Privacy policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. At Armstrong County Genealogy Club (ACGClub.info) we have a few fundamental principles:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information for registration unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • In our forum, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
  • You may elect to share personal information for purposes of social networking, but that is optional.

If you have questions about accessing or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.

Armstrong County Genealogy Club operates the website ACGClub.info for recreational use. It is Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Armstrong County Genealogy Club collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Armstrong County Genealogy Club may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Armstrong County Genealogy Club also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on WordPress blogs and phpBB forums. Armstrong County Genealogy Club only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog or forum commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog or forum where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s websites choose to interact with Armstrong County Genealogy Club in ways that require Armstrong County Genealogy Club to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Armstrong County Genealogy Club gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a phpBB forum or WordPress blog account to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Armstrong County Genealogy Club are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Armstrong County Genealogy Club collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Armstrong County Genealogy Club. Armstrong County Genealogy Club does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Armstrong County Genealogy Club may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Armstrong County Genealogy Club may use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Armstrong County Genealogy Club may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Armstrong County Genealogy Club does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Armstrong County Genealogy Club discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, volunteers, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s behalf or to provide services available at Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, volunteers, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Armstrong County Genealogy Club will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Armstrong County Genealogy Club discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Armstrong County Genealogy Club believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Armstrong County Genealogy Club, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Armstrong County Genealogy Club website and have supplied your email address, Armstrong County Genealogy Club may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Armstrong County Genealogy Club and our services. We primarily use our forum and blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Armstrong County Genealogy Club takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Armstrong County Genealogy Club uses cookies to help Armstrong County Genealogy Club identify and track visitors, their usage of Armstrong County Genealogy Club website, and their website access preferences. Armstrong County Genealogy Club visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Armstrong County Genealogy Club, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Armstrong County Genealogy Club goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquiror of Armstrong County Genealogy Club may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

At its founding in early 2011, the Armstrong County Genealogy Club decided not to display advertising on its web sites. Should that policy change in the future, ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Armstrong County Genealogy Club and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Armstrong County Genealogy Club may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at Armstrong County Genealogy Club’s sole discretion. Armstrong County Genealogy Club encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have an ACGClub.info account, you should also check our forum for alerts to these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.