Terms of Service

Version 1.1

21 February 2023

Welcome to Torah.Global. We are thrilled you are here and give you a very warm welcome and Shalom! Torah.Global is an online social community where members can search for other members, make contact, and interact in user-created groups.  Our mission is to connect Torah observant communities across the globe while strengthening and encouraging one another as we follow the Risen Messiah (Hebrews 10:25). To that end, we have created these Terms of Service to create an uplifting and fruitful experience, not only for you but also for those you interact with.

1. Introduction

Terms of Use, the Privacy Policy and all policies posted on our site set out the terms on which we offer you access to and use of our site, services, applications and tools (collectively “Services”). All policies and the Privacy Policy are incorporated into these Terms of Use. You agree to comply with the full Terms of Use when accessing or using our Services. The Terms of Use set out below take effect from 21 February 2023. For terms of service prior to this date please contact us at admin@Torah.Global.

2. Torah.Global Statement of Belief

You agree to the following Statement of Belief:

• The entire Bible, both Old and New Testament is the inspired word of YHWH.
• The Torah continues to be a valid guide for our lives (i.e. you observe Shabbat, Feast Days and/or food laws).
• Yahushua/Yeshua of Nazareth is the Risen Messiah.

3. User Account

To protect your privacy and limit the risk of fraudulent accounts, we require users to create an account with our Website and provide the following information:

• First name
• Last name (not viewable to other registered users)
• Nickname
• Profile type (individual, family/couple, or congregation/group)
• About me/our group
• Location. For your privacy, we strongly recommend using your town/suburb/city and not your home address. See our privacy page for further information.

4. Account Approval/ Rejection

• Once your information has been submitted, Torah.Global will manually review your account request and approve or reject your account.
• In most cases accounts will be approved unless one of the following occurs:
• The “about me/our group” information isn’t complete. Submitted details violate our Terms of Service.
• Account appears to be a fake account.
• Profile clearly violates our Statement of Belief

You will receive an email indicating whether your account request has been approved or rejected. If your account is rejected and you believe we have made an error, we kindly ask that you email us at admin@Torah.Global and ask to have your account reviewed.

5. Using Torah.Global

To use the Services, you must be over 18 years old. You agree that you will only post in relation to goods or services in Australia in the appropriate category or area and you agree that you will not do any of the following:

• Violate any laws or the Posting Rules;
• Post any threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or indecent material;
• Be false or misleading;
• Infringe any third-party right;
• Distribute or send communications that contain spam, chain letters, or pyramid schemes;
• Distribute viruses or any other technologies that may harm Torah.Global, the Services or the interests or property of Torah.Global users;
• Impose an unreasonable load on our infrastructure or interfere with the proper working of the Services;
• Copy, modify, or distribute any other person’s content without their consent;
• Use any robot spider, scraper or other automated means to access the Services and collect content for any purpose without our express written permission;
• Harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent
• Bypass measures used to prevent or restrict access to the Services; and/or
• Post an ad with the intention to profit from a natural disaster, health or public safety concern, or tragic event.

6. Group Etiquette

By participating in our online groups you agree to the following:

• Be kind and compassionate (Ephesians 4:32).
• Consider others as more important than yourself (Philippians 2:3).
• Strive to be peaceful (Romans 12:18).
• Treat others with respect, especially when dealing with differences of opinion.

7. Prohibited Group Formation

We plan that one of our future implementations on our Website will be a specific group for singles with additional profile and search functionality. As such, we request that no “singles” or similar group be created with the intention of connecting Torah observant singles.

8. Post/ Profile Removal

Failure to comply with our Terms of Service may result in a profile deletion and/or ban from our Website.  We maintain the right to remove posts, threads or profiles should they contain the following:

• Speaking against the Messiah, causing division, or attempting to lure others away from the Messiah.
• Information clearly violates our Statement of Belief.
• Sharing material that is racist, abusive, vulgar, hateful, obscene or sexually explicit or suggestive.
• Contains disrespectful or derogatory remarks about any person.
• Contains swearing or offensive language.
• Is knowingly false, inaccurate, harmful, threatening, harassing, invasive of a person’s privacy, or tending unreasonably to discredit or malign.
• Posting copyright material unless owned by you or this Website.
• Promoting personal beliefs in a way that is disrespectful of the choices of others.
• Contains advice or content that Website administrators or moderators believe is damaging, unhelpful or distressing to others.

Profiles or posts may be deleted at any time without notice. If you believe we’ve made an error, please contact us at admin@Torah.Global

9. Abusing Torah.Global Services

Torah.Global works to keep the Services working properly and the community safe. Please report problems, offensive content and policy breaches to us at admin@Torah.Global.

You are solely responsible for all information that you give to Torah.Global and any consequences that may result from your posts. We can at our discretion refuse, delete or take down content that we think is inappropriate or breaching these Terms of Use. We also can at our discretion restrict a user’s usage of the Services either temporarily or permanently, or refuse a user’s registration.

Without limiting other remedies, we may issue warnings, limit or terminate our Services, remove hosted content and take technical and legal steps to keep users off the Services if we think that they are creating problems or acting inconsistently with the letter or spirit of our policies. However, whether we take any of these steps, we don’t accept any liability for monitoring the Services or for unauthorized or unlawful content on the Services or use of the Services by users. You also accept that Torah.Global is not under any obligation to monitor any data or content which is submitted to or available on the Services.  ​​​

10. Global Marketplace

We may remove your ad if it is flagged on any of our sites, or if we believe it causes problems or violates any law or policy. 

11. Fees and Services

Using the Services is generally free. We may sometimes charge a fee for certain features or Services. If the feature you use incurs a fee, you will be able to review and accept that charge before purchase. Our fees are quoted in United States Dollar, and we may sometimes change them. We’ll notify you of changes to our fees by posting the changes on the site.

We may sometimes temporarily change our fees for testing purposes, promotional events or new features, these changes take effect from the time the price change is posted to the site. Our fees are non-refundable after the feature is supplied, and you are responsible for paying them when they are due. If you don’t, we may limit your ability to use the Services.

You agree to provide accurate information necessary for Torah.Global to comply with our obligations under applicable law.  You are solely responsible for collecting and remitting any applicable taxes resulting from the sale of your items or services listed on Torah.Global’s Services.

12. Content

Torah.Global’s Services contain content from us, you, and other users. Torah.Global is protected by copyright laws and international treaties. Content displayed on or via the Services is protected as a collective work and/or compilation, pursuant to copyrights laws and international conventions. You agree not to copy, distribute the Services or modify content from the Services, our trademarks or copyrights without our express written consent. You may not disassemble or decompile, reverse engineer or otherwise attempt to discover any source code contained in the Services. Without limiting the foregoing, you agree not to reproduce, copy, sell, resell, or exploit for any purposes any aspect of the Services (other than your own content).

When you give us content, including pictures, you grant us and represent that you have the right to grant us, a non-exclusive, worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, sub-licensable (through multiple tiers) right to exercise any and all copyright, publicity, trademarks, design, database and intellectual property rights to that content, in any media whether now known or to be discovered in the future, including third party sites and applications. You also waive all moral rights you have in the content to the fullest extent permitted by law. We reserve the right to remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these terms or the rights of any other party.

13. Reporting Intellectual Property Infringements (Verified Rights Owners – VeRO)

Do not post content that infringes the rights of third parties. This includes, but is not limited to, content that infringes on intellectual property rights such as copyright and trademark (e.g. offering counterfeit items for sale). We can remove content where we have grounds for suspecting the violation of these terms, our policies or of any party’s rights. If you have a good faith belief that a listing on any of the Services infringes your copyright, trademark, or other intellectual property rights, contact us at admin@Torah.Global. Only the intellectual property rights owner can report potentially infringing items or listings. We can share, in accordance with applicable law, the completed NOCI form with the third party that originally posted the potentially infringing listing. 

14. Legal and Financial Advice

You acknowledge and agree that you have the opportunity to obtain independent legal and financial advice from appropriately qualified professional advisers and that you take into account your personal objectives, financial situation and needs before buying or selling an item via our Services. 

15. Limitation of Liability

Nothing in these Terms of Use (including this clause) excludes, restricts or modifies any rights or statutory guarantees that you may have under applicable laws that cannot be excluded, restricted or modified, including any such rights or statutory guarantees under the Australian Consumer Law.

To the extent that these Terms of Use are found to exclude, restrict or modify any such rights or statutory guarantees, those rights and/or statutory guarantees prevail to the extent of the inconsistency.

Services are provided “as is” and “as available”. You agree not to hold us responsible for things other users post or do. As most of the content on the Services comes from other users, we do not guarantee the accuracy of postings or user communications or the quality, safety, or legality of what is offered.

We also cannot guarantee continuous or secure access to our Services. While we will use reasonable efforts to maintain an uninterrupted service, we cannot guarantee this and, to the extent permitted by law, we do not give any promises or warranties (whether express or implied) about the availability of our Services or that the Services will be uninterrupted or error-free. Notification functionality in the Services may not occur in real time. That functionality is subject to delays beyond our control, including without limitation, delays or latency due to your physical location or your wireless data service provider’s network.

To the extent permitted by law:

• We are not liable for the posting of any unlawful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene or indecent information, or material of any kind by a user of the Service which violates or infringes upon your rights, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any applicable law.
• And without limiting any rights that you may have under the Australian Consumer Law, Torah.Global’s liability to you for any failure by Torah.Global to comply with any statutory guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law is limited to Torah.Global supplying the Services again or paying you the cost of having the Services supplied again.

In addition, to the extent permitted by applicable law, we (including our parent, subsidiaries, and affiliates, and our and their officers, directors, agents and employees) are not liable, and you agree not to hold us responsible, for any damages or losses (including, but not limited to, loss of money, goodwill or reputation, profits, other intangible losses, or any special, indirect, or consequential damages) resulting directly or indirectly from:

• The content you provide (directly or indirectly) using our Services;
• Your use of or your inability to use our Services;
• Delays or disruptions in our Services;
• Viruses or other malicious software obtained by accessing or linking to our Services;
• Glitches, bugs, errors, or inaccuracies of any kind in our Services;
• Damage to your hardware device from the use of any Service;
• The content, actions, or inactions of third parties, including items listed using our Services;
• A suspension or other action taken with respect to your account for breach or these Terms of Use or our policies;
• Your need to modify practices, content, or behaviour, or your loss of or inability to do business, as a result of changes to these Terms of Use or our policies.

Torah.Global excludes any liability to you for any loss or damage suffered by you as a result of Torah.Global failing to comply with an applicable statutory guarantee under the Australian Consumer Law if you suffering such loss or damage was not reasonably foreseeable and was not directly caused by Torah.Global.

16. Indemnification

You will indemnify and hold harmless Torah.Global and our affiliates and our and their respective officers, directors, agents and employees (each an “Indemnified Party”), from any claim made by any third party, together with any amounts payable to the third party whether in settlement or as may otherwise be awarded, and reasonable legal costs incurred by any of the Indemnified Parties, arising from or relating to your use of the Services, any alleged violation by you of the applicable terms, and any alleged violation by you of any applicable law or regulation. We reserve the right, at our own expense, to assume the exclusive defence and control of any matter subject to indemnification by you, but doing so will not excuse your indemnity obligations. 

17. Release

If you have a dispute with one or more Torah.Global users, you release us (and our officers, directors, agents, subsidiaries, joint ventures and employees) from any and all claims, demands and damages (actual and consequential) of every kind and nature, known or unknown, arising out of or in any way connected with such disputes. 

18. Personal Information

By using the Services, you agree to the collection, transfer, storage and use of your personal information by us (the “data controller”) on servers located in the United States and in the European Union. 

19. Severability

If a provision of these Terms of Use is illegal or unenforceable in any relevant jurisdiction, it may be severed for the purposes of that jurisdiction without affecting the enforceability of the other provisions of these Terms of Use. 

General. These Terms of Use and the other policies posted on the Services set out the entire agreement between Torah.Global and you, overriding any prior agreements. From 4 February 2023, this agreement is governed by the laws of Tasmania, Australia. We both submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Tasmania, Australia. If we don’t enforce any particular provision, we are not waiving our right to do so later. If a court strikes down any of these Terms of Use, the remaining terms will survive. We may automatically assign this agreement in our sole discretion in accordance with the notice provision below (our assignment to an affiliate will not require notice). Except for notices about illegal or infringing content, your notices to us must be sent by registered mail to: 

Torah.Global

PO Box 7

Mowbray, Tasmania

Australia

We will send notices to you via the email address you provide, or by registered mail. Notices sent by registered mail will be deemed received five days following the date of mailing. We may update this agreement at any time, with updates taking effect when you next use the site or after 30 days, whichever is sooner. No other amendment to this agreement will be effective unless made in writing, signed by you and by us.   Send questions, comments or complaints to Torah.Global at admin@Torah.Global

Last Modified: 21 February 2023

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Privacy Policy

Torah.Global privacy policy 2 January 2023

Full Policy

This Privacy Policy discloses the privacy practices for the Torah.Global website (collectively, the “Website” located at www.torah.global).We are committed to protecting your privacy online. Please read the following to learn what information we collect from you (the “User” or the “End User”) and how we use that information. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please email us.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR WEBSITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND TO ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND OUR WEBSITE TERMS OF USE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE WEBSITE.

1. Changes to Privacy Policy

If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of notice on our home page.

2. Types of Information Collected and Uses of Collected Information

We collect two types of information about our Website Users: Personally Identifiable Information and Non-Personally Identifiable Information.

Personally Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable Information is information that identifies a specific End User. When you engage in certain activities on the Website, such as your name and email address.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-Personally Identifiable Information is information that does not identify a specific End User. This type of information may include things like the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited before coming to our Website, the URL of the website you visit after leaving our Website, the type of browser you are using and your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address. We, and/or our authorised Third Party Service Providers, may automatically collect this information when you visit our Website through the use of electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags, as described in Items 4 and 8 of this Privacy Policy.

 Uses of Information

We use Personal (both Personally Identifiable and Non-Personally Identifiable) for a variety of reasons.

• To register for our fellowship finder.

• To communicate about your account and to provide customer support for those that email us or if there is an issue with an account.

• To communicate about happenings and projects at Torah.Global for those who have donated or signed up to receive updates.

• To enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, the Fellowship Finder, or other applicable legal situations such as copyright disputes.

• To meet legal requirements including complying with court orders, and other legal mechanisms.

• We use Non-Personally Identifiable Information to troubleshoot, administer the Website, analyse trends, gather demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate with law enforcement activities. We and our partners may use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our website or subscribe to our weekly emails. This includes using cookies, pixels, and web beacons that help us track who has opened our emails, clicked on links, etc. These and related technologies allow us to collect the recipient’s IP address, browser, email client type and other similar details. We then use this information to measure the performance of email campaigns and marketing strategies. Reports are also available to us when we send email to you, so we may collect and review that information.

• We may also share this information with our authorized Third Party Service Providers (such as our email service provider) to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, and programming.

 3. Release of Personally Identifiable Information

 We will not share, sell, rent, or trade your Personally Identifiable Information with other parties. We may share your information with Authorized Third Party Service Providers. We provide services and products through third parties. These “Third Party Service Providers” perform functions on our behalf, like sending out and distributing our administrative and promotional emails or products. We may share your Personally Identifiable Information with such Service Providers to send postal or email, remove repetitive information on customer lists, analyse data, provide marketing assistance, provide search results and links, process credit card payments, operate the Website, troubleshoot, and provide customer service. 

We may share your information for our Protection and the Protection of Others. We reservethe right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Website; enforce or apply this Privacy Policy, our Website Terms of Use or other agreements; or protect the rights, property or safety of the Website, its Users or others.

 4. Release of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may disclose or share Non-Personally Identifiable Information with Partners, Affiliates and Advertisers. For example, we may share aggregated demographic information (which does not include any Personally Identifiable Information) with “Third Party Advertisers” or “Third Party Advertising Companies” and other parties as provided below:

We also use Third Party Service Providers to track and analyse Non-Personally Identifiable usage and volume statistical information from our Users to administer our Website and constantly improve its quality. We may also publish this information for promotional purposes or as a representative audience for Advertisers. Please note that this is not Personally Identifiable Information, only general summaries of the activities of our Users. Such data is collected on our behalf, and is owned and used by us.

 5. Updating, Correcting, and Removing Information

We believe that you should have the ability to access and edit the Personally Identifiable Information you provide us. You may change any of your Personally Identifiable Information by an email at admin@www.torah.global or writing to us at PO Box 7, Mowbray TAS 7248 AUSTRALIA. If the information change pertains to what was entered on to our Fellowship Finder/ Map, this information can be updated by logging into your account and editing your profile. We encourage you to promptly update your Personally Identifiable Information if it changes. You may ask to have the information on your account deleted or removed; however, because we keep track of past transactions, you cannot delete information associated with past transactions on the Website. In addition, in may be impossible for us to completely delete all of your information because we preform routine backups of our Website.

If you choose to store credit card information on the site, this is stored on a secure page and you may delete your credit card information at any time by going to the “my account” section of your profile.

6. User Choices on Collection and Use of Information

As discussed above, you can always choose not to provide information, although it may be required to engage in a certain activity on the Website.

As a condition of signing up for our Fellowship Finder/Map feature, we require your real first and last name and valid email address. For privacy reasons the Website will not display your last name. Instead, only your first name and chosen ‘alias’ will be displayed. By signing up for Torah.Global updates we will send you Administrative and Promotional emails. We will send you information regarding your account activity and purchases as well as updates about our products and promotional offers if any purchase is made. You cannot opt-out of Administrative Emails. “Administrative Emails” relate to a User’s activity on the Website, and include emails regarding a particular User’s account, requests or inquiries, and purchases of products and services. In contrast to Administrative Emails, however, you do have a choice with respect to Promotional Emails. Promotional Emails advertise our products and services, including exclusive sales and other offers, and/or the products and services of our Advertisers and Affiliates. If you do not want to receive Promotional Emails from us, you may elect to opt-out of receiving Promotional Emails at any time after registering by e-mailing us at admin@www.torah.global, by writing to us at the address contained herein, or by hitting the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of any of our e-mails. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what Promotional Emails you do not want to receive.

 7. Security of Information

We take security seriously and take numerous precautions to protect the security of Personally Identifiable Information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we employ commercially reasonable security measures to protect data and seek to partner with companies which do the same, we cannot guarantee the security of any information transmitted to or from the Website, and are not responsible for the actions of any third parties that may receive any such information.

 8. Data Tracking

Cookies. To facilitate and customize your experience with the Website, we store cookies on your computer. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a User’s computer for record- keeping purposes which contains information about that User. We use cookies to save you time while using the Website, remind us who you are, and track and target User interests in order to provide a customized experience. Cookies also allow us to collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information from you, like which pages you visited and what links you clicked on. Use of this information helps us to create a more user-friendly experience for all visitors. In addition, we may use Third Party Advertising Companies to display advertisements on our Website. As part of their service, they may place separate cookies on your computer. We have no access to or control over these cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by our Website only and does not cover the use of cookies by any Advertiser. Most browsers automatically accept cookies, but you may be able to modify your browser settings to decline cookies. Please note that if you decline or delete these cookies, some parts of the Website may not work properly. Other Tracking Devices. We may use other industry standard technologies like pixel tags and web beacons to track your use of our Website pages and promotions, or we may allow our Third Party Service Providers to use these devices on our behalf. Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images placed on certain pages on our Website, or in our emails that allow us to determine whether you have performed a specific action. When you access these pages or open or click an email, pixel tags and web beacons generate a Non-Personally Identifiable notice of that action. Pixel tags allow us to measure and improve our understanding of visitor traffic and behavior on our Website, as well as give us a way to measure our promotions and performance. We may also utilize pixel tags and web beacons provided by our Affiliates and/or Marketing Partners for the same purposes.

 9. Privacy Policies of Third Party Websites

This Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on www.torah.global.com. Other websites that may be accessible through this Website have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. If you link to any such website, we urge you review the website’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties.

10. Miscellaneous Privacy Issues

Public Areas. We provide areas on our Website where you can publicly post information about yourself, can communicate with others such as discussion boards, groups, forums or blogs, or submit media content. This information may be accessible by other consumers and companies and may appear on other websites or web searches, and therefore this information could be read, collected, and used by others. We have no control over who reads your postings or what other users may do with the information you voluntarily post, so please use caution when posting any personal information.

11. Contacting Us

Torah.Global, PO Box 7, Mowbray Tasmania 7263, AUSTRALIA.

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