Privacy Policy

Effective date: October 28, 2024

At GEDmatch PRO, we take your privacy seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we treat your personal data. By using or accessing our Services in any manner, you acknowledge that you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you hereby consent that we will collect, use and disclose your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

Remember that your use of GEDmatch PRO’S Services is at all times subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms we use in this Policy without defining them have the definitions given to them in the Terms of Use.

If you have a disability, you may access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format by contacting support@gedmatchpro.com.

As we continually work to improve our Services, we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will alert you of material changes by placing a notice on the GEDmatch PRO website, by sending you an email and/or by some other means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes.

Privacy Policy Table of Contents

  • What this Privacy Policy Covers
  • Personal Data
  • Categories of Personal Data We Collect
  • Categories of Sources of Personal Data
  • Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting or Disclosing Personal Data
  • How We Disclose Your Personal Data
  • Tracking Tools and Opt-Out
  • Data Security
  • Data Retention
  • Personal Data of Children
  • California Resident Rights
  • Virginia Resident Rights
  • Washington Resident Rights
  • Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws
  • Other State Law Privacy Rights
  • European Union and United Kingdom Data Subject Rights
  • Contact Information

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers how we treat Personal Data that we gather when you access or use our Services. “Personal Data” means any information that identifies or relates to a particular individual and also includes information referred to as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” or “sensitive personal information” under applicable data privacy laws, rules or regulations. This Privacy Policy does not cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control or people we don’t manage.

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

This chart details the categories of Personal Data that we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:

Category of Personal DataExamples of Personal Data We CollectCategories of Third Parties With Whom We Disclose this Personal Data
Profile or Contact Data
  • First and last name
  • Email
  • Unique identifiers such as account name and passwords
  • Other unique personal or online identifiers
  • Service Providers
  • Analytics Partners
  • Business Partners
Payment Data
  • Payment card type
  • Last 4 digits of payment card
  • Billing address, phone number, and email
  • Service Providers (specifically our payment processing partners, currently Chargebee, Inc. (“Chargebee”), Bode Cellmark Forensics, Inc. (“Bode”), and Network Merchants, LLC (“NMI”))
Commercial Data
  • Purchase history
  • Service Providers
  • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
  • Business Partners
Device/IP Data
  • IP address
  • Type of device/operating system/browser used to access the Services
  • Service Providers
  • Analytics Partners
  • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
Web Analytics
  • Web page interactions
  • Referring webpage/source through which you accessed the Services
  • Non-identifiable request IDs
  • Statistics associated with the interaction between device or browser and the Services
  • Service Providers
  • Analytics Partners
  • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
Geolocation Data
  • IP-address-based location information
  • Service Providers
  • Analytics Partners
Categories of Data Considered “Sensitive” Under the State Privacy Laws (as defined below)
  • A person’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account
  • Genetic data
  • Y-DNA or mtDNA haplogroup
  • Genealogy data
  • Service Providers
  • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
  • Payment Processing Partners
Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide
  • Identifying information in emails or letters you send us
  • Service Providers
  • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate

If you are a California resident, please note that we only use or disclose your sensitive personal information for the purposes set forth in section 7027(m) of the CCPA regulations and we do not collect or process sensitive personal information with the purpose of inferring any characteristics about California residents.

Categories of Sources of Personal Data

We collect Personal Data 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 and Opt-Out” section below).
    • If you use a location-enabled browser, we may receive information about your location.
    • If you download and install certain applications and software we make available, we may receive and collect information transmitted from your computing device for the purpose of providing you the relevant Services, such as information regarding when you are logged on and available to receive updates or alert notices.
    • Business Partners. When our Business Partners provide us with Personal Data about individuals that have purchased our Services and/or that have expressed interest or may be interested in our Services.

Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting or Disclosing Personal Data

  • Providing, Customizing and Improving the Services
    • Creating and managing your account or other user profiles.
    • Processing orders or other transactions; billing.
    • Providing you with the products, services or information you request.
    • Meeting or fulfilling the reason you provided the information to us.
    • Providing support and assistance for the Services.
    • Improving the Services, including testing, research, internal analytics and product development.
    • Personalizing the Services, website content and communications based on your preferences.
    • Doing fraud protection, security and debugging.
    • Carrying out other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (the “CCPA”) or the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (the “VCDPA).
  • Marketing our Services and the products and services of our Business Partners
    • Marketing and selling the Services as well as the services of our Business Partners.
  • Corresponding with You
    • Responding to correspondence that we receive from you, contacting you when necessary or requested, and sending you information about GEDmatch PRO or the Services.
    • Sending emails and other communications according to your preferences or that display content that we think will interest you.
  • Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms
    • Fulfilling our legal obligations under applicable law, regulation, court order or other legal process, such as preventing, detecting and investigating security incidents and potentially illegal or prohibited activities.
    • Protecting the rights, property or safety of you, GEDmatch PRO or another party.
      Enforcing any agreements with you.
    • Responding to claims that any posting or other content violates third-party rights.
    • Resolving disputes.

We will not collect additional categories of Personal Data or use the Personal Data we collected for materially different, unrelated or incompatible purposes without providing you notice. If you are a California resident, please note that we only use or disclose your sensitive personal information for the purposes set forth in section 7027(m) of the CCPA regulations and we do not collect or process sensitive personal information with the purpose of inferring any characteristics about California residents.

How We Disclose Your Personal Data

We disclose your Personal Data to the categories of service providers and other parties listed in this section. Depending on state laws that may be applicable to you, some of these disclosures may constitute a “sale” of your Personal Data. For more information, please refer to the state-specific sections below.

  • Service Providers. These parties help us provide the Services or perform business functions on our behalf. They include:
    • Payment processors.
      • Our payment processing partners, Chargebee, NMI, and Bode, collect your voluntarily-provided payment card information necessary to process your payment.
      • Please see Chargebee’s, Bode’s, and NMI’s terms of service and privacy policy for information on their use and storage of your Personal Data.
  • Analytics Partners. These parties provide analytics on web traffic or usage of the Services. They include:
    • Companies that track how users found or were referred to the Services.
    • Companies that track how users interact with the Services.
  • Parties You Authorize, Access or Authenticate
    • Third parties you access through the services.
    • Other users.
  • Business Partners
    • Third parties that we work with to offer the Services, such as Business Partners that assist with customer experience or payment processing.
    • Third parties with which we engage in cross-marketing. For example, we may share Personal Data with these third parties in order for those third parties to market their own services.

Legal Obligations

We may disclose any Personal Data that we collect with third parties in conjunction with any of the activities set forth under “Meeting Legal Requirements and Enforcing Legal Terms” in the “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above.

Business Transfers

All of your Personal Data that we collect may be transferred to a third party if we undergo a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy or other transaction in which that third party assumes control of our business (in whole or in part). Should one of these events occur, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you before your information becomes subject to different privacy and security policies and practices.

Data that is Not Personal Data

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Data we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and disclose it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services and promote our business, provided that we will not disclose such data in a manner that could identify you. Additionally, state genetic data privacy laws require us to provide you with notice that your deidentified genetic or phenotypic information may be shared with or disclosed to third parties for research purposes in accordance with Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects (commencing with Section 46.101) of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations. However, please note that we will not share with or disclose to third parties your deidentified genetic or phenotypic information for research purposes pursuant to Part 46.

Tracking Tools and Opt-Out

The Services use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs and JavaScript (collectively, “Cookies”) to enable our servers to recognize your web browser, tell us how and when you visit and use our Services, analyze trends, learn about our user base and operate and improve our Services. Cookies are small pieces of data– usually text files – placed on your computer, tablet, phone or similar device when you use that device to access our Services. We may also supplement the information we collect from you with information received from third parties, including third parties that have placed their own Cookies on your device(s). Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Services do not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time.

We use the following types of Cookies:

  • Essential Cookies. Essential Cookies are required for providing you with features or services that you have requested. For example, certain Cookies enable you to log into secure areas of our Services. Disabling these Cookies may make certain features and services unavailable.
  • Functional Cookies. Functional Cookies are used to record your choices and settings regarding our Services, maintain your preferences over time and recognize you when you return to our Services. These Cookies help us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
  • Performance/Analytical Cookies. Performance/Analytical Cookies allow us to understand how visitors use our Services. They do this by collecting information about the number of visitors to the Services, what pages visitors view on our Services and how long visitors are viewing pages on the Services. Performance/Analytical Cookies also help us measure the performance of our advertising campaigns in order to help us improve our campaigns and the Services’ content for those who engage with our advertising. For example, Google LLC (“Google”) uses cookies in connection with its Google Analytics services. Google’s ability to use and disclose information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the Services is subject to the Google Analytics Terms of Use and the Google Privacy Policy. You have the option to opt-out of Google’s use of Cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page at www.google.com/privacy_ads.html or the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. We also use analytics tools provided by Pendo.io, Inc.

You can decide whether or not to accept Cookies through your internet browser’s settings. Most browsers have an option for turning off the Cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allow you to decide on acceptance of each new Cookie in a variety of ways. You can also delete all Cookies that are already on your device. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our website and some of the Services and functionalities may not work.

To explore what Cookie settings are available to you, or to modify your preferences with respect to Cookies, you can access your Cookie management settings by visiting our Cookie Settings page. To find out more information about Cookies generally, including information about how to manage and delete Cookies, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ or https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/ if you are located in the European Union.

Data Retention

We retain Personal Data about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services or to perform our business or commercial purposes for collecting your Personal Data. When establishing a retention period for specific categories of data, we consider who we collected the data from, our need for the Personal Data, why we collected the Personal Data, and the sensitivity of the Personal Data. In some cases we retain Personal Data for longer, if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes or collect fees owed, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation. We may further retain information in an anonymous or aggregated form where that information would not identify you personally.

For example:

  • We retain your profile information and credentials for as long as you have an account with us.
  • We retain your payment data for as long as we need to process your purchase or subscription.
  • We retain your device/IP data for as long as we need it to ensure that our systems are working appropriately, effectively and efficiently.

Personal Data of Children

We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from children under 13 years of age; if you are a child under the age of 13, please do not attempt to register for or otherwise use the Services or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we have collected Personal Data from a child under 13 years of age, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that a child under 13 years of age may have provided Personal Data to us, please contact us at support@gedmatchpro.com.

California Resident Rights

If you are a California resident, you have the rights set forth in this section. Please see the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. Please note that we may process Personal Data of our customers’ end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services to our customers. If we are processing your Personal Data as a service provider, you should contact the entity that collected your Personal Data in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data. Additionally, please note that these rights are subject to certain conditions and exceptions under applicable law, which may permit or require us to deny your request.

If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy and you are a California resident, the portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at support@gedmatchpro.com.

Information for California Residents

If you are a California resident, you have the rights set forth in this section. Please see the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. Please note that we may process Personal Data of our customers’ end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services to our customers. If we are processing your Personal Data as a service provider, you should contact the entity that collected your Personal Data in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data. Additionally, please note that these rights are subject to certain conditions and exceptions under applicable law, which may permit or require us to deny your request.

If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy and you are a California resident, the portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at support@gedmatchpro.com.

Access

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

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

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

Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete the Personal Data 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 Data to provide you with the Services or complete a transaction or other action you have requested, or if deletion of your Personal Data involves disproportionate effort. If your deletion request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your deletion request.

Correction

You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate Personal Data 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 Data, that such data is correct. If your correction request is subject to one of these exceptions, we may deny your request.

Note of the Right to Opt-out of Sale/Sharing of Personal Data

In this section, we use the term ‘sell’ and ‘share’ as it is defined in the CCPA. We sell and/or share your Personal Data, subject to your right to opt-out as described in this section. We may ‘sell’ or ‘share’ your Personal Data with our Business Partners. Over the past 12 months, we have sold or shared Profile or Contact Data to our Business Partners for those Business Partners to market their products or services to you. To opt-out of our ‘sale’ and ‘sharing’ of your Personal Data, please follow the instructions under “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws.”

To our knowledge, we do not sell or share the Personal Data 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 Data that we receive from you.

Virginia Resident Rights

If you are a Virginia resident, you have the rights set forth under the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (“VCDPA”). Please see the “Exercising Your Rights” section below for instructions regarding how to exercise these rights. Please note that we may process Personal Data of our customers’ end users or employees in connection with our provision of certain services to our customers. If we are processing your Personal Data as a service provider, you should contact the entity that collected your Personal Data in the first instance to address your rights with respect to such data. Additionally, please note that these rights are subject to certain conditions and exceptions under applicable law, which may permit or require us to deny your request.

If there are any conflicts between this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy and you are a Virginia resident, the portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following rights apply to you, please contact us at support@gedmatchpro.com.

Access

You have the right to request confirmation of whether or not we are processing your Personal Data and to access your Personal Data.

Correction

You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your Personal Data, to the extent such correction is appropriate in consideration of the nature of such data and our purposes of processing your Personal Data.

Portability

You have the right to request a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format, to the extent technically feasible.

Deletion

You have the right to delete Personal Data you have provided to us or we have obtained about you.

Consent or “Opt-in” Required and How to Withdraw

We may seek your consent to collect or process certain Personal Data, including Sensitive Data.

If you would like to withdraw your consent, please follow the instructions under the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section.

Opt-Out of Certain Processing Activities

  • You have the right to opt-out to the sale of your Personal Data. To exercise this right, please follow the instructions under the “Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws” section.
  • You have the right to opt-out of the processing of your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes. We do not process your Personal Data for targeted advertising purposes.

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

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the VCDPA. 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 VCDPA. However, we may offer different tiers of our Services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws (including the VCDPA) with varying prices, rates or levels of quality of the goods or services you receive related to the value of Personal Data that we receive from you.

Other Virginia Resident Rights

If you have a complaint, we encourage you to reach out to us at support@gedmatchpro.com. If you are a resident of Virginia, you have a right to file a complaint alleging a violation under Virginia’s Genetic Information Privacy Act (“Virginia GIPA”) with Virginia’s Attorney General. You can find information relating to filing a complaint on the Virginia Attorney General’s website here.

Exercising Your Rights under State Privacy Laws

To exercise the rights described in this Privacy Policy, you or, if you are a California or Virginia resident, your Authorized Agent (defined below) must send us a request that (1) provides sufficient information (including account login credentials, first name, last name and/or email address) to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom we have collected Personal Data, and (2) describes your request in sufficient detail to allow us to understand, evaluate and respond to it. Each request that meets both of these criteria will be considered a “Valid Request.” We may not respond to requests that do not meet these criteria. We will only use Personal Data provided in a Valid Request to verify your identity and complete your request. You do not need an account to submit a Valid Request.

We will work to respond to your Valid Request within the time period required by applicable law. We will not charge you a fee for making a Valid Request unless your Valid Request(s) is excessive, repetitive or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that your Valid Request warrants a fee, we will notify you of the fee and explain that decision before completing your request.

Opt-out of ‘Sale’ and ‘Sharing’

If you are a Virginia or California resident, you may opt-out of our ‘sale’ or ‘sharing’ of your Personal Data by using the following methods:

Withdrawal of Consent to Processing Sensitive Data

If you are a Virginia resident, you may withdraw your consent allowing us: 1) to process Sensitive Data, or 2) to process Sensitive Data if you are a known child under 13 years of age, by using the following methods:

Request to Access, Delete, or Correct

You may submit a Valid Request for any other rights afforded to you in this Privacy Policy by using the following methods:

If you are a California or Virginia resident, you may also authorize an agent (an “Authorized Agent”) to exercise your rights on your behalf. To do this, you must provide your Authorized Agent with written permission to exercise your rights on your behalf, and we may request a copy of this written permission from your Authorized Agent when they make a request on your behalf.

Appealing a Denial

If you are a Virginia resident and we refuse to take action on your request within a reasonable period of time after receiving your request in accordance with this section, you may appeal our decision. In such appeal, you must (1) provide sufficient information to allow us to verify that you are the person about whom the original request pertains and to identify the original request, and (2) provide a description of the basis of your appeal. Please note that your appeal will be subject to your rights and obligations afforded to you under the CPA, CTDPA, or VCDPA (as applicable). We will respond to your appeal within the time period required under the applicable law. You can submit a Verified Request to appeal by the following methods:

If we deny your appeal, you have the right to contact the Attorney General of your State, including by the following links: www.oag.state.va.us/consumer-protection/index.php/file-a-complaint (VA).

Other State Law Privacy Rights

California Resident Rights

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

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

If applicable, you may also file a complaint alleging a violation under the 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.

Nevada Resident Rights

If you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data to third parties. You can exercise this right by contacting us at support@gedmatchpro.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request” and providing us with your name and the email address associated with your account. Please note that we do not currently sell your Personal Data as sales are defined in Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A.

Information for Washington Residents

If you are a resident of Washington state, please see our Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy for additional information about the processing of your health data and your rights under the Washington My Health My Data Act.

European Union and United Kingdom Data Subject Rights

EU and UK Residents

If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”), United Kingdom (“UK”), Lichtenstein, Norway or Iceland, you may have additional rights under the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) with respect to your Personal Data, as outlined below.

For this section, we use the terms “Personal Data” and “processing” as they are defined in the GDPR, but “Personal Data” generally means information that can be used to individually identify a person, and “processing” generally covers actions that can be performed in connection with data such as collection, use, storage and disclosure. GEDmatch PRO will be the controller of your Personal Data processed in connection with the Services.

If there are any conflicts between this this section and any other provision of this Privacy Policy, the policy or portion that is more protective of Personal Data shall control to the extent of such conflict. If you have any questions about this section or whether any of the following applies to you, please contact us at support@gedmatchpro.com.

Personal Data We Collect

The “Categories of Personal Data We Collect” section above details the Personal Data that we collect from you.

Personal Data Use and Processing Grounds

The “Our Commercial or Business Purposes for Collecting Personal Data” section above explains how we use your Personal Data.

We will only process your Personal Data if we have a lawful basis for doing so. Lawful bases for processing include consent, contractual necessity and our “legitimate interests” or the legitimate interest of others, as further described below.

  • Contractual Necessity: We process the following categories of Personal Data as a matter of “contractual necessity”, meaning that we need to process the data to perform under our Terms of Use with you, which enables us to provide you with the Services. When we process data due to contractual necessity, failure to provide such Personal Data will result in your inability to use some or all portions of the Services that require such data.
    • Profile or Contact Data
    • Payment Data
    • Commercial Data
    • Device/IP Data
    • Web Analytics
    • Geolocation Data
    • Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide
  • Legitimate Interest: We process the following categories of Personal Data when we believe it furthers the legitimate interest of us or third parties:
    • Profile or Contact Data
    • Commercial Data
    • Device/IP Data
    • Web Analytics
    • Geolocation Data
    • Other Identifying Information that You Voluntarily Choose to Provide
  • We may also de-identify or anonymize Personal Data to further our legitimate interests.
  • Examples of these legitimate interests include (as described in more detail above):
    • Providing, customizing and improving the Services.
    • Marketing the Services.
    • Corresponding with you.
    • Meeting legal requirements and enforcing legal terms.
    • Completing corporate transactions.
  • Consent: In some cases, we process Personal Data based on the consent you expressly grant to us at the time we collect such data. When we process Personal
  • Data based on your consent, it will be expressly indicated to you at the point and time of collection.
  • Other Processing Grounds: From time to time we may also need to process Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation, if it is necessary to protect the vital interests of you or other data subjects, or if it is necessary for a task carried out in the public interest.

Disclosing Personal Data

The “How We Disclose Your Personal Data” section above details how we disclose your Personal Data with third parties.

EU, UK and Swiss Data Subject Rights

You have certain rights with respect to your Personal Data, including those set forth below. For more information about these rights, or to submit a request, please email us at support@gedmatchpro.com. Please note that in some circumstances, we may not be able to fully comply with your request, such as if it is frivolous or extremely impractical, if it jeopardizes the rights of others, or if it is not required by law, but in those circumstances, we will still respond to notify you of such a decision. In some cases, we may also need you to provide us with additional information, which may include Personal Data, if necessary to verify your identity and the nature of your request.

  • Access: You can request more information about the Personal Data we hold about you and request a copy of such Personal Data. You can also access certain of your Personal Data by emailing us at support@gedmatchpro.com.
  • Rectification: If you believe that any Personal Data we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete, you can request that we correct or supplement such data by emailing us at support@gedmatchpro.com. You can also correct some of this information directly by logging on to your account.
  • Erasure: You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Data from our systems.
  • Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your Personal Data based on your consent (as indicated at the time of collection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note, however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a case-by-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Data, if such use or disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Services.
  • Portability: You can ask for a copy of your Personal Data in a machine-readable format. You can also request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
  • Objection: You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal Data for certain purposes, such as for direct marketing purposes.
  • Restriction of Processing: You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Data.
  • Right to File Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint about GEDmatch PRO’S practices with respect to your Personal Data with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State. A list of Supervisory Authorities is available here: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en.

Transfers of Personal Data

The Services are hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through GEDmatch PRO and its service providers, and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you, regardless of whether provided by you or obtained from a third party, is being provided to GEDmatch PRO in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize GEDmatch PRO to transfer, store and process your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries. In some circumstances, your Personal Data may be transferred to the U.S. pursuant to a data processing agreement incorporating standard data protection clauses.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Data or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

If you are located in the European Union, you may use the following information to contact our Data Protection Officer and our European Union-Based Member Representative:

  • For our European Union-Based Member Representative, contact: DP-Dock GmbH, Ballindamm 39, 20095 Hamburg, Germany
  • For our Data Protection Officer, email: dpo@verogen.com

Contact

support@gedmatchpro.com

Address

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