Privacy & Example-Data Policy
This repository is the public spec and tooling for Plainfile.
It must never contain real, private family-history data.
- Examples are fictional. Use the Hartley family in
example-archive/, or invent
placeholders.
Never use a real person’s records.
- No living-person data, anywhere — issues, PRs, fixtures, or docs.
- No DNA files, raw genealogy exports, personal photos, or identifiable family documents.
- Anonymize real scenarios. If an issue needs a real research situation to make sense,
change the names, places, dates, and IDs first.
- Your own archive is separate and private. You build your real family archive in a
separate, private repository created from
archive-template/ — see the root README.md (“Repo, tools, and your archive”).
Your data depends on this public spec; it never lives inside it.
- Maintainers may delete any issue, comment, or PR that exposes personal data.
The architecture is designed around this: the public repo holds the format and the generic tools; private family data lives only in your own private archive that uses them.