This Code of Ethics reflects and guides the conduct of all staff, positions, volunteers and members of the Board of Directors (regular, executive, honorary and otherwise), of Aytzim (Green Zionist Alliance, Inc.).

 

Environment

Aytzim will do whatever it can to reduce its carbon footprint and minimize its negative environmental effects while encouraging others to do the same.

 

Compensation

Aytzim is an all-volunteer organization. All Aytzim positions, board members and volunteers are not compensated for their services in any way. Aytzim may choose to compensate individuals on a per-project basis, but only on the approval of a majority of the board.

 

Personal Integrity

All Aytzim positions, board members, staff and volunteers exhibit a personal commitment to integrity in all circumstances by:

  • Ensuring fairness and objectivity in all activities.
  • Honoring the privacy rights of all people including board members, staff, positions, volunteers and contributors.
  • Helping to promote public confidence in philanthropic institutions.

 

Personal Excellence

All Aytzim positions, board members, staff and volunteers shall:

  • Exhibit mutual respect for all those to whom they come in contact.
  • Comply with all laws and regulations affecting Aytzim.

 

Accountability and Efficiency

All Aytzim positions, board members, staff and volunteers shall:

  • Make full and fair disclosure of all information that is relevant to donors including how their donations are being spent.
  • Spend donors’ and organizational money wisely, efficiently and objectively.
  • Refrain from spending Aytzim funds in ways that do not directly advance the Aytzim's mission.

 

Conflict of Interest

All Aytzim positions, board members, staff and volunteers shall:

  • Avoid any activity or outside interest which appears to conflict with the best interest of Aytzim.
  • Must disclose any relationships that might constitute a conflict, such as employment or significant ownership or interest on another board on which he or she may serve. Even if there has not been written acknowledgement of the conflict, if the other board members, positions, staff or volunteers are aware of the conflict, it is assumed that a conflict exists.
  • Avoid any participation in or influencing any decision or action of Aytzim which could result in a direct or indirect benefit to his or her self, family, friend and/or any organization to which he or she is affiliated (i.e. other business or place of employment).
  • After disclosing an actual or potential conflict of interest, a board member should leave the room (or conference call) when a matter is discussed and shall not vote on the matter. The conflicted board member may not attempt to influence the decision in any way, but may provide information as requested by the board.

 

Maintain Confidences

All Aytzim positions, board members, staff and volunteers who receive confidential information about the organization and about Aytzim positions, board members, staff, volunteers, program participants, intern and volunteer applicants, and World Zionist Congress slate members are obligated to keep this information confidential.

 

Ethics Officers / Reporting Violations

The Aytzim president and chairperson of the Board of Directors shall be designated as the organization’s Ethics Officers. The Ethics Officers shall:

  • Help the board implement and realize the values articulated in the code of ethics.
  • Make available the organization’s code of ethics to the board, positions, volunteers, staff and the general public.
  • Review the code of ethics as needed with board members, positions, volunteers and staff.

All Aytzim positions, board members, staff and volunteers are obligated to report violations of the code of ethics. Violations may be reported to a direct supervisor, the president and chairperson of the board of directors. The board of directors shall decide consequences of ethics violations. There shall not be any action brought against the person(s) who report ethics violations in good faith.

 

Adherence to Laws and International Anti-Terrorism

Aytzim is based in New York and seeks to comply with all applicable laws that cover its jurisdiction, including all statutes, executive orders and regulations restricting or prohibiting U.S. persons from engaging in transactions and dealings with countries, entities or individuals subject to economic sanctions administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control.

 

Aytzim (Green Zionist Alliance, Inc.) is committed to the principle of equal opportunity in education and employment.

 

Aytzim does not advocate, support or practice unlawful discrimination based on age, ancestry, citizenship status, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, genetic condition, marital status, medical condition, national origin, pregnancy status, race, religion, sexual orientation, size, socioeconomic background or veteran status, consistent with organizational necessity and the safe and best performance of tasks related to the mission of Aytzim

 

This policy is intended to be consistent with the provisions of applicable local, state and federal laws and regulations, as well as with the Aytzim's standards of quality and excellence. All Aytzim directors, staff, volunteers and affiliates are expected to conduct themselves in the workplace in a manner that is consistent with this policy.

 

In keeping with this policy, Aytzim seeks to recruit, hire, train and promote into available positions the most qualified persons and to administer all operations, programs and personnel matters in accordance with this policy.

 

 

Aytzim is an endorser of "Do Not Stand Idly By: A Jewish Community Pledge to Save Lives," the campaign launched by Keshet in support of a fully inclusive Jewish community.

 

Our Commitment to Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. We will never sell or share your information with any third party without your explicit permission to do so. To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. If you wish to change or update your information, you may do so by contacting us. Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us.

 

This notice explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, it is accessible from the bottom of every page on our site. Please note that this is the privacy policy of the websites of the Aytzim (aytzim.org and jewcology.org), and not its partner organizations and companies that are accessible through this site.

 

The Information We Collect

This notice applies to all information collected or submitted on the Aytzim and Jewcology websites. On some pages, you can submit e-mails, sign up for newsletters, register for events, submit applications, order products, make requests, and register to receive materials. On some pages, you can submit information about other people. For example, if you order a gift online and want it sent directly to the recipient, you will need to submit the recipient's address.

 

The Way We Use Information

We use the information you provide about yourself solely for the purposes of the reason(s) you provided it. For example, if you sign up for the newsletter, your information will be used for purposes of sending you the newsletter. If you apply for a volunteering opportunity, your information will be used for purposes of volunteer placement and volunteering. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete the purpose for which the information was provided. We use the information you provide about someone else when placing an order only to ship the product and to confirm delivery. In the case of internship and volunteering opportunities, when information about references is provided, we only use that information for the purpose of those individuals serving as references. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete the purpose for which the information was given. We use return email addresses to answer the email we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties. We use non-identifying and aggregate information to better design our websites and to share with our partners. For example, we may tell a potential advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our websites, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to identify those individuals. We never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

 

Our Commitment to Data Security

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the correct use of information, we have put in place appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Only individuals who need access to your information to perform a specific task or function are granted access to such information. In addition, all Aytzim employees, board members, interns and other volunteers must abide by this Privacy Policy. Anyone who violates this Privacy Policy is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination. Notwithstanding the above commitments to protect your information from loss, misuse or alteration by third parties, you should be aware that there is always some risk involved in transmitting information over the Internet. There is also some risk that others could find a way to thwart our security systems. As a result, while we strive to protect your information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security and privacy of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. That said, as stated above, we continue to work to protect all data and personal information transmitted to Aytzim through our websites.

 

Our Commitment to Children's Privacy

Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our websites from those we actually know are under 13.

 

How You Can Access or Correct Your Information

You can access all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain by contacting us. You can correct factual errors in your personally identifiable information by sending us a request that credibly shows error. You should be aware that it is not technologically possible to remove each and every record of the information you have  provided to us from our system. The need to back‐up our systems to protect information from inadvertent loss means that  a copy of your personal information may exist in a non‐erasable form that will be difficult or impossible for us to locate. We promise that promptly after receiving your request, all personal information stored in our databases we actively use and other readily searchable media [except any personal information that, as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, we are required by law to maintain] will be updated, corrected, changed or deleted, as appropriate, as soon as reasonably practicable. To protect your privacy and security, we will also take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

 

How to Contact Us

Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies, please contact us.

 

Limitation of Liability

By using aytzim.org, Jewcology.org and/or its resources and/or the programs of Aytzim, you agree to hold harmless Aytzim (Green Zionist Alliance, Inc.) and its partners, affiliates, subsidiaries,  agencies, agents and their employees, officers, directors and representatives (the “Authorized Parties”) from any claims, losses, lawsuits, liabilities, expenses and damages arising out of or related to your use of aytzim.org and/or its resources and/or the programs of Aytzim, and Aytzim assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect or delay in operation or transmission, communications-line failure, theft or destruction of or unauthorized access to entries or submission forms, or alteration of entries or submission forms. The Authorized Parties are not responsible for any problems with or technical malfunction of any telephone network or lines, computer online systems, servers or providers, computer equipment, software, failure of any e-mail submission to be received on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any website, human errors of any kind or any combination thereof, including any injury or damage to any individual’s computers related to or resulting from participation, uploading or downloading of any materials related to Aytzim, aytzim.org and Jewcology.org.

DMCA Complaints

If you believe that any content on this website contains unauthorized reproductions of your copyrighted work or otherwise infringes an exclusive copyright right, and you reasonably believe it is appropriate to notify us to take any action and you want us to take any action, then, as required under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (17 U.S.C. sec. 512), ("DMCA") you must promptly provide in writing the following information:

  • Specific identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
  • Identification of the material that is claimed to be infringing or to be the subject of infringing activity and that is to be removed or access to which is to be disabled, and information reasonably sufficient to permit us to locate the material;* Information that will provide us reasonable access to permit us to contact you, such as your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address;
  • Include the following statement: "I have a good faith belief that the use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent or the law.";
  • Include the following statement: "The information in this notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, I am authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed.";
  • A physical signature of a person authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed; and

Send the written communication to:

Aytzim
450 Bay Ave.
Somers Pt., NJ 08244

 


Any notice that does not comply with the requirements of Title 17, U.S. Code, section 512(c)(3), may not receive a response. Nothing in this section is intended to expand, supplement or reduce the legal rights, procedures and remedies authorized and granted under the DMCA.

 

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