Who We Are

This business is registered in New York as Megan I. Culbert, DBA “Little Owl Genealogy” (“the Business”). The website address is littleowlgenealogy.com. The Business provides this privacy statement to explain what information is gathered during a visit to the website and how such information may be used.

What Type of Information Does the Business Collect?

Website Visitors

The Business does NOT share your personal information with anyone without your written permission or a court order. The Business uses Google’s ReCAPTCHA for validating the identity of a user to prevent spam.  

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace's privacy policy can be seen here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Web pages you view while on this website

• Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

• Information about your browser, network, and device

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

• Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

• Clicks

• Internal links

• Pages visited

• Scrolling

• Searches

• Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

• Your IP address

How Does the Business Collect Your Information?

When you complete the online form to request an initial appointment on the Business website, as part of the process, the Business will collect personal information you provide such as your name and email address to allow the professional genealogist to contact you.  

Why Is Personal Information Collected?

The Business collects such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

• To provide you services

• To provide you, the potential client, the best ongoing customer assistance and technical support

• To provide you with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages that interest you

• To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred non-personal information, which the Business uses to provide and improve our respective services

• To comply with any applicable laws and regulations

How Does the Business Communicate with Website Visitors?

The professional genealogist may contact you via email to:

• provide updates on your project, 

• notify you regarding your account, 

• resolve a dispute, 

• collect fees owed, 

• poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, 

• send updates about the Business, or 

• as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce the Business User Contract, applicable national laws, and any agreement the Business may have with you. 

How Can You Withdraw Your Consent?

If you don’t want the Business to process your data anymore, please email Megan at megan@littleowlgenealogy.com. This does not include any data the Business is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Questions and Your Contact Information

If you would like to access, correct, amend or delete any personal information the Business has about you, you may contact the professional genealogist at megan@littleowlgenealogy.com.

How The Business Protects Your Data

Protecting your information is important to the Business. Therefore, the Business maintains reasonable physical, technical, and administrative security measures to protect and limit access to your personal information. It is impossible to secure information entirely. The Business does not guarantee total protection of your information.

Privacy Policy Updates

The Business reserves 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 material changes are made to this policy, you will be notified that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information is collected, how the Business uses it, and under what circumstances, if any, the Business uses and/or discloses it. 

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

• These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. 

• These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Social Media Plugins

In order to enhance your internet experience and to make the sharing of content easier, some of the pages on the website contain tools or applications that are linked to third party social media service providers such as Facebook, Instagram, or X (formerly Twitter). Through these tools or applications, the social media service provider may set its own cookies on your device. The Business does not control these cookies, and you should check the social media service provider’s website for further details about how they use cookies.