Written to be read by the family, not by a lawyer. It is short because the promises are short.
Version 1 · drafted August 2026 · counsel review pending
When you sign the Registry you give us:
That is the entire list. We do not ask for your address, your telephone number, your date of birth, or your payment details, and the Registry never will. If a future form asks for more than this list, that will be an error and we would like you to tell us about it.
If you later become a member, the Society will need a mailing address to send you the printed journal, and it will need to process a payment. Those are separate transactions with their own notices, and this page will be updated to describe them before either one happens.
Nothing is stored until you agree to it, in a sentence you can read, next to the button you press. We do not treat the act of visiting a page, opening an email, or handing someone a business card at a festival booth as consent to anything.
If somebody else submits your information, for instance a well-meaning relative signing up the whole family at once, we will write to you before your entry is used for anything, and if we do not hear back, the entry sits inactive.
Three things:
That is all. We do not profile you, we do not score you, and we do not build a picture of you for anybody's benefit.
This is the Society's constitutional rule and it is not negotiable by any future officer.
No living person's name, dates, address, photograph, or family details appear in any public page of this site or in any public Society publication. The only exceptions are the founder, who is named because someone has to be answerable, and public figures written about strictly in their public capacity, such as an athlete on a professional roster or an artist with a museum.
Our published genealogy concerns the dead. Where a record touches someone living, the record is held privately and the public version stops at the last deceased generation. The same rule governs Ask Tobiáš, the Society's research assistant, which is built to refuse questions about living people rather than answer them carefully.
The Society does not sell, rent, trade, license, or otherwise hand over your information to advertisers, data brokers, genealogy companies, DNA companies, or anyone else. There is no partner list. There is no affiliate arrangement. If the Society ever ends, the charter's wind-up clause requires the registry data to be deleted rather than transferred to a successor who did not make you this promise.
Your entry is kept in the Society's own records, and access is limited to the steward and to any officer who needs it to do the work described above. We keep it for as long as you want to be on the Registry. When you ask us to remove you, we remove it.
When the online sign-up form goes live, it will be operated by a third-party form provider. That provider will be named on this page before the form collects a single entry, together with what it stores and where. Until then, registry entries arrive by email to [email protected].
This site sets no cookies. It runs no analytics. It loads no fonts, images, scripts, or files from any other company's servers, which means no other company learns that you visited. There is nothing on these pages that watches you read them.
Our web host keeps ordinary server logs, as every web host does. We do not use them to identify visitors.
Junior membership is free for anyone under eighteen and runs through a parent's or guardian's household. We do not knowingly collect information directly from children. A child's name is never published on this site, which is simply the living-persons rule again, said for the people it protects most.
You may ask us at any time to show you what we hold about you, to correct it, or to delete it entirely. One email does it, and you do not owe us a reason.
Ask to be removed Ask what we hold
If you are in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another place with data protection law, those rights are yours by statute as well as by our promise, and the process here is the same: write to us and we act on it.
If this policy changes, the new version replaces this one on this page with a new version number and date, and anyone on the Registry is told in the monthly letter. We will not weaken the promises above without saying so in plain words at the top of the page.
This text was written for clarity rather than for court, and it has not yet been reviewed by a lawyer. That review is pending. If counsel improves the wording, the promises underneath it will not change, because the promises are the point and the wording is just how we got them across.
Write to [email protected] for anything on this page. The Dobesh Society is a family heritage association based in Colorado, United States, founded and stewarded by Daniel Dobesh.
Údaje o žijících osobách nikdy nezveřejňujeme a vaše údaje nikdy neprodáváme. O výmaz můžete kdykoli požádat na adrese [email protected].