Retention & Deletion · Permission or license
Your sample is stored in a US biobank or destroyed per your registration choice; it cannot be returned
You agree that Ancestry may either store your sample and any extracted DNA in its biobank located in the United States, or destroy any remaining sample and extracted DNA after your sample has been processed, based on the option you selected when registering your AncestryDNA test. Once submitted, your sample, including any extracted DNA, cannot be returned to you.
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You agree that in order to facilitate your use of DNA Services, we may directly or through other companies who help us provide DNA Services:
Store your sample and any extracted DNA in our biobank located in the United States, or destroy any remaining sample and extracted DNA after your sample has been processed—based on the option you selected when registering your AncestryDNA test; once submitted to us, your sample, including any extracted DNA, cannot be returned to you.
Qualifications & exceptions
- Which of the two outcomes applies depends on the option selected at registration.
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- Ancestry may pass your sample to lab partners, extract DNA and test it, now or with later-developed methods
- Ancestry may compare your DNA Data with other Users’ to match you with others who share DNA; you control who sees whom
- Ancestry may disclose test results to you and people you authorize, and store your DNA Data
- You can withdraw biobanking consent and have your sample destroyed; Ancestry may also destroy samples for quality
- Lab partners may use part of registered or unregistered samples to calibrate or validate equipment
- Genetic and other Personal Information is used as the Terms and linked privacy documents describe