PRIVACY POLICY
Lachance.org ("Lachance.org") operates Lachance.org and 'The Lachance and Bussell Families' website. It is the policy of this Website to respect your privacy regarding any information that may be collect while using this Website.
This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.lachance.org (hereinafter, "I", "me" “us”, “we”, "Website" or “lachance.org”). The term "you" will refer to any person viewing the website content using the URL lachance.org.
This Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, lachance.org ‘Terms of Use’, incorporated by reference within this ‘Privacy Policy’).
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide me through the Website. I have adopted this privacy policy ('Privacy Policy') to explain what information may be collected on this Website, how I use this information, and under what circumstances (if any) I may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through the Website and does not apply to collection of information used on this Website that has been obtained from other sources.
BASIS FOR USE
As the author and publisher of this website, I consider the privacy of visitors to be extremely important.
The primary objective in genealogy is to identify all ancestors and descendants in a particular family tree and to collect personal data on them. As a minimum, this data includes the individual's name and the date/location of birth, marriage, and death. In order to support research by other genealogists, this data is often published on internet genealogy websites.
As a genealogist, therefore, I may have collected much personal information on your family from a variety of sources. The privacy of this information is important to me and I assure you there is a privacy policy in place for this Website with which you will be satisfied.
Most of us would prefer not to have to worry about our personal data but, in this day and age, we must use caution to prevent misuse of the information. Identity theft and credit fraud are the worst problems. There is concern that information distributed to distant relatives or put on a genealogy website makes it easier for unscrupulous individuals to commit invasions of privacy or other frauds.
However, the personal information that the identity thieves and credit fraud perpetrators want are full names, social security numbers, dates and places of birth, current occupation/employment data, and bank/credit card account numbers. One or two facts alone (e.g., your name and/or your mother’s maiden name) are not enough information to cause damage.
with thanks to Ken Roy of Our Acadian, French Canadian and Maine Ancestors at https://www.royandboucher.com/ for this 'Basis for Use'.
NAMES AND RELATIONSHIPS
Most genealogy programs today, including the software I use locally and online, are able to suppress the names of living individuals and substitute "living" or "still living". I have made a careful attempt to ensure that names of living individual are suppressed. Sometimes this is not possible, for instance, names taken from obituary notices or other news content. If you are aware that someone is living and their full name is shown here, please let me know, so I can remedy the situation. Please note that for the software I am using to compile my database, it is a date of birth (at least an aproximate year) that renders an individual as "living".
PERSONAL DATA ACCESS
NOTE: ONLY INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE REGISTERED WITH THIS SITE, PROVEN TO BE A LEGITIMATE FAMILY MEMBER AND ARE SECURELY LOGGED IN TO THE SITE DATABASE WILL BE ABLE TO VIEW INFORMATION ON LIVING INDIVIDUALS.
Personal data access is restricted to registered family members who must login to access the normally suppressed personal data of living individuals. At the discretion of the site owner (Larry Lachance), access may be restricted to their own family branch only. Any individual who desires to register must first read the Privacy Policy, agree with the Terms of Use, and then, register for a user account. When registering for a user account, you must demonstrate a direct connection to a grand-parent, great-grand-parent, or great-great-great-grandparent or other direct relationship within our family tree. If you are not related, you will not normally be granted a user account except under mitigating circumstances. In this case, a temporary or time-limited account MAY be made available at the discretion of the site owner.
With registration and after approval, you will be granted access to the lachance.org database. You may submit conditional edits, which I will update on my personal computer database which is used to populate the website.
PERSONAL DATA SECURITY
Original data given to me in trust (personal information, e-mail/street addresses, phone numbers, etc.) is not provided to others unless your approval is first obtained. You should be aware, however, that most of this information is in the public domain and may be readily available to others using internet search engines (e.g., Yahoo People Search, Google.com, Birthday.com among many others).
NOTICE ABOUT INTERNET PRIVACY
Unauthorized attempts to upload information or change information or in any other way, maliciously attempt to make changes to this website are strictly prohibited and may be punishable under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 - U.S. Code, Title 18, Part I, Chapter 47, § 1030. More information about this act can be found here: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
This website contains links to websites outside of the Lachance.org site. These links are provided because some readers find them useful. All outside linked sites open in a new/separate browser window, unless otherwise indicated, and once you link to another site, you are subject to the privacy policy of the that site. lachance.org is not responsible for the content (including terms, conditions and privacy policy) of any website linked from this site. All outside links provided are for information purposes only, for your convenience and are not be regarded as an endorsement by me unless I've recommended the site for some specific reason and made a statement to this effect.
GENEALOGY PAGES - DATA PROTECTION POLICY
Incorporated into this Privacy Policy is the Data Protection Policy which is provided upon entering the genealogy database portion of this website. Please read this Policy as it is incorporated by reference into THIS 'Privacy Policy'. IF you use the link provided, you will need to use your browsers "back button" to return to this page.
ONLINE PRIVACY ONLY
This privacy policy applies only to the online activities of the website and is valid for visitors to this website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
SECURITY
Please note that the security of your Personal Information is very important, but one must also remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I do my everything I can to use commercially acceptable means to protect information, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
Although most changes are likely to be minor, this Privacy Policy may change from time to time, and at the sole discretion of the Owner of lachance.org. Should I update, amend or make any changes to this privacy policy, those changes will be found on this page. I encourage all visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy as it is your responsibility to check. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
