GEDvisual shows family trees that their owners have uploaded. This page explains what is stored, how living persons are protected, and how to contact us.

What is stored

• For an account: your name and email address, and your password, which is only stored in a scrambled form (a hash) that can't be turned back into the password. Also the date of your last visit.
• For a publication: the GEDCOM file and the media files (photos, documents) that you upload.
• One cookie, which keeps you logged in. There are no other cookies, and no tracking or advertising.

Everything is stored with Google Cloud, in the European Union.

Your data stays yours

Your family tree remains yours. GEDvisual only uses the files you upload to show your publication on this website. They are never sold, shared with others or used for anything else, unless the law requires it.

Keep in mind that a publication is public: anyone can view it, and search engines may show persons who are not private.

Living persons

Persons who may still be alive are shown as [PRIVATE]: their name and details are hidden on every page, and they are left out of the index, the search and search engines. A person counts as possibly alive unless a death or burial is recorded, or their own dates or those of their relatives show that they were born more than 100 years ago.

Deleting

You can delete a publication at any time from your home page: all its files are then deleted permanently. Copies that are kept to recover from mistakes are removed automatically within a month. To delete your account, send us an email.

Contact

For questions about your data, or about a person shown in a published family tree, email henryvanvugt@gmail.com.