Privacy Policy
Who we are
At recordfamilyhistory.com I am dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.
I recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information I receive and collect when you use recordfamilyhistory.com, as well as some of the steps I take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with me.
recordfamilyhistory.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all my operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on my website.
recordfamilyhistory.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To run and operate my site.
- To display content on the site correctly.
- To improve customer service.
- To help me respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
- To personalize your user experience.
- To understand how my users as a group use the services and resources provided on my site.
- To improve my site.
- To improve my products and services.
- To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
- To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to you.
- To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
- To respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
What rights you have over your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Agreeing to Terms
If you do not agree to recordfamilyhistory.com’s privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Last updated: January 29, 2025