Privacy policy
Last Updated: August 12th 2025
It is LIBstick’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. This Privacy Policy applies to https://libstick.org/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, or “https://libstick.org/”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website. We have adopted this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.
This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, LIBstick collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. LIBstick’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how LIBstick’s visitors use its website. From time to time, LIBstick may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
LIBstick also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on https://libstick.org/ blog posts. LIBstick only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to LIBstick’s websites choose to interact with LIBstick in ways that require LIBstick to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that LIBstick gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog at https://libstick.org/ to provide a username and email address.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To External Sites
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those websites. Please review the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
LIBstick discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on LIBstick’s behalf or to provide services available at LIBstick’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using LIBstick’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. LIBstick will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, LIBstick discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when LIBstick believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of LIBstick, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of https://libstick.org/ and have supplied your email address, LIBstick may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with LIBstick and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. LIBstick takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following data protection rights:
- Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal information.
- Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal information, under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Right to Object: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information, under certain conditions.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.
Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data
We rely on your consent as one of the legal bases for processing your personal data—for example, when you sign up for our service or agree to receive updates from us. Your consent is given freely and specifically. You may withdraw your consent at any time using your browser’s site information settings (e.g., through the browser’s privacy or site settings panel). Please note that withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing conducted based on your consent before its withdrawal.
We also process personal data based on our legitimate interests, such as improving our services, maintaining the functionality of the website, and communicating relevant updates to users. We ensure that these interests are legitimate, necessary, and balanced against your personal data protection rights. We will never use legitimate interests to process data for purposes you would not reasonably expect—nor will we process data in a way that overrides your privacy rights.
Statistics
The website uses a minimal build of Google Analytics, a service which transmits website traffic data to Google servers in the United States and allows us to notice trends to improve the user experience on our website. This minimal build processes personal data such as: the unique User ID set by Google Analytics, the date and time, the title of the page being viewed, the URL of the page being viewed, the URL of the page that was viewed prior to the current page, the screen resolution, the time in local time zone, the files that were clicked on and downloaded, the links clicked on to an outside domain, the type of device, and the country, region, and city.
You may opt out of this tracking at any time by activating the “Do Not Track” setting in your browser.
LIBstick may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. LIBstick may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, LIBstick does not disclose your personally-identifying information.
Cookies
To enrich and perfect your online experience, LIBstick uses “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer. Our cookies policy is articulated in our cookies policy page.
Privacy Policy Changes
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Last Updated” date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
Technion Central Library
Technion City Haifa, ISRAEL
privacy@libstick.org