Privacy Policy and Legal Notices

Ця сторінка також доступна українською.

The European Commission’s current web page on data protection.

The European Parliament and Council (EU) General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) implemented by the European Union in 2018 provides legal protections for personal data and privacy of citizens of the EU and EEA, and also governs the transfer of such personal data out of EU/EEA territories. Any individual or organization which handles personal data must clearly disclose any data collection, declare the lawful basis and purpose for data processing, and state how long data is being retained and whether it is shared with any third parties or outside of the EU/EEA. As stated in the preamble to the regulation, “everyone has the right to the protection of [their] personal data”.

This website is subject to the GDPR, and complies with the regulation, as explained below. In addition, other legal notices are included here, which, while not mandatory, provide information about the operation and management of this website for interested persons and organizations around the world.

Who We Are

This website’s address is: https://jewishheritageguide.net.

The website is operated by Rohatyn Jewish Heritage, a Ukrainian non-profit and non-governmental organization registered in Lviv, Ukraine with identification number 41047464. Our NGO’s professional focus is outlined on our About page. Our board and staff are also listed on the same page, together with our contact email addresses.

Research to develop some portions of the content of this website was supported by a grant from the US Fulbright Scholar Program during the 2019-2020 academic year. The Fulbright Scholar Program, the US Department of State, as well as their governing organizations the Council for International Exchange of Scholars (CIES) and the Institute of International Education (IIE), have contributed no content to this website, and they are not responsible for the data protection management of this website; that responsibility lies solely with Rohatyn Jewish Heritage.

Anyone having a query regarding the policy described here, or regarding their personal data, may contact the following representative of Rohatyn Jewish Heritage:

Jay Osborn
Head of the Supervisory Board
Rohatyn Jewish Heritage
vul. Hrabovskoho 14/10
Lviv 79013 Ukraine
email: jay@rohatynjewishheritage.org

Personal Data Collection, Usage, and Transfer

We do not collect any personal data of any kind from users of this website; there are no text fields on any of our pages to enter comments or through contact forms to sign up for mailing lists or other subscriptions. Through this website we do not collect names, postal mailing addresses, electronic mailing addresses, phone numbers, social media account names/handles/profiles, or other identity. We have intentionally disabled website features such as comments, likes, poll & survey responses, and follows. We do not use Google Analytics. Through this website we offer nothing for sale, and we do not collect personal or institutional banking information. We do not accept advertising on this website, so there is no possible third-party transfer of personal data through such means. We have installed no tracking applications on this website to log or analyze information about site visitors.

In addition, this website and its users are protected by a form of Transport Layer Security (TLS/SSL, i.e. https://), a cryptographic protocol designed to provide communications security over a computer network via 256-bit encryption. All information transmitted to and from our website is protected against third parties attempting to access it. Click the padlock icon in the browser address bar to learn more.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. maps, videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

For example, we may embed Google YouTube videos on some pages of this website. Playing the videos and/or clicking through to the video source page on the YouTube website is subject to Google’s data privacy policy as defined on their website.

Web Hosting and Content Management Services

Rohatyn Jewish Heritage contracts with separate web hosting and content management system companies to provide the web services on which this website is built. Each of those organizations collects and processes technical data from visitors to our website, but in each case the data is anonymized as it is collected, for example to retain only the geographic location of access. For further information about what technical data is collected, for what purpose, for how long the data is stored, and data transfer policies, see the separate web pages below:

Web Hosting Service:
Company: 1&1 IONOS
Data protection policy
Site analytics policy

Content Management System:
Company: WordPress (also WordPress.org)
Data protection policy

Through its content management system (WordPress), this website sets session and persistent cookies to improve your browsing experience. Cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally. We do not permit the use of third party cookies. You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed.

Updates to Our Policy

We reserve the right to update our privacy policy at any time. Changes will be posted to the privacy notice on this website. Any questions concerning this privacy notice may be directed to the representative contact listed above.