Some Global Housekeeping

Part of the reason the blog has been quiet lately is GDPR. You may not have heard of it, but you likely have gotten quite a lot of requests to update subscriptions, consent to cookies, etc. when you visit websites. Getting ready for GDPR has been a stressful nightmare of research, no answers yet, and wondering why one part of the world can dictate terms to another.

But we are global now.

The European Union’s “General Data Protection Regulation” or GDPR, went into effect on 25 May 2018. It is a huge document designed to provide strict privacy and consumer rights to internet users, something truly needed. It is a sweeping law and no one is quite sure how it is going to work, so that is a big part of the problem and global stress.

While the majority of readers of this blog are from the U.S., we have had a few from overseas (the U.K., which will be in the E.U. until 2019), plus of course, thousands of foreign hackers as well. (We personally don’t care about the rights of the latter group.) California already has some data protection requirements too, so we are providing this Privacy Policy in order to comply the best a small family history blog can do.

This website is paid for entirely out of our own pocket- no advertising is allowed on it. We do not make money from the website through ads or page clicks, and we do not market anything to you (except a love for family history, we hope); we do not pass your info on to other marketing sites.

Despite all that, we MUST make these changes (or so some believe, others in the US are doing nothing) or possibly be subject to very large fines, even though we do not live in the E.U. Seeing what big companies have done with the data from Facebook, Google, etc., the law is probably good, although it has led to the closing of some important genealogy and family history websites, and small family blogs as well, as compliance is too onerous and/or expensive (both time- and money-wise). Hopefully we can navigate this well enough to keep this blog going- but I would rather be writing about our family history than coming up with a privacy policy. And I would rather be BAKING “Grandma Edie’s Sugar Cookies” than researching and writing about computer cookies.

Please see our Privacy Policy and Cookies page, and do not get too frustrated always having to agree to the use of Cookies. It’s our brave new world.

Now that we have helped to make some history by complying with this new law, let’s get back to researching the family history past. Thanks for your patience.

Notes, Sources, and References:

“Thankful Thursday- Edith Roberts Luck’s Christmas Cookies” — http://heritageramblings.net/2014/12/25/thankful-thursday-edith-roberts-lucks-christmas-cookies/

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