Ancestry Terms and Conditions

This document governs user access to Ancestry's suite of services including Ancestry, AncestryDNA, Newspapers.com, Find a Grave, Fold3, Forces War Records, Archives, and WeRemember, operating as a binding agreement between users and the applicable Ancestry entity based on service and geography. The agreement states that users grant Ancestry a non-exclusive, sub-licensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, index, copy, publish, distribute, create derivative works of, and otherwise use user-submitted content, and requires users to indemnify Ancestry against claims arising from their content or conduct; separately, the terms authorize Ancestry to provide DNA samples to laboratory partners, extract and genetically test DNA, store samples and extracted DNA in a U.S.-based biobank, and compare users' DNA data against the broader user database. The arbitration clause requires US users to submit disputes to binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS or AAA, includes a class action waiver applicable to both arbitration and court proceedings, mandates a 60-day pre-arbitration written notice period with specific factual disclosures, and introduces a bellwether process for mass claims involving 25 or more similarly situated claimants represented by the same or coordinated counsel. The document engages GDPR and the EU Digital Services Act for EU users, CCPA and Washington state consumer health data law for US users, COPPA for users under 13, and the Federal Arbitration Act for US dispute resolution; regulatory applicability for the consumer health data provisions depends on jurisdiction and the specific service accessed. Compliance teams should note that the Consumer Health Data Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference but not reproduced in this document, that biometric processing disclosures for facial grouping features are flagged as jurisdiction-dependent, and that the DNA data governance provisions interact with a range of state genetic privacy statutes whose applicability varies by geography.