Introduction

At Sortex Systems Development LTD ("Sortex", "Kala", "we", “our” or "us") we are committed to protecting any data that we collect concerning you (either an individual or a legal entity that you represent as an authorized employee or agent) (the “User” or “you” or “your”) when you use or register on our website located at kala.io (the “Site”) or by using our Materials or Services, including the Management Interface (as these terms are defined in the Terms of Services posted on the Site and together referred to herein as the “Services”). Please note that this Privacy Policy applies to the information that we collect through the Site and the Services. By using the Site or Services you agree to the use of the data that we collect in accordance with this Privacy Policy, as may be amended.

Collection of personal information

Our primary goals in collecting personally identifiable information are to provide you with the Services made available through the Site, to communicate with you, and to manage your registered user account, if you have one. When you register on our Site or use the Services, we ask for information such as your name, company name or affiliation, password, email address and telephone number (your “Personal Information”).

Furthermore, we collect the email addresses of people who communicate with us via email, create accounts or post a public question on the Website forum.

If you decide to become a paying customer for the Services, we may collect additional information from you, including but not limited to billing and account information for credit cards, payment cards or other payment systems and share this information with our billing and payment processor(s). We do not store credit card or payment card numbers after they have been forwarded to its billing and payment processor(s), unless it is necessary for providing the provision of the Services.

We may also receive information about you from our business partners with which you have an account, service relationship or transaction history. Furthermore, we may receive Personal Information from third parties when you authorize such third parties to authenticate or identify you to us or sign in to the Services using credentials from a third party service.

Cookies

Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to understand and save your preferences for future visits. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Site or Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.

Log Data

When you use our Site and Services, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website (“Log Data”). Such information may include IP addresses, browser type, referral URL’s, language information, the domain from which you are visiting and additional information in respect to your usage and browsing of the Site and the Services. Except as set forth herein we do not use this information to personally identify you, but rather use it to monitor the use of the Site and the Services, including for (i) technical administration for the Site (ii) to help determine which users have access privilege to certain content, services or recourses that the Company offer, estimate and report total audience size and traffic, help combat fraud and abuse and provide analytics and reporting in respect to the use of the Site and Services.

How information is used

We use the information collected from you to deliver services to you and continuously enhance your user experience. Generally speaking, we use the collected information to communicate with you, fulfill your requests, customize the content, improve our products and services, protect our and your rights, and comply with laws and regulations.

We may use your personal information to send you promotional information and updates regarding us and our products and services. You may choose not to receive such information and opt-out of such future communications. All such communications sent to you will contain the instructions for opting-out. In addition to these optional email messages, we may contact you via any email address you provide to us with transactional or relationship messages such as account status messages, security updates or notifications of changes in the terms of your account or the our services. These types of transactional or relationship email messages are not optional.

With whom information is shared

We doe not share Personal Information collected from your use of the Site with others, except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Public Information

We may share as we see fit information that you voluntarily make public, including information that you post on any blogs, message boards, chat rooms or other similar forums, whether or not such forums are owned by us. Since such public information can be accessed by the public and used by any member of the public, such use by third parties is beyond our control.

Personal Information

We may share Personal Information under the following circumstances: (1) In the course of operating our business, it may be necessary or appropriate for us to provide access to your Personal Information to others such as our service providers, contractors and select vendors so that we can operate the our Service and our business. Where practical, we seek to obtain confidentiality agreements that are consistent with this Privacy Policy and that limit others’ use or disclosure of this Personal Information; and/or (2) we may share your Personal Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, to establish or exercise our legal rights, to defend against legal claims or in such circumstances where, in our judgment, disclosure is required or appropriate in accordance with applicable laws and regulations; and/or (3) we may share your Personal Information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our various terms of service or as otherwise required by law; and/or (4) as we continue to develop our business, we may sell all or part of our business. In such transactions, Personal Information collected from users is generally one of the business assets that will be transferred. The transferred Personal Information will remain subject to this Privacy Policy or subsequent policies to which you have consented.

Furthermore, if you chose to subscribe to the Services, we use the services of a credit card processing company to bill our users for subscription fees. These third parties do not retain, share or store this personally identifiable information or its part other than for providing these services and are bound by strict agreements limiting their use of such information.

Social media

Our Site and Services provide users the opportunity to interact and post content through various social media sites including, but not limited to, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Dropbox, Tumblr, foursquare, Flickr, YouTube and Vimeo. Your interactions with such tools, and any information you provide in connection with these interactions are publicly viewable outside of the Site domain. Each social media site has its own privacy policies which may be more or less protective than this Policy. If you do not wish for this information to be disclosed, then you should not use these tools. We are not responsible for information you choose to post in this forum.

The Site also includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook button and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

 

How information is protected

Your accounts with us may be secured by member-created passwords, in which case reasonable precautions are taken to ensure that your account information is kept private. You are responsible for keeping your passwords confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

No data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.

We use third party vendors and hosting partners to provide the necessary hardware, software, networking, storage, hosting and related technology required to run our Service with whom we may share your Personal Information.  Personal Information provided to such third parties is subject their privacy policies which may or may not contain terms as protective as this privacy policy.

Transfers of information

Our main offices are in Israel. Please be aware that information you provide to us or we obtain as a result of your use of the Site or the Services, may be processed and transferred to other countries and be subject to applicable law. This information may also be processed by staff working for us or for one of our suppliers. The privacy and data protection laws in Israel may not be equivalent to such laws in your country of residence. By using the Site or any of the Services, or by providing us with your information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of information to and in Israel.

Information relating to children

We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from children under the age of 13 or knowingly allow children under the age of 13 to register for the Service. If you are under 13, do not register or attempt to register for any of the Services or send any information about yourself to us. No one under the age of 13 may provide any Personal Information to, on or through the Site or the Service. If we learn that we have collected or have been sent Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will delete that Personal Information as soon as reasonably practical. If you believe that we might have collected or been sent Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, please contact our Support team as soon as possible.

Third party links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our Site. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome and feedback about these sites.

Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to update and change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice or acceptance by you, so please check this page frequently for updates and changes. Your continued use signifies your acceptance to any change in this policy.

Terms and conditions

Please also visit our Terms of Service section on our Site, establishing the use, disclaimers and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

 

Any questions?

Any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy should be addressed to
support@kala.io
 

This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 2015