The purpose of this website (our "Web Services"), GeneticHomeland.com , is casual entertainment for those interested in personal family genealogy, paleoanthropology, and scientific understanding of human heritage. Use of our Web Services for purposes of health care, forensics, violent crime, unidentified decendent, and negligent adoption investigations is inappropriate and EXPRESSLY PROHIBITED. GeneticHomeland.com and its administrators strive to balance the privacy of our human users (collectively or individually "Users") who visit and use our web site(s) with the hardware, software, regulatory, and other costs of operating these Web Services. With no subscription fees or products for sale, we require that consent for analytical data storage and 3rd party advertisements be accepted as part of using our Web Services. If you do not consent for such purposes, you should not use this website, regardless of your jurisdiction or location. The increasing regulatory costs and complexities emanating from Europe, California, and Brazil cast a dark shadow on the future viability of free Internet resources operated by aficionados and community leaders.
See our Consent Management page to make changes in your privacy and data storage consents for GeneticHomeland.com.
Automated download agents, browser macros, browser extensions, accelerators, bots, spiders, screen-scraping, artificial intelligence, and other bulk-download tools and software is expressly prohibited from using or making web requests (HTTP, UDP, or ICMP) to our Web Services, regardless of the volume of usage.
To ensure reasonable usage, maintain the performance of our Web Services, and inhibit cyber attacks, we have implemented various measures, usage limitations, and restrictions. By using our Web Services, you agree to abide by our usage limitations. Users who do not agree should abstain from making requests to our Web Services.
The authorized usage rates themselves may be adjusted from time to time to adapt to the evolving computer technology and cyber security environments as well as phenomena and behaviors which have been observed or anticipated in the future.
Note that even if automated means are not used, manual usage at rates exceeding the limitations of this website may result in restrictions. The employment or use of multiple identities (email addresses, names, user accounts, or IP addresses) in any combination constitutes a form of computer hacking and a cyber security threat. The use of virtual private networks (VPN), proxy servers, proxy clients, torrents, cloud-based computing resources, cloaking software, and other attempts to obscure the origination of Internet requests to our Web Services also constitute a form of computer hacking and a cyber security threat. IP address originations and requests from known VPNs, proxy servers, proxy clients, torrents, and internet service providers (ISPs) with bad reputations or which show evidence of compromise by malware and cyber threats may be blocked without any previous activity having being historically identified to our specific Web Services.
Our Web Services employ performance monitoring and logging tools to detect patterns of cyber threats, attacks, inappropriate, and excessive usage. We reserve the right to take whatever actions we feel are appropriate to defend our Web Services from cyber threats, excessive usage, and inappropriate usage. Defensive measures may be implemented for periods of seconds, minutes, hours, days, months, years or permanently. The electronic defensive measures we may take include but are not limited to:
We may also take defensive and precautionary measures against anyone making physical, reputational, or terroristic threats.
Some resources on this website are available without registering your personal information. Other resources, however, require formal Registration and password protection in order to assure that they are not abused.
Please do not use fake or duplicate email addresses. Use of false identity is a form of computer hacking. Do not do it. When we send user credentials to an invalid email address which you enter and the message bounces, our SMTP (email) reputation suffers damage. Aside from direct harm and cost such damage renders to this site, it also makes it harder for us to send messages to others who do use valid email addresses. You will not be able to exploit this site with invalid credentials and your IP address may be permanently banned from accessing this site in the future.
You have access to your personal information and you may update your password after logging-in using the Change Password tool.
To protect your privacy and security, we take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting User's profile access. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.
If you would like to change your Consent choices relating to advertising, see the Consent Management page.
If you need to change information other than your password or email address, please complete a Contact Form stating the desired change you desire.
For security reasons, we cannot take any action on a registered user account for requests that do not originate from the same email address that is registered for the User. Likewise, we do not change the email address registered for an individual User. If a User wishes to use a different email address, the old account should be deactivated and a new Registration created.
Consistent with the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of thirteen (13) without requiring parental consent. Any person who provides their personal information to GeneticHomeland.com through our Web Services represents that they are 18 years of age or older.
The CCPA and CPRA do not apply to Genetic Homeland LLC because we have revenues below the $ 25 million threshold and we do not buy or sell any personal information. Nevertheless Genetic Homeland LLC does implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices for protecting user information. Further all users who have registered with this web site, including California Residents, can Opt-Out and Deactivate their user account using the Close Account link available from the User Profile page. A checkbox for a Personal Data Destruction Option is available on that page which provides an immediate deletion of personal user data.
Our Web Services are hosted in the United States of America (U.S.) and domiciled in the state of Texas. Please note that in using this website you are using the Internet to visit and use our Texas, United States resources. If you enter any data on our web site, YOU are transferring that data to our servers in the United States. The laws and policies for handling any data transferred will be governed only by U.S. and local Texas laws and regulations in our jurisdiction. If you do not want your data recorded in the U.S., then you should not use our Web Services.
Genetic Homeland LLC incorporates technology specified in version 2.2 of the IAB Europe Transparency & Consent Framework (TCF). Genetic Homeland LLC uses the Consent Management Platform (CMP) with the TCF identification number 300. Thus, personalized ads from third parties are believed to meet requirements for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Genetic Homeland LLC may also present non-personalized ads using static content without cookies and hosted on our own servers. If you are a citizen of one of these entities and do not consent to such ads, then you should not use our Web Services.
Genetic Homeland LLC uses the Consent Management Platform (CMP) with the TCF identification number 300 which is consistent with requirements of the LGPD for personalized advertisements. Genetic Homeland LLC may also present non-personalized ads using static content without cookies and hosted on our own servers. If you are a citizen Brazil and do not consent to such ads, then you should not use our Web Services.
If you are a User accessing our Web Services from outside the jurisdictions outlined above, note that the laws or regulations governing personal data collection, use, and disclosure, may differ from Texas and United States laws. By providing your personal data you consent to the use of your personal data for the uses identified below in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to such use and ads, then you should not use our Web Services.
As we do not buy, sell, or share any personal information except as outlined herein, this website and its Web Services support the GPC standard as proposed 27 January 2022.
You may provide to our Web Services what is generally called "personally identifiable" information when you register, such as email address, postal address, country, language preferences, and genetic genealogy products and experience. Your Registration information is never sold or disclosed to 3rd parties for marketing. Likewise, information you may enter on a contact form is never sold or disclosed to 3rd parties for marketing.
When you visit our Web Services, we may send one or more cookies (a small text file or html element containing a string of alphanumeric characters) to your computer. Our Web Services use session cookies, persistent cookies, and HTML5 browser local storage.
A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to our Web Service. By using these cookies, we can "remember" what you have done on our Web Service before and personalize our site for you. Persistent cookies generated by our own servers are automatically set to expire each day at midnight (U.S. Central Time). You can also immediately expire both session cookies and persistent cookies by browsing to the Log Off page.
Note, however, that persistent cookies generated by third-parties such as advertisers likely have different expiration dates from our own cookies and are not read, controlled, or affected by our Web Service but rather by your own Consent choices and web browser. If you would like to change your Consent choices relating to cookies, see the Consent Management page.
To physically remove persistent cookies from your local computing device from all sources, refer to instructions for Clear Cookies and Clear Data for your particular computing device and web browser software, such as:
When you visit our Web Services or read one of our HTML emails, we may record certain information from your web browser and hardware by using different types of technology, including languages and character sets supported by your browser, geographical location as provided and permitted by your device, geographical location by DNS interpretation, Google APIs, asynchronous java script (AJAX), "clear gifs", or "web beacons". This "automatically collected" information also includes the Internet Protocol address ("IP Address") from which your request originates, web browser type, the web pages or sites that you visit just before or just after the our Web Services Service, the pages you view on our site, particular commands or requests you made on our site, and the dates and times that you visit.
Note that disabling cookies, using Ad Blockers, using Tracking Blockers, and or Denying Consent for storage and use of automatically collected data on your part may prevent you from accessing some or all of the functionality and content of our Web Services.
Genetic Homeland LLC uses the information that we collect to provide you with the features and services found on our Web Service. We will use your email address indefinitely as a globally unique identifier for security and policy enforcement purposes. We may use your email address, without further consent, to send you administrative / non-marketing messages such as notifying you of your password, security issues, technology issues, and concerns or violations of policies related to your use of our site and the source of your web requests.
No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your transmission, we make reasonable efforts to ensure security on our systems. For content with sensitive information, we use secure server software (SSL) and firewalls to protect your information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, please note that this is not a guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software.
If Genetic Homeland LLC learns of a security systems breach, then we may attempt to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using our Web Services or providing personal information to us, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of our Web Services. Genetic Homeland LLC may post a notice on our Web Service if a security breach occurs. If this happens, you will need a web browser enabling you to view our Web Services. Genetic Homeland LLC may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive a free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic notice) you should notify us via email at info@GeneticHomeland.com.
Genetic Homeland LLC does not purchase, sell, or exchange email addresses, postal addresses, dates of birth, or telephone numbers with other parties for any marketing or commercial purpose.
Genetic Homeland LLC may use automatically collected information, cookies, and other information collected to:
So long as you have an active, registered user account on GeneticHomeland.com, Genetic Homeland LLC may, on rare occasions (not to exceed six {6} times per year), use your email address or other personally identifiable information without your consent to transmit non-administrative or marketing messages to you about our own services as well as genetic genealogy events, services, and products from other entities for which you will have the ability to opt out by deactivating your registered user account.
Genetic Homeland LLC allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within our Web Service. These third-party ad servers or ad networks may use technology to send, directly from their servers to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear within our Web Service. They automatically receive your IP Address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or web beacons) to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and to personalize their advertising content. If you respond to such an advertisement, the advertiser or ad-server may also conclude that you fit the description of the audience they were trying to reach. Note that persistent cookies from third-parties likely have different expiration dates than those used by GeneticHomeland.com. You can change your Consent choices relating to third-party advertising on GeneticHomeland.com at any time by using the Consent Management page. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information.
The most common use of IP address and other collected information is for cyber security defense of this web site, its equipment, and its authorized users. Such information is not shared by Genetic Homeland LLC with other entities, except in cases where we are conducting an investigation in defense of our security, cyber security, or activity that has ill intent. For example, when we observe a cyber hacking attempt from a specific IP address, we may contact the owner of that IP address, related entities, and/or law enforcement to provide those entities with the information we know about the hacking and ask those entities to investigate the activity further. When cyber security threats, or other legal and security concerns are noted, we may communicate our findings to other Web Services as well as law enforcement agencies.
Except as otherwise noted in this Privacy Policy, Genetic Homeland LLC does not share personally identifiable information about Users with third parties unless doing so is appropriate to carry out a User's request or it reasonably believes that doing so is legally required or is in Genetic Homeland LLC's interest to protect its property or other legal rights or the rights or property of others, or to inhibit hacking, security violations or other harm being perpetrated against our site, subscribers, or users.
Genetic Homeland LLC may disclose aggregate, redacted, or non-personally identifiable information and automatically collected information to affiliated companies, subscribers, or other businesses or persons to help them understand consumption and usage trends of products; how to improve their products in quality and taste; how to improve promotions, advertisements, and marketing; and to help inhibit counterfeit and other inappropriate use of their products.
We may provide access to our database and website to business affiliates for the purpose of providing computer hardware, website maintenance, technology support, software development, and security of our site and our Web Services. We require that these parties agree to process such information in compliance with our Privacy Policy, we use reasonable efforts to limit their use of such information, and we require these parties to use any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Genetic Homeland provides tools designed to assist members of the general public with genealogy research for their own entertainment and personal research. Genetic Homeland does not claim ownership of 3rd party or licensed data lists which may be presented by Partners for use with the Genetic Homeland data collection tools. When a person uses licensed data lists with the Genetic Homeland tools, such use must be made as part of the original license or under the public domain. Genetic Homeland does retain ownership of information and aggregate proprietary information collected with its own tools (e.g. geographical locations). Genetic Homeland may share that ownership with Partners on a negotiated basis. Genetic Homeland may sell or share aggregated information and non personally-identifiable information to 3rd parties but does not sell personally-identifiable information to any 3rd parties.
Issues, tags, reviews, opinions, recommendations, analysis, data and other information available on our Web Services are assembled from information provided by the general public as well as consultants, candidates, users, and other interest groups. Genetic Homeland LLC may not verify the accuracy of such information and has no obligation to verify the accuracy of this data. Genetic Homeland LLC is not responsible or liable for any inaccuracies such data may contain. You may use this website and its data on an "AS IS" BASIS. Genetic Homeland LLC and our Web Services MAKE NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES REGARDING DATA, AND DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR ANY PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, you may voice your concerns via email to info@GeneticHomeland.com
Postal mailing address: Address: Genetic Homeland LLC, 6341 Stewart Road # 231, Galveston, TX 77551 USA
If Genetic Homeland LLC, should ever file for bankruptcy or have its assets sold to or merge with another entity, information Genetic Homeland LLC receives from you through the Web Services is a Genetic Homeland LLC asset and may be transferred.