Genealogic 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, this data includes the individual's name and the date/location of birth, marriage, and death. In order to support research by other genealogists, this data is often published on internet genealogy websites.
As a genealogic research group, therefore, we may have collected such personal information on you and your family from a variety of sources. The privacy of this information is important to us and we assure you there is a privacy policy in place for the Deans of Dorchester Association 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 websites 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.
Public domain information does include names, dates, and places. Privacy law does not apply to public domain information. Our practice however is: Dates and places for living individuals will not be intentionally displayed online for those individuals born after 1930 (Note: 1930 Census is publicly available and the 1940 Census will be available about 2011). We do maintain all obtained information in our online database for those born after 1930. However, this information is only accessible to a limited number of individual registered members of this site. This information is not available to the casual internet user. You MUST be a member of this site in order to access any genealogical data contained herein. Please note that one does not have privacy rights for name, birth, marriage, and death information, contrary to popular thought and reason. We will not remove names already in the database. Our policy is also not to respond to these type of requests.
Personal Privacy Policy
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for the Deans of Dorchester website. This privacy notice applies solely to personal information collected by this web site. It will notify you of the following:
1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the web site, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. Use of Cookies
3. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
4. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
5. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.
6. External Links
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
In order to use the members area of this website, a user must first complete the registration form. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about your participation at our site in which you have expressed interest.We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you.
We will not sell or rent this information to anyone. We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your requests.
Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about website additions, or changes to this privacy policy. Your personal information will not be published in any form by this website.
Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Certain third parties may use cookies on our site (for example, advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address given on our website:
Security
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as genealogical information on persons still living), only the person submitting that information, and website administration have access, thereby assuring confidentiality.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email.
External Links
This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
From time-to-time our site may also request information via surveys or polls. Participation in these surveys or polls is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used only for correspondence purposes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Terms of Use
This site is owned and operated by the Deans of Dorchester Association. The term "you" will refer to any person viewing the website content using the URL www.deansofdorchester.co.cc or www.dorchesterdeans.hyperphp.com.
The Deans of Dorchester Association website contains copyrighted material and other proprietary information including, but not limited to, text, photos, and graphics. The entire contents of this site, including the title logo, are copyrighted as a collective work under the United States copyright laws and all rights are reserved.
All of the pages located within the domain www.deansofdorchester.co.cc or www.dorchesterdeans.hyperphp.com. , are accessible to the public after proper member registration for free without charges or fees of any kind.
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. 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 us immediately using the link at the bottom of the page. (For more information on internet genealogy sites that scam people by charging them to access free sites, go to this page at Ancestry.com: http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=5755).
All of the transcriptions and other research located on this site have been undertaken by this asscociation, owner of the website (unless otherwise indicated). We reserve all rights to the information on this website.
For those who wish to use this information for personal, noncommercial purposes, We ask only that you give credit by citing the page url address (http://...) (with an active link to that page if posted on the internet) that contains the information you are using, and/or the name and address of the main page of the website, for example:
"Information obtained from: The Deans of Dorchester Association website,"