Community Rules

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Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Context

These guidelines cover Ancestry, AncestryDNA, Find a Grave, Newspapers.com, Fold3 and other linked sites

The Community Guidelines apply to all users of websites, services and mobile apps that link to them, including Ancestry, AncestryDNA, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Fold3, Forces War Records, Archives, WeRemember and AncestryPreserve. Capitalized terms take the meaning set out in Ancestry's Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement.

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The Ancestry Community Guidelines apply to all users of websites, services, and mobile apps that link to these Community Guidelines (including Ancestry, AncestryDNA, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Fold3, Forces War Records, Archives, WeRemember, and AncestryPreserve) and are intended to protect you and the entire Ancestry community.

Any capitalized terms used in these Community Guidelines shall have the same meaning as set out in the Ancestry

Qualifications & exceptions

Coverage depends on the site, service or app linking to these guidelines; the named brands are examples.

Not stated here

The Terms and Conditions and Privacy Statement that define capitalized terms were not supplied with this document.
The page names no region or effective date.

Legal Rights & Agreement Rules · Restriction or exception

Ancestry can prohibit other activity it considers offensive or harmful, even if not listed

Ancestry says these guidelines are comprehensive but not exhaustive. It prohibits any activity that Ancestry, in its sole discretion, determines to be offensive, to interfere with the rights of others, or to cause harm to any person or entity, so conduct can break the rules without appearing in any list.

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While these Guidelines are comprehensive, they are not exhaustive.

Ancestry prohibits users of the Services from engaging in any activity that Ancestry, in its sole discretion, determines to be offensive, interferes with the rights of others, or causes harm to any person or entity.

Qualifications & exceptions

The determination is Ancestry's, in its sole discretion; no review or appeal process is described here.

Cross-references

qualifies (model-proposed): Hateful, violent, sexual, defamatory or obscene content is a priority for Ancestry to address — qualifies: The listed harmful-content categories are examples; the catch-all lets Ancestry prohibit other activity it determines in its sole discretion to be offensive or harmful.