“Ancestry reserves the right to review Your Content and to screen for illegal content or other violations of these Terms...and to remove or disable access to illegal content or Your Content that we believe violates these Terms.”
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Ancestry's removal authority is triggered by its own belief that content violates the Terms, meaning content can be removed without a formal finding of violation.
Your content may be reviewed by Ancestry and removed or made inaccessible if Ancestry believes it is illegal or violates the Terms.
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Upon receipt of a valid complaint, we will review the reported Content and may remove or disable access to it pending investigation.
we and our designees shall have the right (but not the obligation) to remove in our sole discretion any content that we consider to violate these Terms of Use.
We reserve the right, at any time and without prior notice, to remove or disable access to any Collective Content, including any Registered User Content, that we, in our sole discretion, consider to be objectionable, in violation of these Terms, or otherwise harmful to the Service.
"Ancestry reserves the right to review Your Content and to screen for illegal content or other violations of these Terms...and to remove or disable access to illegal content or Your Content that we believe violates these Terms.Excerpt from Ancestry's Terms and Conditions
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Ancestry's removal authority is triggered by its own belief that content violates the Terms, meaning content can be removed without a formal finding of violation.
Your content may be reviewed by Ancestry and removed or made inaccessible if Ancestry believes it is illegal or violates the Terms.
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