Who we are
Our website address is: https://ourspicerfamily.com and does not refer to any specific company or organization at this time. This site is specifically for Spicer family members along with their related and associated families to learn and share historical information and perhaps to arrange reunions or retain correspondence with each other.
I sure hope no kin feels the need to try to stick it to anyone. We are completely Mom and Pop here – and you know us as David and Connie Spicer. Connie does the hard work, David gets the pats on the back when we do something well.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
We are implementing a “no right-click/save” program for images, so it will be a bit more difficult for folks to just take information, especially photos and videos – but they will try, of course. And, who knows how long it will take before this option is obsolete. We expect family members will share data and we will share back – but you can do this by email if you prefer. If you want information uploaded, you may be asked to sign a release form allowing us to publish your articles or images for you. You will retain all rights to that information.
The entire concept of an online family history is to encourage others to share information, not to steal it from each other. This site improves with collaboration, not suspicion or deceit.
We will keep working to keep up on maintaining the security of data, images and personal information published herein.
Contact forms
Yep, we have them. They are specifically for you to subscribe (if you want to) and that way you can get notified when something new is published. It won’t happen often. We are, like most folks, working hard to just keep going, so what’s here is for you to check out and enjoy and hopefully keep in touch with us now and again. We publish material a few times a year and we may establish a monthly newsletter with links to any new articles, podcasts or whatever that we publish. It’s up to you to OK/opt-in to it by filling out a contact form first. So, if you don’t want information, we won’t bug you. No problem
Cookies
This site uses cookies to offer you a better browsing experience. Here’s what happens:
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
Only those who subscribe to this website are allowed to retain any parts of it, and that which is retained should be their own personal material.
Should anyone other than those individuals subscribed take any data or published information without permission, we retain the right to sue them/you to kingdom come. We won’t share your data without asking, so, don’t take anything herein without asking, ok?
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We don’t send it anywhere other than to make sure it isn’t spam and doesn’t have malware installed on it.
If it’s free and clear, it pertains to an article and you put your name to it, we post it. If you want to make a comment, count on your name being shown. Anonymity won’t work here. You can request an anonymous signature and we will honor that with your comment; but we need to know who writes and submits things. If there isn’t a name, we won’t put it up. So, on the one-hand your last sentence might be “This article is from Aunt Maizy. But don’t post my name” and we won’t. We will give it a fictitious name, like Dear Abby does. That’s about it.
Your contact information
If provided, your contact information is only retained by us. We don’t sell anything to anyone or make it available to any organization. We are a family-based organization and we will not betray your trust in us for a buck.
However, should you choose to make a donation in order to help defray expenses of maintaining the website, we are grateful for your help to do so. Ask us what email to use to do this. It will not go into our personal accounts. It will be entered into an account specifically for maintaining this website in perpetuity… or until the Internet dies. Or we do. In which case, if no one steps up to do this, it will all go away, except in online archives somewhere in the cloud for a while. And we probably won’t care if we’re dead, right?
Additional information
How we protect your data
Your data is protected by us by, first of all, not offering it to anyone! If you want to get in touch with us, we are reachable on Facebook or by email. Or kids, grandkids and (hopefully one day) great grandkids can call us on the phone. That’s assuming we remember how to use them.
Information on living people is given by those same living people. We try not to divulge anything that could be used fraudulently. Should you have any concerns about any data you see on the website, please let us know and we will either privatize it or remove it completely from the site.
Note that if you are a subscriber to the website, you have authoring privileges as long as your articles, photographs or other postings maintain the standards of the page. We hope the children will visit here and learn about their family (including some of the more colorful ones). That being said, no immoral or illegal material is permitted here.
Nothing that might be considered racist or that may impinge on another protected group will be permitted UNLESS THAT DATA specifically relates to information or historical reference to an individual within the scope of this family history and is not meant to defame another person. In other words, if someone historically had slaves and it is published within a will or census records, some context may be permissible, in relation to the dates and times and the data provided is proven by documentation.
If an account of any one or more individuals is fictionalized or hypothetical, it should be noted as such rather than making it appear factual. No plagiarizing is permitted.
Should you have a question as to whether or not an article might infringe on the rights of another or if it may potentially slander another, we suggest you allow us to review that material before you hit “publish”. If we see any references that we consider to be inappropriate to this website, we reserve the right to take it down immediately upon discovery.
Also, since this is a family website, any material provided should be suitable for ALL audiences, including those under age 16. Our site may be of interest to our children for studying our family members historically and using some of that information for school work. If you don’t want a relative, or your own information, to wind up in a potential school report please do not post anything.
NOTE: In our subscription form, your true age must be submitted if you are under age 16. This does not mean you cannot subscribe (in fact, we hope you will). But we have to also request your parent or guardian’s information as well, so we can get you properly opted-in with their consent to do so.
What data breach procedures we have in place
Well, since we don’t really save names or addresses and we don’t sell things and we don’t do any marketing other than to keep up with you all, we don’t have much to actually breach, but we do use top notch firewall programs within our website to help maintain security.
In the unlikely event our website is hacked, we will notify you immediately of any information that might have been taken. But really – all we have here are dead folks and us.
What third parties we receive data from
We don’t. Except maybe links to and from friendly websites that link to our own profiles or alternate websites we maintain, like social media or your own websites that you might want linked to your authorship here.
Since we don’t advertise, we don’t have to worry about malware links being installed on our pages either. So, we should be pretty good there. If anyone has any ideas how hackers can subvert this, please let us know. I’d like to make sure that doesn’t happen, okay?
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Again, since we don’t sell anything or ask anything of anyone, we just kind of keep things to ourselves. No profiling. No marketing. You know who we are, and if you want us, just call us on the phone. Or better yet, text us, because we might not answer the phone. You know how that goes.
And if you’re writing with us/for us, you fall under the rules and regulations posted.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
In compliance with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) regulations, our DPO is Connie Dexter Spicer. She is responsible for the maintenance of all mailing lists and verifying that each subscriber has properly opted in. Should an individual fail to opt-in, an email will be sent requesting that the subscriber opt-in or be removed, whichever they prefer. Failing to respond to the request will automatically force us to remove you from the mailing list.
Again, since we don’t plan to do any marketing from this site, we aren’t harvesting any data other than that which you may provide by your own request using our online subscription form. You have the right at any time to unsubscribe. This site is meant to be fun, informational and as true and correct to the folks it depicts as we can get it. Some errors may occur, since research is ever-evolving. If you come across a mistake, please let us know and don’t judge us too harshly for it.
The above information is immediately effective as of May 15, 2020 and will continue until such time as our Privacy Policies may need to be updated to remain in compliance. So, there you go. Our small print.