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PRIVACY POLICY

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Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.genealogyuprooted.com, www.uprootedresearch.com, and Genealogy Uprooted LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Genealogy Uprooted LLC include www.genealogyuprooted.com, www.uprootedresearch.com, and Genealogy Uprooted LLC. The Genealogy Uprooted and Uprooted Research websites are genealogical research sites. By using either the Genealogy Uprooted or Uprooted Research sites, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

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Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Genealogy Uprooted LLC may collect personally identifiable information, such as you:

  • First and Last Name

  • Mailing Address

  • E-mail Address

  • Phone Number

 

If you purchase products or services from Genealogy Uprooted LLC, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

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Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiably information or personally sensitive data through Genealogy Uprooted’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

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We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information from ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

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Use of your Personal Information

Genealogy Uprooted LLC collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

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Genealogy Uprooted LLC may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Genealogy Uprooted LLC and its affiliates.

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Sharing Information with Third Parties

Genealogy Uprooted LLC does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.

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Genealogy Uprooted LLC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, names, address, telephone number) is not transferred to a third party. Genealogy Uprooted LLC may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Genealogy Uprooted LLC, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

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Genealogy Uprooted LLC may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with the legal process served on Genealogy Uprooted LLC or the sites; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Genealogy Uprooted LLC; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Genealogy Uprooted LLC, or the public.

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Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Genealogy Uprooted.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Genealogy Uprooted or Uprooted Research websites.

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Web Server Logs

When you visit our website, we may track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information we may collect include:

  • your unique Internet protocol address;

  • the name of your unique Internet service provider;

  • the town/city, county/state and country from which you access our website;

  • the kind of browser or computer you use;

  • the number of links you click within the site;

  • the date and time of your visit;

  • the web page from which you arrived to our site;

  • the pages you viewed on the site; and

  • certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website(s).

 

The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use and improve the user’s experience.

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Cookies

In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, our websites and applications may use cookies and similar technologies to store and help track information about you. Cookies are simply small pieces of data that are sent to your browser from a Web server and stored on your computer’s hard drive. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our sites during your visits. Cookies also can tell us where visitors go on a website and allow us to save preferences for you so you won’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. The use of cookies is relatively standard. Most Internet browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can use your browser to either notify you when you receive a cookie or to disable cookies.

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If you wish to disable cookies from this site, you can do so using your browser. You should understand that some features of many sites may not function properly if you don’t accept cookies. For more information about using browsers to manage cookies, please see All About Cookies. You can also refuse to accept Flash cookies from this website using Adobe’s Flash management tools. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ad Settings.

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By visiting this website, you consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

 

Third-party Services

We may use services hosted by third parties to assist in providing our services and to help us understand the use of our site by our visitors. These services may collect information sent by your browser as part of a web page request, including your IP address or cookies. If these third-party services collect information, they do so anonymously and in the aggregate to provide information helpful to us such as website trends, without identifying individual visitors.

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In addition, we may use services provided by third parties to display relevant content, products, services and advertising to you. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect or receive information from this website and elsewhere on the internet. They may then use that information to provide measurement services so we can understand your interests and retarget advertisements based on your previous visits to this website. Please keep in mind that we do not share your personal information with any third-party advertiser, ad server or ad network.

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Links

These websites contain links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

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Security of your Personal Information

Genealogy Uprooted LLC secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Genealogy Uprooted LLC uses SSL Protocol for this purpose.

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When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

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We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to, or alteration of, your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and date exchanged between you and us through these sites cannot be guaranteed.

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Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and

  • Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

 

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of this information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

  • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 

Children Under Thirteen

Genealogy Uprooted LLC does not knowingly collect personally identifiably information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask a parent or guardian for permission to use these websites.

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E-mail Communications

From time to time, Genealogy Uprooted LLC may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

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If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotion communications via email from Genealogy Uprooted LLC, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link with any email received by Genealogy Uprooted LLC and by also sending an email to laura@genealogyuprooted.com.

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Changes to this Statement

Genealogy Uprooted LLC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our websites, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of these websites and/or services available after such modification will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and by bound by that Policy.

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Contact Information

Genealogy Uprooted LLC welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Genealogy Uprooted LLC has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Genealogy Uprooted LLC at:

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Genealogy Uprooted LLC

c/o Laura A. Weber

PO Box 21686

Albuquerque, NM 87154

 

Email Address:

laura@genealogyuprooted.com

 

Telephone Number:

(505) 357-0050

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Effective January 1, 2023.

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