They do nothing with it. Do Tools > File Options > WebHints and then click the link to see their privacy policy with regards to our WebHints. It states "*The information passed to MyHeritage is never used for any other purpose and will never be displayed, sold, licensed or used in any manner whatsoever.*" Deleting a tree from MyRootsMagic deletes the files. - Bruce On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 5:45 AM, Tom Holden via < [email protected]> wrote: > If you have RootsMagic WebHints enabled for MyHeritage, every time you > open a Pedigree View, Descendants View, or Family View, the vital facts for > every person in that view is transmitted to MyHeritage. When you click on a > lightbulb for a person and then one of the WebHint links, you will see > (some of) your data about that person displayed on the left under "From > your RootsMagic tree". That data persists on the MyHeritage server for > months. I wonder what they might do with it - it represents a potentially > big data mine for both the living and the dead! > > MyHeritage is an Israeli company but I see no reason to be any more > suspicious of it than of one in your own country. > > Similarly of concern to those worried about privacy is the RootsMagic 7 > Publish Online feature. It uploads your entire database to the > MyRootsMagic.com server. > > Having the ability to "delete" a tree from any of these servers is no > guarantee that the data has been deleted from all the places that it is > stored. It might merely toggle a flag that controls whether the tree is > made visible to the "owner". > > Tom > > > > > On Feb 27, 2015, at 11:42 PM, Carol Anne via < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > Ancestry allows you to delete any tree you own. Of course, if your > > trees aren't private, people have already copied them 1000 times! > > Doesn't MyHeritage allow you to delete the trees you have posted? > > > >> From the various comments I've seen here and elsewhere, and from the > > information that MyHeritage is owned by a company in the Middle East, > > I've never been able to decide whether to subscribe or not. I don't > > know that I want to give them my credit card info. I take it that the > > owners of RootsMagic, Family Tree DNA, and 23andMe all do trust > > MyHeritage. > > > > Some people have said that my Heritage has taken their tree and posted > > it without their permission. I'm not sure how they can do that. I know > > that some people have copied my tree off my website and posted it > > there. I hardly think MyHeritage did it themselves though. It would be > > too much work for the company to surf the web in order to find trees > > that weren't posted on their website and post them there themselves! > > > > Carol Anne > > > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:52 PM, Dora Smith via > > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Ancestry does the same thing, and what is more, they have all of my > previous > >> versions as well, and some of them had errors. > >> > >> Dora > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: itsallrelatives via > >> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2015 7:25 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: [RMagic] FYI - My Heritage > >> > >> Some years ago I downloaded a "Free" Family Tree chart from My Heritage. > >> Because I liked the layout of the form, I transferred a gedcom of my > >> family into it. Now that Roots Magic has web hints from My Heritage, I > >> find that they have taken my information from my gedcom and posted it on > >> their website. They posted the exact birth dated of LIVING people. I > >> don't know how long it has been online as I only found out now that > >> Roots Magic links to it. They claim the information came from public > >> sources but I know that is not true because I had marked my direct line > >> with a tic mark, and they copied that too. They have take the > >> information down for living people once I notified them that is was > >> there, but they had no right to take the info to start with. I just hope > >> there was no damage done. > >> Just beware! > >> > >> YB > >> > >> > >> =================================== > >> RM list Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > >> http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without > >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > >> > >> --- > >> This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > >> http://www.avast.com > >> > >> > >> > >> =================================== > >> RM list Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > >> http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > >> WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > =================================== > > RM list Archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >