Privacy Policy & Terms of Use

Many genealogy programs can suppress the names of living individuals and substitute "living" or "still living". This website suppresses the names of living individuals, substituting "Living" in place of a "living" individuals full name for the general public. If you are aware that someone is living and their full name is shown here, please let me know, so that I may quickly remedy the situation.

Note: Only individuals who have registered with our website and are logged in to the site will be able to view information on living individuals. This access will sometimes be restricted to only their branch of their family.

Photographs of living individuals are considered personal data and are completely suppressed for the general public. At this time, no exceptions will be made. Photographs of non-living individuals are also suppressed for the general public in their original form, however smaller versions of these photos may be viewed.

Any legitimate objection to the display of any photograph on this site, for living or non-living relatives, will result in the timely removal of the photograph from the site until such objection can be addressed.

To ensure the privacy of "living" individuals, our genealogy website always suppresses their personal data from viewing by the general public. Personal data includes, but is not limited to, birth/marriage dates/locations, photographs, notes, and biographies.

Personal data access is restricted to registered family members who must login to access the normally suppressed personal data of living individuals. At the discretion of the site owner, access may be restricted to their own family branch only. By registering for access, you are indicating your agreement with our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. When registering for your user account, you must indicate how you are related to an individual already in our database.

If you are not related, you will not normally be granted a user account unless a very special reason is identified. In this case, a temporary or time-limited account can be made available.

Your access may, in some circumstances, be restricted to:

• You (the registered user) and your spouse (but not your spouse's family).
• Your descendants and their spouses.
• Your parents and grandparents.
• Your uncles/aunts and their spouses.
• Your 1st cousins and their spouses (but not their children).
• Your siblings and their spouses.
• Your nephews/nieces and their spouses (but not their children).

Note: If any family branch individual does not want their suppressed personal data accessed, the security design allows a "lock" to be put on their data. This does, however, preclude registration of that individual.

Personal information collected by me in trust (email/street addresses, phone numbers, etc.). as a result of an application for membership, or a suggestion/comment, will not be divulged to any person or entity for any purpose whatsoever unless we are legally bound to prevent or detect a crime. You should be aware, however, that much of this information is already in the public domain and may be readily available to others using internet search engines (e.g., Yahoo People Search, Google.com, Birthday.com).

This website reports on user activity via Google Analytics. Data collected is for purposes of evaluating server loads, and determining ways to improve the website, and will not be divulged to any person or entity for any purpose whatsoever. Data collected includes, but is not limited to, general location, referral data, browser type, and in the case of registered users, your User ID unique only to this website. Many websites use this same technology to analyze their traffic. If, for any reason, you are not comfortable with this collection of data, you may either discontinue viewing this site immediately, or you may opt-out of tracking by installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. Opting out of tracking will prevent Google Analytics tracking on this, and all other websites.

The Rintoul/Bowman Family website is made available under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike (CC BY-NC-SA) license. Consistent with that license, the manner of attribution shall be the preservation of all source citations relevant to the database or any part.

In other words you are free, and even encouraged, to verify any fact—obtain for yourself the material of any source—and if you do you are under no obligation to cite this database. However, if you choose instead to build upon this work, you must abide by the requirements of the Creative Commons license and these instructions regarding attribution.

Photos published on this site are part of the personal family collections of the Rintoul's and Bowman's, or have been contributed by generous third parties (collectively 'the owners'). The owners retain all rights associated with their photos. Consequently, these photos may not be copied, distributed, re-distributed, incorporated in whole or in part in other works, nor aggregated with other works without the permission of the owners.