How the family record keeps your information
The Setton Family record is a private archive of one family: its people, its photographs and its stories. It is not a business, it shows no advertising, and it never sells or rents anything anyone gives it.
Last updated 28 October 2026
What the record keeps
- What relatives send: names, dates and places of birth, marriage and death, how people are related, photographs, written stories and voice notes. A family keeper reads everything before it is added.
- When you ask to join: your name, your email address and what you tell us about how you are related, so a keeper can decide and send you a link of your own.
- Family keepers: their name and email address, so they can sign in. A keeper who signs in with Google shares their name, email address and profile picture with the record; only the email address is used, to recognise them as a keeper. The record never sees a Google password, and asks for nothing else from a Google account — not contacts, mail, files or calendar.
- Photographs: the location a phone stores inside a photo is removed before the photo is saved. The date it was taken is kept, because it often says when a picture is from.
- A history of changes: every change to the record is noted with when it was made and by whom, so a mistake can be found and put right.
Who can see it
- The record is not public. Nothing in it can be found through a search engine, and it can only be seen through a personal link a keeper sends, or by a keeper who has signed in.
- People who are living: their dates and places are seen only by the family’s keepers, and by a relative a keeper has asked to help keep the record, through a link of their own. Everyone else sees only their name.
- The record does not use faces to recognise living people unless they have agreed to it.
Where it is kept
The record is stored with Supabase (its database and its files) and the website runs on Vercel. Sign-in emails are sent through Supabase. Google is used only when a keeper chooses to sign in with Google. These services keep the information on the family’s behalf and do not use it for anything else. The website uses cookies only to keep you signed in and to remember your choices on this device, such as dark mode; there are no tracking or advertising cookies.
Changing or removing something
If something about you or your family is wrong, or you would like it taken off the record, ask a family keeper — through the link you were sent, or with the form below — and say what you would like changed. A story someone told is kept in their own words, but a keeper can hide it so that nobody sees it. A keeper who signed in with Google can also remove the record’s access from their Google account settings at any time.