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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy Basic Info

Our website address is: https://lcgsco.org.

Our WordPress software does collect limited personal data about visitors. Two of our website pages on membership and registration collects personal data such as your name, email address, mailing address, and genealogy info. We only use this data for our records and is not shared with any outside organization.

By default, our WordPress software does not share any personal data with anyone. We use several security packages to protect your data.

Data We Collect

We review contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes except with your permission for our testimonials.

Membership Data

We do use your membership data for our membership directory and for our email system. You have the option to opt out without listing your email or telephone number. We do NOT share your membership data with anyone outside of our organization. In addition, we safeguard your membership data with limited access by two executive Board members (President & Vice President) and our Membership Chair and Web Chair, who maintains the email system.

Registration Data

For members or visitors who register for our conferences, classes or monthly programs, we only use the registration data for compiling attendance lists for our instructors and to send the online and handout information to attendees. Additionally, we add class visitor names and email addresses to our email system. This is for our visitors, who want to receive emails on our future conferences, classes and workshops.

If you visit our member login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Society Videos

We record many of our monthly meetings and classes, provided the outside speaker has given us permission to do so. We only share the video securely via a video link through our direct email system or using our members only webpages.

Website Metrics

We do collect website metrics via Google Analytics and Webalyzer software, but only in recording number of visitors, what cities visit our website, and how many and what webpages are visited on a monthly basis.

Website Violations

We do use security software that records IP addresses and locations of users who violate Federal regulations or try to hack our website, which is automatically reported back to our ISP and in some cases, federal authorities.

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