Greetings from the Webminister!<br><br>I have recently rediscovered the joy of perusing the SCA and Kingdom electronic privacy policies. In order to keep our Baronial website in line with SCA requirements, no personal information can be published without written consent from the individual. "Personal information" includes:<br>
* Mundane name, mailing address, and telephone number(s)<br>* Personal email addresses (not counting "role" email addresses such as <a href="mailto:webminister@debatablelands.org">webminister@debatablelands.org</a>)<br>
<br>I will soon be contacting various guild contacts listed on the Baronial web site to reaffirm their permission to have personal email addresses listed.<br><br>However the real point of this email is for potential event autocrats. As you know, kingdom policy requires that the private information of (usually) multiple individuals be published in the event announcement in the Aestel (which is a print publication, not electronic). Autocrats typically send the same event announcement to me for publication on the BMDL web site. However, the privacy policy dictates that none of this personal information can be published without written permission from all of the individuals in question. Given that, I would like to ask that, henceforth, autocrats seeking to have their event announcements published on the website do one of the following:<br>
<br>** Remove any personal information from the announcement (I can also do this for you) --OR--<br>** Contact all individuals whose personal information is included in the announcement, *in advance*, and have them send permission to publish their information *in writing* to the webminister. Email is acceptable. Verbal permission, unfortunately, is not acceptable.<br>
<br>The personal information of any individuals who do not grant their *written* permission will have said information removed from the event announcement before publication.<br><br>I will also publish this request on the Baronial web site in the Event Policies section.<br>
<br>In Service,<br>Clemente de Warrewyk<br>Baronial File Clerk ... er ... Webminister<br>