Terms of Use

These Terms of Use apply to the following websites and applications:

• The ynet website (at: www.ynet.co.il) which is operated by Yedioth Internet in the website and in the adapted application (Ynet application) (jointly hereinafter: "the Site");
• The premium website and application ynet+ (hereinafter: ynet+);

Use of the Site and the Application

• You may use the Site, the Application and the contents as defined above for private and personal purposes only. Copying and using the content, or permitting others to use it, in any other way, including in other websites or applications of any kind, electronic publications, print publications, etc., for any commercial or non-commercial purpose that does not constitute personal and private use, is prohibited.
• No computer application or any other means, including Crawlers, Robots and similar software, may be activated or allowed to be activated in relation to the contents, on the Site, and in relation to the Application in general, for the purpose of searching, scanning, copying or automatically retrieving contents from the Site and/or the Application in general, and no such means shall be created or used to create a compilation, collection or database containing content originating from the Site and/or the Application or which were displayed therein.
• No contents from the Site and/or the Application may be displayed within a visible or invisible Frame.
• No contents as defined above may be displayed in any way, including through any software, device, accessory or communication protocol - which changes their design on the Site or removes any part of them, in particular advertisements and commercial content.
• The Site may not be linked to any site containing pornographic content, content that encourages racism or improper discrimination, or which is or the publication of which is illegal or which encourages illegal activity.
• No link shall be made to contents from the Site or the Application other than the home page of the Sites ("deep link") and no contents as aforesaid shall be displayed or published in any other way, unless the deep link shall be to the full, AS IS web page, so that it can be viewed and used in exactly the same way in which it is viewed and used on the Site. Within this framework, creating a link to the contents as defined above, separately from the web pages in which they appear on the Sites (for example: linking directly to an image or a graphic file on the ynet site, as opposed to the full page on which they appear), is prohibited. In addition, the exact address of the web page on the Site where the content was originally included must appear in the usual place designated for this in the user interface (for example: in the address bar (Status bar) in the user's browser. Changing, distorting or concealing this address, or replacing it with any other address, is prohibited);
• Yedioth may in its sole discretion instruct you to cancel any deep link as aforesaid, in which case you shall do so immediately, and without making any complaint, demand or claim against Yedioth in this regard.
• These provisions do not derogate from any other provision in the General Terms of Use and in online agreements accompanying services on the Site.
• Yedioth shall bear no responsibility for any damage caused as a result of any link to the contents or the display or publication of the said contents in any other way. You shall be fully and exclusively responsible for any link to or presentation or publication of the contents made by you and undertake to indemnify Yedioth against any damage caused as a result thereof.
• Embedding of videos (Embedding) - No videos from the Site or the Application may be embedded without Yedioth Internet's prior written approval in any site, including a site which contains or hosts: pornographic content, content that encourages racism or improper discrimination, or which is or the publication of which is illegal or encourages illegal activity, or in sites in which embedding the video per se shall infringe the moral copyright of a third party, including the creators of the video and its copyright holders. Yedioth Internet reserves to itself the right to prohibit the embedding of videos and/or to change the link to the video, and without having to notify you of this in advance, and you shall make no complaint, claim and/or demand against Yedioth for making such changes and/or with respect to malfunctions occurring during their implementation. Yedioth may instruct you to cancel to cancel any embedding as foresaid, in which case you shall do so immediately, and without making any complaint, demand or claim against Yedioth in this regard. Yedioth shall bear no responsibility for any damage caused as a result of embedding videos from the Site and/or the Application. You shall be fully and exclusively responsible for any embedding that was done by you, including the regulation of copyrights and payment to the relevant copyright associations/operators as required by law, and undertake to indemnify Yedioth for any damage which it shall sustain as a result thereof.

Limitation of use

• Modifying, duplicating, reconstructing, copying, distributing copies, publishing, replicating or dealing with the accompanying software.
• Creating derivative work from the accompanying software or contents.
• Circumventing, changing, interfering or thwarting safety components that protect the hardware and/or accompanying software and/or digital content within the Site and/or application.
• Utilizing a robot, scanner or other automated means in order to access or prepare a key (index) to the digital content.
• Renting, lending, leasing, sublicensing, duplicating, displaying, distributing or utilizing the available content to a third party.

Services which are conditional upon registration and/or payment

• Yedioth has the right in its sole discretion to offer various subscription tracks which combine the Application, ynet+ and/or a subscription to the printed Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper (or to magazines from the Yedioth Group), including the prescription of a minimum subscription period, in accordance with the terms specified on the registration page.
• Use of the Application, the premium ynet+ service on the Site, and such other services as Yedioth shall in its discretion determine, are services that are conditional upon registration and payment of a subscription fee, as prescribed from time to time by Yedioth. These services may only be used after completing and providing the details requested during the registration process, after receiving your endorsement of the online agreement and/or the terms of service accompanying the relevant service, and after payment of the subscription fee has been settled, as specified in the relevant online agreement.
• Payment of the subscription fee shall be collected through the app stores GOOGLE PLAY and APPSTORE, the adapted website, or DESKTOP via paypal or credit card and the charge for it shall be monthly, depending on the chosen track. The credit clearance shall be carried out according to a secure PCI standard.
• The subscription shall be an "ongoing transaction", as defined in Section 13C(a) of the Consumer Protection Law. Should the subscription period be limited in time, this shall be indicated on the registration page. It is clarified that the subscriber has the right to cancel the transaction, whether it was limited in time or not, in accordance with the cancellation conditions set out hereinafter in these Terms of Use. When registering for the service, you shall be asked to provide personal details such as: your given name, surname, city and country of residence, credit card particulars (where payment is required for the service) and an active electronic mail address in your possession. You must only provide correct, accurate and complete details, and you hereby confirm the veracity of the details you provided. Erroneous details may prevent you from using the service and from being contacting when necessary. In the event of a change of details, you must update them by contacting the customer service department through the Site or the Application, or through the online service site.
• The subscription shall be activated within up to three business days from the date of registration and payment for the subscription.
• The data which you provided when registering for the service shall be stored in Yedioth's database, number 323819. There is no legal obligation to provide the information, however, its non-provision shall prevent you from using the service you have registered for. Yedioth shall not utilize your information, except in accordance with the Privacy Policy published on the Site and in this link, which constitutes an integral part of these Terms of Use.
• When registering for the service, you shall be asked to choose a username and password that will identify you every time you enter the service. Yedioth may determine, from time to time, additional or alternative identification methods.
• Keep the username and password confidential to prevent their misuse. Be sure to change the password as often as possible and at least once every six months.

• If you deliberately provided false information when registering for the service;
• If you committed an act or omission that harms or may harm Yedioth or any third parties, including other users or subscribers and/or Yedioth's journalists or suppliers;
• If you used the service or additional services provided on the Site to perform or to attempt to perform an act or what appears to be an act which is illegal under the laws of the State of Israel, or to allow, facilitate, assist or encourage the performance of such an act;
• If you breached the terms of this agreement or the terms of any other service within the framework of the Site or application;
• If you did not use the service for a continuous period of more than four months, even after you were notified of this by electronic mail;
• If you performed any act which prevents others from subscribing to the service or continuing to enjoy the service in any way;
• If you passed on the username and password which were assigned to you during registration for use by a third party;
• If the credit card in your possession was blocked or its use was restricted in any way (should the service be provided in return for payment);
• If you failed to pay a pecuniary debt owed to Yedioth, or any corporation under its control, even though the normal deadline for its payment has passed.

The Yedioth Ahronoth digital edition (above and hereinafter: "the Yedioth Ahronoth application")

The premium service ynet+

Chat rooms (audio chat)

• Nonparticipating listeners (not involved/not speaking) - are invited to listen to the conversation in the rooms. Nonparticipating listeners shall not be identified, but their presence in chat rooms shall be counted and their participation data shall be shown to all room participants.
• Participating listeners - In order to participate in the conversation and/or comment with emojis, a listener must be logged into the system using the dedicated "login" button located next to the room name. Login does not require prior registration, but only: selection of a one-time user name (appellation) and approval of these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy (via hyperlink);
• Participating listeners - In order to participate in the conversation and/or comment with emojis, a listener must be logged into the system using the dedicated "login" button located next to the room name. Login does not require prior registration, but only: selection of a one-time user name (appellation) and approval of these Terms of Use and the Privacy Policy

Links on the Site

Changing and canceling a subscription

Content submitted for publication by users

• Any content which is known to be false, misleading or counterfeit;
• Any content that infringes or violates the proprietary rights of others - including copyrights and trademarks;
• Any pornographic or sexually explicit content;
• Any content which concerns and identifies minors, their personal details or address and ways of communicating with them;
• Any computer software, computer code or application which includes a computer "virus", including hostile software known as Trojan horses, worms, vandals, malicious applications, etc.;
• Passwords, usernames and other details, which facilitate the use of computer software, digital files, websites or services, which require registration or payment, without carrying out such registration or making such payment;
• Any content that defames a person, infringes upon his privacy, or brings him into disrepute;
• Any content that personally identifies other people, without them having consented to the publication of their identity;
• Any content the nature or subject-matter of which is vexatious, insulting, hostile, threatening or vulgar;
• Any content that exhibits or encourages racism, or improper discrimination based on race, extraction, skin color, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, occupation, sexual orientation, disease, physical or mental disability, belief, political opinion, or socio-economic status.
• Any content which encourages the commission of a criminal offense or may constitute the basis for a lawsuit or civil liability;
• Any content that may mislead consumers;
• Any content of an advertising or commercial nature;
• Any content which is at variance with the standard rules for using the Internet or which may cause damage or harm to Internet users in general, and to users of the Site or the Application in particular;
• Any content access to which is blocked by a password, etc., and is not freely available to all Internet users;

Direct mailing

Sending content to the red mail

Content that does not constitute a substitute for professional advice

Privacy Policy

Commercial content

• The Site and the Application include commercial content, such as advertising content, advertisements and notices, submitted for publication on behalf of various advertisers or users, who wish to offer assets or services for sale. The said content may be in text, images, a video or voice recording.
• On advertising content in particular, it shall be stated that it is submitted on behalf of the advertiser.
• Yedioth shall bear no responsibility for the commercial content published on the Site and/or in the Application. Yedioth does not write, check, verify or edit the content or veracity of these publications. The advertisers bear sole responsibility for the commercial content and for any consequence resulting from its use or reliance thereon. Publication of commercial content on the Site and/or in the Application does not constitute a recommendation or encouragement to purchase the services, assets or products being offered for sale therein.
• Any transaction made as a result of commercial content published on the Site and/or in the Application shall be concluded directly between yourself and the advertiser concerned. Yedioth is not a party to any such transaction, and shall not be held responsible for the services and goods offered in the commercial content of or purchased through the Site and/or the Application or purchased through them.
• Marketing content is also published on the Site from time to time, the production of which is done with the financial participation/sponsorship of a commercial or other entity (such as a nonprofit organization, etc.) but which is written and published after journalistic editing, on various topics of public interest. Promotion of such content from the home page of the Site is generally done through different (visibility) contracts, along with the letter S symbol which makes it clear that the marketing content in question was produced with financial participation. When holding the mouse cursor (tapping on the smartphone) on top of the symbol an explanatory note appears: "Content in collaboration with" - the name of the commercial entity. The article was produced by Ynet's commercial department with the financial participation of an external entity and was published after journalistic editing."
• The inscription: in collaboration with the sponsor, shall appear in the introduction near the subtitle and at the end of the substantive marketing content.
• Tagging including appropriate full disclosure as aforesaid shall also accompany marketing videos and podcasts distributed by ynet through external platforms, such as social networks.
• Without derogating from the provisions of these terms of use and the Privacy Policy, it is clarified that commercial entities as aforesaid may invite you within the framework of such publications (for example, through an interface for collecting 'leads'), to register in order to receive information about and/or purchase their services and/or products. While as a general rule Yedioth shall ensure that such registration is only done after you have been asked to confirm by marking an active checkbox that you agree to your details being stored and utilized by the entity in question, it is clarified that the said entity shall be fully and exclusively responsible for such storage and use and that Yedioth shall bear no liability and/or responsibility in the matter.

Intellectual Property

Yedioth's responsibility

• The contents of the ynet site and/or the Application are provided for use as they are (AS IS) and cannot be customized to suit the needs of each and every person. The user shall make no complaint, claim or demand against Yedioth and/or any of its representatives regarding the attributes of the contents, their capabilities, limitations and suitability to his individual needs and/or the responses (if any) provoked by their publication on the Site and/or in the Application.
• The user shall be fully and exclusively responsible for the use made by him of the Site and the Application.
• Yedioth does not guarantee that content published by and/or on behalf of browsers on ynet websites shall elicit a response. Since it cannot know what responses (if any) shall be received as a result of such publication, who shall respond to the content published by the user and in what manner, Yedioth shall bear no responsibility towards the user (or anyone acting on his behalf) for these responses, the identities of those contacting him or any consequence that may result from the publication. Yedioth shall likewise bear no responsibility for any use made by a third party of content published by and/or on behalf of the user.
• The user shall be fully and exclusively responsible for any decision which he makes regarding the contents published on the Site and/or in the Application. Yedioth does not guarantee that the contents and services of third parties, including those of content and service providers and of users, which are published on the Site and/or in the Application, shall be complete, correct, lawful, accurate or coincide with the user's expectations or requirements. Yedioth shall bear no responsibility for any consequence resulting from or from relying upon them.
• It should be emphasized that correct professional advice depends on the exact facts of each and every case. The contents of the Site and/or the Application do not constitute a substitute for such advice. The foregoing also holds true vis-à-vis contents published in communities, responses and in various kinds of discussion groups (forums), including content published on behalf of the community and discussion group administrators. These contents are no substitute for professional advice or action when required (for example: a medical expert's answer to a question in a discussion group is not a substitute for receiving medical advice or treatment as needed). Sometimes these contents reflect a particular personal approach or opinion of the writer and should therefore be treated with due caution. The user is fully and exclusively responsible for the decision whether to rely upon or act regarding contents published on the Site and/or in the Application, and he is solely responsible for any such action and/or its consequences as aforesaid.
• Yedioth does not guarantee that the services offered in the Site and/or application shall not be disrupted, shall be provided systematically or without stoppages, shall operate securely and faultlessly, and shall be immune from unauthorized access to Yedioth's computers and/or servers or from damages, malfunctions, glitches or failures - and all in relation to Yedioth's or one of its supplier's hardware, software, communication lines or systems.

Indemnification

• With respect to any complaint, claim and/or demand which shall be made against them by any third party as a result of content which the user submitted for publication on the Site or in the Application and/or as a result of links made by the user to the Site or the Application, and/or any judgment and/or administrative and/or judicial decision compelling Yedioth and/or anyone acting under its auspices to pay compensation as a result of publication of content that was submitted by the user for publication and/or the links which were created by him as aforesaid.
• With respect to any judgment, and/or conviction, and/or administrative and/or judicial and/or quasi-judicial decision which shall oblige Yedioth and/or any of its representatives to incur a penalty and/or pay compensation as a result of a breach of the terms of use of this agreement by the user and/or by anyone acting on his behalf.

Changes to the Site and the Application and termination of the service

Amendments to the Terms of Use

Jurisdiction

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