RaynOrShyn Enterprises Privacy Statement

RaynOrShyn Enterprises is very concerned about the personal privacy of visitors, contributors and customers of our web sites. Below are key privacy policies that form the foundation of our business.

• Personally Identifiable Information Collected
  Personal information may be entered by visitors who post messages to our systems, sign our guest books, or purchase products. In all cases, this information is voluntary, and must be actively entered by the visitor. In some cases, certain pieces of information are required to perform an action, such as when an e-mail address is required to post a message for other visitors to respond to, or the routine information needed to process a credit card order is requested.

• How This Information Is Used
  This information is always used only for the purpose clearly specified on the page on which it is entered. For example:
  • Credit Card numbers and dates do not pass through our system, they are provided only to PayPal.
  • Names and addresses entered on order pages, guest books, or software registration pages are used only by RaynOrShyn Enterprises, and only for the purposes described on the page of entry.

• How That Information Is Shared
  • Mailing lists derived from guest books or software registration are never shared with any other organization.
  • Genealogical data posted for the purposes of finding or helping other researchers is made available via the RaynOrShyn site, and indexed on external search facilities. This may include e-mail addresses as entered by the poster.

• Correcting Inaccuracies or Damaging Information
  Anyone who posts any information, or identifies personal information which may be damaging or offensive, posted by another person, may request that this information be removed at any time by E-Mail

  Please check first, to be sure the site containing the problem information belongs to RaynOrShyn Enterprises. While we take all privacy requests seriously, we have no control over other sites, and contacting us about something we can not fix may only delay the resolution of your problem.

  Anyone who has signed a guest book or registered software may request that their name be removed from all future mailings via E-Mail. Please note that mailings are infrequent, and only occur as described on the page where the information was entered. RaynOrShyn Enterprises does not engage in unsolicited mass mailings of any kind.

• Cookies and Browser Identification
  Like most web sites, our servers use "cookies". These are small, harmless snippets of data stored temporarily by your browser that help our servers recognize your path through our site. On some pages they are also used to remember options or pages selected from a previous visit, for your convenience.

  We try to allow you to enjoy our site even if you have "cookies" disabled, but some functionality may be lost.

  Aggregate statistics, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, and operating system of visiting browsers are tracked for statistical purposes, and to help us improve our pages and products. This "Anonymous" information does not include any personal identification such as name or e-mail address.

  We may record the IP address of computers which use our systems to send e-mail or store data. This data is used only to to track and respond to any possible abuse of those systems.

• Special Protection for Children
  Pages with games or activities directed at children will never encourage the entry of personal identifying information. When such information is received, such as via postal mail, it will not be put on any publicly-accessible system. Where children's work is displayed, only first names and municipalities will be used for identification.

  All pages are designed to discourage the inadvertent entry of inappropriate personal identification by children. No real-time "chat" or other dialog-based systems are used.

  Links and advertising banners are reviewed for appropriate content before being added to our sites.

• External Links
  Links to sites beloning to other entities are not under the control of RaynOrShyn Enterprises, and are provided for the convenience of our customers.

  They do not, in any way, constitute an endorsement of the linked pages or any commercial or private issues or products presented there. We cannot make any warranty or representation concerning the content of these sites, or secondary sites from the pages to which they link. We can not address privacy issues on sites not under our control.