Privacy policy

The site collects personal information only when users provide it on their own initiative, through the contact form. The form includes the following details:

• Full name, phone number and email address (optional)
• The area of the enquiry and a short description of it
• Consent to the use of the details in order to respond to the enquiry, and the choice whether to receive updates and articles by email
• The site language in which the enquiry was sent, and the time it was sent

The sender’s IP address is not stored. Only an encoded value derived from it is kept, and it is used to limit the number of enquiries and to protect the form against misuse.

Sensitive information, such as medical information or account numbers, should not be submitted through the form. Further details are completed in conversation with the office.

• Responding to the enquiry and arranging a meeting
• Keeping a record of the enquiry
• Sending updates and articles by email, only to those who chose this in the form
• Protecting the site against misuse

The information is not used for third-party advertising and is not sold to others.

Enquiries sent through the form are stored on the website’s server and sent to the office’s email inbox through an email delivery service. The service providers used to run and host the site and to send email process the information solely in order to provide their service. Some of these providers operate outside Israel, and the information may be stored on servers outside Israel.

Beyond this, the office does not disclose personal information to third parties unless required by law or by an order of a competent authority.

Enquiries sent through the website’s contact form are stored on the website’s server and emailed to the office inbox. They are kept on the server for 12 months from the date they were sent, in order to respond to and document them, and are then deleted from it automatically. If an enquiry leads to a professional engagement with the office, its details are transferred to the client’s file at the office and kept there in accordance with the office’s legal obligations.

The site stores limited information in the browser that it needs in order to work:

• A cookie that remembers the chosen site language
• A record of the choice made in the cookie notice
• A temporary record, for the browsing session only, that stops the opening animation on the home page from replaying

With consent given in the cookie notice (“Accept”), the site collects anonymous usage statistics through Plausible Analytics, in order to understand how the site is used and to improve it: the page viewed, the site language, the referring source, the browser, device type and country, and actions on the site such as clicking a phone, WhatsApp or email link, sending a form (without its content) and saving the contact card. Plausible does not use cookies and does not store IP addresses or personal identifiers; the office sees the data in aggregate only. With “Essential only”, this data is not collected. Consent can be withdrawn at any time by clearing the site’s data in the browser, after which the cookie notice appears again. The site does not use advertising cookies.

The map on the contact page loads from Google Maps only after it is clicked; from then on, Google’s privacy policy applies to its use. Links to WhatsApp, Google Maps and Waze lead to external services that are subject to their own privacy policies.

The office takes reasonable measures to secure the information kept on the site, including encrypted connections and restricted access to the information. Absolute protection against unauthorized access cannot, however, be guaranteed.

To keep the site working properly, when a technical error occurs in the browser, a technical report about it is sent to the site’s server: the type of error and where in the site’s code it occurred, the page address without parameters, the site language, the browser type and the screen size. Before sending, email addresses, numbers and address parameters are removed from the report; it does not include form contents, cookies or any identifier, and the IP address is not stored with it. A report is kept for 90 days from the last time the error recurred, and is then deleted.

Under the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, every person is entitled to inspect information about them held in a database, and to request that information that is incorrect, incomplete, unclear or out of date be corrected or deleted.

Requests on these matters, as well as requests to stop receiving updates by email, can be sent to moamen@mqs.co.il.

The office may update this policy from time to time. The binding version is the one published on the site, and the date of the last update appears at the top of the page.

Questions about this policy can be addressed to the office: Moamen Qasim Law Office, Tareq Abd Alhai St., FOX Building, Floor 2, Tira 4491500, Israel; email moamen@mqs.co.il; phone +972 50-711-0428.