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Privacy and Cookie Policy

Last updated 30 July 2020

Privacy

FamousKin.com takes privacy and security seriously. All pages on our website are secured with an SSL certificate.

What does that mean?

It means that all communications between your browser and our server are encrypted.

Why is this important?

One reason is that any information that you send to us through a form on our website is encrypted and secure from any computer in between your browser and our server such as your internet provider.

A second reason is authentication. It gives you the confidence and peace of mind that you are really contacting our site and not an imposter who may be trying to steal your information.

How do you know it's working?

There are visual cues in the address bar of your browser. Look for a green padlock and https to the left of the website address in the URL bar. You can also click on the padlock to view the details of our current SSL certificate. This will let you know that your connection to our site is private and secure, and that our site is encrypted and authenticated using a strong protocol, strong key exchange and strong cipher. It should also let you know that ALL resources on the page are served securely.

However, keep in mind that this encryption applies only to communication between your browser and our website's server. Email and social media communications are most likely not encrypted and therefore do not have the same protections as do communications with the website. Any links you follow from those sources to our website should be authenticated by looking for the green padlock and https in the address bar.

Personal Information

The only personally identifiable information we currently collect is through our contact form. This information may include name, email address, and any message that is sent by the visitor. This information is strictly used for communication between the visitor and FamousKin.com. We do not share, sell, or rent any names or email addresses with third-party companies.

Necessary Cookies

This website uses cookies to ensure site security and to allow visitors (where applicable) to login. These cookies are necessary to ensure that a visitor stays logged in when they move between pages on the website. They are also used to store important decisions a visitor may make about their online session(s). For example, clicking the "OK" button on the cookie consent banner will set a cookie that stores a visitor's consent until that cookie expires (usually 1 year) or until the visitor deletes the cookie through their browser. These cookies are not used to track a visitor.

Learn more about cookies at https://cookiesandyou.com/

Analytics Cookies

These cookies are used to understand how you use our site and to improve your experience. They collect information such as, which pages you visited, how many pages you visited, and if you experienced any errors. They do not collect anything that could personally identify you as we only care about the statistics in the aggregate.

This information is collected by our analytics partner who may combine it with other information you’ve provided to them or they’ve collected from your use of their services. Our current partner for analytics is Google Analytics.

If you would like to opt-out of your data being used by Google Analytics, click here.

For more information about how Google uses data from this website, click here.

Social Media Cookies

This website uses social media buttons to allow you to share online content with your friends on social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. These companies may use cookies to enable you to share our content with your friends. These cookies may track your browser across other sites and build a profile of your interests, which may impact the content and messages you see on other websites that you visit.

The following links will allow you to find out more about their use of their cookies:

https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

https://twitter.com/en/privacy

Advertising Cookies

This website uses third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. These third-party advertising companies may also use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic.

However, European vistors will not receive personalized content and ads even if they do consent to cookies. FamousKin.com relies on this advertising in order to provide much of the information found on this website free of charge to its visitors.

If you would like to opt-out of the use of cookies for personal advertising despite the negative impact on free content sites like this one, click here.

reCAPTCHA v2 and v3

This website uses reCAPTCHA v2 and v3. reCAPTCHA is a Google service that is only used to protect our site from spam and abuse. It uses advanced risk analysis techniques to tell humans and bots apart. You probably have experienced it on websites, including this one, as the "I am not a robot" challenge you must pass before you submit any communications to us through our contact page.

reCAPTCHA works by collecting hardware and software information, such as device and application data, and sending these data to Google for analysis. The information collected in connection with your use of the service will be used for improving reCAPTCHA and for general security purposes. It will not be used for personalized advertising by Google. reCAPTCHA tokens are short lived and expire after only two minutes.

How do you delete cookies?

Unless you have your browser settings already set to block cookies, this website will issue cookies as soon as you visit our site. However, if you block cookies with your browser, parts of this website will no longer function.

If you want to disable cookies on our website, you need to change the settings in your web browser. How you do this will depend on the browser you are using. To get instructions for some of the more popular browsers, you can visit

https://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/

Visitor Consent

By using our site, you consent to our privacy and cookie policy. Any changes to our privacy policy will be reflected on this page and the most recent date of those changes will appear at the top of this page.