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Your privacy, the agreements and the terms
What Asal Ku keeps about you and your family, who can see it, the agreements you are asked to accept, where to read the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, and how to ask for something to be removed.
In this lesson you will learn
- What Asal Ku keeps, and who can see it
- Where to read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use, in your language
- The three agreements Asal Ku may ask you to accept, and how to withdraw one
- What to do before adding another person's photo or details
- How to ask for your information, or a person, to be changed or removed
What Asal Ku keeps
A family tree is full of real people, so Asal Ku is careful and plain about it. It keeps:
- About you: your name, email and profile picture from the way you sign in, when you last signed in, and which agreements you accepted.
- What you add: people, dates, relationships, extra details, and the pictures, audio and video in galleries, with the tags you made.
- Ordinary technical records that every website keeps, such as the time and your IP address, to run and protect the service.
It does not sell your information, show advertising or use tracking cookies, and it never recognises faces. It does count visits and which features are used, to learn what helps, without cookies, without your IP address and without anything you write; nothing is counted if your browser sends Do Not Track.
Who can see it
Only you and the people you give access to as owner, manager or viewer. When you share a tree or connect a person to another tree, you choose what is shown. People you share with can see, and could copy, what you show them, so share with people you trust.
Your pictures, audio and video are not public: a file opens only for someone who is allowed to see that tree, and this is checked every time. Backups you make in Settings are encrypted and count toward your storage. The service as a whole is also backed up, encrypted and in another region, so something you delete can stay in those copies for a short time (currently about two weeks).
Read the Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use
Before you sign in: at the bottom of the sign-in page, tap Privacy Policy or Terms of Use.
After you sign in: open Profile and settings (lesson 12), then Privacy and agreements. The two links are at the top.
On the website: the same texts are on the Asal Ku website, under the page footer.
They are written in your chosen language. The English text is the official one; if a translation differs, English applies.
The agreements you may be asked to accept
| Agreement | When you are asked | What it says in short |
|---|---|---|
| Adding information about people | The first time you add, change or share something | You may add it, you ask before using someone's photo or details, and you share with care. |
| Finding people in photos | The first time you tap Find people | It runs on your phone, finds people but not faces, and keeps only the boxes you confirm. |
| Bringing in pictures from Google | The first time you use Google Photos or Google Drive | You choose in Google's own window, only your choices are copied, and your Google access is not kept. |
To read one again or take it back, open Privacy and agreements in your settings and tap Read or Withdraw. If you withdraw, the related features stop until you accept again. Nothing you already added is deleted.
Before you add someone's photo or details, ask them. For a child, ask a parent or guardian. For someone who has passed away, ask the family. If someone asks you to remove their picture, tag or details, do it at once.
Asking for something to be changed or removed
- You can change or delete people, trees and pictures yourself, remove the access you gave, and withdraw agreements in Settings.
- To get a copy of your information, to correct it, or to delete your whole account, or if you appear in someone else's tree and want something changed, write to support@codevillagesolutions.com. When you delete a person, their pictures wait two days so Undo can bring them back, then they are removed.
Try it yourself
- On the sign-in page (or in Settings), open the Privacy Policy and find the part called "Who can see it".
- Change the language and see the same text in another language.
- Open Privacy and agreements in Settings and read the agreement you accepted.
Remember
- You choose what is shown and who sees it; Asal Ku sells nothing and never recognises faces.
- The Privacy Policy and Terms are on the sign-in page, in Settings and on the website.
- Ask before you add someone else's photo or details, and remove them if asked.