It is my desire to have as complete a genealogical website as possible, but with
the world being the way it is, a measure of caution is also appropriate. It is a
bit of a challenge to balance the right to privacy with a genealogical database
that has some usefulness. With that in mind, here is my approach:
- No birth data (place or date) are listed for persons (presumed living) born
less than 100 years ago. Since I don't always have death dates for many
entries, this is more consistent than trying to flag living persons.
- I never post any of the following:
Address Telephone
Number Social Security Number
- I don't send out my Gedcom file.
- Any Gedcom files I receive are treated as confidential and never forwarded to
any other person. Any information I post from a Gedcom file complies with items 1
& 2 above.
- As it is possible to find a person's mother's maiden name, it
would be the course of wisdom to use some other word for a credit
card or bank account password. Mother's maiden names can be obtained from
public records, so posting them on this site would not constitute any added
invasion of privacy.
- Source information, including e-mail addresses, is listed by permission.
- I do not use cookies nor do I collect any information from visitors
to the site. However, the search feature does report to me what has been
searched for, but nothing about who did the search.
- I will be happy to remove any person's data from the site if
that person asks me to do so.
- I receive inquiries at times about contacting living persons. I will forward
those requests on to the person in question or to a close contact person, but will
not give out the e-mail address to the person inquiring.
- The Finger Family site is family friendly and does not contain any
"adult" material. Also, we do not use any pop-ups, pop-unders, cookies,
banners, adware, spyware, or similar.
- Learn more about Identity Theft and Genealogy.
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