FamNet Site Conditions
4. Ownership and
Control of Information
5. Enforcement of Site
Conditions
Note: If you are returning to the site
You are
responsible for ensuring that private information remains private. A rule of thumb is that information should
be kept private if its disclosure might cause harm to any living person. The safest approach is to keep all
information about living people private.
For more information click here to see a paper
from the privacy commission.
When you
store a family tree (GED), the GED document will remain private, but the family
tree information will be analysed and added to the GDB. In the GDB, information about dead (or
presumed dead) people is made public, while information about other people
remain private. People are presumed
dead if: -
A)
There is a date of death, cremation, or burial recorded, or
B)
They would be over 100 years old, or
C)
Neither their birth nor death date is recorded, but
they have a child who would be more than 80 years old, or
D)
Neither their birth nor death date is recorded, but
they have a grandchild who would be more than 50 years old, or
E)
Neither their birth nor death date is recorded, but
they have a greatgrandchild who would be more than 20 years old, or
F)
Neither their birth nor death date is recorded, but they have a great
great grandchild.
Within
your tree you can set individual records to private or public. Once you manually set private/public it will
not change until you change it.
When you store
a document attached to a person, it does not appear in the document index, but
can only be accessed through the person's record. Such documents have the same privacy rules as the person: if the
person is public then the document will be public.
When you store a general document you can set
the privacy levels for that document.
If the document contains information about living people you should not
make it public. A “general document” is one that is available through the
documents section, either instead of or as well as being available from a
person’s record in the GDB.
You
should not knowingly record false information, and should correct any errors of
which you become aware as soon as you reasonably can. Of course you may have differences of opinion with other
genealogists: you should attempt to resolve these differences amicably.
Normal fair-use rules allow brief quotes (with
attribution), but you should not publish any copyright information. Permission is usually freely given for
non-commercial uses of copyright information, but it is your responsibility to
obtain any necessary permissions.
Information that you place on this site remains under your control. You may update or replace it, and control its status (private/public etc). Nobody else will be able to update your information without your permission (although they can link to it), with one exception: the site administrator may delete, hide, or edit information when these site conditions are being breached.
We will not charge you for access to your own information. We may however charge you for some services that use it, and we may charge you for access to others’ information.
Failure
to abide by these conditions may result in your registration to use the site
being revoked, and/or some or all of your information being removed from the
site or hidden from general view.
The
system administrator will promptly investigate complaints and take appropriate
action. However it is not feasible for
the administrator to monitor all information placed on the site, and we take no
responsibility for it. Maintaining
privacy and following the other rules of accuracy, copyright, and other legal
and ethical requirements are YOUR responsibility.
6. Communications
You agree
to provide a valid email, and to receive email communications from other users
of this site and from the site administrators.
We agree not to disclose your email to others except through the
“contact record owner” links and similar on the site (these are not vulnerable
to mass harvesting), and not to abuse your tolerance by sending newsletters
more than once a month.
Failure to
abide by these conditions may result in your registration to use the site being
revoked, and/or some or all of your information being removed from the site or
hidden from general view. We may seek
to recover costs from you if your actions in breach of these conditions result
in costs being incurred by us.
Once you have clicked [Agree] then you won’t see this notice on subsequent logons. If your logon was created for you as a result of administrator activity, such as loading your database, then you will see this notice on the first time that you log on. If you have already agreed to the site conditions but see this notice again, sorry, just click [Agree] to make it go away. The conditions have not changed.