Last updated: October 25, 2026
OctoberSeven is an independent documentary website operated from Israel. This policy covers visitors to our public pages and people who contact us.
For privacy questions and requests, contact contact@octoberseven.com. You can also contact our Instagram page, @octobersevencom.
Hosting and technical information
Loading pages, images and videos sends technical information to our hosting and delivery providers, including your IP address, browser and device information, the requested resource and the time of the request. This supports content delivery, security and troubleshooting. We use Base44 for website hosting, infrastructure and content delivery.
Base44 reports separate page-view logging that continues when optional analytics is off.
One video is delivered directly from an IDF media server using Microsoft infrastructure, through our own player. Requesting it sends technical information, including your IP address and browser information, to that server. We request the file without sending cookies to that server. This direct video delivery remains available when you reject optional features.
Browser storage remembers your privacy choices and whether you dismissed the privacy notice in this tab. Separate session storage maintains navigation and video playback, including your place in the site, playback position and player settings. This storage remains active when you reject optional features.
Optional features
The optional features we control stay off until you allow them. Each can be controlled separately through Privacy.
- Usage analytics — Base44. Runs only with your consent and stops when you choose Reject optional or turn analytics off through Privacy. Measures visits, pages opened, timing and visit duration, approximate country, device and operating system, and referring pages. Campaign parameters and advertising referral identifiers may be recorded when present in the link you used. A browser identifier can connect visits from the same browser. We review aggregate statistics; the underlying records can distinguish individual browsers.
- Session recordings — Base44. We ask your permission in advance to introduce session recordings to identify usability problems and fix errors on public pages. Recordings are currently disabled. If introduced, they will run only while your consent to these recordings remains valid. Replays can include displayed page content, pages visited, clicks, scrolling, timing, a session identifier, approximate country, browser and device information, and technical error and network-request data. They will exclude text you enter and private account pages.
- Remember watched videos. Stores watched-video IDs in this browser to reduce repetition between visits. This feature does not upload the list. Separately, analytics can record visits to pages or addresses associated with videos if you enable analytics.
- External media and provider tracking. Loads embedded YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and X content. Providers receive information such as your IP address, browser, embedding page and interactions with the player or post. They may use cookies and identifiers for delivery, measurement, personalization and advertising, and may associate activity with your account with them.
Provider information: Google / YouTube, Meta / Instagram / Facebook and X.
External media terms
This website uses YouTube API Services to display embedded videos. By enabling and using the YouTube player on this website, you agree to be bound by YouTube’s Terms of Service.
Your choices
You can accept all optional features, reject them all or choose separately. Rejecting them does not prevent you from reading stories, viewing images or watching videos delivered through our website infrastructure and the direct video server described above. Blocked external embeds show an Enable external media button, which lets you review and enable external media without changing your other choices.
You can also close the initial privacy notice and continue browsing with optional features off. Closing it does not give consent; it hides the notice for this tab’s browsing session.
Use Privacy at the bottom of pages, or Privacy & choices in Watch’s ⋯ menu, to change your choices or withdraw consent. Turning an optional feature off stops that feature and removes its related browser storage controlled by this website. Turning external media off reloads the page to unload provider scripts.
Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing that took place before it. Personal information relying solely on withdrawn consent must be erased as required by law unless there is a separate lawful reason to retain it. Contact us about information already collected. We cannot directly remove cookies on another provider’s domain; those can be managed through your browser or that provider.
Contacting us
When you email or message us, we receive your contact details, message and attachments you choose to send. We use these to reply, deal with your request and continue the relevant correspondence, including checking sources and arranging permission to use material.
Providing this information is voluntary and is not required to browse. Without information needed for a particular request, we may be unable to respond or complete it. Email is handled through Zoho Mail, with our mailbox hosted in Zoho’s US data centre. Instagram messages are also processed by Meta under its policy.
Why we process information
Optional analytics, session recordings, remembering watched videos and loading external embeds rely on your consent. Website operation, direct content delivery and security, handling correspondence and maintaining permissions records rely on our legitimate interests in providing a functioning, secure website, responding to requests and documenting publication rights. Limited records may also be needed to meet applicable legal obligations, demonstrate privacy choices or establish, exercise or defend legal claims, using the appropriate legal basis.
How long information is kept
- Privacy choice: valid for up to 180 days, unless you change it or clear it sooner. We ask again when expiry is detected while you use the site or on your next visit. The record includes the choices, date and notice version.
- Watched-video history: each entry is valid for up to 180 days from when it was recorded. Expired entries are removed when the site next reads the history. You can clear it sooner through Privacy.
- Browser analytics identifier: removed when analytics consent is withdrawn or its expiry is detected while you use the site or on your next visit.
- Base44 analytics: Base44 states that analytics data is stored for 60 days. Infrastructure logs and backups have separate retention arrangements.
- Session recordings: if enabled, Base44 retains recordings for 30 days and then removes them automatically, according to its session recording documentation.
- Technical logs and backups: Base44 states that personal data is kept for as long as needed for the purpose it was collected for, plus any legally required period. These records have separate retention arrangements from analytics.
- Email correspondence: routine incoming emails are scheduled for deletion after one year (365 days) from receipt. Our copies of outgoing emails are moved to Trash after sending and cleared under our 180-day Trash cleanup setting. Relevant correspondence may be kept longer while a request is still being handled, and is deleted when no longer needed, except for the permission records and legal purposes described below.
- Other correspondence and permission records: other messages are kept to handle the request and relevant ongoing correspondence. Permission records are kept while the material is used, and afterwards where needed to demonstrate permission or deal with claims within the relevant limitation periods. Relevant correspondence may also be retained where needed to meet a legal obligation or establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
The expiry periods for privacy choices and watched-video history apply to our browser features, not to information already collected by providers. Email deletion follows Zoho’s Trash cleanup and recovery process: our cleanup interval is 180 days, with timing also depending on the message’s date. Zoho describes a further 30-day recovery window after removal from Trash. See Zoho Mail’s deletion policy. External media providers set retention periods for their own processing, as described in their policies.
Providers and international processing
Relevant information is processed by Base44 and its infrastructure providers to operate the website, by the IDF media server and its Microsoft delivery infrastructure when its video is requested, by Zoho to handle email, and by external embed providers when you enable their content. External platforms may also process information for their own purposes as described above.
Base44’s terms permit customer data to be used to develop and improve its internal AI models, subject to its data processing agreement. Base44 states that it does not use customer data to train third-party models.
Information may be processed in Israel, the United States and other countries where these providers operate. Their data protection laws may differ. Base44’s data processing agreement describes its international transfer commitments, including standard contractual clauses where applicable. You can contact us for information and copies of the relevant safeguards.
Information may also be disclosed where a binding legal requirement applies, or where necessary and lawful to address a security incident or protect legal rights.
Your rights
You can contact us to request access to and a copy of personal information about you, correction of inaccurate information, erasure, restriction of processing or a portable copy, subject to the conditions and exceptions in applicable law.
You can object to processing based on legitimate interests for reasons relating to your particular situation. You can also withdraw consent through Privacy.
Send requests to contact@octoberseven.com. We will request additional identification only when necessary, respond within the applicable legal time limits and explain if we cannot fulfil a request. You can complain to Israel’s Privacy Protection Authority, the competent EU supervisory authority or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office, as applicable.
Where needed, we will ask Base44 to assist with requests concerning personal information it processes for us.
If your request concerns information, an image or a video of you published on the website, please identify the page and explain your request so we can review it.
Changes
We will update this policy when relevant processing changes and show the update date. We will appropriately highlight material changes and ask for new consent before any changed processing that requires it.