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Privacy Policy, Cookies & Social Media

Privacy

The Florida Genealogical Society – Tampa (“FGS-Tampa”) respects your privacy. Any personal information you provide to us including and similar to your name, address, telephone number and e-mail address will not be released, sold, or rented to any entities or individuals outside of FGS-Tampa.

 

  • Credit Card Details: FGS-Tampa will only ask for credit card details when purchasing an item in the FGS-Tampa store via Stripe; a payment gateway used to process credit card and ApplePay transactions. FGS-Tampa will never ask you to enter credit card details as a means of verifying your identity or to login.

  • External Sites: FGS-Tampa is not responsible for the content of external internet sites to which the FGS-Tampa website may link. You are advised to read the privacy policy of external sites before disclosing any personal information.

  • Cookies: A “cookie” is a small data text file that is placed in your browser and allows FGS-Tampa to recognize you each time you visit this site. Cookies themselves do not contain any personal information, and FGS-Tampa does not use cookies to collect personal information.

  • Remember The Risks Whenever You Use The Internet: While we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to FGS-Tampa and you are solely responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any passwords or other account information. In addition other Internet sites or services that may be accessible through FGS-Tampa have separate data and privacy practices independent of us, and therefore we disclaim any responsibility or liability for their policies or actions. Please contact those vendors and others directly if you have any questions about their privacy policies.

Cookies
 

What Are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.

For more general information on cookies see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

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How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.

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Disabling Cookies

You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

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The Cookies We Set

If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.

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This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

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Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

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For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

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We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

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More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren’t sure whether you need or not it’s usually safer to leave cookies enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods. This Cookies Policy was created with the help of the CookiePolicyGenerator.com

Email: webadmin@fgstampa.org

Social Media
 

The Florida Genealogical Society – Tampa (FGS-Tampa) supports the use of social media (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, and blogging) at its events, including the society’s annual seminar. Event attendees are allowed and encouraged to promote, critique, and review the conference, its exhibitors, speakers, and activities using these forms of media.

Use of smartphones, netbooks, laptops, tablets, etc., shall not disrupt other attendees. Mobile device ringers must be set to silent during lecture sessions.

 

Attendees are prohibited from recording the proceedings of any lecture or workshop session by any means, including but not limited to photography, audio recording, video recording, or verbatim transcription, without expressed written permission from both FGS-Tampa and the lecture speaker prior to the event. Some sessions will be professionally audio recorded and available for purchase after the event.

 

Social media may be used to summarize or extract lecture content provided:

  • the author is referenced and cited appropriately,

  • material is not shared in full, and

  • copyright laws are observed

 

We fully respect the intellectual property rights of the authors of syllabus materials and lecture content. In order to protect the intellectual property rights of our presenters we request that participants refrain from all of the following actions without prior consent of the presenter:

  • Using audio and/or video recording devices

  • Using photographic devices

  • Capturing, transmitting, or redistributing syllabus materials or the bulk of the material presented in a session

 

FGS-Tampa reserves the right to take photographs, videos and/or audio recordings at events and to incorporate them into advertising, marketing and publicity and their FGS-Tampa-managed social media sites.

 

FGS-Tampa respects the right of members and officers to post content to social media sites and in no way seeks to discourage self-publishing and self-expression.  However, FGS-Tampa does not allow unauthorized personal or business advertising on any FGS-Tampa sponsored social media platform.  Furthermore, FGS-Tampa will monitor its sponsored social media platforms to insure that commentary and postings are relevant, appropriate, and in keeping with this policy and the mission of the Florida Genealogical Society – Tampa and reserves the right to take these (and other) actions:

  • Edit or delete inappropriate or offensive postings from FGS-Tampa moderated social media

  • Permanently deny access to FGS-Tampa moderated social media to individuals or organizations who create inappropriate content

  • Permanently deny access to FGS-Tampa moderated social media to any individual, organization or corporation engaged in activities or commerce that is determined to be offensive, illegal or incompatible with the goals and objectives of the society.

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