Privacy and Membership

This policy has now been superceded by:

Shep's Place Privacy policy.

Shep's Place Membership policy.

Privacy Policy

• All information on living people is private and can only be accessed by verified family members.
• Verified family members are people who are on the Family Tree.
• Unless a death date is known, a person is presumed to be living until aged 110 years.
• Other information may be made private upon a reasonable request.
• Private information is hidden from anonymous users and search engines.

Membership Options

There are three types of membership available:

• Authorised Users do not need to be family members but are able to contribute to discussion forums and add comments. They do not have visibility of private information. To become an authorised user it is merely necessary to establish your genuine interest.
• Family Members have full visibilty of information on the site. To be assigned this type of site membership the individual must be a verified member of the family and to be on the Family Tree.
• Authors have full visibility of all information on the site and are able to create and edit content. Authors must also be family members.

Usernames, passwords and membership types are assigned by the site adminstrator who is responsible, on behalf of family members, for compliance with this policy.

For membership enquiries contact the site administrator. Please be prepared to verify your links to the family if you want Family Membership or to demonstrate your genuine interest in our discussion forums if you want to be an Authorised User.