Privacy Policy For Genealogy-Made-Easier.com

We Are Committed To Protecting Your Privacy

Policy last modified on August 21, 2009

Our privacy policy is simple - we collect only as much information about you as is needed to provide you with good service.

Your continued use of this website gives us your permission to collect the specified information. This Policy indicates the type of processes that may result in data being collected about you.

Information Collected

If you subscribe to a newsletter, we will collect your name and email address so we may send you said newsletter and only the newsletter. We will never send unsolicited email to you. We will not disclose your name and email address to anyone else unless you have specifically given us permission to do so.

In plain terms, we use your email only to provide the service you requested from us.

Disclosing Information

Our privacy policy explicitly states we will never disclose any personal information obtained about you on our website to third parties except if we need to do so in order to complete the transaction you requested. An example would be if you order something from us to be delivered to you. Then we would have to allow the courier company access to your name and delivery information.

We may institute mailing lists for information or goods on this website. You would have to sign up for such a mailing list, and we will always give you an easy and obvious way to remove yourself from any or all such lists.

At any time in the future, if we were to decide to disclose information collected on genealogy-made-easier.com, we would notify you, and receive your permission before releasing your information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We will place any changes we make in our Privacy Policy on this page, and those changes will then supersede this version of our Policy. We will take reasonable steps to make sure you notice those changes.

However, to be on the safe side, we suggest that you read this document each time you use the website to ensure that it still meets with your approval.

Log Files

We may collect and use the data contained in log files we maintain for this site. The information in such log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as Verizon or Time-Warner Cable), which browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited while you were on our site.

We use such information only internally for statistical analysis of our site traffic. We do not pass this information on to anyone else, either in its raw form or in a compiled, anonymous report.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Your Internet browser has the built-in capability for storing small files - "cookies" - that hold information which allow a website to recognize your account. We take advantage of this facility to enhance your experience.

We may use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit our site. This could include only showing you a certain page once in your visit, or the ability to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on genealogy-made-easier.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed. This is usually used for targeting purposes (such as showing someone books on a certain topic they have previously shown an interest in) or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone who frequents cooking sites).

DoubleClick DART cookies

We may also use DART cookies for showing ads through Google?s DoubleClick, which places a cookie on your computer when you are browsing the web and visit a site using DoubleClick advertising (which includes some Google AdSense advertisements). This cookie is used to serve ads specific to you and your interests (called "interest based targeting"). The ads served would be targeted based on your previous browsing history. For example, if you have been viewing sites about visiting Florida, you may see Florida accommodation ads when viewing a non-related site, such as on a site about camping.

DART uses "non personally identifiable information". It does NOT track such personal information as your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, social security number, bank account number, or credit card number. You can opt-out of this type of ad serving on all sites using this advertising by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx

Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a visitor's prior visits to this website.

Google's use of the DART cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to you, the visitor, based on your visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the advertising opt-out page at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html. Alternatively you can opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Third party ad-serving by Google:

Google serves ads on this site, and certifies vendors for third party ads. You can find a list of these vendors and ad networks here - https://www.google.com/adsense/support/ ... swer=94149

You may visit those websites to opt out of cookies (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability).

You can opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies in one location at the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out website at http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp

Opting Out of Cookies

You always have the ability to set your internet browser to disable or selectively turn off such cookies. If you do so, you may prevent certain functionality of this website being available to you.

You can also choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security. However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites. This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums or accounts.

Deleting cookies does not mean you are permanently opted out of any advertising program. Unless you make your settings disallow cookies, the next time you visit a site running the advertisements, a new cookie will be added.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, or if you want to know what information we have collected about you, please contact us using our Contact Us form on the Navigation Bar to the left. You can also correct any factual errors in that information or require us to remove your details from any list under our control.