I’m glad you chose to register for my courses and workshops, and I wish you great success during your viewing period and beyond. Just before you begin the course or workshop, I ask that you carefully read the terms of use and privacy policy. Email for inquiries and questions regarding privacy: [email protected] Purchasing this course and using the content included within it indicate your agreement to the terms detailed below:
General
1.1 The “Sinimed” website, www.sinimed.co.il (hereinafter “the Site”), is a page for the public of internet users. The Site is owned by Keren Zlicha, O.M. 032393795, contact details 050-6885413. This Site contains many articles for the service of the public and the community of Chinese medicine practitioners. This site sells products such as courses and workshops for Chinese medicine practitioners.
1.2 Anyone performing and/or interested in performing an action on the Site (hereinafter “Participant”) declares and undertakes that they are aware of the Site’s regulations and agree to its provisions, and that they and/or anyone on their behalf will have no claim and/or demand, directly and/or indirectly, against the Site owners and/or its operators and/or anyone on their behalf. An action on the site means any act of purchasing a product offered on the Site.
Terms of Use
2.1 Any person who is a resident of the State of Israel, 18 years of age or older, who holds a valid Israeli credit card, except for American Express and Diners, and who has an email address, may perform actions on the site. Without derogating from the above, a precondition for approving an action is that the card clearing and transfer of funds will be performed by Leumi Card Ltd. and in accordance with information security rules.
Access to Course Materials
Access for viewing depends on the type of course or workshop you purchased. Here are the details:
3.1 Participation in the “Comprehensive Course in Fertility and IVF in Chinese Medicine” (containing nine lessons) grants you access to all the materials on the site to which you registered for a period of 24 months.
3.2 Participation in the “Focused Course on Integrative Chinese Medicine for IVF” (containing four lessons) grants you access to all the materials on the site to which you registered for a period of 12 months.
3.3 Participation in a single workshop or a single lesson grants you access to all the materials on the site to which you registered for a period of 6 months.
3.4 The PDF files (presentations and practice sheets) can be downloaded and saved without limitation.
3.5 The password you received is personal and non-transferable. You can log in to the site from any computer, tablet, or smartphone connected to the internet. However, connection will be possible from up to two IP addresses per day.
Copyright
4.1 These courses or workshops may not be duplicated, copied, distributed, publicly displayed, stored, or sold.
4.2 Purchasing the course or workshop allows you to watch the content through the Sinimed site only, for a defined and fixed period as detailed in section 3. The authorization is granted to you as a license for viewing only and is not sold for private use.
4.3 The Sinimed site is the sole owner of all content of this course (including any visual, verbal, audio content, or any combination thereof such as: image, video, diagram, illustration). Permission is granted to download the presentation files (PDF) for personal study and not for commercial use.
4.4 The content of the course, workshops, and/or presentations may not be copied, transferred, or distributed to another person. The Sinimed site has the legal authority to allow or prevent the user from continuing to view the content due to legal issues if they arise or due to a violation of the terms of use.
4.5 In the event of a violation or infringement of use, the “Sinimed” site reserves the right to take legal action against the user.
Liability
5.5 The service offered for purchase is provided “As Is.” The Sinimed site is an information site only and will not be held responsible for the suitability of the service to the user’s needs.
5.6 Although we try to be as clear as possible in explaining the service, please do not assume that the site is completely accurate or error-free. The “Sinimed” site and/or anyone on its behalf will not be held responsible for errors or mistakes in the material presented in the service. Likewise, the “Sinimed” site and/or anyone on its behalf will not be held responsible for changes made to the material presented in the service by the user or by any third party.
5.7 The results of the recommendations given during the lessons cannot be guaranteed, and all statements regarding a possible outcome are expressions of opinion only. There is no guarantee for the information stated or the recommendations given as they are subjective and cannot be controlled.
5.8 The user or client will bear full responsibility for the manner in which they use the information presented and for its results.
Restrictions on Use
6.1 This course, the workshops, and the presentations contain general information on Western and Chinese medicine. This information does not constitute a recommendation for treatment and should not be treated as such.
6.2 Everything said within this course is not a substitute for medical consultation or treatment by a qualified physician.
6.3 For the avoidance of doubt, if you suffer from or encounter any medical problem, you must seek medical attention promptly and not rely on information from this website.
Information Security
7.1 The Sinimed site places great importance on the safety and protection of its customers and therefore makes great efforts to protect customer data and their personal details, with great emphasis on various aspects of information security. Communication networks as well as websites are exposed to attacks and hacking attempts by various parties. It is important for you to know that the information cannot be guaranteed completely and security breaches and intrusions into the information may occur.
7.2 The Sinimed site does not undertake that the services and information on the site and on the third-party servers that store the data for the Sinimed site will be completely immune from hacking and/or intrusion into the information stored on them.
7.3 By the mere act of browsing the site and/or entering details, you release the Sinimed site from responsibility for any damage caused to you and/or anyone on your behalf due to attacks, hacking attempts, and intrusions into the information as mentioned, and waive any claim against the “Sinimed” site and/or anyone on its behalf in this regard.
The Service
8.1 Some of the services on the Sinimed site require registration. As part of the registration, you will be required to provide personal information, such as your name, address, your contact methods, and your email address. The fields that must be filled in will be explicitly marked. Not providing the required data in the mandatory fields means that you will not be able to register for the services that require registration, and hence you will not be able to enjoy these services offered by the site.
Cancellation Policy
9.1 Anyone purchasing a product on the site may cancel the transaction in accordance with the provisions of the Consumer Protection Law, 1981, and the Consumer Protection Regulations (Transaction Cancellation), 2010 (hereinafter: “the Consumer Protection Law”).
9.2 Cancellation of a recorded course purchase: A recorded course purchase can be canceled only if the buyer has not yet watched the course or part of it. Watching two units from a lesson will be considered a final agreement to the purchase of the course/workshop with no possibility of a refund.
9.3 In the case of cancellation of a transaction for the purchase of digital courses or workshops: the cancellation period is within fourteen days from the date of the transaction.
9.4 Cancellation of a transaction will be done in writing via email to the address [email protected].
9.5 In the event of a cancellation, if the transaction was made by credit card, the Sinimed site will forward the cancellation instruction to the credit card company within 14 days. The time it takes for the credit card company to credit the customer depends on the credit card company.
Additional Terms
10.1 The use of this site, including all its content and the services offered on it, downloads of files, media such as images and videos, and the various content offered to visitors, may change from time to time or according to the type of content.
10.2 The site management reserves the right to update the terms of use presented below from time to time and without prior notice or special mention in the site’s various channels.
10.3 The company reserves the right to close the site and cancel the sale at its discretion.
10.4 When you use the site and in the event that any dispute arises, you agree that the above is under the exclusive jurisdiction of Israeli law, using only the Israeli court system in the Tel Aviv district.
10.5 Use of this site and its contents, subject to all of the above, will be considered as agreement to the above.
11. Privacy Policy
11.1 This privacy policy refers to the way we collect, use, and protect the personal information of users on our site. This policy clarifies the privacy practices, the types of information collected, the use made of it, and your rights regarding it. Use of this site constitutes conscious consent to our privacy policy.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect personal information about users in a variety of ways:
- Contact: The information required to contact users includes name, phone number, and email address, and sometimes additional details in order to receive relevant information from the inquirer so that we can handle their inquiry (e.g., content of the inquiry, address, etc.).
- 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.
- Media Uploads: 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.
- Analytics and Advertising: The site has Google Analytics software installed, which collects details about users on the site’s pages, including demographic segmentation, interests, browsing time, and site usage. This data is collected without personal identifiers so that we can use it to draw conclusions about how the site is used and to improve the user experience.
Collection of Personal Details
The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:
- Information about your computer, including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
- Information about your visits to and use of this website, including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
- Information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
- Information that you enter when you create a profile on our website;
- Information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
- Information that you enter while using the services on our website;
- Information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
- Information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
- Information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your comments;
- Information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
- Any other personal information that you send to us.
Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
Who We Share Your Data With
We collaborate with other businesses that assist us in marketing, communication, storage, and sales efforts, and we may share information about you for these purposes. These partners are not authorized to use your information for any purpose other than conducting business with us. Furthermore, we may disclose information about you to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory authority, government agency, court, or other third party if we believe it is required by law or necessary to protect our property rights or other legal rights (including, but not limited to, enforcing our agreements or the rights of others).
Use of Your Personal Information
Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:
- Administering our website and business;
- Personalizing the website for you;
- Enabling your use of the services available on our website;
- Supplying services purchased through our website;
- Sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
- Sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
- Sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
- Sending you our newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
- Sending you marketing communications relating to our business and the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
- Providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
- Dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
- Keeping our website secure and preventing fraud;
- Verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website’s private messaging service);
- And other uses.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
The site uses cookies and other technologies to collect information. Cookies are small files transferred to your computer to identify you, improve your browsing experience, save your preferences, and tailor advertisements.
- Types of Cookies: The site uses session cookies (which are deleted when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which are saved until you delete them or until they expire).
- Saving Details: In some cases, cookies may save your details (name, email, and website address) for your convenience, so you do not have to fill them in again. This is valid for one year.
- Cookie Management: Most browsers accept cookies by default, but you can change the settings to refuse them. Disabling cookies may affect the site’s functionality.
- Other Technologies: We may use Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs) or Web Beacons to collect information about your browsing habits and interaction with the site.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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. It should be emphasized that we give you, the user, full control over the cookies you want your browser to save, by clicking on the floating “Cookie Settings” button at the bottom of the screen.
Information Security
We are committed to protecting your privacy and take all reasonable measures to secure the information you have provided. We have implemented and continue to implement several measures designed to minimize as much as possible the chance that information will leak and/or be lost as a result of access by unauthorized parties. The aforementioned measures do not guarantee absolute protection of the collected information, but we do our best to prevent this situation (loss, leakage, or corruption of information). We use a number of technical measures and procedures for information security, including:
- Sharing the collected information only at the minimum level required and only with parties who have been authorized to do so and subject to privacy restrictions on their part; if possible, the information shared with them is anonymous and cannot be used to identify any particular user.
- Using secure servers for information storage.
- Verifying the identity of parties requesting access to the information stored on the site.
- Using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol and other encryption methods to secure the orders placed on our site.
Third-Party Websites
Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third-party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.
Data Retention and User Rights
- Data Retention Period: Data submitted in comments will be retained indefinitely to allow for the automatic recognition and approval of subsequent comments. For users who register on our website, 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.
- When the processing of your personal information is not required for an ongoing legitimate business activity, we will either delete it or anonymize it.
- User Rights: 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. 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.
Contact
For any question or comment regarding this privacy policy, you can contact the site administrator via the email address found at the beginning of this document.
Concluding Remarks
The purpose of the courses or workshops is to help you learn and to provide you with clinical tools and a supportive environment to achieve your goals and objectives in Chinese medicine. The Sinimed site cannot guarantee you any specific results or particular income as a result of using its content, courses, and ideas. They depend on you, on your journey through the depths of Chinese medicine, and on what you choose to do or experience after your participation. We see it as our duty to provide you with the highest quality content so that you can advance your personal and professional life to a better and more abundant place.
“Teaching is not the filling of a vessel but the lighting of a flame.” – William B. Yeats