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This prohibition explicitly excludes a category of use — forensic genealogy investigations — from the permitted scope of the Services.
Users are barred from using 23andMe's Services for any investigative forensic genealogy purpose.
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Use our Services in relation to any political campaign financing or for the purpose of influencing any election, other than sharing your own personal political opinions;
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Bypass or ignore instructions contained in our robots.txt file that controls automated access to portions of our Services;
"You will not use the Services for any investigative forensic genealogy usesExcerpt from 23andMe's Terms of Service
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This prohibition explicitly excludes a category of use — forensic genealogy investigations — from the permitted scope of the Services.
Users are barred from using 23andMe's Services for any investigative forensic genealogy purpose.
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