With smuggling in the doldrums, tunnel operators find new business moving people
RAFAH, Gaza (Media Line) – Just a few months ago, Abu Ola, a 60-year-old Gazan, thought the future of his tunnel business was bleak. Israel had eased its blockade on the Gaza Strip in the spring of 2010, allowing everything from concrete to confections into the Hamas-ruled enclave and putting and a damper on the smuggling trade.
For more, go to Media Line
At Jerusalem World News, we believe it is important to respect the privacy of our constituents, our business contacts and others who provide us with personally identifiable information. Personally Identifiable Information is defined as information that can be used to identify an individual such as name, address, telephone number and any other information connected personally with an individual.
Our policy was created to affirm our commitment to maintaining the privacy of our constituents and to inform you of the practices we follow in protecting your Personally Identifiable Information. This policy also applies to Jerusalem World News's related entities.
At Jerusalem World News, we have lots of opportunity to collect your Personally Identifiable Information. Some of these might include when you:
If you give us your Personally Identifiable Information for any reason, we consider your information to be strictly confidential.
When we collect, use or disclose your Personally Identifiable Information we will obtain your consent to do so unless such permission is obvious or implied, for example, when you makes a purchase via our website or call to place an order with our customer service department.
If you would like to withdraw your consent for any reason, please email us at [email protected].
We use your Personally Identifiable Information to provide you with the services or products for which you provided us with your information, and/or for those purposes considered reasonable under the circumstances. We are not in the business of selling your information to third parties and only share information with our related entities, with vendors to whom we obtain services, or when it is necessary to comply with the law or to protect the rights, property or safety of Jerusalem World News.
We retain your Personally Identifiable Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which you gave it or for any legal or business purpose. When your information is no longer required by Jerusalem World News for any reason, we have procedures in place to destroy it, delete it, or convert it to anonymous form.
Jerusalem World News endeavors to keep your Personally Identifiable Information as accurate as possible so that it can continue to provide you with the products and services you've requested. For this, we will need your assistance in maintaining the accuracy of your information. You may request a correction to your Personally Identifiable Information by emailing [email protected].
Jerusalem World News is committed to protecting your Personally Identifiable Information from unauthorized access or disclosure. In this, we do our best to maintain appropriate security both in our technology and our physical records. We also limit access to your information to persons management determines need to know for the purpose of providing you with the requested products and services.
Your privacy on the Internet is extremely important to us. Because you give us personal information, we believe you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding what we do with that information. This privacy statement discloses the information we gather, how we use it, and how you can correct or change it.
We use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server and to administer our Web site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart and to gather broad demographic information.
Jerusalem World News's website uses a feature of your Internet Web browser that is called a "cookie." A "cookie" is a file that your Web browser places on your computer's hard drive. When you initially log on to our website, we create a "cookie" for your computer and then use it to track your clicks as you go through the Web site. Approximately 95% of eCommerce websites use "cookies" to help make their shopping cart work. Our website uses cookies to improve the user experience, including:
There is no personal information stored within the cookie itself and the data included in the cookie is useful only to Jerusalem World News. Our website does not and cannot use cookies to retrieve personal information about you from your computer. Cookies cannot be used by our website to retrieve any personal information about you unless you have previously purchased from or registered on our website.
The "help" portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of our website's best features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
Information about our website's visitors is an important part of our business, but we are not in the business of selling it to others. We share customer information only with the subsidiaries and partners described below:
We release account and other personal information when we believe that it is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce or apply our Terms of Use or protect the rights, property, or safety of Jerusalem World News, our website, or our users.
Our registration form ask you to give us information about yourself which will allow us to help you in the following ways.
Our website may contain optional links to partners and third party Internet sites and services that may collect data from you or your computer. Please be aware that if you choose to leave our site via a link, Jerusalem World News assumes no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of other web sites.
Our website uses a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information. All user contact information is contained behind secured networks and is accessible only by a limited number of trusted employees who have special access rights to production systems. Passwords are encrypted in our secure database, which is also located behind secured networks. All sensitive/credit information supplied by users is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
Our website gives users the following options for removing their e-mail address from our database so you will not receive future communications:
We want you to enjoy all of the features of our website by keeping your account information current. We provide our users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided:
If you have additional questions about this privacy statement, the practices of Jerusalem World News, or your dealings with this web site, please email us at [email protected].