Friedberg Economics Institute (RA) (“Friedberg Economics Institute”, “FEI”, “we”, “us” or “our”) values your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect your personal information when you use our website located at www.fei.org.il (the “Site”) and/or when you participate in our seminar application and selection processes and/or in FEI’s Alumni Network activities (together, the “Services”).
By using the Site and/or submitting an application to a seminar and/or participating in Alumni Network activities, you agree to this Privacy Policy.
You may contact us with any question or request relating to your information, including requests to access information, as detailed below.
Information We Collect Directly From You
Contacting FEI
If you contact us by email or through a contact form on the Site, we collect your full name, phone number, email address, and the content of your inquiry. By contacting us, you consent in advance to our responding to you and to our storing your inquiry in FEI’s systems.
Newsletter and Updates
If you register to receive newsletters or updates, we collect your full name and email address.
Applying to FEI Seminars
FEI holds fully subsidized economics seminars for student leaders selected at FEI’s discretion following a short selection process as described on the Site.
If you wish to apply to a seminar, you must register via the Site and complete an application questionnaire and upload documents about you, which may include: full name, email, address, national ID number, phone number, employment history, military service, education and additional information and documents as set out in the questionnaire. We use this information to get to know you and to assess your candidacy.
After you submit your application, and if you are found suitable, you may be invited to an assessment day and interview. We will retain information collected about you during the selection process to consider your candidacy, as further detailed below.
Your details may also be shared with service providers and vendors assisting us with the selection process and/or the operation of the seminars and Alumni Network and/or with FEI donors. We and those parties will use your details to assess your candidacy, to select, operate and manage the seminars and FEI activities, and to invite you to take part in future activities.
If you are not accepted to a seminar, we will delete the information and documents received about you during the selection stages within 24 months from the date of selection, except for your full name, role and place of work, phone number and email address, which we may retain in order to send you updates about FEI’s activities and other promotional material.
If you are accepted to a seminar, you will be asked during registration to approve a separate privacy and consent form.
Alumni Network
If you have been accepted to and have participated in one of our seminars, you become part of FEI’s Alumni Network, comprising graduates across the Israeli economy. Alumni benefit from meetings with economists and opinion leaders and from networking throughout the year. We will use your details to send you updates and invitations to Alumni Network activities.
Contact via Social Media
If you contact us through our social media pages, we may collect: full name, contact details such as phone number or email address, the content of your inquiry, and any other personal information you choose to provide.
Note: You are under no legal obligation to provide any of the above details; provision of information is subject to your free will and consent. However, if you choose to provide details, they must be accurate and complete. Providing incorrect information may prevent you from using the Site as intended and may impede our ability to consider your seminar candidacy, respond to your inquiry and/or invite you to participate in FEI activities.
Direct Marketing Consent (Israel): Contacting us by email and/or completing online forms on the Site each constitutes your express consent to receive promotional messages (SMS) and marketing emails and newsletters from FEI and/or on its behalf, in accordance with Section 30A of the Israeli Telecommunications (Bezeq and Broadcasting) Law, 1982. You may opt out at any time by emailing info@fei.org.il, and we will remove you from our mailing list and cease the service.
Information Collected During Your Use of the Site
We use third-party tools to collect and analyze statistical and anonymous information—i.e., information that does not personally identify you—regarding your use of the Site. During your browsing, the following details may be collected:
• Information about your computer, including your IP address, browser type and version, and operating system;
• Information about your visits to and use of the Site, including referral source, visit duration, page views, and navigation paths;
• Information generated while using our Site, including the times, frequency and circumstances of your use.
How We Use Personal Information
Personal information provided to us via the Site and/or by email and/or during the selection process and/or your participation in seminars and Alumni Network activities will be stored securely in our database and used for the following purposes:
• To operate and administer our Site and enable you to use the services available on it;
• For analysis, monitoring and the provision of statistical information to third parties. Such information will not personally identify you;
• For any other purpose described in this Policy and/or in the Site’s Terms of Use;
• To send you, from time to time, updates by email or SMS about FEI activities and other marketing information (you may inform us at any time that you no longer wish to receive such updates);
• To contact you when necessary or in response to your inquiries;
• To provide the services for which you registered (e.g., seminar candidacy, Alumni Network activities) by us and/or via our suppliers and/or partners;
• Targeted advertising via advertising platforms (e.g., Facebook and Google): the information you provided to us may be used to create a custom audience, using email addresses only. Personal contact details (name, phone, etc.) will not be exposed at any stage.
Sharing of Information with Third Parties
We will not share your personal information with third parties without your explicit consent, except in the following cases:
• Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable law or lawful requests by competent authorities; pursuant to a legal obligation or authority, in accordance with an order of a competent authority or court order, or as otherwise permitted by law.
• Service Providers, Donors and Partners (some outside Israel): We may share information about you with external service providers as described above and/or with external service providers assisting us in operating our activities, such as IT system providers, support and hosting providers (including cloud computing), data analytics and marketing content distribution providers, travel companies, program partners, various advisors and other outsourced services. These providers receive access to information solely for the purposes of providing their services to us.
• Disputes: In the event of disputes and/or legal proceedings between you and FEI.
• Corporate Changes: If our legal structure changes, we may transfer copies of your personal information stored in our database to the relevant parties, provided they act in accordance with this Policy.
Your agreement to this Policy also constitutes your explicit and specific consent to store information abroad and to transfer it outside Israel.
Your Rights (Israel)
You are entitled to review information collected and held by FEI about you under this Privacy Policy pursuant to the Israeli Privacy Protection Law, 1981 (the “Privacy Protection Law”). In addition, you are entitled under the Privacy Protection Law to request in writing that information about you be corrected and/or deleted from the database if it is incorrect or inaccurate, subject to law. Please note that your rights of access, deletion and/or correction may be limited. If we cannot grant your request, we will notify you as required by law.
Cookies
The Site uses cookies and pixels (including Meta and Google pixels) and analytics tools (such as Google Analytics) to collect data and improve advertising to those interested in the seminars, for statistical purposes, information security and to enhance user experience. You may configure your browser and/or the Site’s cookie banner to refuse cookies; however, this may impair your browsing experience.
Information Security
FEI ensures that its systems and Site are operated with an appropriate level of information security. Information security reduces the risks of unauthorized access to FEI’s computers and Sites, but cannot provide absolute protection under all circumstances. Accordingly, we do not warrant that the Site will be completely immune to unauthorized access to the information stored on it. FEI shall not be liable for any damage of any kind, direct or indirect, caused to a user if such information is lost and/or used without authorization. If you do not agree, please do not use the Site.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
FEI may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. If material changes are made, including changes relating to the use of information you have provided, a notice will be posted on the Site.
Contact Us
For any questions or communications to FEI concerning the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy or our database, you may contact us at: info@fei.org.il.