Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Necessary Cookies are used for login state, fraud detection and data security
Ancestry lists ways it uses Necessary Cookies, saying the list is not exhaustive: authentication, to remember your login state as you navigate its websites; fraud prevention and detection, to monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use of its Services; and security, to protect your data from unauthorized access.
Supporting quotations
We use those Cookies in a number of different ways, including:
Authentication – To remember your login state so you don’t have to log in as you navigate through our websites.
Fraud Prevention and Detection – To help us monitor for and detect potentially harmful or illegal use of our Services.
Security – To protect your data from unauthorized access.
Qualifications & exceptions
- The list is introduced with "including", so other necessary uses may exist.