Your privacy is very important to me. Copper Leaf Genealogy is run by the owner of the website (see the about page) and is the sole owner of the information collected at this website. Any personally identifying information we have access to is information that is provided voluntarily to us. At Copper Leaf Genealogy we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Copper Leaf Genealogy collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Copper Leaf Genealogy’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Copper Leaf Genealogy’s visitors use its website.
Copper Leaf Genealogy also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Copper Leaf Genealogy only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Copper Leaf Genealogy choose to interact with Copper Leaf Genealogy in ways that require Copper Leaf Genealogy to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Copper Leaf Genealogy gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Copper Leaf Genealogy collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Copper Leaf Genealogy. Copper Leaf Genealogy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
Copper Leaf Genealogy may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Copper Leaf Genealogy may monitor the most popular pages and/or posts on Copper Leaf Genealogy or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Copper Leaf Genealogy may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Copper Leaf Genealogy does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Copper Leaf Genealogy will use the information gathered when you use the contact forms, subscribe to updates via email, or make a comment to respond to your requests in the following ways: respond to your requests, improve the website and your user experience, and to keep the website secure.
Copper Leaf Genealogy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its owner, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Copper Leaf Genealogy’s behalf or to provide services available at Copper Leaf Genealogy, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
To collect data, Copper Leaf Genealogy does use outside services like Jetpack or WordPress that track and log this information for us. As stated above, this information does not include personally identifiable information. We also do not sell or rent any of it to anyone.
Please note that Akismet, Jetpack and WordPress are all services of Automattic, Inc., 132 Hawthorne Street, San Francisco, CA 94107. We encourage you to review Automattic’s privacy policies for their information.
Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Copper Leaf Genealogy discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Copper Leaf Genealogy believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Copper Leaf Genealogy, third parties or the public at large. If you have supplied your email address, Copper Leaf Genealogy may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new postings, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Copper Leaf Genealogy. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Copper Leaf Genealogy takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Copper Leaf Genealogy uses cookies to help Copper Leaf Genealogy identify visitors, their usage of Copper Leaf Genealogy website, and their website access preferences. Copper Leaf Genealogy visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Copper Leaf Genealogy’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Copper Leaf Genealogy’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Copper Leaf Genealogy may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Copper Leaf Genealogy’s sole discretion. Copper Leaf Genealogy encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Your Rights
You do have rights from international privacy rules with your personally-identifying information that was collected for this website’s purposes. You may withdraw that consent at any time, you can erase that data at any time, you can update that data at any time, you can review the data that’s been collected, and you can have any portable information transferred to another data controller.
More Information
Please contact me by email or through the contact us page if you have any questions about this privacy policy.