Effective Date: March 31 2025
The House of Stapleton believes your privacy is a top priority. The House of Stapleton is committed to being a good steward of your Personal Information (see below handling it in a responsible manner, and securing it with administrative, technical and physical safeguards.
We believe in being honest, direct, and transparent when it comes to your data. In that regard, HoS follows three guiding principles:
When You Use Our Services
You may discover unexpected facts about yourself or your family when using our services. Once discoveries are made, we can’t undo them.
This Privacy Statement covers the The House of Stapleton websites, services, and mobile apps that link to this Privacy Statement. Within this Privacy Statement, we refer to these websites, services as “HoS”.
To provide and improve the websites and services (collectively the “Services”), we collect, store, and otherwise process “Personal Information”, which is information that can identify you, directly or indirectly, as further described in Section 2. Personal Information includes your name, email, and any information that could reasonably be linked back to you, including your. Information about deceased people is not Personal Information under this Privacy Statement. This Privacy Statement describes our practices for collecting, storing, and otherwise processing your Personal Information. This Privacy Statement includes our Cookie Policy, which describes our use of browser cookies and similar tracking technologies.
2. What Personal Information Does HoS Collect From You?
The types of Personal Information we receive and collect from you depend on how you use the Services, and these categories of information are described below. We require certain Account Information to deliver the Services in accordance with our Terms and Conditions and without this we will not be able to provide our Services to you.
| Information Category | Description |
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| Your Content | We collect information from content you voluntarily contribute to the Services, including (i) family trees; (ii) family memories such as photos and stories; (iii) record annotations, comments, messages, and other input; and (iv) feedback provided to HoS. |
3. What Information Does HoS Collect Through Your Use of the Services?
| Information Category | Description |
|---|---|
| Device Information | HoS collects the number of visitors to our Sites and no other device data. |
| Information from Cookies and Similar Technologies | HoS does not use cookies and similar technologies |
| Information from Your Use of the Services | We collect no information about your use of the Services. |
4. How Does HoS Use Your Personal Information?
| Information Category | Use Description |
|---|---|
| Personal Information Generally | We use your Personal Information to provide, personalize, improve, update, and expand our Services. This includes:
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| Communications | We use your Personal Information to communicate with you about the Services, such as when we:
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5. What Information Do We Share, When Do We Share It and Who Are the Recipients?
HoS does not share your individual Personal Information with anyone for any reason.
6. Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your Personal Information
All users (as defined in our Terms and Conditions) may contact us to 1) request a report of what Personal Information they have provided to us.
Right of Rectification/Correction. You may have the right to request that we rectify or correct inaccurate Personal Information about you.
Right of Erasure/Deletion. You have the right, in certain cases, to request that we restrict (stop any active processing) or delete your Personal Information.
Right to Object. You may have the right to object to processing activities in our legitimate interests where such activities impact on your rights and freedoms as an individual. Also, when you consent to processing of your Personal Information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. We will stop any further processing of your data for that purpose.
Right to Restriction. You have the right to request a restriction on our processing of your Personal Information, for example, where you believe that the processing is based on inaccurate data or not processed in a lawful manner.
You can exercise these rights by contacting Contact HoS.
7. What Are Our Retention Practices?
The Services are fundamentally premised on the notion that the personal voyage of self-discovery is not a one-time event and continues over lengthy periods of time—possibly lifetimes. As a result, our retention practices reflect this ongoing value by retaining provided data on our system until our users inform us of their desire to delete their data.
Due to the multi-generational significance of family trees, HoS will retain your family tree data to provide you with continuous access, updated features, and the ability to enhance your family tree.
8. How Can I Delete My Personal Information?
You request that we delete, your Personal Information from HoS at any time.
9. Data Transfers
HoS does not provide data transfers to USA locations nor International locations.
10. Changes to This Privacy Statement
We may modify this Privacy Statement at any time, but we will provide prominent advance notice of any material changes to this Privacy Statement, such as by posting a notice on our website, to provide you the opportunity to review the changes and choose whether to continue using the Service.
11. Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller
Email Policy@House of Stapleton.com