Our Privacy Policy:
Family Tree Scout aims to be a good online citizen. Hence, we respect your privacy. The surname-related information on this site is from public sources and is aimed at providing details about names in general rather than information about any specific individual.
For instance, a search on the surname 'Smith' will return generic information about the surname 'Smith'. Where information relating to an individual is presented, it is only in general name search results returned via a real-time query of publically available data from domain registrars, merchants (e.g., the Amazon.com catalogue), photo sites, forums or blogs. We do not hold data relating to any specific identifiable individuals in our database. Nor do we intend to.
Cookies
Family Tree Scout does not require the use of cookies. However, it does use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help us analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.
By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Traffic Data
Each time a visitor comes to Family Tree Scout, information is collected to improve the overall quality of the site, as is standard practice for most websites you will visit. We collect the visitor's domain name/IP Address (e.g., whether the user is logged on from netscape.com or yale.edu or 255.255.255.0), referral data (e.g., we record the address of the last URL a user visited prior to clicking through to the site), and browser/platform type (e.g., a Netscape browser on a Macintosh platform).
E-mail Services
We have a contact form on our site, which requests the email address of anyone who wishes to correspond with us. This is so that we can send a reply. Any/all e-mail addresses sent to us as the result of correspondence will not be used or collected for the purposes of reselling to a third party and will not be added to a bulk e-mailing list.