“You will not use the Services for any investigative forensic genealogy uses”
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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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You may not use our Services in any manner that infringes the rights of any third party.
Assist or permit any persons in engaging in any of the activities described above
use the Services in a manner that may create a conflict of interest or undermine the purposes of the Services, such as trading reviews with other users or writing or soliciting fake reviews
"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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