You may learn unexpected facts about yourself or your family, and discoveries cannot be undone
Ancestry warns that using its services may reveal unexpected facts about you or your family, and that once a discovery is made Ancestry cannot undo it. Deleting your data later does not reverse what you or others have already learned.
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You may discover unexpected facts about yourself or your family when using our services. Once discoveries are made, we can’t undo them.
Inference & Profiling · Company practice
Depending on use, Ancestry collects protected-class data such as gender or ethnic origin, and may infer more
Depending on how you use the Services, Ancestry collects information about protected classifications such as gender or racial or ethnic origin; for example, AncestryDNA uses your DNA Data to estimate ethnicity. Other sensitive information may be inferred from content you voluntarily contribute.
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Depending on how you use the Services, we collect information related to certain protected classifications such as gender or racial or ethnic origin.
Other sensitive information may be inferred by the content you voluntarily contribute to the Services.
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Depends on how you use the Services.
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Which other sensitive information may be inferred from contributed content is not specified.
Inference & Profiling · Company practice
Your searches, page views and tree edits are used to infer details and interests about you
Ancestry collects how you use the Services, for example your searches, the records or public family trees you access, pages viewed, links clicked and people you add to your tree. It uses this to infer details about you as a customer and your interests, for example to give search suggestions.
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We collect information about your use of the Services, such as when you search or access records or public family trees, which pages you view, links you click, or when you add people to your tree, etc., which we use to infer details about you as a customer and your interests to provide a better experience through, for example, search suggestions.
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The full set of inferences drawn is not listed; search suggestions are given only as an example.
Inference & Profiling · Company practice
U.S. sensitive data covers logins, ethnic origin and genetic data; disclosed within Ancestry or with research consent
In the U.S. Statement, Sensitive Personal Information includes a driver's license (only to verify identity for an access or deletion request), account login information, racial or ethnic origin, and genetic data, depending on how you use the Services. Ancestry says it does not use Sensitive Personal Information to infer characteristics about you beyond inferences inherent to the Services, such as ancestral regions, traits and ancestral journeys. It may disclose Sensitive Personal Information between the Ancestry Companies (for example between Ancestry and AncestryDNA) or if you agreed to the Informed Consent to Research.
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Sensitive Personal Information, such as driver’s license (only if necessary to verify your identity when contacting Member Services to make an access or deletion request), account login information, racial or ethnic origin, and genetic data, depending on how you use the Services.
We do not use Sensitive Personal Information to infer characteristics about you, other than those inferences that are an inherent part of the Services, such as your ancestral regions, traits, and ancestral journeys.
We may disclose Sensitive Personal Information between the Ancestry Companies (e.g. between Ancestry and AncestryDNA) or if you have agreed to our
Qualifications & exceptions
Inferences are limited to those inherent in the Services.
Disclosure is between Ancestry Companies or with research consent.