Resurgam Genealogy Privacy Policy
Last updated: 24 March 2024.
Resurgam Genealogy is dedicated to protecting your privacy when visiting our site or engaging our services.
This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms of Service, explains how we will use any personal data that you provide to us or that we collect from you.
Our contact details
Resurgam Genealogy means Jonathan Lodge (the Researcher) and any genealogical activities owned, managed or run by him. Jonathan Lodge is the registered data controller for Resurgam Genealogy (reference number: C1367668).
Name: Jonathan Lodge
E-mail: jonathan@resurgamgen.com
The type of personal information we collect
We currently collect and process the following information:
-
The name, contact details (email, postal address and/or telephone number), and payment details of the Client, provided to us by the Client, for the purposes of billing and contact specifically related to the research commission.
-
The names and contact details (email, postal address and/or telephone number) of potential clients, provided to us by these potential clients, for the purposes of communication specifically related to potential research commissions.
-
The Client may also provide us with the names (including previous names), birth and marriage dates and places, addresses and occupations of living relatives as relevant to the research commission; this information may also be discovered by the Researcher in sources in the public domain through genealogical research processes. Note: Under the General Data Protections Regulations (GDPR) – (EU) 2016/679) the Researcher is not required to gain the consent of every living person (other than the client) found within the conducted research if it “proves impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort” for historical research purposes.
Internet cookies
We use cookies on this website to provide you with a better user experience. We do this by placing a small text file on your device / computer hard drive to track how you use the website, to record or log whether you have seen particular messages that we display, to keep you logged into the website where applicable, to display relevant adverts or content, to refer you to a third party website.
Some cookies are required to enjoy and use the full functionality of this website.
Some cookies will be saved for specific time periods, where others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should provide you with the controls to manage and delete cookies from your device.
Cookies that we use are:
-
Session cookies to make your user experience of the website more enjoyable.
-
Security cookies for security purposes.
-
Preference cookies to remember specific settings.
​​
How we get personal information and why we have it
Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:
-
To provide you with information requested from us, relating to our services.
-
To meet our contractual commitments to you.
-
To notify you about changes to our website, such as improvements or service changes, that may affects our service.
-
To offer information to existing customers abut services similar to those which were previously commissioned.
-
Personal information is not routinely shared with third parties, except for in the following circumstances:
-
Where we are legally required to disclose your personal information.
-
In connection with an legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.
-
To establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (e.g. for fraud protection and reducing credit risk).
-
-
Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
-
Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting the Researcher at:
-
We have a contractual obligation.
-
We may have a legal obligation.
-
We have a legitimate interest.
-
To process payment.
-
​​
How we store your personal information
Your information is securely stored.
-
E-mail communications with the Client will be retained for the period of one year from the completion of the research commission, in case further work is requested.
-
E-mail communications with potential clients will be retained for one year, in case research is subsequently commissioned.
-
Invoices, receipts and financial documentation containing the names and contact details of the Client will be retained for tax purposes relating to the business responsibilities of the Researcher for five or six years.
-
Information relating to living people forming part of the research commission will be stored in password-protected files held on cloud-based storage accessed by two-factor authentication. These files will be archived and not processed after the research commission has been paid for and delivered in full to the Client.
-
The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and therefore we cannot guarantee the security of data sent by the Client to the Researcher electronically, which must be done at the Client’s own risk. Where passwords for password-protected files are shared with the Client, the Client is responsible for keeping these passwords secure.
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have the rights including:
-
Your right to be informed
-
Your right of access
-
Your right to rectification
-
Your right to erasure
-
Your right to restriction of processing
-
Your right to object to processing
-
Your right to data portability
Read more about your rights in detail here.
Privacy policy updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make any material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
​
How to complain
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at jonathan@resurgamgen.com. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. We handle subject access requests in accordance with the GDPR.
You can also complain to the ICO if you think there is a problem with how we have used your data.
The ICO’s address:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk