Privacy and your photos

The Kado Village Digital Museum is for the people of Kado. This page says, in plain words, what it keeps and who can see it.

Who runs the museum

Dankore Software built the museum and gave it to Kado One Big Family, the community organisation of Kado. Dankore Software looks after it and runs it on its own servers. The museum's keeper, called the curator, checks everything before it is shown. To reach the museum, write to [email protected], or use “Ask the museum to remove or correct it” on any page.

What the museum keeps

When you join: your name, your email, and your password (stored scrambled, so no one can read it).
Your Register entry: what you write there, your portrait, and, if you give it, your phone number.
Your library: the photos, films, documents and memories you upload.
Names you add, and your name and contact if you give them on the “Add a name” form.

Who can see what

Your library is private. Only you and the curator see it until you choose “Give to the museum”.
The Collection and the Family Register are public. Once the curator approves a piece or a name, anyone can see it, and search engines such as Google can show it.
“Only show my entry to people who have joined” hides your entry from passers-by and search engines. Anyone can join the museum, so it is not a secret.
Emails and phone numbers are never shown on the site. Only the curator sees them.
When you give a piece, your name is shown on it as the giver.

Your photos and films

Phone photos and films can carry hidden details, such as the place where they were taken. For photos and films the museum shows only copies it makes itself, without those details; the file exactly as you uploaded it is seen only by you and the curator.

Documents (PDF) are shown as you uploaded them, including details such as the author's name that some programs add. Check a document before you give it to the museum.

Taking things back

Anything still on your shelf, or waiting for the curator, you can take back or remove yourself.
Once a piece is in the Collection it stays there for the family. Only the curator can take it down; ask on the piece's page at any time.
To change your Register entry, edit it under My Register entry. The curator looks at changes before they are shown.
To leave, use Account settings → Delete my account. You can also remove your Register entry there. Pieces already in the Collection stay, with your name as the giver, unless you ask the curator to take them down.
The museum keeps private backup copies so nothing is lost by accident. Something removed from the site can stay in a backup; write to the museum if you need it removed from the backups too.

Cookies, counting visits and fixing problems

One cookie keeps you signed in, and one shows a short message after you save something.
To learn which pages help people, the museum counts visits with Umami, which Dankore Software runs on its own server. It uses no cookies, does not follow you to other sites, and nothing is sold or used for adverts. Cloudflare, which delivers the site, also counts page loads and their speed, without cookies.
On public pages, for visitors who are not signed in, it may also record how a page is used (where people click and scroll) so problems can be found. Never on pages where you type your name, contact or password, and never on your library.
When something on the museum breaks, an error report goes to Dankore Software's own error tracker so it can be fixed. Reports leave out passwords and what you typed.

Last changed 7 November 2026.