Terms of Use

Dear user,

Use of the masculine form in this document is for convenience only, and the stated herein applies equally to all users.

Welcome to the website of Ben Ari Fish, Law Firm (hereinafter the “Website” and the “Firm” respectively). The Website is managed and operated by the Firm, and includes extensive content as detailed below, including links to secondary sites or to those of third parties. By entering the Website and/or performing an action on the Website, you represent that you have read and understood the Terms of Use of the Website, which constitute an agreement between you and the Firm (the “Terms of Use“), and that you agree to these terms and confirm that you will act in accordance with their provisions, that the Terms of Use will obligate you for all intents and purposes, and that you and/or anyone on your behalf will not have any claim and/or demand against the Firm and/or anyone on its behalf, unless the Firm breaches the Terms of Use. If you do not consent to the Terms of Use, you are requested to exit the Website and not to use it and/or its services.

  1. General

Use of the Website is subject to the Terms of Use and their applicability. Therefore, you are requested to read the Terms of Use carefully and to act in accordance therewith. The information and content in the Website are provided As Is, and you will not have any claim and/or demand against the Firm and/or anyone on its behalf regarding the Website features, limitations, and/or the options in it, or with respect to its suitability to your needs and requirements.

  1. Proper use of the Website

You undertake to act responsibly when using the Website and to respect other Website users, its operators, and any other party that may be harmed by your use of the Website. Use of the Website is solely for legal purposes. Should the Firm find and/or suspect that you are not making proper use of the Website, it will be entitled, at its sole discretion, to block your use of any one of the services (or some of them) offered on the Website, immediately and without prior notice.

  1. Limited use/restrictions under copyright and intellectual property laws

The Terms of Use apply to use of the Website and the content included therein. The term “Content” or “Contents” includes, but is not limited to, information regarding the Firm’s areas of practice, partners, attorneys, and the general overview of the Firm, the services it offers, its events, publications, and more, including any other content related thereto, such as contact information, materials, documents, video clips, texts, files, logos, icon buttons, pictures, data files, links, other special content, technical data, documentation, knowledge, tips, specifications, designs, data, the Website’s appearance, algorithms, interfaces, graphics, illustrations, drawings, animations, and other characteristics obtained from the Website or through the Website.

The copyrights and intellectual property rights in the services and in the content included on the Website, as well as the trade names and trademarks, are the property of the Firm and/or of third parties from which the Firm received a duly usage license, unless explicitly stated otherwise. If you think the Website and/or the content in any way breach copyrights you own, please notify us as soon as possible. Use of the content is limited to personal use, and may not be used, in whole or in part, for commercial use; You may not use, or permit others to use, in any other way, whether commercial or non-commercial, content from the Website, contrary to the Terms of Use, including:

  • Change, publish, broadcast, transfer, sell, distribute, or make any commercial use of the content and/or any part thereof.
  • Distribute, copy, duplicate, publicly display, or transfer the content and/or any part thereof to a third party.
  • Create a compilation, collection, or database that will contain content from the Website using a computer application or by any other means.
  • Display content from the Website in any manner that changes its design on the Website or deletes and/or adds any content to it. Additionally, you undertake that if you create a link directing to content displayed on the Website, which is not the homepage, through a “deep” link and/or in any other way, the link will direct to the Website homepage. The Firm is entitled to instruct you to cancel any link, including a deep link as stated, at its sole discretion. In such event, you shall cancel the link whose cancellation is required immediately, and you shall not have any claim or demand against the Firm and/or the Website in connection thereto.
  • Create a link to or from the Website to any other website containing offensive content.
  • Illegally infiltrate material and/or computer files and/or transmit a computer virus to other computers and/or use or interfere with other computers contrary to the provisions of the Computers Law 5755 – 1995.
  • Publish any offensive content and/or which may, in the Firm’s opinion, harm the reputation and goodwill of the Firm, its employees and/or anyone on its behalf and/or third parties and/or may infringe the copyrights of the Firm, its employees and/or anyone on its behalf and/or third parties and/or may infringe any other right of the Firm, its employees and/or anyone on its behalf and/or third parties.
  1. Use of the Website

The services provided on the Website are only intended for personal use, and you are not permitted to make any use of the Website related to any commercial activity, unless you have obtained express prior written permission from the Firm. You hereby undertake not to use the Website and/or its content for any illegal purpose, and for any purpose prohibited under the Terms of Use. The Firm reserves its right, without being obligated to do so:

  • To edit and remove from the Website any information which, according to its sole discretion, violates the Terms of Use.
  • Take any action against users who, at the Firm’s sole discretion, breach the Terms of Use and/or make unauthorized use of the Website, including discontinuing the provision of services, blocking access to the Website, and/or taking any legal action.

The Firm shall bear no liability for any damage you incur as a result of any wrongful use of the Website by you and/or by any third party. You bear the full and sole liability for any such unauthorized use made by you, and you undertake to indemnify the Firm for any damage caused as a result thereof.

  1. Services requiring registration.

Some of the services on the Website will require registration, and you may be required to provide personal information when registering. If you do not provide the requested information, required to complete the registration, you will not be able to register for these services. By registering, you agree that the data you provide shall be retained and used by the Firm, subject to the provisions of the law and to the Privacy Policy as stated in Section 8. When registering for the service you may be requested to choose a username and a password that will identify you when accessing the service. It is your responsibility to maintain the confidentiality of the username and password to prevent their misuse. The Firm is entitled, at its absolute discretion, not to permit your use of a service requiring registration. Without derogating from the aforesaid, the Firm is entitled to cancel your registration to the service, or block your access to it, at its sole discretion.

  1. Website content
    • Links and user content

The Website displays links to the content of other websites, as well as to content originating from Website users. The Firm has no control over the content of the other sites and/or over content published by the Website users, and the Firm does not make any representation regarding their content. You hereby agree that, when accessing any other website, you shall be subject to the terms of use and the policy of such website, and that the responsibility to act according to them, shall apply solely to you. It is hereby clarified that the mere link to such a website or display of content by a user does not indicate sponsorship relations and/or agency and/or support of an opinion and/or agreement with any fact presented therein. The Firm does not undertake that all the links on the Website shall function properly and will lead to an active website. The mere presence in the Website of a link to a certain website does not indicate that the linked website’s content is reliable, complete, or current.

The Website may offer a search engine which may enable you to find information and content published on the internet in general and on the Website in particular. Some of the abovementioned information and content is not published by the Firm or on its behalf, and the Firm cannot control the content of the material that is published  or oversee it.

  1. Limitation of liability and indemnification

Without derogating from these Terms of Use, it is hereby clarified that as a fundamental condition of this agreement you expressly agree that your use of this Website is at your sole personal responsibility. The Firm does not undertake that access and/or use of the Website will be provided regularly, maintained securely and without any errors and/or disruptions, or that a certain outcome will be achieved from use of the Website. The services on the Website are provided As-Is, without any liability, explicit and/or implied, except for liability that cannot be limited by law, that applies to the Terms of Use or the liability the Firm has explicitly undertaken. The Firm shall not be liable towards you for any damage, direct and/or indirect and/or incidental and/or special and/or consequential. The Firm shall also not be liable for any loss, direct or indirect, caused to the user and/or any third party, relating to or pertaining to the Website and/or the services, their cancellation, limitation, or discontinuation. The Firm is not liable for any content that will be uploaded to the Website by its users, and any such uploading of content as stated, including content that by its mere uploading constitutes a violation of the rights of third parties, shall be at the sole responsibility of the user.

The Website may offer software which can be installed on your personal computer and/or links to websites that enable you to install such software. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, the Firm does not develop these software or examine their nature, and the link to them does attest to their reliability and/or compatibility with your needs or to the computer model you own. Installing the software on your computer shall be made at your full and exclusive responsibility, and its use is subject to the terms of the licenses included therein.

You commit to indemnify the Firm, its employees, managers, or anyone on its behalf for any damage, loss, loss of profit, payment, or expense caused to them or incurred by them due to violation of these Terms of Use. Additionally, you shall be obligated to indemnify the abovementioned entities in respect of any claim, suit and/or demand raised against them by any third party as a result of content you submitted for publication on the Website and as a result of links you created to the Website.

  1. Privacy policy

The Firm is obligated to protect the privacy of the users and their personal information. The Firm’s privacy policy is detailed in a separate document, as updated from time to time on the Website (hereinafter the “Privacy Policy“). Use the following link to access the Privacy Policy: The Privacy Policy

  1. Changes to the Website and discontinuation of service

The Firm is entitled to change from time to time the Website structure, appearance and design, as well as the scope and availability of the services herein, at its sole discretion. By their very nature, changes of this type may involve malfunctions and/or cause inconvenience, even if temporary. You shall not have any claim and/or demand against the Firm in respect of the execution of such changes and/or malfunctions that will occur during their implementation.

The Firm is entitled to disconnect, limit, or discontinue the services on the Website at any time, including, and without derogation, for the purpose of carrying out essential or immediate maintenance or set up operations of systems the Website uses.

Without derogating from the aforementoined, the Firm is entitled to discontinue at any time the services on the Website, in all or in part. Should the Firm decide to discontinue provision of the services, notification will be provided on the Website homepage within a reasonable period of time in advance. Upon discontinuing the services, the Firm shall retain the material and content contained on the Website for an additional reasonable period of time, after which it will be entitled to delete them without keeping a backup and without providing further notice.

The Firm reserves the right to change the Website Terms of Use from time to time at its sole discretion. Changes to the Website Terms of Use will be made by updating them on the Website, and the changes shall obligate you as of their date of update on the Website and thereafter. Your continued use of the Website shall constitute your consent to the Terms of Use, as updated. If you do not consent to the revised Terms of Use, you are requested to exit the Website and not to make any use of the Website and/or its services.

  1. Governing law and jurisdiction

Use of the Website shall be subject exclusively to the rules and laws of the State of Israel. Any issue or matter deriving from this agreement and/or relating to the Website shall be at the sole jurisdiction of the competent courts in Haifa, Israel.