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PRIVACY STATEMENT
At Pennington Research Association, 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 subscribe to these principals:
- Notice - We post our privacy statement which
fully discloses what information is collected,
how it is used and with whom it is share. We
will make every effort to inform our visitors
when our privacy statement has been modified.
- Choice - We give our visitors the option of
providing information other than what is
necessary to complete a form, such as a
membership application.
- Security - We make reasonable efforts to
protect personal information from outside
access.
This privacy statement defines privacy aspects
specific to the Pennington Research Association
website.
Our Philosophy and Practices
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:
- The Pennington Research Association does not
share, give away or sell any personal
information about its' members or website
visitors to any person or company for any
reason.
- We provide you notice of our website
information practices.
- We give you choices about how the personally
identifiable information that you provide us
may be used when you submit your membership
application or any submission form on our website.
- We let you update or correct the personally
identifiable information that you provide us
when you submit your membership application.
- We work to protect personally identifiable
information from loss, misuse and unauthorized
alteration.
- We provide methods for you to contact us
about our information practices and other
aspects of privacy.
- The Pennington Research Association follows
the genealogical guidelines for publishing web
pages on the Internet as published by the National Genealogical Society.
For more information, go to National Genealogical Society,
then click on the section titled "Genealogical
Standards" and then click on the section
titled "Guidelines for Publishing Web
Pages on the Internet".
WE PROVIDE YOU NOTICE OF OUR WEBSITE
INFORMATION PRACTICES.
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:
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Membership Application. 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:
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- Your contact information - name, spouse's
name, address, telephone, e-mail address
- Ancestor and Family Group information -
who your oldest know Pennington ancestor is
so we can help you identify which Family
Group you may belong with and to help you
communicate with other group members. If
known, we also ask you to identify your
Family Group.
- Billing information - how you want to pay
for your membership
- Type of Membership information - which
type of membership that you have selected
(new or renewal), the date you first joined
the Pennington Research Association and your
dues.
- Consent information - obtain your consent
to use your personal information for
Pennington Research Association purposes
only
We use this information to
process your membership application and to give
you confirmation that the application has been
processed and to publish the information in the
Pennington Pedigrees.
- Feedback, Query and other Forms. We
offer you the opportunity to provide us with
feedback on the Pennington Research
Association website, submit a query to us 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 Pennington Research Association to help us
improve the website and to process your query
or other information you submit.
HOW WE USE WEB TECHNOLOGY:
Here is how and why we use some common web
technologies to help manage our website:
- Cookies. A "cookie" is a
small piece of information that is used on
some websites. The Pennington Research
Association does NOT use any cookies on our
website.
- Website Usage Data. 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 of 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 the opportunity to update or correct the personally identifiable
information that you provide us. Click here to contact us.
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 Pennington Research
Association 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
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