Privacy, Legal & Copyright
Important information about using Recording MyKa and contributing to the KHGN chronicle archive.
No Living Individuals Policy
Recording MyKa is a historical genealogy platform operated by Kentucky History & Genealogy Network Inc. (KHGN). All chronicle entries must relate exclusively to deceased individuals. Do not record, publish, or share personally identifiable information about any living person — including names, addresses, birth dates, or family relationships — on this platform. KHGN reserves the right to remove any chronicle that violates this policy without notice.
Public Visibility of Chronicles
All published chronicles are publicly accessible on the internet without requiring a user account. This means search engines, genealogy services, and the general public may discover and view the content you publish. Before publishing, carefully review every field — names, dates, counties, narrative text, and photographs — to ensure no living individuals are included and no sensitive personal data is exposed. Draft chronicles remain private until you choose to publish.
Copyright & Content Ownership
You retain full copyright over original narrative text and personal research you contribute to Recording MyKa. By publishing a chronicle you grant Kentucky History & Genealogy Network Inc. a non-exclusive, perpetual, royalty-free license to display, archive, and share your chronicle for educational, genealogical, and organizational purposes. You are responsible for ensuring you have the legal right to publish all content you submit. Do not reproduce copyrighted text, documents, photographs, or records from archives, books, or third-party sources without appropriate permission or a valid fair-use basis.
Data & Privacy
Recording MyKa collects only the information necessary to operate the platform: your Google account name and email (for authentication and volunteer coordination), XP and lesson progress (stored in your account record), and the chronicle content you choose to submit. We do not sell or share your personal data with third parties outside of KHGN operations. For questions about your data, contact KHGN Inc. at khgninc@gmail.com.
Platform Operation
Recording MyKa is operated by Kentucky History & Genealogy Network Inc., a Kentucky nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving the history and genealogy of Kentucky families. The platform is provided as an educational service. KHGN reserves the right to modify, suspend, or discontinue any feature at any time.
Unaccredited Volunteer Training
The training modules, skill checks, and tier badges provided by Kentucky History & Genealogy Network Inc. (KHGN) are strictly unaccredited, informal community learning exercises. KHGN is not a college, university, or vocational trade school. Completing these modules does not confer an academic degree, professional title, or vocational certification of any kind. This platform is designed solely to train community volunteers in basic historical preservation and transcription skills.
Technical Compliance Notice — Land Records
Exercises involving historical land deeds, platting, or boundary dimensions are strictly intended for historical document abstraction and ancestral neighborhood visualization of deceased lines only. This training does not constitute, and must never be used for, professional land surveying, engineering, or legal title examination. Under KRS Chapter 322, only a licensed Professional Land Surveyor may legally establish boundary lines, determine modern property limits, or draft plats for real estate records.
Privacy & Copyright Policy
Users are strictly prohibited from uploading, requesting, or entering personal data, birth dates, or identities of living individuals into any training exercise. All practical work must be conducted using a Deceased Baseline. Users may only extract raw, uncopyrightable public-domain facts — names, dates, locations — from historical records. Copying creative narratives, commercial biographies, or copyrighted images from third-party websites into our community databases is strictly prohibited.