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Effective Date: 26 Jan 2023

 

Summary of Changes

This summary communicates the most recent changes to Ancestry’s Privacy
Statement and how the changes may impact you.

The updates to the Privacy Statement apply to your use of the Services (defined
below) when you view, access, or otherwise use the Services. To fully understand
the changes and terms that will govern your use of our Services, please read the
Privacy Statement.

Specifically, the most recent changes include:

 * The addition of language to comply with the California Privacy Rights Act of
   2020 (“CPRA”), Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act, and other U.S.
   regulations.

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At Ancestry®, your privacy is a top priority. Ancestry is committed to being a
good steward of your Personal Information (defined below), handling it in a
responsible manner, and securing it with administrative, technical,
organizational and physical safeguards.

We believe in being honest, direct and transparent when it comes to your data.
Ancestry follows three guiding principles when it comes to your privacy:

 * Transparency. We work hard to be transparent about what Personal Information
   we collect and process.
 * Simplicity. We try to use easy-to-understand language to describe our privacy
   practices to help you make informed choices.
 * Control. We give you control over the Personal Information you provide to us,
   including your DNA Data, and how it is used, shared, and retained.

 

Other Important Things for You To Understand When You Use Our Services

You maintain control of your DNA and DNA Data (defined below)—you can manage and
delete it as described in this Privacy Statement.

You may discover unexpected facts about yourself or your family when using our
services. Once discoveries are made, we can’t undo them.

When you make new discoveries with us, you should feel confident and informed
about how we use your Personal Information. Our full Privacy Statement is below.
It covers all Ancestry websites, services, and mobile apps that link to this
Privacy Statement, including: Ancestry®, AncestryDNA®, Fold3®, Newspapers.com™,
Archives®, We Remember®, and Find a Grave®.

 

US Customers only - The US Resident Additional Privacy Statement below contains
additional details for US residents in California, Colorado, Connecticut, and
Virginia.

Non-US Customers only - Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company is the controller of
your Personal Information and Section 8 below contains information on your
rights.

 

Table of Contents

 

1.   Introduction 2.   Account Creation and Your Engagement with Ancestry
Services 3.   What Personal Information Does Ancestry Collect from You? 4.  
What Information Does Ancestry Collect Through Your Use of the Services? 5.  
Information We Collect from Other Sources 6.   How Does Ancestry Use Your
Personal Information? 7.   What Information Do We Share, When Do We Share It,
and Who Are the Recipients? 8.   Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your Personal
Information 9.   What Are Our Retention Practices? 10.   How Can I Delete My
Personal Information? 11.   Security 12.   International Data Transfers 13.  
Changes to This Statement 14.   Legal Bases Under EU General Data Protection
Regulation for Processing Personal Information of EU Residents. 15.   Identity
and Contact Details of the Data Controller 16.   US Resident Additional Privacy
Statement (California, Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia customers only) 17.  
Australian Additional Privacy Statement

 

1.  Introduction

At Ancestry, we empower journeys of personal discovery to enrich lives. To
provide and improve the websites, mobile applications, and services
(collectively the “Services”), we collect, process, and store "Personal
Information," which is information that can identify you directly or indirectly,
as further described in Section 3, such as your name, email or address, or
information that could reasonably be linked back to you, including your Genetic
Information. This Privacy Statement describes our practices for collecting,
storing and processing your Personal Information and the controls we provide you
to manage it within our Services. In addition, our Cookie Policy describes our
use of browser cookies and similar tracking technologies.

Please note: Information about deceased persons is not Personal Information
under this Privacy Statement.

 

2.  Account Creation and Your Engagement with Ancestry Services

The Personal Information contractually required to create an account with
Ancestry is limited to your name, an email address, and a password. For Archives
users only, billing information is also required for account creation.

By creating an account you are telling us that you understand Ancestry will
collect, process, and share your Personal Information (including your Genetic
Information if you have taken a DNA test) as described in this Privacy
Statement.

Access to Ancestry content such as archival records to help you build a family
tree or to our DNA features (ethnicity estimate, etc.) requires additional
Personal Information, including payment and shipping details, and, for the DNA
test, the test code, your assigned sex at birth, birth year, and Genetic
Information extracted from your saliva sample.

At any time, you can request that Ancestry delete Personal Information you have
uploaded into your account, such as a family tree or your Genetic Information.
You can also delete your entire account. Please see Section 10 for specific
details about deleting your Personal Information.

 

3.  What Personal Information Does Ancestry Collect From You?

Information Category Description Account Information
 * Your name (required).
 * An email address (required).
 * A password that you create (required).
 * A phone number - You may provide a phone number so we can (i) notify you of
   DNA test result status, (ii) notify you of other updates you agree to, (iii)
   assist you when you contact Ancestry Member Services, or (iv) allow you to
   enable multi-factor authentication. A phone number may be required for DNA
   test kit deliveries.
 * Billing information.
 * Certain Ancestry brands may support third-party sign-in services such as
   Facebook, Google and Apple that provide Ancestry your Personal Information,
   such as your name and email address, and profile photo. Please refer to our
   Cookie Policy to learn about how third parties use technology for analytics
   and targeting purposes and about the controls we provide you.

Credit Card/Payment Information
 * Payment information, such as your credit card number, and your billing and
   shipping address(es), when you sign up for a free trial or make a purchase,
   such as an Ancestry subscription or a DNA test kit.

DNA Kit Activation Information When you activate a DNA test kit, we collect:
 * Your DNA test kit code;
 * Your assigned sex at birth; and,
 * Your year of birth.

Profile Information

We collect the information that you provide when you create a user profile (for
example, a profile image, your name, username, biography, age, location, and
linked account usernames) and about you from your family tree. Your Ancestry
user profile information is visible to other Users (defined in the Ancestry
Terms and Conditions), so please consider limiting this information and using a
username that is different from your real name to protect your privacy.

 

Your Content

We collect information when you voluntarily contribute to the
Services, including Your Content (as defined in the Terms and Conditions. 

 

Genetic Information At our partner laboratories, we extract your DNA from your
saliva and convert it into machine-readable DNA data (“DNA Data”) that we
process to provide you with an ethnicity estimate and communities suggestions.
We also process your DNA Data to provide you information about your degree of
relatedness to other users in our DNA database and any genetic markers
associated with certain biological, physiological, or behavioral traits, such as
hair thickness and eye color or traits associated with wellness.

Your DNA Data and any information derived from it such as ethnicity estimates,
communities, traits, and genetic relative matches are Personal Information and
referred to as “Genetic Information”.

A Note About Your DNA and Saliva: Neither your saliva nor the extracted DNA
(together referred to as “Biological Samples”) are Personal Information under
this Privacy Statement. Also, after our laboratory partner has processed your
Biological Sample, you can consent to its storage in our bio bank for future
testing at your option. Future testing may be done if you agree to our Informed
Consent for Research or if you consent to other tests of your Biological
Samples. If you do not consent to the storage of your Biological Sample, we will
destroy your sample. Sections 8 and 10 below describe how you can control your
Biological Samples. You may request that Ancestry destroy your Biological
Samples by contacting Member Services. Note that we may destroy Biological
Samples that do not meet our quality assurance requirements at our discretion.

Note About Health-Related Information Ancestry is not a covered entity under the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”), and as a result
no data provided by you is subject to or protected by HIPAA. Your Communications
We host and maintain your communications with other Users through the
communications features on our platform, and also collect your information when
you communicate with Ancestry Member Services and support teams for our other
Services, including audio and visual information (such as recordings of calls
with Ancestry Member Services or information voluntarily shared when
participating in consumer insights research). Contests and Promotions We collect
Personal Information when you voluntarily participate in contests and special
promotions we run or sponsor, the details of which are provided upon entry. Find
a Grave Photos and Photo Volunteers Through Find a Grave, we collect metadata
associated with digital photographs uploaded to the Find a Grave service,
including location, date, and time the photo was taken. If you choose to be a
photo volunteer for Find a Grave, you provide your location to us which you can
change or remove at any time. Other Protected Classifications and Sensitive Data
We may collect information related to certain protected classifications such as
gender or marital status.

For information on Personal Information processed by Ancestry relating to
non-Ancestry users please click here.

 

4.  What Information Does Ancestry Collect Through Your Use of the Services?

Information Category Description Computer and Mobile Device Information

Ancestry collects information about how you access our Services, including the
website you visited before and after Ancestry’s site.

We also collect the IP address where your computer, mobile device, or the proxy
server that you use accesses the Internet, in addition to other technical
information, such as:

 * Your computer operating system;
 * Your web browser;
 * Your mobile device identifier provided by your mobile device operating system
   and your mobile operating system; and,
 * The name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier.

Ancestry may collect geolocation information from your device with your
permission.

Information from Cookies and Similar Technologies Ancestry uses cookies and
similar technologies as well as technical integrations with marketing and
advertising partners as described in our Cookie Policy. Please refer to our
Cookie Policy to learn about our practices and the controls we provide you.
Information Shared Through Social Media Features

If you interact with social media through the Services, for example “Share,”
“Post,” “Tweet,” “Pin,” or “Follow Us” links to sites such as Facebook, Twitter,
Pinterest, Instagram, and YouTube, Ancestry will collect these interactions and
whatever account information these services make available to us dependent on
your privacy settings with that third party.

Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of
the applicable third-party company.

You may have the option to sign-on to Ancestry Services using your social
networking account, such as a Google or Apple account. Where 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.

Information from Your Use of the Services 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 may use to infer details about you as a customer and your
interests to provide a better experience through, for example, search
suggestions.

 

5.  Information We Collect from Other Sources

Information Category Use Description Information from Public and Historical
Records Ancestry collects records from various sources, usually from official
record sources, including newspapers, as well as birth, death, marriage, and
census records, which may contain Personal Information relating to you. Public
and historical records may also contain Personal Information relating to
non-Ancestry users. These records are usually made available to Users as part of
the Ancestry subscription Services. Information from Third Parties

We may also receive information about you from third parties. For example, we
may supplement the data we collect with information licensed from third parties
in order to personalize the Services and our offers to you.

If you purchase a gift subscription or DNA kit as a gift, we will collect
Personal Information, such as the recipient’s name, shipping address, email
address, and the necessary purchase information to complete the gift and notify
the recipient.

 

6.  How Does Ancestry Use Your Personal Information?

Information Category Use Description Personal Information (Generally) We use
your Personal Information to provide, personalize, improve, update, and expand
our Services. This includes:
 * Authenticating your access to the Services and improving Ancestry information
   security;
 * Processing your payments for subscriptions, AncestryDNA services and test
   kits, and other products and features;
 * Building new and improving existing Services;
 * Helping you create, and providing insights about, your family trees based on
   data in Ancestry’s databases;
 * Issuing surveys and questionnaires for use in the Services, as well as
   facilitating product development and research initiatives;
 * Conducting scientific, statistical, and historical research;
 * Detecting and protecting against error, fraud, or other criminal or malicious
   activity; and,
 * Enforcing our Terms and Conditions.

Communications We use your Personal Information to communicate with you about
the Services, such as when we:
 * Respond to your inquiries to Member Services;
 * Alert you to potential genetic relatives identified by DNA matching, or
   through our family history services (for example, “Ancestry Hints®” about
   potential ancestors in our database);
 * Alert you to records pertaining to people in your family tree or to whom you
   may be related;
 * Inform you of changes to Services or new Services;
 * Ask you to participate in Ancestry media productions, advertisements,
   consumer insights research, or testimonials; and,
 * Provide you with information or request action in response to technical,
   security, and other operational issues.

Market Products and Offers from Us or Our Business Partners We may use some
Personal Information (for example, demographic information available from
third-party sources or from parts of Ancestry (profile, trees, etc.)) to market
our products and offers from us or our business partners. This marketing
includes advertising based on your interests.

Please note: Ancestry does not share your Genetic Information with third-party
marketers, insurance companies, or employers, and we will not use your Genetic
Information for marketing or personalized advertising without getting your
explicit consent.

For marketing that you have consented to receive by email or SMS, you can
control how we market to you by using the unsubscribe link in any marketing
email you receive, by changing your communication settings, or by following the
instructions in marketing communications you receive. Controls for Ancestry’s
related brands’ are available through their settings and are listed here. For
advertising on third-party platforms, we rely on our own legitimate interests as
the legal basis (please see Section 7) and you should control your marketing
preferences directly on those platforms.

Genetic Information Ancestry uses your Genetic Information for the following
primary purposes:
 * Delivering ethnicity results, DNA matches (e.g., close or extended family or
   others to whom you may be related) from our database, and other information
   to help you and other users learn more about each other, potential family
   members, as well as your genetic relatives and family groups;
 * Connecting you with and helping you learn about your genetic relatives in our
   database through features such as DNA matching or other product features;
 * Providing you with other insights into what your DNA may reveal about traits,
   and wellness;
 * Providing relevant results to assist you in discovering common ancestors and
   other details about your family history, as well as helping you build your
   family tree or connect with friends and family;
 * Studying aggregated Genetic Information to better understand population and
   ethnicity-related health, wellness, aging, or physical conditions;
 * Conducting scientific, statistical, and historical research; and,
 * Improving features and functionality in our existing DNA-related products,
   enhancing the customer experience across Ancestry Services, improving the
   quality of our laboratory processes and technology, and building new products
   and services.

 

7.  What Information Do We Share, When Do We Share It and Who Are the
Recipients?

Ancestry does not share your individual Personal Information (including your
Genetic Information) with third parties except as described in this Privacy
Statement or with your additional consent. We do not voluntarily share your
information with law enforcement. Also, we will not share your Genetic
Information with insurance companies, employers, or third-party marketers
without your express consent.

Please note: Ancestry’s US-specific disclosures can be found here.

The circumstances described below explain when sharing might occur:

 

Those with Whom Your Information May Be Shared / Circumstances in Which Sharing
Occurs Description Ancestry Companies

We may share your information within the Ancestry group of companies listed here
(the “Ancestry Companies”) in order to provide and improve our Services.

We transfer your Personal and Genetic Information between Ancestry’s
Ireland-based company and Ancestry’s U.S.-based companies. For more information
on this see Section 12 below.

Other Users or Others You May Choose to Share With

As part of your use of the Services, you have the option to add or share
information with all Users of the Service or through sharing features with
particular Ancestry Users and even non-Ancestry users. You may have additional
sharing options in some Services, for example AncestryDNA (see below).

Information in your public profile(s) will be seen by all other Users, as will
public family tree details (note that living people in your tree are only
visible to you and people you share your tree with as “editor” or whom you
authorize to be able to view your tree’s living people).

If you choose to view and be seen by your DNA matches, your DNA matches can see
certain Personal Information, such as your username, how they might be related
to you, whether you have linked a family tree to your DNA, and either all or
only shared (at your option) regions and communities. You may be offered other
options for connecting with relatives or learning about familial connections.

You can share other DNA information, such as Traits, through the "compare" and
other one-to-one sharing features.

If you share details of your family history or DNA experience outside the
Services, you do so at your own risk.

Service Providers

We work with other companies when providing and marketing the Services. As a
result, these companies will have access to or otherwise process your data,
including some of your Personal Information, in their systems. These companies
are subject to contractual obligations governing privacy, data security, and
confidentiality consistent with applicable laws.

These companies and the Personal Information they may have access to include
our:

 * Laboratory partners (such as your DNA);
 * DNA test shipping providers (such as name, shipping address, and phone
   number);
 * Payment processors (such as Payment Information);
 * Cloud services infrastructure providers (Ancestry’s web and mobile services
   are cloud-based services; all your data resides with our cloud service
   vendors);
 * Biological sample storage facilities (such as Biological Sample and DNA test
   kit code);
 * Vendors that assist us in marketing and consumer research analytics, fraud
   prevention, and security (such as email address);
 * Communications infrastructure providers (such as name and email address);
   and,
 * Vendors that help us provide some Member Services functions, like phone
   support or survey tools (such as Account Information or name or email
   address)

Analytics and Advertising Partners We work with third-party partners for
analytics and advertising purposes. By collecting and sharing certain Personal
Information, these vendors help us to better personalize ads to match your
interests. They also help us to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns and
are used to serve you with advertising that is more relevant to you. Research
Partners We share your Genetic Information with research partners only when you
provide us with your express consent to do so through our Informed Consent to
Research. Unless you agree to the Informed Consent to Research, your data will
not be shared with these researchers.

Research partners include commercial or non-profit organizations that conduct or
support scientific research, the development of therapeutics, medical devices or
related material to treat, diagnose or predict health conditions. In some
circumstances, a research partner or Ancestry may have a financial interest in
the research arrangement. A list of our research partners can be found here.

Law Enforcement

Ancestry does not voluntarily provide data of any kind to governmental or
judicial bodies or to law enforcement agencies. To provide our Users with the
greatest protection under the law, we require all government agencies seeking
access to Ancestry customers’ data to follow valid legal process. We do not
allow law enforcement to use Ancestry’s services to investigate crimes or to
identify human remains.

If we are compelled to disclose your Personal Information to law enforcement, we
will do our best to provide you with advance notice, unless we are prohibited
under the law from doing so. Ancestry produces a Transparency Report where we
list the number of valid law enforcement requests for user data across all our
sites.

Other Legal or Regulatory Process We may share your Personal Information if we
believe it is reasonably necessary to:
 * Comply with valid legal process (e.g., subpoenas, warrants);
 * Enforce or apply the Ancestry Terms and Conditions;
 * Protect the security or integrity of the Services; or
 * Protect the rights, property, or safety of Ancestry, our employees, or Users.

If Ancestry is Acquired If Ancestry or its businesses are acquired or
transferred (including in connection with bankruptcy or similar proceedings), we
may share your Personal Information with the acquiring or receiving entity. The
promises in this Privacy Statement will continue to apply to your Personal
Information transferred to the new entity. A Note About Aggregated Data Ancestry
may disclose user information in an aggregated form as part of the Services or
our marketing, or in scientific publications published by us or our research
partners. For example, we might note the percentage of immigrants in a State
that are from a particular geographic region or country. Such disclosure will
never include Personal Information.

 

8.  Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your Personal Information

All Users (as defined in our Terms and Conditions) may use our online tools to
1) request a report of what Personal Information they have provided to us, 2)
download a copy of their DNA Data or download a copy of their family trees, and
3) delete their family trees, DNA test results or account.

Additionally, some data privacy laws, such as the EU’s General Data Protection
Regulation, provide people with specific rights regarding their Personal
Information. For example:

Right of Access/To Know – You may have a right to request access to your
Personal Information and to be provided with a copy of certain information
including the categories of your Personal Information we collect and disclose.
To request a copy, follow these step-by-step instructions. If you want a copy of
your DNA Data, follow these step-by-step instructions. If you want a copy of
your family trees, follow these step-by-step instructions.

Right of Rectification/Correction – You may have the right to request that we
rectify or correct inaccurate Personal Information about you.

Right of Erasure/Deletion – You have the right, in certain cases, to request
that we restrict (stop any active processing) or delete your Personal
Information, provided there are valid grounds for doing so and subject to
applicable law. See Section 10 for information on how to delete your Personal
Information.

Right to Object – You may have the right to object to processing activities in
our legitimate interests where such activities impact on your rights and
freedoms as an individual. Also, when you consent to processing of your Personal
Information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time
and we will stop any further processing of your data for that purpose.

Right to Restriction – You have the right to request a restriction on our
processing of your Personal Information, for example, where you believe that the
processing is based on inaccurate data or not processed in a lawful manner.

Right to Data Portability – You may have the right to receive certain of your
Personal Information in a format that can be transmitted to another data
controller.

Right to Complain – You have the right to make a complaint to the Irish Data
Protection Commission (Complaints handling, Investigations and Enforcement For
Individuals | Data Protection Commissioner) or any other competent supervisory
authority in the country of residence.

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You can exercise these rights by using the tools described below or by
contacting Ancestry. Details and options for accessing this information are
listed below.

Type Choices Ancestry You can access and update the Personal Information (such
as your email address, username, profile information, etc.) that you provide to
Ancestry at any time in the following sections of the privacy settings:
 * Public Profile;
 * Account Settings;
 * Communications Settings; and,
 * DNA Settings.

To learn how to manage the privacy settings for any family trees you have
created on Ancestry, you can visit your Tree Settings or click here. Related
Brands Ancestry strives to make it simple for you to manage your privacy across
the Services. You can manage your privacy settings for our related brands here.
Mobile Apps You can also control your information using the settings available
in our mobile applications, such as Ancestry, AncestryDNA, Find a Grave, and We
Remember apps. Advertising We use cookies and similar tracking technologies and
integrations with third party marketing and advertising partners to collect data
about your interests or behaviors to serve you targeted ads. You may change your
settings as described in our Cookie Policy. For information on “Do Not Track”
please see our Cookie Policy. Family Tree Information Download Ancestry allows
you to download your family tree information in the standard GEDCOM family tree
file format in your Tree Settings. Learn how here. Genetic Information Download
You always have the option of downloading a file with your DNA Data. If you
download your DNA Data, you do so at your own risk. Learn how here. For more
information on what is included in your DNA Data download, go here.

 

9.  What Are Our Retention Practices?

Ancestry Services are fundamentally premised on the notion that the personal
voyage of self-discovery is not a one-time event and continues over lengthy
periods of time—possibly lifetimes. Additionally, and with particular regard to
our subscribers and DNA customers who pay fees or purchase subscriptions, the
ongoing enhancement of our collections of historical records and DNA features
provide benefits and insights to our Users over time. As a result, our retention
practices reflect this ongoing value by retaining user accounts on our system
until our Users inform us of their desire to delete their data or close their
accounts.

Information Category Retention Period Account and Profile Ancestry will retain
the Personal Information you provide while creating your account and your
profile until such time as you delete your account. Family Tree Due to the
multi-generational significance of family trees, Ancestry will retain your
family tree data to provide you with continuous access, updated features, and
the ability to enhance your family tree. Your family tree data is kept until you
delete your family tree or your account. DNA Ancestry retains your DNA Data to
provide you with the features and functionality you purchased (or were gifted),
including continuously updated features such as DNA matches, increasingly
granular ethnicity estimates and improved regions and communities, as well as
new other features based on your DNA Data. Your DNA Data is kept until you
delete your DNA test results or your account.

If you were a customer of AncestryHealth, our AncestryHealth laboratory partners
are required to retain your DNA Data and test result for a period of at least
seven years, or as required by state law and the Clinical Laboratory
Improvements Act (CLIA) and the guidelines that apply to laboratories certified
by the College of American Pathologists (CAP).

Related Brands Some of our related brands (Fold3, Newspapers.com™, Find a Grave,
We Remember, or Archives) have their own account logins and will retain the
Personal Information you provide while creating your account and your profile as
needed to provide you with continuous and updated Services until such time as
you ask us to delete it. Usage Information We retain usage information (e.g.,
visits to sites) in a depersonalized or aggregated form. Once aggregated, this
information ceases to be Personal Information and will not be subject to user
deletion requests.

 

10.  How Can I Delete My Personal Information?

You can delete your Personal Information from Ancestry at any time.

Information Category How To Delete Personal Information

You can delete your Personal Information from Ancestry by following these
instructions.

If you have shared information with other Users (for example, by making your
family trees public or by sharing your DNA Results directly with other Users),
Ancestry will not be able to remove any copies of information that other Users
may have retained, which can only be removed by your contacting the other User
and asking them to delete it.

Please direct any request to remove information from linked archival records to
the responsible archival entity.

We will consider requests for removal of Personal Information from the
searchable indexes of the records we hold on a case-by-case basis in accordance
with law.

For information on Personal Information processed by Ancestry relating to
non-Ancestry users please click here.

Genetic Please note: If you request that Ancestry delete your DNA Data, we will
delete all Genetic Information, including any derivative Genetic Information
(ethnicity estimates, genetic relative matches, etc.) from our production,
development, analytics, and research systems within 30 days.

To request the destruction of your Biological Samples, you must contact Member
Services. Please note that if you have agreed to our Informed Consent to
Research, we will not be able to remove your Genetic Information from active or
completed research projects, but we will not use it for any new research
projects.

General Please note that there may be some latency in deleting your Personal
Information from our backup systems after it has been deleted from our
production, development, analytics, and research systems. Also, our laboratory
partners may retain information they receive from us in order to comply with
laws or regulations requiring retention of certain data, such as the Clinical
Laboratory Improvements Amendments regulations administered by the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration. Ancestry may also retain certain information as reasonably
necessary to comply with our legal obligations (including law enforcement
requests), resolve disputes, maintain security, prevent fraud and abuse, as well
as to comply with tax, payment industry, securities, and clinical regulatory
compliance requirements. Related Brands To delete information from our related
brands (Fold3, Newspapers.com™, Find a Grave, We Remember or Archives), you can
contact us at the related brand and request that your Personal Information be
deleted from that service. Some Services may also have an online request form
accessible from that service’s account settings menu and viewable here.

 

11.  Security

Ancestry maintains a comprehensive information security program designed to
protect our customers’ Personal Information using administrative, physical, and
technical safeguards.

The specific security measures used are based on the sensitivity of the Personal
Information collected. We have measures in place to protect against
inappropriate access, loss, misuse, or alteration of Personal Information
(including Genetic Information) under our control.

The Ancestry Security Team regularly reviews our security and privacy practices
and enhances them as necessary to help ensure the integrity of our systems and
your Personal Information.

We use secure server software to encrypt Personal Information (including Genetic
Information), and we only partner with security companies that meet and commit
to our security standards. While we cannot guarantee that loss, misuse, or
alteration of data will not occur, we use appropriate technical and
organizational measures to prevent this.

It is also important for you to guard against unauthorized access to your
Personal Information by maintaining strong passwords and protecting against the
unauthorized use of your own computer or device.

 

12.  International Data Transfers

We are a global business and will transfer your Personal Information to
countries other than your own country, including but not limited to the United
States, Ireland, the United Kingdom and France. Countries which are outside the
EEA, Switzerland or the United Kingdom may not offer the same level of data
protection as in your home country. When we transfer your Personal and Genetic
Information between Ancestry’s Ireland-based company and Ancestry’s U.S.-based
companies for processing in the United States, we rely on established transfer
mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses.

 

13.  Changes to This Statement

We may modify this Privacy Statement at any time, but we will provide prominent
advance notice of any material changes to this Statement, such as posting a
notice through the Services, on our websites, or sending you an email, to
provide you the opportunity to review the changes and choose whether to continue
using the Services.

We will also notify you of non-material changes to this Statement as of their
effective date by posting a notice through the Services, on our websites, or
sending you an email.

If you object to any changes, you may delete your account as described in
Section 10.

 

14.  Legal Bases Under EU General Data Protection Regulation for Processing
Personal Information of EU Residents.

Under EU and UK law, we are required to specify the purposes for which we
process your Personal Information and the legal bases which we rely on to do
this. Ancestry relies on a number of legal bases to collect and process your
Personal Information and Genetic Information. You can view the details of our
legal bases here.

 

15.  Identity and Contact Details of the Data Controller

Customers in the United States

If you reside in the United States, Ancestry.com Operations, L.P. , Ancestry.com
Operations Inc., and Ancestry.com DNA, LLC, are responsible for the use of your
data and for responding to any requests related to your Personal Information.

 

  Email Postal Address For Users Located in the United States
privacy@ancestry.com Ancestry.com Operations, L.P.
Attn: Privacy Office
153 Townsend Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94107 US State Privacy Requests usprivacyrequests@ancestry.com
N/A California Authorized Agent Support
thirdpartyauthorizationrequests@ancestry.com N/A

 

Customers Outside the United States

If you reside outside the United States, Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company is
your data controller.

Users outside of the United States may contact the Irish Data Protection
Commission, or your local Data Protection Authority.

 

  Email Postal Address For Users Located Outside of the United States
dpo@ancestry.com Ancestry Ireland Unlimited Company
Attn: Privacy Office
52-55 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay
Dublin D02 NA07
Ireland

 

For Ancestry Customers: Ancestry customers can reach us using these phone
numbers, or you may submit questions using this web form.

Law Enforcement Requests: Requests for information from law enforcement bodies
should follow Ancestry’s Guide for Law Enforcement.

 

16.  US Resident Additional Privacy Statement

Ancestry provides this US Resident Additional Privacy Statement (“US
Statement”), applicable to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and
other U.S. residents, as a supplement to our Privacy Statement, to provide
information as to how you may exercise your rights under the California Consumer
Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), the Colorado Privacy Act (“CPA”), the Connecticut
Data Privacy Act (“CTDPA”), and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act
(“VCDPA”). This US Statement covers all Ancestry websites, services, and mobile
apps that link to this US Statement, including: Ancestry®, AncestryDNA, Fold3,
Newspapers.com™, Archives, We Remember, and Find a Grave (throughout,
collectively, as applicable “Ancestry” “we” or “our”). It applies to the
Personal Information (defined above) we collect from your use of our Services
and through any other means by which you engage with us.

16.1  Categories of Personal Information

Ancestry collects, and has collected in the 12 months prior to the effective
date of this US Statement, the following categories of Personal Information:

 * Identifiers, such as name, username, postal address, unique personal
   identifier, online identifier, IP address, your mobile device identifier,
   email address, account name, driver’s license.
 * Personal information described in subdivision (e) of Section 1798.80 not
   covered by an existing category (physical characteristics or descriptions).
 * Characteristics of protected classifications under applicable state or
   federal law, such as self-reported assigned sex at birth and year of birth.
   This also includes Your Content (as defined in our Terms and Conditions) you
   choose to disclose with us that is considered a legally protected class
   under applicable state or federal law.
 * Commercial information, such as products or services purchased, obtained, or
   considered or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
 * Internet usage information, such as your browsing history, search history,
   and information regarding your interaction with our sites and advertisements.
 * Geolocation data, such as location of your device or computer and any
   metadata associated with digital photographs uploaded to Find a Grave,
   including the location, date, and time the photo was taken.
 * Sensory data, such as audio, electronic, and visual information (e.g., audio
   or video recordings you upload, recordings of calls with Ancestry Member
   Services or information you voluntarily disclose when doing consumer insights
   research with us).
 * Inferences derived from Personal Information, such as to suggest familial
   relationships and to create consumer profiles for the purposes of research,
   product development and marketing. Please note as stated in Section
   16.7 below, we do not sell your Personal Information.
 * Sensitive Personal Information, such as driver’s license, account login
   information, racial or ethnic origin, and genetic data. We do not use or
   disclose Sensitive Personal Information to infer characteristics about you.

Note that some categories of information are collected only if you use certain
of our Services.

16.2  Business Purposes

Ancestry uses the categories of Personal Information described in Section 16.1
for the following business purposes:

 * Providing, personalizing, improving, updating, and expanding Ancestry’s
   Services;
 * Communicating to you about the Services;
 * Helping to ensure security and integrity of the Services; and
 * Marketing new products and offers from us or our business partners based on
   your interests.

16.3  Categories of Sources of Personal Information

Ancestry collects, and has collected in the 12 months prior to the effective
date of this US Statement, categories of Personal Information described in
Section 16.1 from the following categories of sources:

 * You, our user/visitor—this source of Personal Information depends on your use
   of the Services, including when you submit Your Content (as defined in our
   Terms and Conditions);
 * The Ancestry Companies (defined in Section 7);
 * Public records;
 * Historical records; and,
 * Third parties.

16.4  Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes

Ancestry discloses, and has disclosed in the 12 months prior to the effective
date of this US Statement, with the following categories of third parties the
correlating categories of Personal Information for a business purpose:

Categories of Third Parties  The Categories of Personal Information We Disclose
Other Ancestry Users (if you disclosed your Personal Information on Ancestry)
 * Identifiers;
 * Categories of personal information described in Section 1798.80(e) of the
   California Civil Code;
 * Characteristics of protected classes under applicable state or federal law;

Ancestry Companies
 * Identifiers;
 * Categories of personal information described in Section 1798.80(e) of the
   California Civil Code;
 * Characteristics of protected classes under applicable state or federal law;
 * Commercial information;
 * Machine-readable DNA data (only between Ancestry and AncestryDNA);
 * Internet usage information;
 * Geolocation data;
 * Sensory data; and,
 * Inferences.

Service Providers
 * Identifiers and categories of personal information described in Section
   1798.80(e) of the California Civil Code such as email address and unique
   personal identifiers generated by Ancestry (tube code);
 * Saliva samples;
 * Characteristics of protected classes under applicable state or federal law
   (self-reported sex assigned at birth, year of birth) are disclosed to our
   partner laboratories;
 * Commercial information;
 * Internet usage information;
 * Sensory data; and,
 * Inferences.

Research Partners Refer to the Informed Consent to Research for information on
what is disclosed with research partners, which may include:
 * Identifiers;
 * Categories of personal information described in Section 1798.80(e) of the
   California Civil Code;
 * Characteristics of protected classes under applicable state or federal law;
 * Commercial information;
 * Machine-readable DNA data;
 * Internet usage information;
 * Sensory data; and,
 * Inferences.

Law Enforcement or Other Regulatory Bodies We do not voluntarily disclose your
Personal Information with law enforcement or regulatory bodies. We require a
valid legal process as described in Section 7 above before we would provide any
data to law enforcement. For information on what data has been disclosed, see
our bi-annual Transparency Report.

 

16.5  Disclosure and Advertising Preferences

Ancestry shares, and has shared in the 12 months prior to the effective date of
this US Statement, with the following categories of third parties the
correlating categories of Personal Information for targeted advertising:

Categories of Third Parties  The Categories of Personal Information We Disclose
Marketing and Advertising Partners
 * Identifiers;
 * Commercial information;
 * Internet usage information;
 * Inferences.

 

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to disclose information with
our service providers and third-party partners for a variety of reasons,
including to measure, target, and serve advertisements as further described in
this Privacy Statement.

Under the laws in certain US jurisdictions, you have the right to opt out of our
sharing of your Personal Information for online targeted advertising purposes.
You can learn more about our practices and the controls we provide you or opt
out of certain types of such sharing by visiting our Cookie Policy. To change
your preferences around targeted advertising, please visit our Do Not Sell or
Share my Personal Information/Opt Out of Targeted Advertising page or the “Do
Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in the footer of some of our
sites. Ancestry does not sell or share your Personal Information for other
purposes.

Some browsers or plug-ins use a Global Privacy Control (GPC), which you can
learn more about at https://globalprivacycontrol.org. If our site detects a GPC
signal from your device, we will interpret it as a request to opt out of selling
or sharing your Personal Information and to opt out of targeted advertising. If
you opt out of targeted advertising via the GPC or the opt-out preference on the
Do Not Sell or Share my Personal Information/Opt Out of Targeted Advertising
page, we may still deliver advertising to you that is not tailored based on your
Personal Information.

These opt-outs are browser and device-specific. If you use multiple devices such
as your smartphone, laptop, or tablet when you engage with Ancestry Services,
you will need to specify your consent choices from each device. If you clear
cookies from the cache in your browser, your “Do Not Sell or Share” preference
will be erased, and you’ll need to reset it.

Ancestry does not sell or share your Genetic Information with third-party
marketers, insurance companies, or employers, and we will not use your Genetic
Information for marketing or personalized advertising without getting your
explicit consent.

16.6  Exercising Your Rights.

16.6.1  Right to Know. You may have the right to request that we disclose what
Personal Information we collect, use, disclose, or share. This includes the
right to request the categories of Personal Information we have collected about
you, the categories of sources of Personal Information, the business purpose for
collecting, disclosing, or sharing Personal Information, the categories of third
parties with whom we disclose or share categories of Personal Information, and
the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

If you are submitting a request to know on your own behalf, there are two ways
to make your request: online or by email.

To submit your request to know for Ancestry online, follow these step-by-step
instructions on how to download your account data. Please note that this report
will not include a copy of your DNA Data or family trees. If you want a copy of
your family trees, follow these step-by-step instructions. If you want a copy of
your DNA Data, follow these step-by-step instructions. Please note that if you
download your DNA Data, you do so at your own risk.

To submit your request to know for our related brands (Fold3, Newspapers.com™,
Find a Grave, We Remember or Archives), you can always contact us at the related
brand and, for some Services, they may also have an online request form
accessible from that service’s account settings menu (contact information and
link to online request form, if available, are here).

To email your request to know, email us at usprivacyrequests@ancestry.com. We
are required to verify your identity before providing you with a copy of your
data. We will require you to provide proof of identity and current address
(e.g., you may be required to provide a copy of your government-issued ID, which
will be used solely to verify your identity and address).

If you are an “Authorized Agent” pursuant to the CCPA/CPRA and are submitting a
request to know on behalf of one of our users, see Section 16.6.3 below.

16.6.2 Right to Delete. You may have the right to request that we delete your
Personal Information.

If you are submitting a request to delete on your own behalf, there are two ways
to make your request: online or by email. Note that to delete your Personal
Information, you must delete your account and that once an account deletion
request is completed, this process is irreversible. Your information (including,
but not limited to, family trees, records, photos, and DNA Data) will be
permanently deleted.

To submit your request for deletion from Ancestry online, follow these
step-by-step instructions on how to delete your account. To submit your request
for deletion from our related brands (Fold3, Newspapers.com™, Find a Grave, We
Remember or Archives), you can always contact us at the related brand and, for
some Services, they may also have an online request form accessible from that
service’s account settings menu (contact information and link to online request
form, if available, are here).

To email your request to delete, email us at usprivacyrequests@ancestry.com. We
are required to verify your identity before we delete your data. We will require
you to provide proof of identity and current address (e.g., you may be required
to provide a copy of your government-issued ID, which will be used solely to
verify your identity and address).

If you are an “Authorized Agent” pursuant to the CCPA/CPRA and are submitting a
request to know on behalf of one of our users, see Section 16.6.3 below.

16.6.3  Authorized Agents. California residents can use “authorized agents” to
make requests to know and requests for deletion. To use an authorized agent,
email us at thirdpartyauthorizationrequests@ancestry.com. Note that even if a
consumer chooses to use an authorized agent for a request, the consumer will
still need to work directly with us to provide item 3 below:

 1. Proof that the authorized agent is registered with the Secretary of State to
    conduct business in California.
 2. Signed permission from the consumer allowing the authorized agent to act on
    the consumer’s behalf.
 3. Verification of the consumer’s identity (to be made directly by the consumer
    to us). We will require proof of identity and California address (e.g., a
    copy of your government-issued ID, which will be used solely to verify your
    identity and address).

Please note: The report will be delivered to the consumer via their Ancestry
account. Also note that the report does not include a copy of the consumer’s DNA
Data or family trees. If the consumer wants to download their family trees or
DNA Data, see Section 16.6.1 above.

16.6.4 Right to Appeal. If you are a Colorado, Connecticut, or Virginia resident
and your request to know or delete your data is denied, you have the right to
appeal. You can do so by contacting us at usprivacyrequests@ancestry.com.

16.6.5 Right to Correct. You have the right to correct inaccurate Personal
Information that we maintain about you. You can do so by visiting Account
Settings or contacting us at usprivacyrequests@ancestry.com.

16.7  Selling. To opt out of targeted advertising, please see Section 16.5.

16.8  Sensitive Personal Information. We process sensitive personal information
collected about you only to provide the Services, including to:

 * Maintain the quality and safety of the Services;
 * Improve the Services;
 * Detect security incidents;
 * Resist and prosecute malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal actions
   directed at Ancestry, and;
 * Maintain or service accounts, provide customer service, process or fulfill
   orders and transactions, verify customer information, process payments,
   provide analytic services, and provide storage.

We may also process this sensitive personal information as needed to help ensure
people’s physical safety and as required by applicable law.

16.9  Non-discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising
any of your rights under applicable US privacy regulations.

16.10  California’s Shine the Light Law. California Civil Code Section 1798.83,
known as the “Shine the Light” law, permits Users who are California residents
to request and obtain from us a list of what Personal Information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding
calendar year and the names and addresses of those third parties. Requests may
be made only once a year and are free of charge. Under Section 1798.83, Ancestry
currently does not share any Personal Information with third parties for their
own direct marketing purposes.

16.11  Annual Reporting. Click here to see our annual, global Right to
Know/Subject Access and Right to Delete requests.

16.12  Contact Us. If you have questions about our US-related privacy policies
or practices, please contact us at usprivacyrequests@ancestry.com.

16.13  Actions for Relief. Various federal, state, and local laws may protect
your Personal Information. California residents who wish to allege a violation
of the California Genetic Information Privacy Act (GIPA) may file a complaint
with the California Attorney General or their district attorney. Residents of
cities with more than 750,000 residents may file a complaint with their city
attorney, and residents of cities with full-time city prosecutors may file a
complaint with their city prosecutor. If you wish to file a complaint with your
district attorney, city attorney, or city prosecutor, contact their local office
for more information. California residents who believe that their Personal
Information was used improperly may file a complaint with the California
Attorney General or California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA). Residents of
other states who believe that their Personal information was used improperly may
file a complaint with their attorney general.

17.  Australian Resident Additional Privacy Statement

If the Australian Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (Privacy Act) applies to the handling
of your Personal Information, these clauses will also apply:

-       Genetic Information is considered “sensitive information” as set out
under the Privacy Act. We will collect, use or disclose sensitive information
about you only as permitted by law, for example where we have received your
consent to do so or the collection is required or authorized by law.

-       In relation to Section 8 (Your Rights and Choices Regarding Your
Personal Information), you may have the right to make a complaint to the
relevant privacy or data protection regulator in your jurisdiction. However, if
you have any questions or concerns about our handling of your Personal
Information, or if you believe we have not complied with this Privacy Statement
or the relevant privacy law in your jurisdiction, we would appreciate it if you
contact us in the first instance using the details in Section 15 above. We will
investigate the complaint and determine what action, if any, to take.

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