Cookie Policy

Use & Processing · Company practice

Ancestry uses Cookies for site function, fraud prevention, usage analysis, preferences and advertising

Ancestry says it uses Cookies, in accordance with its Privacy Statement, to make its Services function properly, detect and prevent fraud, understand how visitors use and engage with the site, set your preferences, deliver relevant advertising, and analyze and improve its Services. Because "Cookies" includes pixels and local storage here, these purposes cover those technologies too.

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We use Cookies in accordance with our

ensure that our Services function properly;

detect and prevent fraud;

understand how visitors use and engage with our site;

set your preferences;

deliver relevant advertising; and

analyze and improve Services.

Qualifications & exceptions

• These uses are stated to be in accordance with the Privacy Statement, which this source does not include.

Not stated here

• How the Privacy Statement limits or expands these purposes is not known from this document.

Use & Processing · Restriction or exception

Necessary Cookies cannot be removed or turned off

In its table of Cookie categories, Ancestry describes Necessary Cookies as essential for its Services to operate: they make your password work, keep you logged in between pages, and remember things like your shopping cart or how far you are through an order. Ancestry states that Necessary Cookies cannot be removed or turned off, so its own preference tools do not offer a switch for this category.

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Necessary Cookies are essential for the operation of our Services.

These Cookies do things like ensure that your password works and you stay logged in when you move between pages on the website and help the website to remember details like what is in your shopping cart or how far you are through an order.

Necessary Cookies cannot be removed or turned off.

Qualifications & exceptions

• The policy elsewhere says you can set your browser to block Cookies, with the warning that parts of the site may then not work; the "cannot be turned off" statement describes Ancestry's category, not a technical bar on browser blocking.

Cross-references

• contrast (model-proposed): You can set your browser to block Cookies, but parts of the site may then not work — Ancestry says Necessary Cookies cannot be removed or turned off, yet also says you can set your browser to block Cookies. Read together, Ancestry's own controls do not switch Necessary Cookies off, while browser blocking remains available at the cost of site features not working as intended.

Use & Processing · Company practice

Analytics Cookies track how users reach and use the site and what interests them

Analytics Cookies help Ancestry understand how users interact with its Services and how people reach its website. Ancestry uses them to analyze and improve its Services, improve how the site works, understand what interests its users, and measure how effective its content is.

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Analytics Cookies help us understand how users interact with our Services.

Analytics Cookies help us understand how people reach our website and they give us insights into improvements or enhancements we need to make to our Services.

We use them to improve how our site works, understand what interests our users, and measure content effectiveness.