This page sets out the Data Privacy Notice of The DeVard Family Website.

The DeVard Family Website is responsible for ensuring that it uses your personal data in compliance with data protection law. The purpose of this notice (the “Privacy Notice”) is to explain what personal data The DeVard Family Website collects and how The DeVard Family Website uses it. For the purposes of data protection law, The DeVard Family Website is a data controller in respect of your personal data. “Personal data” is any data that can be used to identify you or that The DeVard Family Website can link to you and which The DeVard Family Website has in its possession or control.

Personal data that The DeVard Family Website collects

The DeVard Family Website will collect and process the following personal data:

Information that you or someone acting on your behalf provides to The DeVard Family Website.

This includes information about you that you give The DeVard Family Website by filling in forms, signing up for services on our website or by communicating with The DeVard Family Website, whether face-to-face, by phone, e-mail or otherwise.

Information The DeVard Family Website collects or generates about you.

We will also collect information about you when you use our services or when we otherwise interact or correspond with you. We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our websites. We may, for example, collect information about the type of device you use to access the websites, your IP address and your geographic location, the operating system and version, your browser type, the content you view and features you access on our websites, the web pages and the search terms you enter on our websites. For information about how we use Cookies and the choices you may have, please see our Cookies Policy here.

Uses of your personal data

Personal data may be stored and processed by The DeVard Family Website in the following ways and for the following purposes:

• to provide The DeVard Family Website's services;
• verify your identity (including for fraud prevention purposes), and to manage The DeVard Family Website's relationship with you;
• to contact you in connection with your enquiries and other services that The DeVard Family Website may provide to you;
• to notify you about changes to The DeVard Family Website’s service; or
• to comply with The DeVard Family Website’s legal and regulatory obligations.

 The DeVard Family Website is entitled to use personal data in these ways because:

• Consent – we may (but usually do not) need your consent to use your personal data. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us (see below).
• Performance of a contract – we may need to collect and use your personal data to enter into a contract with you.
• Legitimate interest – we may use your personal data for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above.
• Compliance with law or regulation – we may use your personal data as necessary to comply with applicable law/regulation.

Disclosure of personal data to third parties

The DeVard Family Website may disclose personal data to third parties, as follows:

• to provide the services or perform its obligations in connection with your contract;
• for the management and administration of The DeVard Family Website business;
• for the management and administration of internal policies and procedures within The DeVard Family Website;
• to third party agents, service providers or contractors, bound by obligations of confidentiality, who will only use personal data on The DeVard Family Website’s behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice;
• to the extent required by law, regulation or court order for example if The DeVard Family Website is under a duty to disclose personal data in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation; and
• in order to establish, exercise or defend The DeVard Family Website’s legal rights, for example if The DeVard Family Website needs to obtain external legal advice or provide personal data in connection with judicial proceedings.

Transfers of personal data outside the several states of the United States of America

Personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the several states of the United States of America (“USA”).

Where The DeVard Family Website transfers personal data outside the USA, The DeVard Family Website will ensure that it is protected in a manner that is consistent with how personal data will be protected by The DeVard Family Website in the USA. This may be achieved in one of the following ways:

• the country that The DeVard Family Website sends the data to might be approved by the USA government; or
• the recipient might have signed a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the USA government, obliging them to protect the personal data that they receive; or
• where the recipient is located in the US, it might be a certified member of the EU-US Privacy Shield scheme.

In other circumstances the law may permit The DeVard Family Website to otherwise transfer personal data outside the USA. In all cases, however, The DeVard Family Website will ensure that any transfer of personal data is compliant with applicable data protection law.

You can obtain further details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the USA by contacting The DeVard Family Website in accordance with the “Contacting The DeVard Family Website” section below.

Retention of personal data

How long The DeVard Family Website holds personal data for will vary. The retention period will be determined by various criteria including:

• the purpose for which The DeVard Family Website is using it – The DeVard Family Website will need to keep the data for as long as is necessary for that purpose; and
• legal obligations – laws or regulation may set a minimum period for which The DeVard Family Website has to retain personal data.

Rights in relation to personal data

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that The DeVard Family Website holds about you. These rights include:

• the right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data which The DeVard Family Website holds about you;
• the right to request that The DeVard Family Website rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• the right to request that The DeVard Family Website erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask The DeVard Family Website to erase your personal data but The DeVard Family Website is legally entitled to retain it;
• the right to object to, and the right to request that The DeVard Family Website restrict, its processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask The DeVard Family Website to restrict, its processing of your personal data but The DeVard Family Website is legally entitled to continue processing your personal data and / or to refuse that request;
• in some circumstances, the right to receive some personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or request that The DeVard Family Website transmit such data to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal data which you have provided to The DeVard Family Website;
• the right to withdraw your consent, although in certain circumstance it may be lawful for The Rothschild Archive to continue processing your data where The DeVard Family Website has another legitimate reason (other than consent) for doing so; and
• the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by The DeVard Family Website.

You can exercise your rights by contacting The DeVard Family Website using the details set out in the “Contacting The DeVard Family Website” section below.

You can find out more information about your rights by contacting the relevant data protection authority. We can, on request, tell you which data protection authority is relevant to the processing of your personal data.

Contacting The DeVard Family Website

If you would like further information about The DeVard Family Website’s processing of your personal data or the exercise of any of the rights referred to above, please address questions, comments and requests to:

The DeVard Family Website,
P.O. Box 73623
Metairie, Louisiana
                    [near 70033]