Categories of Sources of Personal Information

We collect personal information about you from the following categories of sources:

• You
  • When you provide such information directly to us.
    • When you create an account or use our interactive tools and Services.
    • When you voluntarily provide information in free-form text boxes through the Services or through responses to surveys or questionnaires.
    • When you send us an email or otherwise contact us.
  • When you use the Services and such information is collected automatically.
    • Through Cookies (defined in the “Tracking Tools, Advertising and Opt-Out” section below).
    • If you use a location-enabled browser, we may receive information about your location and mobile device, as applicable.
• Public Records
  • • From the government or other sources.
• Third Parties
  • Vendors
    • We may use analytics providers to analyze how you interact and engage with the Services, or third parties may help us provide you with customer support.
    • We may use vendors to obtain information to generate leads and create user profiles.
  • Advertising Partners
    • We receive information about you from some of our vendors who assist us with marketing or promotional services related to how you interact with our websites, applications, products, Services, advertisements or communications.
  • Third-Party Credentials

If you provide your third-party account credentials, such as your social network account credentials, to us or otherwise sign in to the Services through a third-party site or service, some content and/or information in those accounts may be transmitted into your account with us.

Information for California Residents

Under the CCPA, California residents have certain rights regarding their data, including:

Access

You have the right to request certain information about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. In response, we will provide you with the following information:

• The categories of personal information that we have collected about you.
• The categories of sources from which that personal information was collected.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom we have disclosed your personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you.

If we have disclosed your personal information to any third parties for a business purpose over the past 12 months, we will identify the categories of personal information disclosed with each category of third party recipient.

Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the personal information that we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, we may need to retain your personal information to provide you with the GEDmatch services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested, or if deletion of your personal information involves disproportionate effort. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request. If you have a GEDmatch account, you can also delete your information through your account settings.

Correction

You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we have collected about you. Under the CCPA, this right is subject to certain exceptions: for example, if we decide, based on the totality of circumstances related to your personal information, that such personal information is correct. If your correction request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your request.

Cookies Data Sales and Sharing Opt-Out

In this section, we use the terms “selling” and “sharing” as they are defined in the CCPA. As described in the Cookies section above, we have incorporated cookies from certain third parties on the GEDmatch website. These cookies allow those third parties to receive certain information about your interaction with the website that is associated with your browser or device.  Those third parties may use that data to serve you relevant ads on our services or on other websites you visit. Under the CCPA, our sharing your personal information (specifically, Device/IP Data and Web Analytics) obtained through third party cookies for online advertising (“Cookies”) may be considered a “sale” of information and may also constitute “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CCPA. You can opt out of our selling and sharing of your Cookies by following the instructions in this section.

We sell and/or share (and, over the past 12 months, we have sold and/or shared) your Cookies  to and/or with Advertising Partners for the following business or commercial purposes:

• Marketing and selling our services.
• Showing you advertisements, including interest-based or online behavioral advertising.

You have the right to opt-out of the sale and/or sharing of your Cookies. You can opt-out using the following methods:

• By implementing the Global Privacy Control or similar control that is legally recognized by a government agency or industry standard and that complies with applicable laws. Note that this must be initiated through your browser and applies to your specific device and browser used at the time you cast the signal. Please note this does not include Do Not Track signals.
• Email us at: support@gedmatch.com
• Call us at: (858) 285-4101

Once you have submitted an opt-out request, we will not ask you to reauthorize the sale and/or sharing of your Cookies for at least 12 months.

To our knowledge, we do not sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.

We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the CCPA. We will not deny you our goods or services, charge you different prices or rates, or provide you a lower quality of goods and services if you exercise your rights under the CCPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the CCPA) with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of personal information that we receive from you.

Other California Resident Rights

Under California Civil Code Sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to contact us to prevent disclosure of personal information to third parties for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes; in order to submit such a request, please contact us at support@gedmatch.com.

If you are a resident of California, you have a right to file a complaint alleging a violation under the California Genetic Information Privacy Act (“California GIPA”) with California’s Attorney General or other applicable state officials. To file a complaint alleging a violation under California GIPA, please contact:

• California’s Attorney General:
• Webform: https://oag.ca.gov/contact/consumer-complaint-against-business-or-company

• • Phone number (toll-free in California): (800) 952-5225

• District Attorney:
  • Contact information for county district attorneys is available at: https://www.cdaa.org/district-attorney-roster

If applicable, you may also file a complaint alleging a violation under California GIPA by contacting the applicable state officials listed below:

• County counsel authorized by agreement with the district attorney in actions involving violation of a county ordinance;
• City attorney of a city having a population in excess of 750,000;
• City attorney in a city and county (for example, city attorneys listed at: https://www.cdaa.org/city-attorney-roster); or
• With the consent of the district attorney, a city prosecutor in a city having a full-time city prosecutor in the name of the people of the State of California.