Privacy Policy for GenealogyBuff.com

The privacy of our visitors to GenealogyBuff.com is important to us. 

At GenealogyBuff.com, we recognize that privacy of your personal information is important. 

Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you 
use and visit GenealogyBuff.com, and how we safeguard your information.  We never sell your 
personal information to third parties.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files.  

The information in the log files include  your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP 
(internet service provider, such as AOL or Shaw Cable), the browser you used to visit our 
site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages 
you visited throughout our site. 

Cookies and Web Beacons

We do use cookies to store information, such as your personal preferences when you visit 
our site.  This could include only showing you a popup once in your visit, or the ability 
to login to some of our features, such as forums.

We also use third party advertisements on GenealogyBuff.com to support our site.  Some of 
these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise 
on our site, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense 
program) information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit our 
site, and in some cases, whether you have Flash installed.  This is generally used for 
geotargeting purposes (showing New York real estate ads to someone in New York, for example) 
or showing certain ads based on specific sites visited (such as showing cooking ads to someone 
who frequents cooking sites).

You can choose to disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your 
browser settings, or by managing preferences in programs such as Norton Internet Security.  
However, this can affect how you are able to interact with our site as well as other websites.  
This could include the inability to login to services or programs, such as logging into forums 
or accounts.