Privacy Policy
The primary objective in genealogy is to identify all ancestors and descendants in a
particular family tree and to collect personal data on them. As a minimum, data includes
the individual's name and the date and location of birth, marriage, and death. In order to
support research by other genealogists, the data are often published on internet genealogy
websites.
As a genealogist, therefore, I may have collected personal information on you and your
family from a variety of sources. The privacy of this information is important to me and I
assure you there is a privacy policy in place for the Rodney and Ruth Burton’s Genealogy Pages website with
which you will be satisfied.
Most of us would prefer not to have to worry about our personal data but, in this day and
age, we must use caution to prevent misuse of the information. Identity theft and credit
fraud are the worst problems. There is concern that information distributed to distant
relatives or put on a genealogy website makes it easier for unscrupulous individuals to
commit invasions of privacy or other frauds. However, the personal information that the
identity thieves and credit fraud perpetrators want are full names, social security numbers,
dates and places of birth, current occupation/employment data, and bank/credit card account
numbers. One or two facts alone (e.g. your name and/or your mother's maiden name) are not
enough information to cause damage.
Names and Relationships
Many genealogy programs can suppress the details of living individuals and substitute words such as "Details withheld". I have designed this website so that it provides the full names of living
individuals but not their details. If you are aware that someone is living and their full name is shown here together with their details, please let
me know, so I can remedy the situation.
Note: Only individuals who have registered with our website and are logged in
to the site will be able to view information on a living individual. This may sometimes be restricted to their branch of the family only.
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Photographs
Photographs of living individuals are considered personal data and are usually suppressed.
However, if the individual so chooses, a photograph can be tagged as "always visible". Before
any photograph can be included in this website, permission is obtained from the owner of a
photograph. Where, for any reason, all reasonable steps have been exhausted and the original owner cannot be found or contacted,
any legitimate objection to the display of the photograph will result in immediate removal from the site until such objection can be addressed.
Permission is also obtained from living individuals in a photograph if:
- they are identified in the caption and/or description or
- they can be identified through deductive reasoning using names and relationships found
elsewhere.
The statements, "Photo courtesy of ..." and/or "Used with Permission" (or similar), combined with the owner's name identifies compliance with these
requirements.
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Personal Data Suppression
By default, individuals in our genealogy database are considered to be "living" if we have no death date and they were born
110 years or less before the present date. To ensure the privacy of such "living" individuals, our internet genealogy website always suppresses
their personal data from viewing by the general public. Personal data includes, but is not limited to, birth/marriage dates and locations, photographs, notes and biographies.
Note: If a relative does not want their personal data to reside in a
website server database in spite of password protection, that individual and linked
descendants cannot be accommodated by the security program. They will reluctantly have to be completely excluded
from the website.
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Personal Data Access
Personal data access is restricted to registered family members who must login to access the
suppressed personal data of living individuals. At the discretion of the site owner, access may be restricted to their family branch only.
You must first read our Privacy Policy, agree with the Terms of Use and Register for a User Account.
When registering for your user account, you must indicate how you are related to an individual already in our database.
If you are not related, you will not usually be granted a user account unless a very special reason is identified.
In this case, a temporary or time-limited account may be made available.
With registration, you may only be granted access to your unique family branch within our database.
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Personal Data Security
Personal information collected by me in trust (email/street addresses, phone numbers, etc.) or as a result of an application for registration as a user or submission of a suggestion or comment, will not be divulged to any person or entity for any purpose whatsoever unless I am legally bound to prevent or detect a crime. You should be aware, however, that much of this information is already in the public domain and may be readily available to others using internet search engines (e.g. Yahoo People Search, Google.com, Birthday.com).
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Terms of Use
- The term "The Website" refers to the Rodney and Ruth Burton’s Genealogy Pages website.
- The term "you" will refer to any person viewing The Website content using the URL www.burtongenealogy.com.
- The Website contains copyrighted material and other proprietary information including,
but not limited to, text, photos and graphics. The entire contents of The Website are copyrighted as a collective work and all rights are reserved.
- All of the pages located within the domain www.burtongenealogy.com
are accessible to the public for free, without charges or fees of any kind, with the exception of access to data
on living persons which is allowed only to family members.
- The information on this site is intended to be freely used by researchers for personal,
non-commercial use, that is, not meant to generate income or money.
- For those who wish to use this information for personal, non-commercial purposes, I ask only
that you give credit by citing the page URL address that contains the
information you are using and/or the name and address of the main page of The Website, for
example:
Rodney and Ruth Burton’s Genealogy Pages, www.burtongenealogy.com
- Note: It is expressly forbidden for anyone to charge for access to these pages, or to provide
the information contained on them to anyone for any kind of fee or charge, or to use them in a commercial manner.
- If you have been charged a fee to access these pages, or know of a site that is doing so, or
that is reproducing information from this site for a fee, please contact me using the link at the bottom of the page.
The domain www.burtongenealogy.com is owned by Rodney Burton.
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Restrictions
By using this site, you agree to the following terms of use and any changes thereto:
- The Website is for the personal use of the family members
listed herein. Use by others is limited to the purpose of genealogical research. The content
of this site cannot be used for any sort of unsolicited mail or commercial purposes.
- Family members must not share their user name and password with anyone
except their spouse and minor children. They also agree not to share personal data of
family members accessible through use of that password without the express permission of the
individuals concerned. Family members' accounts will be terminated if login information is passed to an unconnected third party, or if any abuse of privilege is identified.
- Individual images may be copied by family members for their personal use. General
distribution including use on other websites is prohibited by copyright law unless
permission is obtained from the owner of the photo, living individuals in the photo (if
identifiable) and the site owner.
- Biographies and documents may be copied by family members for their personal use. General
distribution including use on other websites is prohibited by copyright law unless
permission is obtained from the site owner.
- In the event of permitted copying or distribution of copyrighted material, no changes in,
or deletion of, author attribution or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that
you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading copyrighted material.
- You agree to give appropriate credit for any material from this website that you use in a
written document, genealogical database or website of your own. You agree to include a link
to our site on any genealogical web page of yours that makes use of the content on this site.
- The IP address of any access to this website is always logged.
- The website owner's decision in all matters is final.
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Disclaimers
- Every effort has been made to ascertain the accuracy of the data. However, since some of
the information was provided by others without documented sources, there is the possibility
of errors. The website owner cannot be held responsible for the accuracy of any
content or material found on The Website or linked to our site. Furthermore, you agree not to
hold the The Website or its owner, agents or data suppliers, responsible for any issues that may arise from the
inaccuracy of the content on this site.
- This database contains information that has been proved as well as information that is
speculative and in the process of being proved or disproved. Do not take everything you find
here (or in any other online database) as absolute, complete or 100% accurate.
- If you do not agree with any of the aforementioned actual or implied Policies or Terms and Conditions,
you must leave this site. Click here to do that now.
... and finally
We hope that you enjoy your visit to our website and that you find it interesting and fulfilling. We are always pleased to hear from you, so please feel free to send us your suggestions or comments.
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy or Terms of Use, please get in touch.
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