Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
Follow the law and do not interfere with Ancestry's services
While using your Ancestry account or any Ancestry service, you must comply with all applicable laws. You must not interfere, or try to interfere, with the services, for example by using software, a virus or a routine to block, obscure or modify Ancestry content or web pages, or to destroy another person's software, hardware or telecommunications equipment.
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While using your Ancestry account or any Ancestry Services, you:
Must comply with all applicable laws.
Must not interfere or attempt to interfere with the Services, including using any software program, virus or routine to block, obscure, modify any Ancestry Content or web pages, or to destroy another person’s software, hardware, or telecommunications equipment.
Not stated here
- Which laws apply is not stated; the page names no jurisdiction.
Security & Safeguards · Restriction or exception
No stalking, harassing or threatening users, and no abusing Ancestry staff
Among the behavior Ancestry prioritizes addressing: using its services to stalk, harass, bully, threaten or verbally attack any user, and personally abusing Ancestry employees or impacting Ancestry's computing resources.
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Using our Services to stalk, harass, bully, threaten or verbally attack any user.
Abusing Ancestry employees personally or impacting Ancestry’s computing resources.
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- "Impacting Ancestry's computing resources" is not defined; how much load counts is not stated.
Security & Safeguards · Company practice
Direct messages limit media types, and users can block others or turn off messages
Ancestry also lists limiting the types of media that can be shared in direct messages (for example, no video sharing) and letting users block other users and turn off messages from other users among the processes it may use to monitor and remove illegal content.
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We may use processes to monitor and remove such content, including:
Limiting the types of media that can be shared via direct messaging (e.g. no video sharing); and
Allowing users to block other users and toggle off messages from other users.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Listed as measures Ancestry may use; no video sharing is given as an example of a media limit.
Not stated here
- Which media types are allowed in direct messages is not listed.