Ashira Tehilot Terms of Use & Privacy Policy

Date Updated: 11 September 2019

The Ashira Tehilot program is part of the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary

4 Avraham Granot St, Jerusalem, Israel


Welcome to ASHIRA - an online social platform for viewing and listening video, songs and other Jewish religious content (the “Service”). The Service is owned and operated by the Schechter Rabbinical Seminary, (“The Company”) and it is available through our designated mobile application (the “App”).

Please read the following Terms of Use (the "Terms") carefully. By installing, signing up to, accessing, using or posting content on the Service, you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree to these Terms, you may not access or use the Service.

Use of the Service may be subject to additional terms and conditions that govern the use of Apple devices, application marketplaces or other services that interact with the App. You alone are responsible for complying with such additional terms and conditions.

We utilize the YouTube API Services within our Service. Upon accepting the Terms and accessing the Service, You agree to also be bound by YouTube’s Terms of Service, which can be found https://www.youtube.com/static?template=terms and Google Privacy Policy, which can be found at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.

OUR APP AND SERVICE

The Service provided by us originates from other video/music uploaded by different users to websites such as YouTube (the "Content"). You must be lawfully subscribed to or legally using their services from your own mobile device. The App enables you to listen and/or view the content uploaded to these websites according to specification and criterion provided by our App. We do not copy, store, share or otherwise distribute the Content. 

REGISTERATION TERMS

In order to use the App, you must be an individual and register with a personal user account. When you register to the Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain (“Registration Information”).

If we believe that the Registration Information you provide is false, deceptive or offensive, or if we believe that you violated these Terms, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your user account or your access to the Service.

We reserve the right to request additional information to verify your identity, during the registration process, throughout your use of the Service.

USE OF THE SERVICE

You may use the App and the Services only for your private, personal and non-commercial purposes.

When using the Service, you must refrain from –

You are solely responsible for the content you make available through the service and for the consequences associated with doing so.

If you find any content on the App that violates these Terms of Use, please let us know by contacting us at: rabschool@schechter.org.il. We will review every request and take action as necessary.

We may, but are under no duty to, review content made available through the App. We may, in our sole discretion, temporarily or permanently delete or block access to content, if we find such content in violation of these Terms.

YOUR PRIVACY

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The Service is available to registered users for Google accounts who who had installed and are using the App. You may register using your mobile number and full name. If you register with your social network account, you are allowing us access to retrieve your profile information from such social network (“Social Network”). We will access the information that the Social Network makes available to third parties by default.

By registering to the Service through your Social Network account, you agree to share information (including personally identifiable information) between us and the Social Network.

We may collect content that you make available on the Service and may use third party analytics tools to collect information about your use of the Service and create statistics from such information. 

We may collect information about your personal computer or mobile device, including its model, operating system, unique device identifiers, browser type, mobile network information and the Internet Protocol (IP) address through which you accessed the Service.

USE OF COLLECTED INFORMATION

Your consent serves as the legal basis for processing your information. You may withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of data processing we carried out based on your consent before such withdrawal.

We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:

SHARING AND USING INFORMATION COLLECTED

We may share the information outlined in this Policy, with others, in any of the following instances:

You may ask to access the personal information about you that is stored in our systems, or have us update, correct or delete such information. 

We may use the information we collect, as outlined above, to compile anonymized or aggregated information. We may share, sell or otherwise communicate and make available such anonymized or aggregated information to any other third party, at our sole discretion. 

We retain personally identifiable information for as long as we deem necessary for the purposes set forth above. We may delete information from our systems, without notice to you, once we deem it is no longer necessary for the purposes set forth above.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

All rights, title and interest in and to the App and the Service, including without limitation, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, Service marks, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights and any goodwill associated therewith, but excluding any content that originates from users, are the exclusive property of The Company and its licensors. For the removal of any doubt, The Company does not hold any property rights in the Content nor in the platform the Content was uploaded for (I.e the YouTube platform). 

You may not copy, distribute, display or perform publicly, make available to the public or communicate to the public, sublicense, disassemble, reduce to human readable form, execute publicly, make available to the public, adapt, make commercial use of, process, compile, translate, sell, lend, rent, reverse engineer, combine with other software, modify or create derivative works of the App or the Service or any part thereof, in any way or by any means.

You may not use any name, mark, logo or domain name that is confusingly similar to our marks, logos and Internet domain names. You must refrain from any action or omission that may dilute, or damage our goodwill.

CONTENT

You may share content with other users of the App, ranging from information about the Content you viewed/listened to.

In the event that you upload certain Content to YouTube and link our App to them , you hereby grant us an irrevocable, perpetual, world-wide, royalty-free, sub-licensable and assignable license to copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, distribute, broadcast, make available and communicate to the public your Content in order to provide the Service and its features.

The Service includes content that third parties – either providers or other users own (“Third Party Content”). Please note that Third Party Content is protected by intellectual property rights whether or not it is identified as being protected. You are not granted any ownership rights in Third Party Content and you must deal with it only in accordance with the law. The rights in the Third Party Content are not owned by us.

The display of any Content found in the App does not constitute our endorsement, sponsorship, recommendation or encouragement concerning the Content.

Content that you provide through the Service may be available to all registered users of the Service. Content you upload to your profile may be available to all registered users.

We may incorporate advertisements or commercial information in the App or in any feature in the Service. We may not control the ads and cannot guarantee that they are reliable or accurate. Including them in the Service does not mean that we recommend or endorse the goods or services that they offer. If you choose to purchase them, you do it on your own accord and we bear no responsibility for your decision or its consequences.

We may cooperate with advertisers or commercial vendors in order to offer you sponsored services. The sponsored services are always offered by their respective providers and under their exclusive responsibility. If you encounter any problem with the sponsored services, or if you have any complaint about them, you should address it only to the relevant provider. You release us to the full extent permissible by law from any liability for such sponsored services.

CHANGES TO OUR APP AND TERMS

We may, at any time and without prior notice change the layout, design, scope, features or availability of the App and the Service. We may revise these Terms, in whole or in part, at any time by putting you on notice of the amended Terms. Your continued use of the App after the effective date of the amended Terms constitutes your consent to the amended Terms.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY AND LIABILITY

The service is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. We and our officers, directors, shareholders, employees, sub-contractors, agents and affiliates (the “Staff”) disclaim all warranties and representations, either express or implied, with respect to the service, its content, including, without limitation, any warranties of merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose, quality, non-infringement, title, compatibility, performance, security, accuracy, enhanced goodwill or expected benefits.

no representation or other affirmation of fact, including statements regarding capacity, suitability for use or performance of the service, or the content presented on or through the app, whether or not made by any of our staff, which is not expressly contained in these terms, shall be deemed to be a warranty by the involved persons for any purpose, or give rise to any liability of our staff whatsoever.