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Privacy Policy

This site uses a tool which collects your requests for pages and passes elements of them to search engines to assist them in indexing this site, and track marketing behavior for promotional effectiveness. We control the configuration of the tool and are responsible for any information sent to the search engines.

Public Forums
This site makes chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups available to its users. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information. NEHGS reserves the right to modify and/or delete postings for clarity, appropriateness or any other reason.

Security
This site has security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. NEHGS (AmericanAncestors.org ) will never sell or share your personal information with anyone, for any reason without your express written consent.

Children's Guidelines
This site gives children the ability to publicly post or distribute personally identifiable contact information without prior parental consent.

Choice/Opt-Out
Our site provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners at the point where we request information about the visitor. Users may remove their information from our database to not receive future communications or to no longer receive our service by sending email to the webmaster at:webmaster@nehgs.org.

Correct/Update
This site gives users several options for changing and modifying information previously provided. Please email webmaster@nehgs.org.

Hotjar
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users’ needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users’ experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don’t like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users’ behavior and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information on our behalf in a pseudonymized user profile. Hotjar is contractually forbidden to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.
For further details, please see the ‘about Hotjar’ section of Hotjar’s support site.

Contacting the Website Administrator
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact webmaster@nehgs.org.