Who we are
Niv: a contemporary canadian jewish publication
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Our company collects the following data:
- Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.)
Certain visitors to Niv’s websites choose to interact with Niv in ways that require Niv to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Niv gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Niv updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Niv collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Niv. Niv does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
User Submissions
You retain the copyright to your work, but by submitting, you agree to granting us a worldwide, perpetual, royalty free, non-exclusive, sub-sublicensable right including, a license to use, reproduce, publish, translate, distribute, make available to the public and exercise all subliscensable copyright and publicity rights in respect of your submission. We will ask for your permission before we incorporate your accepted submission into our media or marketing materials.
By submitting your work(s) you warrant that your submission is your own original work, and will continue to be legally responsible for it.
The opinions of Niv’s users are not the publication’s own, we do not endorse the opinions of our users.
We reserve the right to remove user’s content and submissions without notice. We reserve the right to remove user’s content and submissions if Niv finds out it plagiarizes the work of another.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Niv uses Google Analytics web-traffic measurement software to track visits and page hits; this means the site will add a cookie to your browsed and some information is sent to Google. Google’s policy about how that information is used is detailed in section 8.1 of the Google Analytics Terms of Service.
Additional information
What are your data protection rights?
Niv would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Niv for copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Niv correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Niv to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Niv erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Niv restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Niv processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Niv transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: team.nivmag@gmail.com
How we protect certain personally-identifying information
Niv collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Niv only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Niv discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Niv’s behalf or to provide services available at Niv’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Niv will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Niv discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Niv believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Niv, third parties or the public at large. If you have supplied your email address, Niv may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Niv. Niv takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Security Logs
The IP address of visitors, user ID of logged in users, and username of login attempts are conditionally logged to check for malicious activity and to protect the site from specific kinds of attacks. Examples of conditions when logging occurs include login attempts, log out requests, requests for suspicious URLs, changes to site content, and password updates. This information is retained for 60 days.
Who we share your data with
This site is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by Sucuri’s SiteCheck. We do not send personal information to Sucuri; however, Sucuri could find personal information posted publicly (such as in comments) during their scan. For more details, please see Sucuri’s privacy policy.
Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.
Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here.
Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.
Where we send your data
This site is part of a network of sites that protect against distributed brute force attacks. To enable this protection, the IP address of visitors attempting to log into the site is shared with a service provided by ithemes.com. For privacy policy details, please see the iThemes Privacy Policy.
How long do we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You always have the right to unsubscribe from our mailing list, it is an option that will always be provided to you.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This usually includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself
Your contact information
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy please email team.nivmag@gmail.com
Changes to Niv’s Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to update, change or replace any part of these Terms of Service by posting updates and/or changes to our website. Although most changes are likely to be minor, Niv may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Niv’s sole discretion. Niv encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If major changes do occur, Niv will inform you, of said changes, through the email you provided to us. Your continued use of Niv after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.