Privacy Policy

“AlmostLostHistory.com” or "AlmostLostHistory.ca"

(are domain properties of AlmostLostHistory; fully owned by rt)

Important Notes:

Email SECURITY ..... see 51.

1. The names of these websites, almostlosthistory.com & almostlosthistory.ca, have been created by the sole owner and administrator of this website. There are NO other websites using this name, nor any website exactly of its kind in existence (11:16 ET, Thursday, July 16, 2020). There may be other similar websites, but none (to my knowledge) that are specifically interested in every person's (on this earth) history, in creating a more detailed history of this world.

2. This site has been created in order to historically document personal family events that you and your family consider to be of historical significance ... so do we.

3. Please understand that your submitted information will be read by one of our team for copyright infringement, historical content, then placed onto this web-site as a historical document.

4. Please ....... stay with the facts as you know them to be.

5. This site and any of its personnel are not responsible for the authenticity of information placed onto this website.

6. If your name happens to be the same as that submitted by other contributors, please help us along by including a first name and all middle names.

7. All contributors who submit information about a living person, MUST have notified that person of their personal exploits becoming public.

8. Privacy Policy

9. *"Our objective is to benefit humanity and to harm NO-ONE. If your objective is not the same as ours, then please contribute your information elsewhere or better yet do not contribute at all." (*Above statement is this website owner’s personal statement.)

10. Submitted information that could harm any other person will not be accepted and the submission will be immediately removed from the website.

11. Please remember .... information that you post to this website can be freely seen and used by everyone.

12. The administrators of this website will attempt to view all submissions in order to assure that each and every submission is original and not the property of another author.

13. Please be aware that your personal Website Email Addresses can likely be traced to your computer, if deemed necessary, by law enforcement agencies.

14. Your privacy is super important to you and to us. Please do not provide any personal data if you feel at all uncomfortable doing so because other people throughout the world will be able to view whatever you write in this living historical document. Your email address will NEVER become public information. (Once your submitted information is entered into this website, your submitted email will be deleted from our system.)

15. You will not be asked to register an account, because we do not want your, nor anyone else's, personal data.

16. Even though this website information is sorted by family name, we do not want anything more than the first, middle name(s) or initial(s) and last names of the person that you wish to write about.

17. Any document that is submitted without a name reference, will be added to the website as ' Anonymous; date'.

18. Should you be contacted by anyone, it will only be possible because of the information that you have provided. For that matter, our team will read all submitted documents and delete any personal contact information that is included in the document. This website is NOT a live chat-site.

19. Please, do not look anywhere in the website to make public contributions. This is a free site, which is strictly for historical research benefit.

20. We will not sell your information, however please be aware that the information that you submit will become permanently available for this world and future worlds to benefit from .... as important and hopefully helpful history.

21. If you do not agree with the above, then please do not contribute.

22. This information will not be sold or rented to third parties, however once your submitted information is submitted by you, others may and likely will use your information in their own research projects. Of course, your information cannot be used verbatim unless it is properly quoted with this website as being its source.

23. By using this website you are confirming your consent of the above.

24. The owners/creators of this website cannot be legally held responsible for any data which is submitted.

25. Please be aware that we are just beginning this website. It is my hope that it will become of huge importance to future generations of people wishing to gain knowledge of important world events.

26. It is entirely possible that some day we will request contributions in order to continue with what we consider to be a project of significant importance.

27. This website is in no way competing with any other known website of its kind. As far as we know this is the first website of its kind. We are not in competition with anyone, therefore cannot be considered to be disturbing or harming any other website. We are hopefully helping to fill a gigantic hole in our recorded history.

28. Please be aware that all contributor’s IP Addresses can be traced to their computer.

29. Please be aware that submitted data will always be made available to the public, which includes to all law enforcement agencies. Because of this statement, contributors cannot take any legal action against this website.

30. In order to access this website you will be using your preferred web browser, so please be aware that all browsers retain some of your personal information, depending upon what preferences you have activated in your browser settings.

31. We do not knowingly activate computer generated cookies anywhere.

32. We may eventually have to use third party assistance to help us administer this site.

33. Please remember that information that you post to this website can be seen and used by everyone for research purposes.

34. We will NEVER ask for your personal data, so if you receive an email, seemingly, from us concerning your personal data, please be assured that it is not from us. We will NEVER ask you for more information than what you have already submitted.

35. Additions and changes will be made to this privacy policy as and when required, so please refer to the below ‘CHANGES’ section now and again.

36. CONTACT US at any time via;

" almostlosthistory@protonmail.com " (using ultra-secure 2-way encryption)

(For your privacy and security, the aforementioned email address is linked using a highly secure 2-way encryption. So, you must manually type or copy and paste your historical information into the addressed email page, when you are ready, then send.)

37. Please note that the content found in our website is not, nor will it be checked by experts for authenticity or historical accuracy. What you submit is considered to be factual as far as you are aware. We will not publish anything that could appear to be harmful to others. Not all articles are completely checked by us.

38. We regret if anyone is offended by what is written within our website. If anyone or government is offended by the website content, then please be aware that the website owners and administrators cannot be held responsible, nor liable for any contributed content herein.

39. As similar sites state, we do NOT guarantee the accuracy, nor validity of any topic found within our website. Please use the information for historical research purposes.

40. Our ‘administrative website personnel’ cannot be held responsible or liable for the accuracy of the website content. However, please be aware that law enforcement agencies may interject at any time to have content removed for the betterment of the public or that they may contact the contributor for confirmation of authenticity.

41. There is NEVER any contract between ‘contributor’ and ‘website administration’.

42. Anyone who uses the website information for research purposes does so at their own risk. This website information is ‘FREE’ for all to use at their own risk, therefore the website administrators cannot be held responsible or liable for any of the website content.

43. This website’s administrators recommend that all information contained herein be more thoroughly researched for factualness via other sources prior to any ‘third party’ submission. However, we understand that this website may provide the only source of much information. Therefore the source of the ‘third party’ disclosed information must be stated and further endorsed, also to include a statement of possible inaccuracy or completeness.

‘almostlosthistory.com & almostlosthistory.ca’

44. These are 'identical' free and continually growing websites which are organized by a person’s last name, first name and middle names. There will be names of persons both living and deceased.

45. Should anyone, any government or any country be offended in any way by the contents or language within this website, then they must remember that this is a freely created document, created for historical purposes and in no way can this website or administrators or owners be held responsible or liable for its content.

46. Anyone wishing to comment on a submission to this website may do so by email and, time permitting, the administrators of the website will try to address all of your comments and concerns.

47. This website is presently at its beginning stage and for the time being the English language will be solely used. However, it is our fullest intention to accept submissions from all languages of the world. We whole heartedly understand that you can most fully express yourself in your mother language, so please bear with us for now. 'As we grow in age, we will also grow in strength and knowledge.' *

48. Anyone who uses this website for any other reason than to enhance our world’s history is entirely discouraged from doing so and must understand that they may be held responsible under the laws of their domiciled country.

49. Information submitted in this website may be used at any time by North American law enforcement agencies, as we are presently domiciled in North America.

50. Please enjoy this website and use it whenever you wish, with the intention of honoring your family and helping with writing a true ..... “Almost Lost History“ of this world.

51. Email SECURITY ..... at 14:00 hrs ET, May 30, 2021, AlmostLostHistory.com and .ca created their new secure email address .... almostlosthistory@protonmail.com

Our new 2-way communications security level, with our clients, is now second to none.

52. “Stay safe and all the very best to you and your family”

53. CC-BY-SA (Creative Commons License)

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53. GFDL

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this

document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License,

Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software

Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and

no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the

section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

CHANGES:

3 August, 2020; (1150 ET) Above numbering system added.

August 4, 2020; 1, 9, 10, 14, 17, 18, 33. updated

August 12, 2020; 14, 20, 29, 46

September 19, 2020; 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13

February 8, 2021; 17 added (all subsequent numbers sequenced by 1)

May 30, 2021; 51 added ..... Email SECURITY

June 5, 2021; 36 updated to protonmail, 2-way secure encryption

Febryary 8, 2022; 1 update in italics

• * rt