Privacy Policy and Statement

General Statement About Protecting the Identity and Privacy of Family Members and Other Survivors When Publishing a Permanent Online Memorial

It is possible if a Permanent Online Memorial contains detailed personal information that such information could be misused. Unlike a death notice published in a newspaper which has a short publication life and local circulation, a Permanent Online Memorial exists online everywhere for a very long time. A person’s memorial can, of course, be very safe. A safe memorial might simply include the person’s name; dates of birth and death; photos without names, addresses, or locations; and a dedication or a poem that gives no specific details of the person’s life and family. That sort of memorial is like a grave marker and is extremely safe. Family members visiting the memorial will recognize those who are in the photos without naming them and can leave their tributes and condolences and light candles just as they would leave flowers at a graveside with little or no risk to their privacy as long as their last names and addresses are not given. If more details of a person’s life are to be included in the memorial, privacy risks can be greatly reduced by following these precautions: 1. Do not give the maiden name of a memorialized person. 2. Do not include the names or location of a person’s parents or names of already deceased relatives. A general statement like “He was preceded in death by his mother and father, one brother, two sisters, and a beloved daughter” is preferable. 3. Do not include the names and locations of surviving relatives. It is preferable to just make a general statement like, “He was survived by his father, one brother and his spouse, three sons and their wives, one daughter, five grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews”. 4. Consider not giving the specifics of a person’s employment. Instead of naming a place of employment simply state that “he worked as an accountant and then as a supervising accountant for over thirty years after graduating with a BA in accounting in 1960”. Always remember that a memorial can contain as much or as little information as you wish, the less personal information it contains the smaller the risk will be for invasion of privacy.

America’s Online Memorials, LLC. respects the privacy of all visitors to our website www.AmericasMemorials.com. Please review the following Privacy Policy and Statement to understand what information is being collected and how it will be used. “We”, “us” and “our” will refer to America’s Online Memorials, LLC. and its website www.AmericasMemorials.com. “You” and “your” will refer to you as a user of and visitor to www.AmericasMemorials.com.

America’s Online Memorials, LLC will NOT make information collected on its website available to any outside parties. All information gathered will be obtained only through your knowledge and consent.

What Do We Collect?

Our web site uses several different forms that our customers can use to request information, products, and services. From these forms, we collect the following information:

  • Visitors’ contact information (like email addresses, phone numbers and postal addresses)
  • Biographical information, files, and details that you enter or upload about the person you are memorializing

How Secure is the Information We Collect?

We make every effort to follow industry standard security measures to prevent the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Biographical information, files, and details on persons that you enter and upload as you create and/or complete online memorials is publicly available on our website and as such we cannot be responsible for the misuse of such information. All other information that is not published and available to the public on our website and is under our control and collected by us (like visitor’s contact information) is accessible only to our authorized employees.

How Do We Use This Information?

  • Contact Information: When you register with us, you will need to provide specific information for contact reasons. This information will be used only by us and will not available to any outside sources. In addition to receiving responses to any queries that you may email or otherwise send to us you may also receive email or other communications from us that will use and include the information you have provided to us for the purposes of completing or updating your memorial website, delivering other related products and services that you may order or request, and/or notifying you of any new options or services available to you from us. Your email address is used when you email us with questions or comments, and when you submit a “Contact” form. We will use your email address only to reply via email. NO third parties will acquire your email address, NO other mail will be sent unless follow-up is expected.
  • IP addresses: We do not track the IP addresses of our web site visitors for any other than internal statistical purposes. We have no means of associating Contact Information that you submit via “Contact” forms with the IP address of your computer.
  • Cookies: If we choose to use cookies within our web site we use them to recognize return visitors. We may use special session cookies if you log into a password-protected area of the web site. We gather this information for internal use only and will never authorize the release of this information with anyone outside our company.
  • Linked Sites: This site contains links to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these Web sites.
  • Linking to Our Site: You may create a link to our website; however making a link with any alteration of our website’s contents is restricted. You may NOT reproduce or reformat the files, pages, images, information and/or materials from this site, unless expressed written permission has been obtained from us in advance. Under NO circumstance shall any direct links to images be made. You will immediately remove any links to our site if, for any reason, we request that you do so.
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Your use of our web site www.AmericasMemorials.com presumes and is conditioned upon your agreement with this Privacy Policy and Statement. If you do not agree to this then please do not use our web site. We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy and Statement at any time by posting changes on this page. Your continued use of www.AmericasMemorials.com will signify your acceptance of those changes.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy and Statement, please contact us:

America’s Online Memorials, LLC.
4509 West Ridge Rd.
Erie, PA 16506
Phone: (814) 836-9640
Fax: (814) 835-8243