Effective date: October 30, 2026
This document is for information only and is not legal advice. For advice on your own situation, consult a qualified professional.
1. Introduction and who we are
This privacy policy explains how Savvy WordPress Development (“Savvy”, “we”, “us”) collects, uses and protects your personal data when you use savvy.co.il. The site is run by Roee Yossef, who offers WordPress development services and writes the blog.
We are based in Israel. This policy forms part of our terms of use.
2. What personal data we collect
We may collect the following kinds of personal data:
- Contact form: when you contact us through the site’s form, we receive your name, email address, phone number, website address, the type of project and your message.
- WhatsApp: if you message us on WhatsApp, we receive your phone number, your WhatsApp profile name and the messages you send.
- Comments: when you leave a comment, we collect what you enter in the comment form (name, email address and the comment), your IP address and your browser’s user agent. Comments are checked for spam by Akismet. If your email address is linked to a Gravatar profile, your Gravatar image appears next to your comment.
- Newsletter: when you subscribe, we send your email address to beehiiv, which runs our mailing list. beehiiv also records whether you open our emails and click their links.
- Usage and analytics: Google Analytics 4 and Cloudflare Web Analytics collect information such as the pages you view, your device and browser type, how you reached the site and your approximate location. We look at this data in aggregate to understand how the site is used.
- Performance monitoring: New Relic measures how fast pages load and records technical errors, along with your browser type and IP address.
- Technical logs: our hosting provider and our security and caching services record IP addresses, request times and similar technical data, for security and to keep the site running.
- Cookies and similar technologies: see the cookies section below.
3. How we use your data
We use your data to:
- reply to your inquiries and, if we work together, provide the services you asked for;
- publish and manage comments, including spam filtering;
- send you our newsletter, if you subscribed;
- understand how the site is used and improve its content and speed;
- run and protect the site, including blocking spam, abuse and attacks;
- meet our legal obligations.
We do not sell your personal data, and we do not use it for advertising.
4. Legal bases
We process personal data in line with Israel’s Protection of Privacy Law, 5741-1981, and, where it applies to you, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We rely on these legal bases:
- Consent: when you subscribe to the newsletter or leave a comment.
- Contract: when we need the data to answer your request or provide a service you asked for.
- Legitimate interests: to run the site, measure its use, prevent abuse and improve our services, where those interests are not overridden by your rights.
- Legal obligation: when the law requires us to keep or disclose data.
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time, for example by unsubscribing from the newsletter. This does not affect processing that took place before you withdrew it.
7. International transfers
Your data may be processed in Israel and in other countries where our service providers operate, such as the United States and EU member states. When data moves between countries, we rely on the safeguards the law allows, such as adequacy decisions and standard contractual clauses.
If you are in the EU, the EEA or the UK: the European Commission and the UK recognize Israel as providing an adequate level of protection for personal data. Transfers to providers in other countries rely on those providers’ own safeguards (for example, Google, Cloudflare, Automattic and beehiiv).
8. How long we keep data
We keep personal data only as long as we need it for the purposes above, or as long as the law requires:
- Contact form messages and WhatsApp chats: as long as needed to handle your inquiry and any work that follows, and for as long as the law requires us to keep business records.
- Comments: kept with the post until you ask us to remove them. Akismet keeps spam-check data under its own policy.
- Newsletter: until you unsubscribe or we remove your address. beehiiv may keep data under its own policy.
- Analytics: Google Analytics 4 keeps user-level data for a limited period, after which only aggregated reports remain.
- Server and security logs: for a limited period set by our hosting and security providers.
When a retention period ends, we delete or anonymize the data where possible.
9. Security
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data. These include secure hosting, Cloudflare protection, HTTPS on every page and keeping WordPress, its plugins and the server software up to date. No way of sending or storing data is 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
10. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:
- Access: ask for a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction: ask us to fix data that is wrong or incomplete.
- Deletion: ask us to delete your data, subject to legal exceptions.
- Portability: receive your data in a structured, machine-readable format, where the law gives you that right (for example, under the GDPR).
- Objection: object to processing based on legitimate interests, or stop receiving marketing emails (for example, by unsubscribing from the newsletter).
- Restriction: ask us to limit how we use your data in certain cases.
- Withdrawing consent: where we rely on consent, withdraw it at any time.
To use any of these rights, contact us using the details below. We will reply within a reasonable time. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority: in Israel, the Privacy Protection Authority; in the EU, your local data protection authority.
11. Children’s privacy
The site is not meant for children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them. If you believe we have collected data from a child, contact us and we will delete it promptly.
12. Changes to this policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Changes will appear on this page with a new effective date, so please check it now and then.
This policy is a translation of the Hebrew privacy policy. If the two versions differ, the Hebrew version prevails.
Effective date of this version: October 30, 2026
13. Contact us
For privacy questions or requests, or to use any of your rights, contact:
Savvy WordPress Development / Roee Yossef
Email: [email protected]
We will reply as soon as we can, and in any case within the period the applicable law requires.