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Privacy
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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:
This privacy statement defines privacy aspects specific to the Pennington Research Association website.
It is the policy of the Pennington Research Association (PRA) not to publish for general public use any personal genealogical data which is less than 70 years old at the time of publication.
The PRA strives to protect the rights and privacy of our living relatives. We strongly encourage all involved to do their best not to publish information about anyone who is still living, unless you have their express permission to do so.
If a PRA member or researcher submits personal genealogical data which is less than 70 years old at the time it is submitted to the PRA, the PRA is not prohibited or restricted from collecting, retaining and/or the use of the genealogical data of living persons by the PRA and/or its' members.
For example, information in the PRA master database (also known as the John French Master File or JFMF), or similar data files, and/or reports contain genealogical data on living persons. These files are restricted in their access and dissemination to PRA members and are NOT published for general public use. These files are published in various formats for use by the PRA and PRA members only.
Approved by Pennington Research Association Board of Directors, June 2003.
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:
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:
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:
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:
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.
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 our webmaster.
Updated: August 26, 2014