The Genealogy Reporter Privacy Policy
Updated: 24 May 2018
The Genealogy Reporter respects your privacy by:
- Not asking for personal information that is not needed
- Not sharing your personal information with anyone unless you have given specific permission
- Offering the option to opt-out of email list
Information collected and use of that information:
The Genealogy Reporter collects personal information to be able to contact our visitors with notices, promotional messages, and educational reading. Information is also collected to evaluate our statistical data. We are able to collect this type of information when you provide an email address to subscribe, when you surf the website, or when you comment on a blog post.
We will not sell or give your information to any third party without your specific permission. The Genealogy Reporter uses Akismet for our spam-blocking service. Akismet will have temporary access to blog comments for the purpose of preventing spam only.
The Genealogy Repoerter is hosted by GoDaddy. GoDaddy also backs up all our website files on their secure server and may have access to your personal information. For additional information regarding the privacy policy of GoDaddy, read here.
Our mailing list provider is MailChimp. They only use your information to manage our email subscription list. Your personal and non-personal data may be stored through MailChimp’s data storage on their secure servers. See their privacy policy here.
The Genealogy Reporter will provide all visitors the right to withdraw any consent previously given, the right to review any data that has been collected, the right to update your data, and the right to have your information erased.
Third-party links:
This website provides many third-party links. The Genealogy Reporter is not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these third-parties. When a link is subject to a commission being paid to The Genealogy Reporter, this will be disclosed.
The Genealogy Reporter uses cookies:
Our website uses cookies that are part of our WordPress blogging platform. Those cookies are used to:
- Let you share blog posts via social media
- Collect aggregate data about our site traffic
You will be contacted if:
You will only be contacted by email if you have joined our mailing list. However, we do regularly respond to your comments on the blog.