IDE is committed to protecting the privacy of its users. This Privacy and Terms of Use Policy (“Policy“) has been created to inform you about how we manage, collect, store and use the information you provide in connection with our website (the “Services“). Moreover the terms under this Policy, constitute a legal agreement between you and IDE and its corporate affiliates.
Neither the information, nor any opinion contained in this site constitutes a solicitation or offer by IDE or its affiliates, to buy or sell any securities or engage in any other transaction with IDE group or any other person or entity.
Our Policy mainly explains:
- What information we collect and why we collect it.
- How we use that information.
- Your rights with regard to the collection of information.
If you do not agree with this Policy, do not use our Services or provide IDE with your Personal Information (as defined below) and stop using this website and our Services. IDE is leading the water industry with some of the world’s most advanced thermal and membrane desalination plants. IDE specializes in providing small to large cost-effective desalination solutions, and has a well-proven track record in large-scale membrane and thermal desalination, including some of the largest plants worldwide, such as in China, India, US, Australia and Israel. IDE also has proven experience in ground-breaking industrial water treatment plants that deliver a reliable, sustainable and economical solution for industry. Furthermore, IDE develops a growing portfolio of economic green water treatment solutions for municipalities and industries. In creating customized, end-to-end solutions for its customers, IDE leverages its proprietary technologies and skills in project management, operations, support and financing, all built through close to 50 years of leadership in the water industry.
Information Collected
Please note that the scope of this Policy is limited only to information collected by us through your use of the Services. We may collect information about you when you visit and interact with this website. Some of this information may be automatically collected, and some is collected when you interact with the website. The type of information that may be automatically collected may include the date and time of access of the website, the internet protocol address of the computer that you are using, the domain and host from which you access the internet, your browser software and operating system, and the specific activities you are engaged in, while visiting the website (“Log Data”).
Furthermore, information from which you can be personally identified may also be collected by us at the website, including your name, postal address, email address, telephone, company/organization, role/title, country, and, where you contact us as a business representative, other business-related information relevant to our engagement with you (such as areas of responsibility, professional experience relevant to your inquiry, and information included in your message and any attachments) (referred to as “Personal Information”). We will collect Personal Information from you only if you voluntarily submit such information to us, by providing us with your details during conferences and exhibitions, or by filling in your details in the contact form found in our website.
You are not legally required to provide us with Personal Information. However, certain Personal Information may be necessary for us to respond to you, provide certain Services, or enable certain features and functionality of the Website (for example, to handle inquiries submitted through the contact form). Where we request information that is required for these purposes, the relevant fields will be marked as required.
Use of Information
We use your information to fulfill your specific requests (for example, to respond to inquiries submitted through our contact channels, provide requested information and materials, and maintain communications with you). We also use information collected via the website for business purposes, such as: (a) operating, maintaining, securing, and improving the website and its content; (b) measuring and analyzing usage, performance, and effectiveness of our content and communications (including through cookies and similar technologies and third-party analytics providers; (c) troubleshooting and quality assurance; (d) recruiting and hiring, including assessing applications submitted through recruitment channels and managing recruitment-related communications; (e) sending newsletters and other marketing or promotional communications where permitted under applicable law and, where required, based on your consent; (f) managing relationships with business contacts and prospective customers; and (g) complying with applicable legal obligations and establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims, enforcing our policies, and preventing fraud, misuse, or security incidents.
We may also process Personal Information to generate anonymized and/or aggregated information (including statistical or analytical insights), either by us or by service providers acting on our behalf. Such anonymized or aggregated information is designed so that it does not identify you and cannot reasonably be used to identify you. We may use and share anonymized or aggregated information for lawful business purposes, including analytics, research, service improvement, and security, and we do not attempt to identify individuals from anonymized or aggregated information, except where permitted by applicable law.
Lawful Basis
Where applicable law (including the GDPR) requires a lawful basis for processing, we process your Personal Information only where we have a valid lawful basis to do so.
Performance of Contract and Provision of Services. The lawful basis for collecting and using most of your Personal Information in connection with IDE’s Services is that such processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract. Where we request Personal Information that is marked as mandatory, failure to provide such information may mean that we cannot provide you with the relevant Services or respond to your request.
Marketing Communications. Where required under applicable law, the lawful basis for sending you marketing communications regarding IDE’s Services is your consent, which you may withdraw at any time (without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to withdrawal). Where applicable law permits, we may also send marketing communications based on our legitimate interests, subject to your right to opt out or object to direct marketing at any time.
Personalization and Legitimate Interests. If you have used IDE’s Services in the past, we may, where permitted by applicable law, match information we collect with other information we previously collected to personalize and tailor the content we send you and make it more relevant to your interests. This processing is based on our legitimate interest in providing you with better user experience, provided that those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms. You have the right to object to this processing at any time by contacting us at contact@ide-tech.com, or adjusting your preferences in your account settings. If you object, we will stop personalizing content sent to you, though we may continue to send non-personalized communications where we have another lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure and Transfer of Information
We do not share your Personal Information with third parties except as described in this Policy or as permitted or required by applicable law. Where we share Personal Information, we do so based on an appropriate legal basis and subject to contractual and security protections, as required by applicable law.
We may disclose Personal Information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with applicable law, regulation, or legal process, or respond to lawful requests by public authorities (including a subpoena, court order, or other valid legal process); (b) investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual fraud, security incidents, or other unlawful activity; (c) enforce this Policy, or address violations thereof; (d) establish, exercise, or defend legal claims, including in connection with any claim, dispute, or litigation (whether pending or threatened); and/or (e) protect the rights, property, or safety of you, us, our users, or others.
We may transfer Personal Information in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a merger, consolidation, reorganization, sale of assets, financing, acquisition, or other fundamental corporate change (including in the course of negotiations). In such cases, we will take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Information remains subject to appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
We may share Personal Information with our affiliates and subsidiaries, and with trusted service providers and contractors that perform services on our behalf (for example, hosting, IT and system administration, analytics, security, customer support, and professional services). These parties may access and process Personal Information only as necessary to provide services to us. Where such parties are located outside your jurisdiction, we will implement appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers as required by applicable law (including the GDPR), such as contractual protections. For residents of Israel, by using the Services and/or otherwise providing us with your Personal Information, you acknowledge and consent to the transfer, storage, and processing of your Personal Information outside Israel, including in jurisdictions that may provide a lower level of protection than that required under Israeli privacy laws, subject to our implementation of appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law.
Security
We maintain reasonable standards of confidentiality and security for this website and for the Personal Information collected from this website. The Personal Information you provide is secure using industry standard security technology. However, it is possible that someone may intercept or access communications, transmissions and/or Personal Information, and thus we cannot guarantee the full security of your Personal Information, and any such information provided to us, is at your sole risk.
You must also seek to protect against unauthorized access to any information that you use in connection with this website, and you should remember to close the browser once you have completed your activities on the website or if you have decided to step away from your computer.
Your Rights
Depending on your place of residence and the laws that apply to you, you may have certain rights regarding our processing of your Personal Information. Subject to applicable law, your rights may include: (1) Access – to request access to and receive a copy of your Personal Information; (2) Rectification – to request that we correct inaccurate or incomplete Personal Information; (3) Erasure – to request deletion of your Personal Information in certain circumstances; (4) Restriction – to request restriction of processing in certain circumstances; (5) Objection – to object to processing based on our legitimate interests, and to object at any time to processing for direct marketing purposes; (6) Data portability – to receive certain Personal Information you provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to request that we transmit it to another organization where applicable; and (7) Automated decision-making – where applicable, to object to, or request human intervention in relation to, automated decision-making (including profiling) that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, to the extent provided under applicable law.
To exercise your rights, please contact us at contact@ide-tech.com. We may need to verify your identity and, where relevant, your jurisdiction before responding. We will respond within the timeframes required under applicable law, and you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority, subject to applicable law.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to operate the Website, improve user experience, and collect Log Data for analytics and performance measurement, and for other purposes described in our separate Cookie Policy. For information about the cookies we use and how to manage your preferences, please review our Cookie Policy
Opt In or Opt Out
You may choose to receive information and materials from us, including marketing information. We will honor opt-out and other applicable requests in accordance with applicable law. Please note that even if you opt out of marketing communications, we may still send you non-marketing communications where necessary to provide the Services, respond to your requests, enforce our Policy, or comply with legal obligations.
Data Retention
IDE shall not retain information for any period longer than is reasonably necessary to provide the Services. Upon your request for erasure, we shall update our records within a reasonable period and in any event within the timeframes prescribed under applicable law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may retain certain information to the extent permitted or required by law, including for purposes of recordkeeping, security, fraud prevention, and the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. To the extent we have disclosed your Personal Information to service providers acting on our behalf, we shall take reasonable steps to instruct such service providers to update or delete such information, as applicable and as required by law. Where a third party processes your Personal Information as an independent controller, you may be required to contact such third party directly in order to exercise your rights with respect to the processing carried out by such third party.
Links to Other Websites
This website may provide links to other websites. Please be aware that these other websites are not covered under our Policy. This Policy does not cover the information practices exercised by other providers of products or services, advertisers or other websites, companies or individuals, which are not owned or controlled by IDE. This Policy only applies to this website. We suggest that when linking to another website, you always read that website’s policy before volunteering any personally identifiable information.
Intellectual Property
The trademarks, service marks, trade names, logos and other indications of origin displayed in this website are to our best knowledge owned by IDE or by any third party who has granted IDE a right to use them on this site. Nothing contained herein should be construed as granting the browser or user of this website the right to use any such marks displayed in this web site without the written permission of the owner thereof. If you download any information from this website, you agree that you will not copy it or remove or obscure any copyright or other notices or legends contained in any such information.
Disclaimer of Warranty and Limitation of Liability
We work diligently to make sure our site is accurate and timely. However, the immediate and fast-moving nature of this medium means that there may be either mistakes or omissions. We apologize in advance if this should occur. While the site attempts to be as accurate as possible, it should not be relied upon as being comprehensive or error-free. IDE does not warrant the accuracy of the information set out on this website. Information on this website may contain technical inaccuracies or errors and/or non-updated data.
Information on this website is provided “as is” without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability, reliability, completeness, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. IDE reserves the right to make changes, in this website at any time, without notice. All financial and business information is given only for the convenience of the reader.
The information and reference materials contained here are intended solely for the general information of the reader. It is not to be used for any other purpose, but rather for discussion with competent experts in relevant fields. IDE expressly disclaims all liability in respect to any actions taken or not taken based on any or all of the information provided on or through the IDE Site. In no event, will IDE be liable to any part or any direct, indirect, punitive, special or other consequential damages for any use of this website, or on any other hyperlinked website, including, without limitation, any lost profits, or loss of business opportunities, business interruption, loss of programs or other data on your information handling system or otherwise, even if we are expressly advised of the possibility of such damages. In states which do not allow some or all of the above limitations of liability, liability shall be limited to the greatest extent allowed by law.
Our Role
Unless otherwise stated in this Policy or in a separate agreement with you, IDE acts as a data controller (or equivalent role under applicable law) with respect to Personal Information that we collect and process for our own purposes in connection with the Services, including information relating to our business customers, account users, billing and payment administration, and any information we process for IDE’s own purposes (such as operating the Services, analytics, security, fraud prevention, compliance, and marketing).
Where you use the Services on behalf of an organization and you or your organization submit, upload, or otherwise make available Personal Information of third parties (for example, your customers, end users, contractors, or employees) through the Services (“Customer Data“), your organization is the data controller (or equivalent role) for such Customer Data and IDE acts as a data processor (or equivalent role), unless otherwise agreed in writing. In these circumstances, IDE will process Customer Data only on documented instructions from your organization, as set out in our Data Processing Agreement (DPA) and as required by applicable law. Individuals whose Personal Information is included in Customer Data should direct requests to exercise their data protection rights (such as access, deletion, or objection) to the relevant organization.
Revisions and Modifications to our Policy
We reserve the right to revise, amend, or modify this Policy at any time. When changing the Policy, we will update this posting accordingly. Please review this Policy often so that you will remain updated regarding our current policies.
Children’s Privacy
The Service is not intended for children under the age of 16. We do not knowingly or intentionally collect information about children who are under 16 years of age.
IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF 16 YOU MAY NOT USE THE SERVICE IN ANY WAY.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Policy will be governed and interpreted pursuant to the laws of the State of Israel without giving effect to its choice of law rules. You expressly agree that the exclusive jurisdiction for any claim or action arising out of or relating to this Policy shall be to the competent courts in Tel Aviv, Israel, to the exclusion of any other jurisdiction.
Contact Us
If you have any questions regarding this Policy or the practices described above, you may contact us through the contact information provided on this website, or at e-mail: contact@ide-tech.com
