Privacy Policy

This site is an information board about nursing homes and sheltered housing in Israel. Here we explain what happens to information when you browse it.

What the site collects

The site has no forms, no sign-up and no accounts. We do not ask for a name, phone number or email address.

The site has its own visit counter that uses no cookies; the section “Visit statistics” below explains it. There are no ads on the site, and no advertising counters or counters of other companies.

The site does not store cookies in your browser. In the browser's storage (localStorage) the site keeps only two marks: that you closed the notice about the counter, and that you asked not to count your visits, if you did.

Visit statistics

For each page view your browser sends our counter the address of the page and the address you came from. The counter records: the page address without parameters (except the source label utm_source) and the page title, only the domain of the site you came from, the browser type, the operating system and device type, the screen size, the language, the country and the time of the view. The server drops the other parameters of the address and the rest of the address you came from at once. The counter works out the country from the IP address, but not the city. The IP address is used for a moment, to find the country and to compute a temporary visitor number, and the counter does not store it. The temporary number changes once a month. The counter uses no cookies.

The only purpose is overall statistics: which pages and languages people need, where visitors come from, where errors happen and how busy the server is. We build no profiles, show no ads and make no decisions about particular people.

Being counted is voluntary: you can opt out with the button below, and the site works exactly the same.

The statistics are kept on our server at the hosting company Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany (European Union). Hetzner only provides the server. We do not pass this data to anyone and do not sell it.

The statistics are kept for up to 25 months and then deleted automatically. How long the server logs are kept is stated in the section “Hosting and server logs”.

Under the Israeli Privacy Protection Law you may see the data about you and ask to correct it (sections 13 and 14). If you are in the European Union, you also have rights under the GDPR: to learn what data there is about you, to correct it, to have it deleted, to restrict its use, to object to its use and to complain to the supervisory authority of your country (in France, the CNIL). To be honest: the counter does not know who you are, so records that belong to you in particular usually cannot be found. You can write to us at the address in the section “Contact”.

To stop your visits from being counted, press the button below. Your choice is kept only in your browser on this device: in another browser, or after clearing the site's data, press it again. Some browsers erase such marks on their own, Safari for example, if you have not visited the site for about a week. The line above the button always shows whether your visits are counted right now.

Hosting and server logs

The site is hosted on our server at Hetzner. The web server (nginx) keeps technical logs: IP address, time of the request, the page requested and browser details. The logs are used to keep the site secure, to find faults, to protect it from overload and mass automated copying, and to count visits in general; they are kept for up to 13 months.

Pages of this site load nothing from Google servers. Google receives information only if you choose to click the map link on a facility page, and then Google's privacy policy applies. Links to facilities' own websites also lead to other sites, which are covered by their own privacy policies.

WhatsApp likewise receives data only if you press the send button yourself: it gets the name of the place and its link.

Chat about a report

The ministry report pages have a chat: its questions are answered by artificial intelligence (AI). To write the answer, your question goes, together with the report's text, to an outside AI service. We use only services that, under their own terms, do not collect the data sent. Our server does not store your questions. The IP address is used only in the server's memory, to limit the number of questions, and is erased at the end of the day. Do not write names, ID numbers or medical information in the chat.

The ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini buttons on a report page only copy the text and open an outside service. The text reaches it only if you paste and send it yourself; from then on that service's rules and privacy policy apply.

Information about the facilities

The information is collected from public registries of the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Welfare and the Ministry of Construction and Housing, and from other public sources, such as the places' own websites. Each value names its source, and usually the date. If you found a mistake, write to us.

Contact

For questions about personal data you can write to us by email: bneibayit.il@gmail.com

If this policy changes in a significant way, we will say so on this page and update the date below. We keep the earlier versions of the text.

Updated: 12.11.2026