At the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County, we respect and protect the privacy of those who visit or use our website. We want you to know how your information is used. To demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices, we have adopted these privacy guidelines.
We post our privacy statement which fully discloses what information is collected, how it is used and with whom it is shared. We will make every effort to inform our visitors when our privacy statement has been modified.
We give our visitors the option of providing information other than what is necessary to complete a form, such as a membership application.
We make reasonable efforts to protect personal information from outside access.
This privacy statement defines privacy aspects specific to the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County website.
We want to give you the comfort and confidence you need to fully participate in our website so that we can better serve your needs. Therefore, here are the principles governing our information practices and other privacy aspects of our website:
To maximize the value of our services, we may request information from you when you visit our websites. When we collect information from you, we’ll tell you what is being collected, how it is collected, by whom it is being collected, why it’s being collected, and to whom it may be disclosed. Here is how and why we collect and use information from you:
We provide you the opportunity to submit a membership application online. When you submit a membership application, we need certain information, such as the following:
We use this information to process your membership application and to give you confirmation that the application has been processed.
We offer you the opportunity to provide us with feedback on the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County website or to submit other forms to help you with your experience here at the website. We request optional information such as name and e-mail address as part of these forms.
All submissions through these forms are treated as confidential and proprietary and are used by the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County to help us improve the website and to process your query or other information you submit.
A “cookie” is a small piece of information that is used on some websites. The Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County uses cookies on our website. Users may manage their cookie preferences or opt out of non-essential cookies through the cookie banner displayed on the site.
With or without cookies, our website keeps track of usage data, such as the source address that a page request is coming from (i.e., your IP address, domain name), date and time of the page request, the referring website (if any), and other parameters in the URL.
We use this data to better understand website usage in the aggregate so that we know what areas our website users prefer. This information is stored in log files and is used for aggregated and statistical reporting. This log information is not linked to personally identifiable information gathered elsewhere on the site.
WE GIVE YOU CHOICES ABOUT HOW THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE US IS USED.
We give you the opportunity to keep us from using or sharing the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us for purposes other than to process your membership application.
WE LET YOU UPDATE OR CORRECT THE PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE US.
We provide you with the opportunity to update or correct the personally identifiable information that you provide us with.
WE WORK TO PROTECT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION FROM LOSS, MISUSE AND UNAUTHORIZED ALTERATION.
We employ industry recognized security safeguards to help protect the personally identifiable information that you have provided to us from loss, misuse and unauthorized alteration.
We work to protect personally identifiable information stored on the site’s servers from unauthorized access using commercially available computer security products, such as firewalls, as well as carefully developed security procedures and practices.
WE PROVIDE VARIOUS WAYS TO CONTACT US ABOUT OUR INFORMATION PRACTICES AND OTHER ASPECTS OF PRIVACY.
Questions regarding the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County website’s privacy statement, our online privacy policy, our information practices or other aspects of privacy on our website should be directed to us by clicking here: info@fhgsmarin.org
Approved by Marin County Genealogical Society Board of Directors, March 10, 2010.
Updated: March 11, 2010
The purpose of this policy is to protect the intellectual property of the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County and any material which is produced exclusively by the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County and its members or submitted to the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County by its members or any other person or group.
It is the policy of the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County to provide information on the Internet. In keeping with this policy, data, files or articles published or posted on the Internet by the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as the following message remains on all copied material.
“These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Data, files, articles, etc. may be printed or copied for PERSONAL USE ONLY. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor or the author of the article and the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County.”
The following copyright statements will appear in all material published by the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County.
In all books/articles/or printed publication: “This {book/article/or printed publication title} is published and copyright {insert year} by the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County {insert Library of Congress Catalog Number here if appropriate}”.
“No part of this book/article/publication may be reproduced without expressed written consent of the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County.”
Brief passages may be quoted for purposes of review in publications where genealogical books are usually reviewed. Blanket permission is hereby granted to reproduce any or all of this publication for the convenience of Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County members or others who may request such copies for the purpose of genealogical research. A copy of the title page and the copyright page shall in all cases be included with the reproduction.
The following statement will appear on each web page belonging to the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County: “© {insert year} Family History & Genealogy Society of Marin County. All Rights Reserved.”
The following statement will appear with each article and/or data provided on the Marin County Genealogical Society web site and/or other electronic medium: “PERMISSION TO REPRINT articles from any of the Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County electronic medium is granted unless specifically stated otherwise, PROVIDED: (1) the reprint is used for non-commercial, educational purposes; and (2) the following notice appears at the end of the article:
Written by {author’s name, e-mail address, and URL, if given}. Previously published by Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County
{insert date of publication}. Family History and Genealogy Society of Marin County: https://fhgsm.org/”
Approved by Marin County Genealogical Society Board of Directors, March 10, 2010.
Updated: March 11, 2010
