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:
E-mail Address · 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.
- 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 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 without permission.
- Marchant-Thomas.com is family friendly and does not contain any "adult" material.
Nor do we use any pop-ups, pop-unders, cookies, banners, adware, spyware, or similar.
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