Breathless Moon Privacy Policy

Before emailing the Webmaster to inquire (or complain) about specific details of The Breathless Moon's family data file or anyone you may find listed on this family data file, please read on...

It is the strict policy Vortex Creations, Inc. to protect and maintain the privacy of all living individuals as well as visitors to its subsidiary sites. No specific genealogical information about any living or assumed to be living individual will be openly posted on this site or shared directly.

All such information is deemed personal and private. Before genealogical information is updated and posted on The Breathless Moon all data is carefully filtered and masked for individuals born after 1900 or married after 1910.

Additionally, only a minimal amount of unspecific information is collected from visitors to The Breathless Moon™ and House of Burgess Gifts & Collectibles™ websites. While it is not the practice of Vortex Creations, Inc. to use "cookies" or other types of tracking software to identify visitors, links to external websites may. This is beyond the control Vortex Creations, Inc. to monitor, limit or control such use by other external websites. However, such information, if somehow gathered by Vortex Creations, Inc., will be kept confidential and never disclosed, sold, traded nor otherwise be revealed publicly.

The National Genealogical Society established the following set of "Standards For Sharing Information With Others". Additionally, the NGS recommends an excellent set of "Guidelines For Publishing Web Pages On The Internet" (see their site). As the work continues on The Breathless Moon, the Webmaster has adopted the following NGS standards:

Conscious of the fact that sharing information or data with others, whether through speech, documents or electronic media, is essential to family history research and that it needs continuing support and encouragement, responsible family historians consistently—

respect the restrictions on sharing information that arise from the rights of another as an author, originator or compiler; as a living private person; or as a party to a mutual agreement.
observe meticulously the legal rights of copyright owners, copying or distributing any part of their works only with their permission, or to the limited extent specifically allowed under the law's "fair use" exceptions.
identify the sources for all ideas, information and data from others, and the form in which they were received, recognizing that the unattributed use of another's intellectual work is plagiarism.
respect the authorship rights of senders of letters, electronic mail and data files, forwarding or disseminating them further only with the sender's permission.
inform people who provide information about their families as to the ways it may be used, observing any conditions they impose and respecting any reservations they may express regarding the use of particular items. require some evidence of consent before assuming that living people are agreeable to further sharing of information about themselves.
convey personal identifying information about living people--like age, home address, occupation or activities--only in ways that those concerned have expressly agreed to.
recognize that legal rights of privacy may limit the extent to which information from publicly available sources may be further used, disseminated or published.
communicate no information to others that is known to be false, or without making reasonable efforts to determine its truth, particularly information that may be derogatory.
are sensitive to the hurt that revelations of criminal, immoral, bizarre or irresponsible behavior may bring to family members.