Privacy policy

what do we collect

We do not collect private information on website visitors.
We collection session information; the web server does maintain server logs, which includes IP addresses and browser information. By the way, you are free to visit our site through an anonymiser or proxy service.

We do not share visitor data with third parties.
We do not use any third party tracking services such as Google Analytics, Site Meter or StatCounter.

We collect user account information, the information you provide when you register for an user account, but we currently do not offer user accounts.

We do collect sign-up information, the information you provide when your sign-up for a conference invite; your name, email address, organisation, job title, blog URL, twitter handle and a URL for your genealogy product.

We do collect conference registration information, the information you provide when you register for a conference. This includes payment information.

We do not collect personally identifiable information about you other than the categories just mentioned.

This website does not react to Do Not Track signals.
We simply are not interested in trying track your online activities over time or across websites anyway.

The blog does not collect or share information on visitors.

The blog does not collect or share information on subscribers.
The feeds we offer are the original blog feeds served by our web server, not some third party feed with enhanced URLs to track readers.

The blog allows comments. When you choose to comments, the blog collects your IP address and the information you provide; your name, email address, optionally the URL of your blog, and the body of your comment.

what do we use it for

We rely on the session information, as captured in our own web server logs for monitoring and analysis of web traffic, including the identification of bots and spammers and the creation of various statistics, to improve our website. We may maintain these logs indefinitely, to identify both progressive and seasonal trends, even when we change analysis tools.

We use sign-up information for the sign-up & registration process. We may use it to contact you regarding your sign-up. We may maintain this information for future reference and planning. We may also use it to inform you about related services, such as future conferences. We will not maintain it for more than one year.

We use conference registration information for the conference, and that includes contacting you regarding the conference and your registration. We may maintain this information for future reference and planning. We may also use it to inform you about related services, such as future conferences. We will not maintain it for more than one year.

We collect payment information. The actual transactions are handled by a third party (PayPal), and we do not have access to more information than the payment information they provide to us.

Blog comments are moderated.
What constitutes comment spamming is determined by us, and we choose to mostly leave that up to an automated tool. Comment spamming may lead to a temporary or permanent ban of your IP address.
We may choose to either accept or reject your comment. If we reject your comment all the collected information is permanently destroyed.
if we accept your comment, it will be published on our blog. That display includes only the provided name, optional URL, and comment body. The email address is not published, it is for our reference, in case we wish to contact you. Accepted comments are displayed indefinitely.

sharing

We do not share more with third parties than is necessary to provide our services in the way we choose to provide them. Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other organisation for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of providing our services.

We do not share your information with sponsors either.

Third parties that wish to address our highly educated, influential and knowledgeable attendees may contact us about the opportunity to share something in the conference bag provided to all attendees.

protection

We take what we believe to be reasonable measures to protect the information we collect. This includes, but is not limited to, the use of restricted access sections on our website, secure third parties services, and using a well-known third party to handle transactions.

third parties

Providing our services may involve third party sites and services, such as, but not limited to, Google Forms and PayPal.
These third parties have separate and independent privacy policies for their sites and services. We have no responsibility or liability for these sites or services, but do welcome feedback.