Privacy Policy

This policy explains what personal information the website at brlaw.co.il collects, why it is collected, who it is shared with, how long it is kept, and what you can ask us to do with it. It is written to be read, not to be skimmed past — if anything in it is unclear, please ask.

Who we are

Barak Ron Law Offices is a Tel Aviv law practice conducted by Adv. Barak Ron, practising since 1999. The firm is the party responsible for the personal information described in this policy — the owner and controller of the database in which that information is held.

• Practice name: Barak Ron Law Offices (Adv. Barak Ron)
• Adv. Barak Ron is a licensed member of the Israel Bar Association
• Postal address: 3 Daniel Frisch Street, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Email: barak@brlaw.co.il
• Telephone: 03-696-1105
• Fax: 03-696-1161
• Mobile / WhatsApp: +972-50-977-8899

The firm maintains personal-information databases as required for the operation of a law practice and complies with the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981 and the regulations made under it, including any applicable database-registration duties.

What information we collect

Information you give us through the enquiry forms

When you complete a contact form on this site we collect the details you enter. Depending on the form, these are:

• your full name;
• your telephone number;
• your email address;
• the subject of your enquiry — the practice area you select;
• on the encumbered-property page, a free-text description of the property matter you are asking about, in whatever detail you choose to provide;
• any consent you mark on the form (for example agreement to be contacted about the enquiry).

You are not obliged by law to provide any of this. You provide it of your own volition, and without it we cannot respond to your enquiry. The free-text field is entirely in your control: please keep it general.

Information collected automatically

Like almost every website, this site is served by a web host that keeps technical server logs. These typically record the IP address of the requesting device, the date and time of the request, the page requested, the referring page and the browser user-agent string. These logs are used for security, fault diagnosis and keeping the site available. Logs are retained for up to 90 days unless a longer period is required to investigate a security incident.

The site is hosted on professionally managed infrastructure operated under the firm’s instructions and served over HTTPS.

Information you send us directly

If you email, telephone or message the firm on WhatsApp, we hold the contents of that correspondence and the contact details it was sent from, so that we can deal with your matter and keep a record of it.

Why we use it, and on what basis

We use the information above only for the following purposes:

• to respond to your enquiry and to arrange an initial consultation;
• to carry out the conflict-of-interest and client-identification checks a law firm is required to perform before taking on a matter;
• to provide legal services, where you go on to instruct the firm;
• to keep the records the firm is required or permitted to keep as a professional practice;
• to keep the website secure, available and working correctly;
• to comply with legal, regulatory and professional obligations that apply to the firm.

Processing is carried out under the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981 and the regulations made under it. Where the law requires consent, our basis is the consent you give by voluntarily submitting the form, and you may withdraw it at any time by contacting us. Where information is held to meet a legal or professional obligation, or in connection with a matter the firm is instructed on, we rely on that obligation or on the performance of the engagement.

We do not use your details for automated decision-making or profiling. We do not send marketing messages unless you have asked to receive them, and any such message would carry an unsubscribe option, as required by section 30A of the Communications (Telecommunications and Broadcasting) Law, 5742-1982.

Who your information is shared with

We do not sell personal information, and we do not rent, trade or make it available to third parties for their own marketing. It may be shared, only as far as necessary, with:

• service providers who operate the firm’s systems on its behalf — website hosting, email delivery, form delivery (currently FormSubmit) and file storage — under the firm’s instructions and for the firm’s purposes only;
• professional advisers and, where a matter requires it and you are informed, counsel or experts instructed on your matter;
• courts, tribunals, regulators or authorities, where disclosure is required by law, by court order, or by the professional rules that govern advocates in Israel.

Where a provider stores information outside Israel, that transfer is made subject to the Protection of Privacy (Transfer of Data to Databases Abroad) Regulations, 5761-2001. Providers may process data in Israel, the European Economic Area or other jurisdictions offering an adequate level of protection as recognised under those regulations.

Third-party services present on this website

We want to be exact about what actually loads when you open a page here.

Google Fonts

The site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts, at fonts.googleapis.com and fonts.gstatic.com. This is a genuine request from your browser to Google’s servers, and in making it your browser discloses to Google your IP address and standard request headers. Google’s handling of that request is governed by its own privacy policy, at policies.google.com/privacy.

WhatsApp

The site shows a floating WhatsApp button and links to WhatsApp in several places. Selecting one of them hands you over to WhatsApp, a service operated by Meta. Once you are there, your conversation and the associated metadata are handled by Meta under its own terms and privacy policy, not by this site. Messages you send the firm on WhatsApp are received and retained by the firm as correspondence.

Analytics and measurement

At the time of publication, no analytics, tag manager, heat-mapping, advertising pixel or similar measurement service is installed on this site. If one is added later, this section and the cookies section below will be updated before it goes live.

Form handling

Enquiry-form submissions are transmitted to the firm by email using FormSubmit (formsubmit.co), a form-delivery service. The message is delivered to barak@brlaw.co.il so that the enquiry can be reviewed and answered. FormSubmit processes the submission solely to deliver it to that inbox; its own privacy policy applies to that transmission. The firm may later move to a different form or CRM provider; if that happens, this policy will be updated to name the new provider.

Cookies and similar technologies

As the site currently stands, it sets no cookies of its own for marketing or analytics, and it does not use local storage, session storage or similar techniques to track you between visits. There is therefore nothing to consent to for marketing cookies at present, and no cookie banner is required for that purpose.

Third-party requests, such as the font request described above, may involve requests to servers that could set or read their own cookies under their own policies. The hosting platform may also set strictly necessary technical cookies for security or load balancing; those are not used for marketing. If an analytics or advertising service is added in future, this section will be updated and any consent mechanism required by law will be put in place before that service is enabled.

How long we keep it

Enquiries that do not lead to an engagement are kept for up to 24 months, after which they are deleted or anonymised, unless a longer period is needed to handle a complaint or legal claim. Client files and related correspondence are kept for at least seven years after the matter ends — and longer where professional record-keeping duties or limitation periods require it. Server logs are kept for up to 90 days. Where the law requires a longer period, the legal period applies.

Your rights

Under the Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, you may:

• inspect the information about you held in our database, by making a request under section 13 of the Law;
• ask us to correct, complete or clarify information you consider inaccurate, incomplete or out of date, under section 14 of the Law, and to ask that it be deleted where it is no longer needed for the purpose it was collected for;
• ask to be removed from any mailing or contact list;
• withdraw consent you have given, without affecting anything lawfully done before you withdrew it.

Send privacy requests to barak@brlaw.co.il or by post to 3 Daniel Frisch Street, Tel Aviv, Israel. We will respond within the period set by law. Some information cannot be deleted on request — for example where it forms part of a record the firm is professionally obliged to retain — and if that is the case we will tell you why. If you are dissatisfied with our response, you may complain to the Privacy Protection Authority in Israel.

Security

The site is served over an encrypted HTTPS connection. Access to the firm’s systems and mailboxes is limited to those who need it for their work. Backups and access controls are maintained as part of ordinary professional practice. No transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we do not claim otherwise; what we can say is that we take reasonable and accepted measures to protect the information we hold, consistent with the Protection of Privacy (Data Security) Regulations, 5777-2017 as they apply to the firm’s databases.

Website enquiries and attorney–client privilege

A message sent through this website is an enquiry, not an instruction to act, and it does not create an attorney–client relationship. Until such a relationship is established in writing, what you send us does not have the protection that attorney–client privilege gives to communications with your lawyer, and the firm may already be acting for another party in the same matter. For that reason: please describe your situation in general terms only, and wait until we have confirmed that we can act for you and have opened a secure channel before sending documents or confidential detail.

Children

This site is intended for adults and is not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a person under 18 through this website. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it. Where a matter the firm handles concerns a minor, that information is handled within the client file, not through this website.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy — for example if a new service is added to the site, or if the law changes. The current version is always the one published on this page, and the date at the top shows when it was last changed. Material changes will be noted here. Please look at this page again from time to time.

Contact us about privacy

Questions, requests and complaints about privacy can be sent to barak@brlaw.co.il, by telephone to 03-696-1105, or by post to 3 Daniel Frisch Street, Tel Aviv, Israel.

The firm has not appointed a separate data-protection officer. Privacy matters are handled by the firm at the contact details above.