The following paragraphs outline the privacy statement policy for this website.
Users can visit Arborealis (“this website”) without revealing any personal information about themselves. However, technical information, such as the date, time and length of your visit, browser type, IP address, mode of referral (e.g., by Google Search or an external link), may be used to analyze traffic patterns. Most web hosting companies offer these statistical analyses, or aggregate data, for website management. None of these data contain information which is personally identifiable. In any event, we will not share any information collected for website management with third parties whether by sale, gift, trade, or any other method.
We do not feature third-party advertisements which would serve as gateways to commercial sites.
If you write to the editor/owner of this website using the contact page, your name and e-mail address, and the content of the message will be stored by Arborealis in order to reply to the message, to study such genealogical or local history information shared by you, to post such information which might relate to the family and local history objectives of this website, and to track similar requests for the purpose of genealogical and local history research and analysis, only. We will not share any information collected by e-mail with third parties whether by sale, gift, trade, or any other method.
In publishing family histories to this website, we do not include the names or other personal information about living individuals. However, if we have made an error in this regard, please contact us.
This website contains links to other websites which we think may interest our readers. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, we do not have any control over the content, functionality, accuracy, completeness, or privacy policy of those or any other websites. We do not necessarily agree with the opinions expressed on other websites. Since this privacy statement applies only to Arborealis, you should consult the privacy statements or policies featured on those websites.
As this site is hosted on WordPress, operated by Automattic, their Cookie Policy applies.
This website is produced in Canada, and we endeavour to abide by Canadian and international laws governing freedom of information and protection of privacy.
best regards,
Alison Kilpatrick
Editor, Arborealis.
Source citation for this page: — Kilpatrick, Alison. “Privacy statement.” Published online to Arborealis: arborealis.ca/about/privacy-statement/; accessed [insert date of access].
Image credit: — Павловск. Очеркъ исторіи и описаніе, 1777–1877. Составлено по порученію … Великаго Князя Константина Николаевича. Published in 1877. Digital image online at The British Library’s gallery on Flickr (accessed 2021-01-19).