The GAGenWeb Project Privacy Policy
The GAGenWeb Project is dedicated
to the free exchange of genealogical information on the World Wide Web. Our goal
is to provide free genealogical information for the family researcher in a
manner that will protect the privacy of living persons by not sharing personal
information about them without their permission.
In order to provide the most protection, some genealogical information may not
be available to the researcher. Being aware that the sharing of information
online is essential to family history research, and that living persons have a
right to privacy, The GAGenWeb Project and the volunteers who make up the
Project will abide by the following guidelines when publishing personal
information of any person on a Project site.
Project Volunteers should:
• recognize that the legal right to privacy may limit how information is used on
their Web site(s).
• never knowingly include information of living persons on their site(s) without
that person's prior approval.
• provide information, as needed, to contributors on the need to protect the
privacy of their living relatives.
• ask contributors if permission has been granted by living people for the
sharing of personal information about them.
• remove any information upon receipt of a request by the person listed at the
earliest possible time.
Allowable exceptions to this policy are:
• Census records — transcriptions or other facsimiles of U. S. Census Bureau
schedules are acceptable for use on Project sites, though a Project volunteer
should remove any person's census record upon request by that person.
• Marriage records — transcriptions or other facsimiles of county marriage
records are acceptable for use on Project sites, though a Project volunteer may
choose a specific cut-off date for their local or special project. A Project
volunteer should remove any person's name from a marriage record upon request by
that person.
• Cemetery surveys — compiled cemetery headstones are acceptable for use on
Project sites, though a Project volunteer should remove any living person's
headstone transcription upon request by that person.
• Obituaries — the names of surviving family members, pallbearers, and friends
listed in obituaries may be published, if all other personal information (such
as place of street address, employer, etc.) on those persons is redacted.
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