Sharing Policy
Researching and sharing genealogy information is what this website is all about. Sharing is a reciprocal act, you tell me what you know and I will tell you what I know. After all, we would not get very far in our genealogy pursuit if it was not for others sharing their information with us. We like to think of our site as a "pay it forward" website.
Sharing can sometimes become complicated. Who owns the data in the family tree? The person who compiled it? The one who possesses a copy? Anyone? The rule of thumb when dealing with genealogy data is that facts, such as birth, death, and marriage dates and locations cannot be copyrighted. To learn more about copyright and genealogy, please read Copyright Basics by the United States Copyright Office, Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy by Michael Patrick Goad and Copyright and Genealogy by Kimberly Powell.
User-provided content
The Black Sea German database will contain user-provided content in the form of GEDCOMS. For this content, Black Sea German Research is a distributor only. By submitting a GEDCOM to Black Sea German Research, you grant Black Sea German Research, the host of this site, a license to display that content in our Black Sea German database. Should you contribute content to this site, you understand that it will be seen and used by others under the license described herein. You should only submit content which belongs to you and will not violate the property or other rights of other people or organizations. Black Sea German Research is sensitive to the copyright of others.
Black Sea German Research will not edit or monitor user-provided content except to promote privacy. A filtering tool will be used to suppress, and omit from display, information submitted to the Black Sea German database which appears to pertain to a living person. We also reserve the right to remove any user-provided content that comes to our attention and that we believe, in our sole discretion, is illegal, obscene, indecent, defamatory, incites racial or ethnic hatred or violates the rights of others, or is in any other way objectionable.
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