JCal.com Terms of Service

Last updated November 22, 2023

JCal is a website meant to provide you with a full calendar with an integration to the Jewish holidays, Jewish prayer times, email reminders, public and personal calendars.

These Terms of Service, alongside our Privacy Policy, govern your use of the JCal website and services.

In some cases, you may use third party services, which have additional terms. Please review these Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, as your consent is the only way to receive our services.

We are not responsible for the third party content and user generated content embedded or displayed, and such content may be changed by these third parties without our knowledge. Please make sure that you are aware of that.

Our liability for the services provided and the products downloaded is limited, and our services are provided on an AS-IS basis. 

We cannot ensure that the results from the services shall be optimal or warrant that they would be satisfactory.

Registration, Accepting These Terms.

Registration is encouraged, but not mandatory. Some services may not be used without registration. Registration to the website is made through our website.

When enrolling into the service, you represent and warrant that you are over 16 years of age, or if you are a corporation, you obtained all required permits from the authorized signatory. If you are under 18, but over 16, you must ask for parental consent prior to using the service, and your parents should accept these terms before using the service. We do not allow children under 13 to register for the service.

Signup. You may sign up using your email or other unique identifier (such as Google or Facebook authentication). You may be requested with your email address to verify your identity. 

We may also use your email address for sending newsletters and updates, as we explain in the privacy policy.

Accepting These Terms. You are required to accept and provide your consent to these terms before using the services, before submitting your personal data in forms and when contacting us for support queries. Without your acceptance of these terms we may not be able to provide you with the services governed under these terms.

Services That Do Not Require Registration

Some services are provided without any registration. However, they still require accepting these terms. The following services are provided free of charge and without any registration. We may add additional services or require that you register prior to using these services at any time.

Calendar Viewing. You may view our public calendar and other users’ public calendar with no registration. The data is provided AS-IS and without any representation as to its accuracy. Some hours, dates or names may be inaccurate. Please read our warranty section to understand more. You may view the calendar in either Jewish or Gregorian mode, and week numbers are presented according to ISO-8601. The Calendar is international, however, not all geographic locations are represented. If your location is missing, please contact us.

Adding Notes. You may add notes to our calendar. In that case, these notes shall be stored on your browser’s local storage and may be deleted at any time, including when you clear your browser data. Unless you register, please treat these notes as written on ice.

Prayer Times. We may provide you the times of day when prayers are made, according to specific Poseks and groups. Please consult your local community and Rabbi to inquire about your specific prayer times.

Print.  You may print the calendar and use it for your personal use, but not distribute it.

Contact Us. You may use the “Contact Us” page or contact forms to ask us questions, report any mistakes or otherwise contact.

Services That Require Registration

Some of the services we offer do require registration. These services may be provided to all or some of the users, and may incur additional costs. The following services require registration to use. Registration is currently free of charge.

Notes. We may allow you to add notes to specific dates.

Personal Calendar. We may allow you to operate a personal calendar which includes birthdays, yahrzeit, etc and to make these dates recurring either by Jewish or Gregorian dates.

Public Calendars. We may allow you to share your  personal calendar and make it public, and provide you with a link to such a public calendar. 

Newsletter

When signing up to the service, or when providing us with your contact details, we may enroll you to our newsletter and send you periodic updates relating to our activities.

Ads and Affiliate Links

Our services may include ads or affiliate links. We are not responsible for those ads and cannot guarantee their accuracy. You are required to do your own research before making any purchase or decision based on the information presented in these advertisements.

Content Policy

This content policy applies both to the content you submit through the service for us to use, share with others via the service or third parties, and for content others submit that you may use.

By either providing us with visual, textual, audiovisual, or other material or by using our service to share content, You hereby accept this content policy as set forth. You acknowledge that any violation of the content policy may cause termination of your service, removal of your content and legal action by both ourselves and the person whose rights were infringed.

For the purpose of this policy, the term Content shall refer to images and/or text and/or videos used by yourself while creating content through the service and published through it.

License

You hereby warrant that you are the sole owner and proprietor of any Content you distribute through the service, or that you are allowed to post it under this content policy. You hereby grant us an irrevocable, permanent, unlimited, world-wide, royalty-free, sublicensable, non-exclusive license to use your Content according to the functionality of service and through other third party services, including the creation of derivative works and the creation of three dimensional works. 

If you share your Content via a third party service, then you grant each person you share your Content with the right to send this Content to third parties, and to display, store or use this Content via such third party and according to its terms of service.

Our License To You

We provide you, as our user, a limited, non-transferrable, non-sublicensable, license to use all the Content made available via the services in relation to the service and through its functionality.

Offensive Content

You hereby warrant that your Content is not offensive and does not infringe the right of any third party, including, but not only:

• Intellectual Property Infringing. Your content does not infringe any third party copyright, design, patent, trademark, trade secrets or any other intellectual property rights.
• Pornography. Your Content does not contain any text, image or depiction including extreme nudity, profanity, sexual activity, sexual innuendos, sexually offensive content or otherwise obscene content. 
•  Slanderous. Your Content does not slander, defame or otherwise harm the good name of others.
• Hate Speech and Racism. Your Content does not include any hate speech or racist opinions, as well as does not incite others to violent acts against persons solely based on their inclusion in a specific group.

Warranty

You hereby warrant that you are either the sole proprietor or a designated licensee of your Content and that no other party's rights are infringed or violated by your use of the content and the Service. You moreover warrant that no legal claim, dispute or lawsuit was filed against You or threatened against You for publishing content through the service.

Notice & Takedown.

If you believe that any content hosted or posted using our services may infringe or violate any of your rights or applicable law; do contact us at team @ jcal.com and we will investigate such a complaint. Following the complaint, we will let the user who submitted the content know about it, and might inquire about its posting. 

Please note that our moderation, restoration or deletion of content does not mean that we are liable for the content in any form or under any law.

Payment

Currently, services are provided free of charge and no payment is required. However, we may charge for premium features, support, services or other features. 

Acceptable Use Policy

This is a non-exhaustive list of things we consider as unacceptable, and we may also find that other actions are, as well.

• Don’t allow others to use your account or license, by means of sale, license, lease assign, transfer, pledge, or any other activity that may be considered as sharing or conveying ownership in your account.
• Don’t copy or scrape our website or service, and don’t replicate its functionality. 
• Don’t use our website or Services to conduct any illegal activity, or transmit any transmit or upload any viruses, spyware or other harmful, infringing, illegal, disruptive or destructive content or files.
• Don’t reverse engineer or decompile our services, or perform any activity that might reveal sensitive information.
• Don’t try to guess usernames or passwords, or otherwise circumvent or attempt to penetrate or circumvent any technical restrictions or limitations in the Services or website.
• Don’t remove our legal notices or names from the Services.
• Don’t make excessive calls to our server.

Warranty

We supply the services on an “as-is” and “as-available” basis. Your use of the services is at your own risk and under your liability. We make no warranty that (i) the services will meet your requirements and (ii) the services will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free and (iii) the results that may be obtained from the use of the services will be accurate or reliable and (iv) the quality of any products, services, information, or other material purchased or obtained through the service will meet your expectations, or (v) any errors in the service will be corrected.

Please note that all hours and dates provided are based on our best efforts but we cannot ensure accuracy. They may change from time to time and may not be fully accurate. We will do our best to correct them.

Liability

For no case and for no reason shall we be held liable for any damage, direct or indirect, consequential, exemplary, physical or special, to you, any other user or any third party due to its misperformance of duties herein. We provide Service on an AS-IS basis and shall not be held liable, to the extent permitted by law, by any case of misconduct, negligence, gross negligence, malice or any other mean, to any damages or loss of property, including loss of your funds, damages to property, reputation and business reputation, user account information including login information, loss of profit, loss of good name, all resulting from the use or inability to use services. 

Indemnity

You hereby warrant and agree to hold us harmless and to indemnify us for any damage, loss, expense, legal expense or cost incurred as a result of your use of the services in direct violation of these terms of service, including any false representation. 

Terminating The Service

We shall have the right to terminate your use of the service or to terminate the service at any time and by providing a one day prior notice.

Moreover we may terminate your use of the service at any time and without prior written notice in any case where you breached these terms and such breach may cause us irreparable harm. 

We may suspend the services or any of its functionality, or disable features, if we believe that some fraud or error occurred. 

Availability

We might disable the service from time to time for scheduled backups, maintenance or upgrades. In some extreme cases, where urgent maintenance is required, we may disable the service immediately and without notice.

Amending These Terms

We may amend these terms from time to time, provided that you shall be informed through electronic communication on such an amendment and shall be granted the option to terminate your agreements with us by providing a prior written notice.

Governing Laws, Jurisdiction, No Class Action

The laws of the state of Israel shall exclusively govern these terms of service. The parties agree to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts located in Tel-Aviv District.

You undertake to initiate only suits on your behalf and not to file any class action lawsuit against us.