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YOUR PRIVACY

 Read our full privacy policy. 

	Updated on May 1,June 29, 2018     NOTICE OF USE OF COOKIES

	 Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. Cookies are used to store and receive identifiers and other information on computers, phones, and other devices. Other technologies, including data we store on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device, and other software, are used for similar purposes. In this policy, we refer to all of these technologies as “cookies.”  

	 We use cookies if you have a Geni account, use the Geni website or API (whether or not you are registered or logged in), or visit other websites and apps that use content embedded from Geni. BY USING GENI YOU AGREE TO THE USE OF COOKIES AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.   

	 The privacy of you and your family is important to Geni. You can find our full privacy policy below. Below you will find a simple explanation of Geni's privacy model as well as the full privacy policy. Here's how it works:  

	 You can think of the profiles in your tree as being divided into two groups: private profiles and public profiles. Each time you add a profile to your tree, it is automatically assigned to one of the groups. Private profiles are intended for living relatives and minors. Public profiles are intended for deceased relatives and public figures. You may also choose to make recently-deceased profiles private, and Geni will sometimes make newly-added, deceased profiles private in order to help protect the privacy of nearby profiles and users.  

 		PRIVATE PROFILES
 		PUBLIC PROFILES

 		Who is in each group?
  Living Relatives 
 Minors   Deceased Relatives 
 Presumed Deceased Relatives   
 Public Figures    

 		Who can view profiles?
  You
 Your Family Group
 Geni Curators
 Geni Employees
  		 Anyone 

 		Who can edit profiles?
  You
 Your Family Group
 Geni Curators
 Geni Employees
   All Geni users (limited)1
 Your Collaborators
 Your Family Group
 Project Collaborators2
 Users Near the Managed Profile3
 Geni Curators
 Geni Employees

	 1 Geni users that do not meet the criteria for any other group listed may edit the "Basics" and "Relationships" tabs, as well as the "About" biography, on profiles that are either connected to Geni's World Family Tree or in the same tree as the user.
 2 Collaborators in a project are given full edit permissions on all public profiles tagged to that project.
 3 Within the maximum Family Group range of 4th cousins (5 or fewer generations up or down the tree) including their spouses, and 1st cousins (1 or 2 generations up or down the tree) of any spouses of the profile

PROFILE PRIVACY

 	 By default, only your Family Group, Geni Curators and Geni Employees can see your full profile.
 	 You can block specific relatives from viewing your full profile or messaging you.
 	 You can further restrict what information appears on your profile in your account settings.
 	 Private profiles you manage will be privatized to show only the last name and immediate family (with first names similarly obscured).

TREE PRIVACY

	Your tree is privatized just like individual profiles. Anyone can view your tree but they will only be able to see information on public profiles, and other Geni users per their selections on the Profile Privacy settings page.    

SEARCH PRIVACY

 	 By default, the names of users are publicly searchable, but you can opt out in your account settings using the checkbox labeled "Let the public search for me". (Your search result includes only your name and, optionally, your profile photo.) 
 	 Living relatives who are not Geni users are hidden from public search. 
 	 Minors under 16 are never searchable by anyone outside your tree. 

EMAIL PRIVACY

 	 We will not provide any user's personal information to advertisers or third parties. This includes your email address and the email addresses of those you invite. 
 	 We will not spam you or your relatives. Detailed notification settings allow you to control which emails you receive from us. 

DNA PRIVACY

 	 DNA results uploaded to Geni or transferred from partner sites are never displayed in full on Geni -- only derived matches, haplogroups and a non-specific description of conflicting data is shown. 
 	 We will not share your DNA results with third parties without your informed consent. When uploading raw autosomal DNA to Geni, you are given the option to allow your autosomal DNA to be used anonymously to further scientific research. This selection will not affect how your DNA results are displayed on Geni 
 	 You may choose at any time to have your DNA results removed completely from Geni, as detailed in the DNA FAQ. 

GENI CURATORS

	 Geni Curators are volunteer Geni users granted special privileges by Geni to help maintain and improve the quality and accuracy of the Geni World Family Tree. Geni Curators are specially selected based on their integrity and the quality of their work on Geni. Candidate Curators undergo a nomination and voting process. Accepted Geni Curators are formally appointed and, like Geni Employees, they sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) with the company to ensure they protect data confidentiality. Geni Curators have the ability, at a user’s request, to assist the user in merging and correcting errors in their tree, including the user’s own profile and those of close relatives.    

GENI EMPLOYEES

	 Geni Employees have full access to all data on Geni. They use this access if requested by users in order to provide customer support, check abuse complaints, resolve problems and generally assist users in their usage of Geni.    

	How do I remove myself?   

	Safety tips for parents.   

	Read our full privacy policy.   
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GENI.COM PRIVACY POLICY

	Geni.com ("Geni," "we"("GENI," "WE" or "us")"US") has implemented this Privacy Policy to provide our registered users ("Members")("MEMBERS") and unregistered users and visitors (collectively "Users""USERS" or "you")"YOU") information regarding the collection and use of your informationInformation on the Website,Geni.com (the "WEBSITE"), so that you can make an informed decision about your use of the Website. 

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT	This privacy notice explains: 

	Personal Information: We'll ask you to provide certain 	 What information if you choose to register with Geni, including your name, email addresswe collect and your date of birth, address,when and other information (collectively "Personally Identifiable Information"). Geni also asks you for email addresses for youwhy we use it
 	 Direct marketing and managing your relatives inpreferences
 	 Legal grounds for the courseprocessing of building your family tree. Do not supply to us or disclose on the Website any Personally IdentifiablePersonal Information (except for a name to be used only as a placeholder) of any person under 13 years of age, as
 	 When we do not intend to collectshare information
 	 Transferring information from anyone under 13 or inviteglobally
 	 Our commitment to themdata security
 	 Our commitment to participate in the Website. Please check our parental safety page for information regarding the protectionchildren's privacy
 	 Data retention
 	 Compromise of children. Personal Information
 	 Your rights
 	 Changes to this Privacy Policy and Notification Procedures
 	 How to contact us

	You may also provide Personally Identifiable Information to include in your profile or your family member's profiles to tell others about yourself or those in your family tree, or when taking advantage of promotions, responding to surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other lists. WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT, WHEN AND HOW WE USE IT

	Anonymous Information: Geni uses cookies to	 We only collect information that is necessary for record keeping purposes and make it easier to navigateproviding you with the Website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on users' hard drives. We will not use cookiesservice, where we have a legal obligation to collect personalsuch information without getting your permission. Geni uses both "session ID cookies" and "persistent cookies." Session ID cookies are used to store information while a userfor our legitimate interests. Here is logged into the site and expire when the user closes their browser. Persistent cookies are used to make tasks like logging into the site easier for returning users by remembering a user's login information. Persistent cookies stay on a user's hard drive from one session tolist of the next. You may choose not to receive cookies from Geni by following instructions in your web browser's "help" file, but this may make certain featurescategories of the Geni Services inaccessible to you. information we request, collect or you provide:  

	DNA	 Personal Information: Geni allows users to upload DNA test results for themselvesWe collect individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or relatives for whom they have legal permission to do so, bothmay with reasonable efforts cause the Family Tree DNA Connector application as well as uploading raw autosomal DNA files. Geni will use these DNA test results to match against other DNA users, confirmidentification of an individual, or refute connections in your tree, and display genealogically-relevant information about the origins of your DNA. The DNA markers and mutations will NOT be displayed to Geni users, even yourself. Some DNA markers can and will be propagated through your family tree, including to public profiles that may be viewable by other Geni users as well as visitors not logged onto the Geni web site. You may choose to hide your name and profile link from persons outside your Family Group on propagated DNAsensitive in nature ("PERSONAL INFORMATION"). Such information onis collected in the Privacy Settings page (listed as "Name on Propagated DNA". Additionally, when uploading raw autosomal DNA data you are given the option to participate anonymously in DNA research to further scientific studies. If and only if you agree to participate, your autosomal DNA may be shared with third parties without any personally-identifiable information included.following instances: 

	Geni 	 We will ask you to provide Personal Information if you choose to register with Geni, including your name, email address and your date of birth, address, and other information. Geni also collects Users' IPasks you for email addresses for you and basic log file information (suchyour relatives, as address, browser type and language, number of clicks, domain names of web sites visited, pages viewed,necessary in the amountcourse of time spentbuilding your family tree. Do not supply to us or disclose on particular pages, and the date and time)Website any Personal Information (except for a name to help locate potential problems withbe used only as a placeholder) of any person under 13 years of age, as we do not intend to collect information from anyone under 13 or invite to them to participate in the Website. Please check our server, andparental safety page for information regarding the protection of children. If you provide Personal Information of a relative or another person e.g. an email address, we expect you to aggregate general user statistics including demographicensure that they know you are doing so and geographical information.are happy with their information being provided to Geni. We usewill process their Personal Information in accordance with this informationPrivacy Policy so please encourage them to analyze general usage patterns, andread this policy to find out more. 
 	 You may also provide advertisements and other services appropriatePersonal Information to the user's location. Geni may aggregate user informationinclude in a non-personally identifiable manneryour profile or your family member's profiles to share with advertisers andtell others about yourself or those in your family tree, or when taking advantage of promotions, responding to enhance the Website with new features.surveys, or subscribing to newsletters or other lists. 

	Information Collected by Third Parties Third-party ad servers or ad networks may serve advertisements on the Website. These third-party ad servers or ad networks	 We will use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on Geni. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (suchinformation as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content.explained below: 

	Geni does not provide any personally identifiable 	 If you submit registration or profile information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asksus through the Website, then we use this information to provide you with our service, operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of the Website. 
 	 Geni will use your email address to show an advertisement to a certain audience or audience segmentcomplete the signup process, and will use your relatives' email addresses to invite them to join your tree. 
 	 Geni will send you respondservice-related notices, including among other things notices required by law, in lieu of postal mail. You may not opt out of service-related e-mails. 
 	 In addition we will need to that advertisement, the advertiserknow your postal address, phone number and payment details to facilitate payment and fulfilment for any subscription or ad-server may conclude thatpurchases you fit the description of the audience they are tryingmay choose to reach.make through the Website. 

	You should consult	 Members in your family tree will have access to the profile information you post (including any Personal Information). NOTE THAT THOSE MEMBERS COULD FORWARD THIS INFORMATION TO OTHER USERS OR NON-USERS. You can set the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks. The Geni.com Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannotsettings on your account to control the activities of, such advertisers. Some of the third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single locationaccess to opt out of ad targeting from member companies (www.networkadvertising.org).   the information in your profile by other Users or Members.  

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION  	 Geni allows Users to upload DNA test results for themselves or relatives for whom they have legal permission to do so, both with the Family Tree DNA Connector application as well as uploading raw autosomal DNA files. 
 	 Geni will use these DNA test results to match against other DNA Users, confirm or refute connections in your tree, and display genealogically-relevant information about the origins of your DNA. The DNA markers and mutations will NOT be displayed to Geni Users, even yourself. Some DNA markers can and will be propagated through your family tree, including to public profiles that may be viewable by other Geni Users as well as visitors not logged onto the Website. You may choose to hide your name and profile link from persons outside your Family Group on propagated DNA information on the privacy settings page (listed as "Name on Propagated DNA"). Additionally, when uploading raw autosomal DNA data you are given the option to participate anonymously in DNA research to further scientific studies. If and only if you agree to participate, your autosomal DNA may be shared with third parties without any personally-identifiable information included. 
 	 Geni also collects Users' IP addresses and basic log file information (such as address, browser type and language, number of clicks, domain names of websites visited, pages viewed, the amount of time spent on particular pages, and the date and time) to help locate potential problems with our server, and to aggregate general User statistics including demographic and geographical information. We use this information to analyse general usage patterns, and to provide advertisements and other services appropriate to the User's location. 

	Personal Information: If you	 You may, of course, decline to submit registration or ProfilePersonal Information to us through the Website, then we use this informationin which case you may not be able to register or our Website may not be able to operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of the Website. Members in your family tree will have accesscertain services to the Profileyou.   
	 Anonymous Information you post (including any Personally Identifiable Information). Note that those Members could forward thisi.e. un-identified or non-identifiable information pertaining to other Usersa User or non-users. You can set the privacy settings on your accountwhich may be made available to control access to the information inus, or collected automatically by your profile by other Users or Members.use of Geni services. 

	Geni 	 Geni uses cookies to collect information for record keeping purposes and to make it easier to navigate the Website. Cookies are small text files that are stored on Users' hard drives. We will not use cookies to collect Personal Information without getting your email addresspermission. Geni uses both "session ID cookies" and "persistent cookies." Session ID cookies are used to completestore information while a User is logged into the signup process,Website and will useexpire when the User closes their browser. Persistent cookies are used to make tasks like logging into the Website easier for returning Users by remembering a User's login information. Persistent cookies stay on a User's hard drive from one session to the next. You may choose not to receive cookies from Geni by following instructions in your relatives' email addressesweb browser's "help" file, but this may make certain features of the Geni services inaccessible to invite themyou. 
 	 For more information about cookies including how to joinset your tree. By providinginternet browser to reject cookies please go to www.allaboutcookies.org 
 	 Geni may aggregate User information in a non-personally identifiable manner to share with advertisers and to enhance the Website with new features. We use non-personally identifiable information, such as anonymous Website use data and IP addresses, to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing your email addresspreferences and trends. We may use such information to: (a remember information so that you consentwill not have to re-enter it during your current or subsequent visits to the Website; (b) provide customized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our usingmarketing campaigns and aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and traffic; (d) diagnose or fix technology problems; (e) access your information after you sign in; (f) market our Website to advertisers and other third parties; (g) aggregate general User and Member statistics including demographic and geographic information; and (h) other purposes for which your personal identity is not revealed. 

	 Information Collected by Third Parties 

 	 Third-party ad servers or ad networks may serve advertisements on the emailWebsite. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on Geni. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to sendmeasure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content. 
 	 Geni does not provide any Personal Information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, please note that if an advertiser asks Geni to show an advertisement to a certain audience or audience segment and you Service-related notices, including among other things notices required by law, in lieurespond to that advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of postal mail.the audience they are trying to reach. 
 	 You mayshould consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks. This Privacy Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such advertisers. Some of the third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of Service-related e-mails.ad targeting from member companies (www.networkadvertising.org). 

	 Posted Information 

	Any information or content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to public areas of the Website (for instance, in the blog, the forum or wiki) becomes available to the public.  

DIRECT MARKETING AND MANAGING YOUR PREFERENCES

 	 We may also use Personal Information such as your email address to sendlet you other messages,know about Geni products and services, including changes to Geni features and special offers. Ifoffers, that we believe will be of interest to you. In all cases, we will respect your preferences for how you do not wantwould like us to receive such email messages,manage marketing activity with you. 

	 To protect privacy rights and to ensure you have control over how we manage marketing with you: 

 	 we will take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level and only send you communications which we believe may opt out by changingbe of interest or relevance to you; 

	 you can ask us to stop direct marketing at any time - you can change your account settingssettings, or by sending mailask us to thestop sending email marketing, by following postal address:the 'unsubscribe' link you will find on all the email marketing messages we send you. Alternatively you can contact us at:  Customer Support
 Geni.com
 P.O. Box 4015
 Burbank, CA 91503 USA   	 you can change the way your browser manages cookies, which may be used to deliver online advertising, by using your web browser's "help" file. 

	Opting out  	 You may prevent youupdate or correct your personal profile information, including Personal Information, by using your account settings to edit, delete or change your information. You may also adjust your account settings to determine who has direct access to your profile information through the Website. You may request that Geni.com remove other information from receiving email messages regarding updates, improvements,the Website by contacting us at privacy@geni.com with the understanding that Geni.com may maintain an archive of the information you submit not on the Website. 
 	 To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a password) to verify your identity before granting you profile access or special offers.making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and account information at all times. 

	Anonymous Information. We use non-Personally Identifiable Information, such as anonymous Website use data and IP addresses, to improve the quality and design of the Website and to create new features and services by storing, tracking, and analyzing your preferences and trends. We may use such information to: (a) remember information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your current or subsequent visits to the Website; (b) provide customized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and traffic; (d) diagnose or fix technology problems; (e) access your information after you sign in; (f) market our Website to advertisers and other third parties; (g) aggregate general User and Member statistics including demographic and geographic information; and (h) other purposes for which your personal identity is not revealed. LEGAL GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

	Posted Information. Any information or Content that you voluntarily disclose for posting to public areas	 Under EU data protection laws, all processing of Personal Information is justified by a "condition" for processing. In the Website (for instance, in the forum or wiki) becomes available tomajority of cases, any processing will be justified on the public.   basis that: 

WHEN WE SHARE INFORMATION 	 you have consented to the processing (e.g. where you provide us with marketing consents or opt-in to optional additional services or functionality); 
 	 the processing is necessary to perform a contract with you (e.g. providing you with service-related emails, creating your User account) 
 	 the processing is necessary for us to comply with a relevant legal obligation (e.g. the disclosure of information to law enforcement or tax authorities); or 
 	 the processing is in our legitimate commercial interests, subject to your interests and fundamental rights (e.g. analytics which we carry out of your use of the Website). In these cases we will look after your information at all times in a way that is proportionate and respects your privacy rights and where relevant under applicable privacy laws, you have a right to object to processing as explained in section 11 found below. 

	Geni will not share  	 In addition, the processing of sensitive Personal Information is only permitted where a relevant exemption exists. Sensitive Personal Information includes genetic information, which we process when you provide DNA test results to Geni, and any information about your email address with advertisersrace or unaffiliated third parties without first obtainingethnic origin, which may be processed in the context of establishing your express permission.family tree or matching against other DNA Users. In such cases, the sensitive Personal Information is processed on the basis of your explicit consent. 
 	 Where the basis of processing is your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent, and therefore prevent that processing, at any time. 

	We may provide information, including personal information, to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or subcontractors, so such parties can, among other things (a) perform services and/or process such information on our behalf, (b) use the information to offer greater functionality and enhanced services through the Website, and provide you with additional product and service opportunities, and (c) communicate these opportunities to you. When we do this, the recipients of your information are bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. WHEN WE SHARE INFORMATION

	We 	 Geni will not share non-Personally Identifiableyour Personal Information (such as anonymous Website use data) with third-parties to assist them in understanding our Website, including Users' useadvertisers or unaffiliated third parties unless one of our Website and the services we provide and the success of advertisements and promotions. conditions in section 4 applies.

	We may release your information if required to do so by law, or in	 In the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state or federal laws or respond to a court order, subpoena, law enforcement or regulatory request, or search warrant. We reserve the right to collect and share any information: in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; as appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or investigate potential or actual violations of the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; take precautions against liability; to protect the security or integrity of our Website; to exercise or protect the rights, property, or the rights and personal safety of Geni.com affiliates, Users or others; or for other legitimate purposes.following circumstances we may: 

	We 	 provide information, including Personal Information, to our subsidiaries, affiliated companies, or subcontractors, so such parties can, among other things (a) perform services and/or process such information on our behalf, (b) use the information to offer greater functionality and enhanced services through the Website, and provide you with additional product and service opportunities, and (c) communicate these opportunities to you. These recipients of your information have agreed to confidentiality restrictions and use any Personal Information we share with them solely for the purpose of providing the contracted service to us;
 	 share non-personally identifiable information (such as anonymous Website use data) with third-parties to assist them in understanding our Website, including Users' use of our Website and the services we provide and the success of advertisements and promotions;
 	 share your information with our regulators and with law enforcement if required to do so by law, or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with state or federal laws or respond to a court order, subpoena, law enforcement or regulatory request, or search warrant. We may collect and share any information: in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities; as appropriate or necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or investigate potential or actual violations of the Terms of Use or Privacy Policy; take precautions against liability; to protect the security or integrity of our Website; to exercise or protect the rights, property, or the rights and personal safety of Geni.com affiliates, Users or others; or for other legitimate purposes;
 	 assign or transfer the information we collect to a third party in the event that Geni is acquired by or merged with a third party entity or of our bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, receivership, or similar situation.

OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACYTRANSFERRING PERSONAL INFORMATION GLOBALLY

	Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important and is mandated by U.S. law. For these reasons, Geni.com does not knowingly collect Personally Identifiable Information	 Geni operates on a global basis. Accordingly, your Personal Information may be transferred and stored in countries outside the Website from persons under 13 yearsEU, including the United States, that are subject to different standards of age, and no partdata protection. Geni will take appropriate steps ensure that transfers of our Website is directedPersonal Information are in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests and transfers are limited to persons under 13. If youcountries which are under 13 yearsrecognized as providing an adequate level of age, then you must not use or access the Website at any timelegal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative arrangement are in any manner or provide any informationplace to the Website.   protect your privacy rights. To this end: 

INTERNATIONAL USERS 	 we ensure transfers within Geni will be covered by an agreement entered into by members of Geni (an intra-group agreement) which contractually obliges each member to ensure that Personal Information receives an adequate and consistent level of protection wherever it is transferred within Geni;
 	 where we transfer your Personal Information outside Geni or to third parties who help provide our products and services, we obtain contractual commitments from them to protect your Personal Information. Some of these assurances are well recognized certification schemes like the EU - US Privacy Shield for the protection of Personal Information transferred from within the EU to the United States; or
 	 where we receive requests for information from law enforcement or regulators, we carefully validate these requests before any Personal Information are disclosed.

	The Website is hosted in the United States and is intended for and directed	 Subject to Users in the United States. The Website and services are void where prohibited. Ifapplicable laws, you are accessingmay have a right to contact us for more information about the Website from outsidesafeguards we have put in place (including a copy of relevant contractual commitments) to ensure the United States,adequate protection of your use of the WebsitePersonal Information when this is governed by U.S. law, you are transferring your personal information to the United States, and you consent to that transfer.transferred as mentioned above. See paragraph 11 below for more details.   

YOUR CHOICESOUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITY

	You may, of course, decline	Geni takes its data protection and privacy responsibilities seriously. We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to submit Personally Identifiablesecure your Personal Information to the Website, in which case you may notfrom accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to registerdefeat those measures or Geni.com mayuse your Personal Information for improper purposes. Although guaranteed security does not be ableexist either on or off the Internet, we make commercially reasonable efforts to providemake the collection and security of such information consistent with this Privacy Policy and all applicable laws and regulations. Where Geni has given you (or where you have chosen) a Username, login or password which enables you to access certain servicesparts of the Website you are responsible for keeping this information confidential. Geni asks you not to you. share a Username, login or password with anyone.  

	You may update or correct your personal Profile Information, including Personally Identifiable Information, by using your account settings to edit, delete or change the information in your Profile Information. You may also adjust your account settings to determine who has direct access to your Profile Information through the Website. You may request that Geni.com remove other information from the current Website by contacting us at misconduct@geni.com with the understanding that Geni.com may maintain an archive of the information you submit not on the Website.  OUR COMMITMENT TO CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

	To protect your	Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important and security, we take reasonable steps (such as requesting a password)is mandated by U.S. and other data privacy laws. For these reasons, Geni.com does not knowingly collect Personal Information on the Website from persons under 13 years of age, and no part of our Website is directed to verify your identity before grantingpersons under 13. If you profile access or making corrections. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecyunder 13 years of your password and account informationage, you must not use or access the Website at all times.   any time or in any manner or provide any information to the Website.  

OUR COMMITMENT TO DATA SECURITYDATA RETENTION

	We have implemented commercially reasonable technical 	 We will retain your Personal Information only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose(s) for which it was collected and organizational measures designed to securecomply with applicable laws.
 	 In general, this means that we store your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alterationPersonal Information for as long as is required to deliver our services, except where we have a lawful basis for saving it for an extended period of time (for instance, after fully executing a contract, we may still have a legitimate interest in using your contact details for marketing purposes, or disclosure. However,where we cannot guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be ableare required to defeat those measures or use your personal informationdo so in accordance with legal, regulatory, tax, accounting requirements). We also retain the Personal Information we need for improper purposes. You acknowledgethe execution of pending tasks and the Personal Information we need to realize our legal rights and our claims, as well as certain Personal Information that we must store for a legally mandatory period of time. When certain Personal Information is only saved due to a legally mandatory preservation term, the processing of it by us is limited, even where you provide your personal information at your own risk.   do not specifically request this.

COMPROMISE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

	In the event that personal information is compromised as a result of a breach of security, Geni will promptly notify those persons whose personal information has been compromised, in accordance with the notification procedures set forth in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise required by applicable law.   

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURESYOUR RIGHTS

	It	You may revise your Personal Information by editing your profile settings as described in section 3. You also have the right to ask Geni to amend any Personal Information it holds about you if it is inaccurate or misleading by emailing us at privacy@geni.com or by sending mail to the following postal address:  Customer Support
 Geni.com
 P.O. Box 4015
 Burbank, CA 91503 USA   

	 The following rights, which may be subject to certain exemptions, apply in addition to the above to EU Users: 

 	 You have a right to access information held about you. Your right of access can normally be exercised free of charge, however we reserve the right to charge an appropriate administrative fee where permitted by applicable law.
 	 You have a right to restrict the processing of your Personal Information, for example in case we no longer need your Personal Information in view of the initial purposes for which they were collected but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
 	 You have a right to object to processing which has our legitimate interests as its lawful basis. We will no longer process your Personal Information upon your request, unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the continuation of the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. You may also object to our use of your data for direct marketing purposes. See section 3 for how to unsubscribe or manage your marketing preferences. 
 	 You have a right to obtain a portable copy of Personal Information which is processed on the basis of your consent, or which is necessary for the performance of a contract between us. You have a right to have such portable copy of Personal Information transferred to another data controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format;
 	 You also have a right to request details of the basis on which your Personal Information is transferred outside the European Economic Area but you acknowledge that data transfer agreements may need to be partially redacted for reasons of commercial confidentiality.
 	 You have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority if you have concerns about how we are processing your Personal Information. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us first, although you have a right to contact your supervisory authority at any time.

	We may ask you for additional information to confirm your identity and for security purposes, before disclosing the Personal Information requested to you. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law, for instance if your request is manifestly unfounded or excessive. 

	You can exercise your rights by contacting us. Subject to legal and other permissible considerations, we will make every reasonable effort to honour your request promptly or inform you if we require further information in order to fulfil your request. 

	We may not always be able to fully address your request, for example if it would impact the duty of confidentiality we owe to others, or if we are legally entitled to deal with the request in a different way. 

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES

	It is Geni's policy to provide notifications,notifications or update this Privacy Policy, whether such notifications or changes are required by law or are for marketing or other business related purposes, topurposes. At our sole discretion, we will notify Users via email notice, written or hard copy notice, or through conspicuous posting of such notice on our Website page, as determined by Geni in its sole discretion. Geni reserves the right topage. We will determine theand use an appropriate form and means of providingto provide notifications to our Users, provided that you may opt out of certain means of notification as described in this Privacy Policy. 

	This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically so please regularly check these pages for the latest version. If there will be any significant changes made to the use of your Personal Information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, we will notify you by positing a notice on our Website.  

CONTACT US

	If you have any questions, concerns or complaints regarding our compliance with this notice and the data protection laws, or if you wish to exercise your rights, we encourage you to first contact us at:  Customer Support
 Geni.com
 P.O. Box 4015
 Burbank, CA 91503 USA
 dpo@geni.com   

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY	We will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes and will make every reasonable effort to honor your wish to exercise your rights as quickly as possible and in any event, within the timescales provided by data protection laws. 

	This Privacy Policy may be revised periodically and this will be reflected in the "effective date" above. Your use of the Website indicates	You have a right to lodge a complaint with your acceptancelocal data protection supervisory authority (i.e. your place of this Privacy Policy andhabitual residence, place or work or place of alleged infringement) at any then-current revisions.time. We ask that you please attempt to resolve any issues with us before your local supervisory authority.

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