This document details how your information is collected, used and stored on the "Maale Yosef Online" website. We are committed to maximum transparency and to protecting your privacy.
1. What Information Is Collected and How
- Statistical browsing data (Google Analytics & Vercel): anonymous information such as the pages you visited, time spent on the site, and your browser and device type.
- Custom event tracking: we anonymously track on-site interactions such as: ad clicks, content card views (businesses, jobs, real estate), clicks on outbound links (WhatsApp groups, resident services), and searches in the business index. This is done to improve the user experience and understand which content is relevant to you.
- Details provided voluntarily (forms): when registering a business or contacting us via a form on the site, the details you entered (name, phone, business description, etc.) are saved.
- Language preferences and privacy settings: your language choice and cookie consent are saved locally in your browser.
2. Third-Party Services
We use several external services to operate and optimize the site:
- Google Analytics 4: collection of anonymous usage data. The service operates according to your consent (Google Consent Mode v2). You can read about Google's privacy policy here.
- Vercel Analytics: a basic, non-personally-identifying (No-PII) statistics system provided by our hosting platform. Privacy policy here.
- Sanity CMS: the content management system and content delivery network (CDN) for the site's images and files. No personal visitor information is collected through this service. Privacy policy here.
- WhatsApp (Meta): many links on the site lead to WhatsApp groups or chats. Once you move to WhatsApp, the interaction is subject to Meta's privacy policy.
3. Cookies and Local Storage
| Name | Type | Purpose | Expiry | Necessary? |
|---|
| _ga, _ga_* | Cookie | Google Analytics — anonymous user identification (session) | 2 years | Optional |
| myo_consent | localStorage | Storing your privacy banner preferences | No expiry | Yes |
| NEXT_LOCALE | Cookie | Storing your browsing language preference on the site | Session | Yes |
4. Your Rights
- Changing consent: you may change your cookie settings at any time by clicking "Privacy Settings" at the bottom of the page.
- Reviewing / deleting information: businesses registered in the database may contact us to request that their details be updated or removed from the site.
5. Contact
For any question regarding this policy or requests to remove content, you can contact us at: info@maaleyosef.online.
Last updated: July 2026. This policy may be updated from time to time; please check back on this page.
