Privacy Policy

The party responsible for the processing of data is Gerald Pryce-Jones, as administrator of the Pryce-Jones Family Archive, resident in Chile.

For any privacy enquiry, or to exercise your rights, you may write to: contacto@prycejones.cl.

The archive holds two kinds of information.

For the people recorded in the family tree: given names and family names, dates and places of birth and death, sex, country, family relationships (parents, children, spouses), photographs, biographical notes and the family branch they belong to.

For members with an account: name, email address, the role granted (administrator, editor or member), country and an optional short biography. Passwords are stored encrypted by our authentication provider and are never visible to anyone.

An internal audit log is also kept — who created, changed or deleted each record, and when — to ensure traceability and the good governance of the archive.

Living relatives receive special protection. No information about a living person is shown publicly without their explicit consent.

When a living person is added, they may receive a private link to review their information and decide: to accept appearing, to choose which specific fields are shown (birth date, death date, biography, photograph), or to decline. Alternatively, an administrator may record consent given in conversation, always leaving a trace of who confirmed it and when.

Consent may be withdrawn at any time. Once withdrawn, the person is no longer shown publicly.

Data is processed for a single purpose: to maintain a genealogical and historical archive of the Pryce-Jones family for its members and for the public interested in its history.

The legal basis for processing is the family's legitimate interest in preserving its history and, for living relatives, their explicit consent. No processing is carried out for commercial, advertising or profiling purposes.

Archive data is never sold or transferred to third parties for commercial purposes. The private side of the archive is accessible only to verified family members; the public side shows only deceased persons and living relatives who have given their consent.

To operate, the archive relies on service providers who act as data processors, solely to deliver the service:

• Supabase — database hosting, authentication and photograph storage.
• Resend — delivery of the archive's emails (consent requests, invitations and notices).
• Vercel — hosting of the web application.

The site uses only the strict minimum:

• Session cookies, needed to keep you signed in if you have an account.
• A cookie that remembers your preferred language.
• Your light or dark mode preference and your analytics-cookie decision, stored in your own browser.

These are strictly necessary cookies and need no consent. The site uses no advertising or third-party tracking cookies. The only optional cookie is the analytics cookie described below, and it is set only if you accept it.

To understand how the archive is used — which pages are visited, from which countries, on what kind of device — the site may use Google Analytics 4, a web-analytics service of Google Ireland Limited, which acts as a data processor for this purpose.

Google Analytics collects usage data in an aggregated, pseudonymised form: page views, visit duration, device and browser type, and an approximate location derived from the IP address. It is not used to identify you personally and is never combined with the archive's genealogical data.

Google Analytics is loaded only if you give your consent through the cookie banner shown on your first visit. If you decline, no Google script is loaded and no analytics cookie is created. You can change your decision at any time from the "Cookie settings" link in the footer or from this page.

Google may process this data on servers outside Chile and the European Union. For more on how Google handles data, see Google's own privacy policies.

You have the right to access the data the archive holds about you, to rectify it if inaccurate, to request its erasure, to object to its processing and, if you are a living person, to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, write to contacto@prycejones.cl. We will respond within a reasonable time. If you prefer, a living person may withdraw their consent directly from the private link they received.

Data is kept for as long as the family archive operates, given its historical nature. When a living person declines or withdraws their consent, their data stops being shown publicly immediately; if they also request erasure, that request is honoured.

This policy may be updated to reflect improvements to the archive or changes in the law. The date of the most recent update appears at the top of the page.

For any question about this policy or about your data, write to contacto@prycejones.cl.