons, when you send us inquiries regarding our products or when you browse the Site, to administrate and improve this Site or our products and services, for our internal records and for statistical analysis.

1.4.         Cookies.

This Site may also collect cookies subject to our Cookie Policy.

2. Legal Basis for Processing

Our collection and processing of personal information is based on the following:

2.1.         Need to carry out the above processing of information, which is in anticipation of entering into commercial engagements or as part of the performance of existing engagements with you or the organization you work for.

2.2.         To the extent that we use the personal information for advertising or promotional activities, we will request your specific, freely-given, unbundled, informed and separate consent to such uses.

2.3.         To the extent that we use the personal information to improve this Site or for analyzing statistics, the basis for collection of data is our legitimate interest to conduct such improvements and analysis.

3. Your Choices

You have several choices regarding your use of our Site. You could decide not to submit any personally identifiable information at all by not entering into any forms or data fields on our Site and not using any available personalized services. We may ask for your permission for certain uses of your information and you can agree to or decline those uses. If you opt-in for particular services or communications, you will be able to unsubscribe at any time by following the instructions included in each communication.

4. Data Security

Edco Technologies Ltd uses technology and security precautions, rules and other procedures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, improper use, disclosure, loss or destruction. To ensure the confidentiality of your information, Edco Technologies Ltd uses also industry standard firewalls and password protection, taking into consideration industry standard technology, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of processing your personal information. It is, however, your personal responsibility to ensure that the computer you are using is adequately secured and protected against malicious software, such as trojans, computer viruses and worm programs. You are aware of the fact that without adequate security measures (e.g. secure web browser configuration, up-to-date antivirus software, personal firewall software, no usage of software from dubious sources) there is a risk that the data and passwords you use to protect access to your data, could be disclosed to unauthorized third parties.

5. Data Sharing and Transfer

Edco Technologies Ltd shares personally identifiable data about you with various outside companies or agents doing technological maintenance or working on our behalf to help fulfill business transactions, such as providing customer services, and sending marketing communications about our products, services and offers. We may also share personally identifiable data with our company’s subsidiaries and affiliates. All these companies and agents are required to comply with the terms of our privacy policies. More specifically, we may send your personal information to other companies or people under any of the following circumstances:

5.1.         When we have your consent to share the information;

5.2.         When we need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Edco Technologies Ltd to provide a product or service you have requested as part of our contractual relationship (we will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the product or service, and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose);

5.3.         In the event of sale or transfer of all or substantially all of Edco Technologies Ltd or any Edco Technologies Ltd affiliate’s shares or assets, in cases of mergers or in case of negotiations with respect to the foregoing;

5.4.         To our service providers and subcontractors in order to keep you up to date on the latest product announcements, services updates, special offers or other information we think you’d like to hear about either from us or from our business partners (unless you have opted out of these types of communications), only if you gave your explicit, free and informed consent to such processing activities, as detailed above.

5.5.         To respond to appropriate requests of legitimate government agencies or where required by applicable laws, court orders, or government regulations; or

5.6.         Where needed for corporate audits or to investigate or respond to a complaint or security threat.

We will not sell or otherwise transfer the personally identifiable information you provide to us at our Sites to any third parties for their own direct marketing use unless we provide clear notice to you and obtain your explicit consent for your data to be shared in this manner.

For the above purposes, personal information may be transferred to recipients in countries around the world (which may be located outside the EU/EEA) which in some cases may have a lower level of protection than that within the EU/EEA. When transferring personal data to countries outside the EU/EEA, to jurisdictions that did not receive an adequacy decision by the European Commission, we use standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission to ensure a sufficient level of protection for your personal information. The standard contractual clauses can be found via the following link: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en.

Other than as described above, any other transfer of your personal information to third parties will be subject to your consent.

6. Data Retention

Edco Technologies Ltd stores the personal information as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purpose for which the data has been collected. This means that Edco Technologies Ltd deletes your personal information when such information is no longer necessary. Statistics which has been anonymized may be saved thereafter.

7. Data Subject Rights

You may at any time request the rectification or erasure of your personal information. Please note however that deletion could mean that Edco Technologies Ltd cannot process your requests or provide you any requested services. You have the right to request a copy of your personal information from our record. You have the right to request a limitation of the use of your personal information (for example if you deem the information to be incorrect) or the termination of use of your personal information (for example as regards the use of the information to improve our services).

8. Links to Other Sites

Our Site may contain links to websites that may offer useful information to our visitors. Edco Technologies Ltd does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. It should be clarified that this Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites, and we recommend communicating to them directly for information on their privacy policies. Although we choose our business partners carefully, Edco Technologies Ltd is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites operated by third parties that are linked to our site. Once you have left our Site, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third-party website to determine how they will handle any information they collect from you.

9. Privacy Policy for Children

Our Site is directed to an adult audience. We do not collect any personally identifiable information from anyone we know to be under the age of 16 without the prior, verifiable consent of his or her legal representative. Such legal representative has the right, upon request, to view the information provided by the child and/or to require that it be deleted.

10. Updates to Privacy Policy

From time to time, Edco Technologies Ltd may revise this Privacy Policy. Any such changes to this Privacy Policy will be promptly communicated on this page. Continued use of our Site after receiving notice of a change in our Privacy Policy indicates your consent to the use of newly submitted information in accordance with the amended Edco Technologies Ltd Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is effective as of July 2020.

11. Privacy Inquiries

Edco Technologies Ltd is responsible for the processing of your personal information, and requests to exercise your rights as stated above shall be addressed to Edco Technologies Ltd, email address: info@edco.co.il

If you are a resident of the EU/EEA, and have a complaint regarding the processing of your personal information by Edco Technologies Ltd you are entitled to report such dissatisfaction to the applicable supervisory authority in your country of residence.

12. How to Contact Edco Technologies Ltd

For questions or if you wish Edco Technologies Ltd to amend or delete your personal information, please contact us at the following email address: info@edco.co.il