Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.thegenealogygeek.comand and Kimberley Sue Maninga and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to www.thegenealogygeek.com and Kimberley Sue Maninga. The Genealogy Geek website is use for genealogical research. By using The Genealogy Geek website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, The Genealogy Geek may collect personally identifiable information, such as you:
If you purchase products or services from The Genealogy Geek, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiably information or personally sensitive data through The Genealogy Geek’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
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.
Use of your Personal Information
The Genealogy Geek collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.
The Genealogy Geek may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Genealogy Geek and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
The Genealogy Geek does not sell, rent, or lease its customer lists to third parties.
The Genealogy Geek 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. The Genealogy Geek 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 The Genealogy Geek, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
The Genealogy Geek 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 The Genealogy Geek or the sites; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Genealogy Geek; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Genealogy Geek, or the public.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by The Genealogy Geek. 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 The Genealogy Geek website.
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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Security of your Personal Information
The Genealogy Geek secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Genealogy Geek uses SSL Protocol for this purpose.
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.
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.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
Children Under Thirteen
The Genealogy Geek 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.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, The Genealogy Geek may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotion communications via email from The Genealogy Geek, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link with any email received by The Genealogy Geek and by also sending an email to kimmaninga@thegenealogygeek.com.
Changes to this Statement
The Genealogy Geek 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.
Contact Information
The Genealogy Geek welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Genealogy Geek has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Genealogy Geek at:
The Genealogy Geek
c/o Kimberley S Maninga
322 North Franklin Street
New Ulm, MN 56073
Email Address:
Telephone Number:
507-217-3871
Effective October 1, 2024.
The Genealogy Geek
kimberleymaninga@gmail.com
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