Room Full of Mennonites

Effective date: July 3, 2026 · Operated by Bernhard Consulting and Holdings Ltd., Québec, Canada

Terms of Use Privacy Policy

Terms of Use

1. Who we are, and your agreement

Room Full of Mennonites (the “Service”, at roomfullofmennonites.com) is operated by Bernhard Consulting and Holdings Ltd. (“we”, “us”), a company established in Québec, Canada. By using the Service you agree to these Terms and to the Privacy Policy below. If you do not agree, please do not use the Service.

2. What the Service is (and that it's a beta)

The Service is an experimental explorer of historical Mennonite genealogical records. It is offered as a beta: features may change, break, or disappear, and data may be reprocessed or corrected at any time, without notice.

3. The records, and their source

Genealogical content is derived from the GRANDMA registry (Genealogical Registry and Database of Mennonite Ancestry), a work of Mennonite Genealogy Inc. and its community of contributors. We claim no ownership of the underlying records. They are historical, community-contributed research: they may contain errors, and nothing on the Service should be relied on as authoritative without checking original sources.

4. Accounts and invites

Full access requires an account, currently created by invitation only. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for activity under your account. Invitations you send must go to people you know personally; invitations are not transferable or for sale. We may decline invite requests, and may suspend or close accounts that break these Terms.

5. Acceptable use

The Service exists for personal, family-history, and scholarly research. You agree not to:

6. Your content

Tags, notes, and collections you create remain yours. You grant us the licence needed to store and display them back to you and to anyone you share a collection link with. Feedback you send may be used to improve the Service. Don't put content in notes that you don't have the right to share.

7. No warranty

The Service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including accuracy, availability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement — to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. Genealogical conclusions (kinship paths, relationship labels, map positions) are computed from imperfect historical data and are illustrative, not authoritative.

8. Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by the laws of Québec and Canada, we are not liable for indirect, incidental, or consequential damages arising from your use of the Service, and our total liability for any claim is limited to the amount you paid us to use the Service (currently: nothing). Nothing in these Terms limits liability that cannot be limited under applicable law, including under the Civil Code of Québec.

9. Termination

You may close your account at any time by contacting us. We may suspend or terminate access for breach of these Terms. Sections 3, 6–8, and 11 survive termination.

10. Changes

We may update these Terms; the effective date above will change and material changes will be flagged on the Service. Continued use after a change means acceptance.

11. Governing law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the Province of Québec and the federal laws of Canada applicable in it. Any dispute belongs to the courts of Québec, judicial district of Montréal, unless mandatory law says otherwise.

12. Contact

Bernhard Consulting and Holdings Ltd. — kevin@bernhardconsultants.com

Privacy Policy

In short: we collect the minimum needed to run an invite-only research site — your account details, the tags and notes you write, and modest usage signals (timezone, language, browser type, IP in server logs). We don't sell or share personal information for advertising, ever.

1. Who is responsible

Bernhard Consulting and Holdings Ltd. is responsible for the personal information processed by the Service. The person in charge of the protection of personal information (privacy officer) under Québec's Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector is Kevin Falk, reachable at kevin@bernhardconsultants.com.

2. What we collect

CategoryDetailsWhen
Accountname, email, password (stored only as a salted hash)when you sign up
Your contenttags, private notes, favourites, shared collections, feedbackas you create it
Invitationsemail addresses you invite, and who invited youinvite flows
Usagepages/views opened, timestamps, browser timezone & language, user-agent, referrer, a random browser identifier, IP address (server logs)while you browse
Local storagesession token, browser id, dismissed-banner flag, cached datasets (on your device only)while you browse

We do not use third-party advertising or analytics services, and we collect no precise geolocation — the visitor map in our own admin tools uses the coarse timezone your browser reports.

3. Why we collect it

To operate accounts and invitations; to protect the member data tier; to remember your tags, notes, and collections; to understand aggregate usage so we can improve the Service; to answer your messages; and to meet legal obligations. We ask for your consent when you sign up and when you submit content, and you may withdraw it (see your rights below).

4. Sharing

We do not sell personal information, and we do not share it for advertising. It is processed by the service providers who host and run the Service (web hosting/CDN and email delivery), bound to use it only to provide those services. Collections you choose to share are visible to whoever holds the share link.

5. Where it is stored

The Service is hosted on cloud infrastructure that may be located outside Québec, including elsewhere in Canada and in the United States. Where personal information leaves Québec it receives contractual and technical protection consistent with Québec law, but it may be subject to the laws of those jurisdictions.

6. How long we keep it

Account data and your content: while your account exists, then deleted or anonymized within a reasonable period after closure. Usage logs: kept in rolling windows and periodically pruned. Feedback: until handled and reasonably archived.

7. Your rights (Québec Law 25)

You may ask, at any time, to: access the personal information we hold about you; have it rectified if inaccurate; have it deleted (deindexation/erasure where applicable); receive a portable copy of computerized information you provided; and withdraw consent to further use. Write to the privacy officer above — we respond within 30 days. If you're unsatisfied, you may complain to the Commission d'accès à l'information du Québec.

8. About people who appear in the records

The genealogical records themselves describe historical and, in some cases, living persons, compiled by the GRANDMA project community. Access to person-level records is restricted to invited members who agree to use them only for genealogical research. If you are described in the records and want information about you restricted or corrected, contact the privacy officer; corrections of the source registry itself belong to Mennonite Genealogy Inc., and we will point you there too.

9. Security

Passwords are stored only as salted hashes; member-tier data is served from access-controlled locations; connections use HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure — if a breach creates a risk of serious injury we will notify affected persons and the Commission d'accès à l'information as the law requires.

10. Children

The Service is not directed at children under 14, and we do not knowingly collect their personal information without parental consent.

11. Changes & contact

We may update this policy; the effective date above will change. Questions and requests: kevin@bernhardconsultants.com.

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