- #How to change who can view my dna matches on ancestry update#
- #How to change who can view my dna matches on ancestry license#
Once a person took a page from a family newsletter another cousin and I did for 15 years. At least it lets me see what’s been done with it. And yes, I keep getting hints on photos or information copied from my tree. But Private tree owners can take my information yet I can’t see their information without requesting it, and after having a couple people ignore my request, I’ve quit asking. Don’t have a problem with this per se, in that I’m the person with the original photos, and took the time to scan, post and share the photos so other somehow connected individuals can see them. One of the most ridiculous things I find about Private trees is that the individuals who own these trees have shared many of my photos to their trees.
Guess I’ve always figured that whatever I posted on Ancestry they would use how they choose, so their latest gambit doesn’t surprise me. Russell, “ One big change at Ancestry,” The Legal Genealogist ( : posted ). Or you may find you’ve just given away more than you wanted to give.Ĭite/link to this post: Judy G. One The Legal Genealogist doesn’t like at all.īe aware of it, think about it, make your choices carefully before you upload anything.Īnd read the terms of use of every website you use. You can continue to use it elsewhere if you wish, since you’re still technically the owner, but you can’t do anything to stop Ancestry from using it any way it wants, forever.
In plain English, the rights to use that family photo you posted, that story you wrote and uploaded, that snippet of family history you’ve shared basically now belong to Ancestry. And note that the last sentence, the one that had limited Ancestry’s right to keep using our materials to the cases “necessary … to provide and improve” Ancestry’s services, is gone. Note the addition of the words perpetual and non-revocable - meaning forever and ever amen and no changing your mind. Ancestry will own the indexes it creates. This includes the right for Ancestry to copy, display, and index your User Provided Content.
#How to change who can view my dna matches on ancestry license#
… by submitting User Provided Content through any of the Services, you grant Ancestry a perpetual, sublicensable, worldwide, non-revocable, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to, create derivative works of, and otherwise use such User Provided Content to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered. We will also have the right to continue to use your User Provided Content, even if you stop using the Services, but only as necessary for us to provide and improve the Services.
… by submitting User Provided Content through any of the Services, you grant Ancestry a sublicensable, worldwide, royalty-free license to host, store, copy, publish, distribute, provide access to, create derivative works of, and otherwise use such User Provided Content to the extent and in the form or context we deem appropriate on or through any media or medium and with any technology or devices now known or hereafter developed or discovered. That’s a good definition, and, in this case, the terms of use govern whether we can use the Ancestry website and, if we do, what rights we’re giving Ancestry.īefore the new terms, the applicable section read: The person must agree to abide by the terms of service in order to use the offered service.” 2 1 Wikipedia says terms of use, terms of service and terms and conditions are all the same thing (they are) and defines the phrase as “the legal agreements between a service provider and a person who wants to use that service. This isn’t copyright law it’s contract law - we and whoever owns the thing we want to use reach a deal: a website lets us access the site and its information and we agree to use it only in the ways the website says we can. Terms of service (or terms of use), remember, are the limits somebody who owns something we want to use (like a website) puts on whether or not he’ll let us use it.
#How to change who can view my dna matches on ancestry update#
UPDATE : Ancestry has amended its terms, again, to say it didn’t exactly mean it… See here.Īncestry has just updated its terms of service and privacy statement - again - and this time there is a change buried deep in its language that is of significance to users.Īs of the change, effective yesterday (3 August 2021), a user can’t change his or her mind about any content uploaded to Ancestry: as of yesterday, you’ve just gifted the rights to that content to Ancestry, forever.
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