Privacy Statement

Ancestry · agreement dated 12 May 2026 · Official agreement

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Linking & Identification · Company practice

Using social share or follow buttons lets Ancestry collect those interactions and account info the network shares

If you interact with social media through the Services, for example "Share," "Post," "Pin" or "Follow Us" links to sites such as Facebook, X, Pinterest, Instagram and YouTube, Ancestry collects those interactions and whatever account information those services make available, depending on your privacy settings with them. Your interactions with these features are governed by the third party's privacy statement.

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Ancestry will collect these interactions and whatever account information these services make available to us depending on your privacy settings with that third party.
Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the applicable third-party.
Information Shared Through Social Media Features

Qualifications & exceptions

  • What is shared depends on your privacy settings with the third party.
  • The third party's privacy statement governs your interactions with these features.

Not stated here

  • The third parties' privacy statements are not supplied.

Linking & Identification · Company practice

Signing in with Google, Apple or similar gives Ancestry your name, email and photo to build your account

You may be able to sign in with a social networking account such as Google or Apple. When you grant the permissions, Ancestry receives information from that account, such as your name, email address and profile photo, and uses it to create your account and build your profile.

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When you give appropriate permissions, we will receive information about you from your social networking account that Ancestry will use to create your account and build your profile, such as your name, email address, and profile photo.

Qualifications & exceptions

  • Only if you use social sign-in and give the permissions.