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Personal Information Security
What about privacy?
Company name:
Family Tree DNA
You establish your level of privacy by the way you join and the options you select. If you want complete privacy, you should not join a project, but simply order and pay for your testing on your own. That way, your identity and results are known only to you (and to FamilyTreeDNA, obviously). If you join a project, the project administrator knows who you are (i.e., has access to your full name and contact information), but only your test data, lineage, and surname — not your given name(s) — will be placed in public view on the project's web sites. The administrator will not reveal your identity to anyone, not even to other project members or administrators. Period. In cases where someone is requesting to contact a member, I forward the query to the member giving the member the option as to whether or not they choose to respond. If you sign the Release that comes with your kit, your name and email address will be shared with others at FamilyTreeDNA whose results match yours (and vice versa), but your name and email address will still not be displayed at the project web sites nor be released by the project administrator. You also have the option of restricting match sharing to just the members of your project, rather than with everyone else tested at FamilyTreeDNA, the latter obviously being a much larger database. While members will be notified of their matches in the FTDNA database, there is no public or member access to the FTDNA database for browsing or searching — not even FTDNA project administrators have access to this database. If you want to get the most from your testing, then share the most, that is: join a project, sign the Release, and remove the sharing restriction (via the checkbox at your member page). Then upload your results to the Ysearch database (an easy upload via the button on your member page), a publicly available and searchable database on the web, sponsored by FTDNA, but open to anyone, regardless of where they were tested. Even if you upload your data to Ysearch, your anonymity is still maintained. At Ysearch, only the test results and surname of the test subject are necessarily displayed. You have the options of including the name and origin of the most distant ancestor, uploading a GEDCOM, and/or revealing your name as the contact person. Visitors contact you via a form that reveals neither your name nor your email address, giving you the option whether or not to respond and reveal yourself on a case-by-case basis. Lastly, in cases where you do see the test subject indentified, it has been at the subject's own request. They realize there is no reasonable risk in being identified and that they are more likely to make useful contacts if they are. Copied with permission Diana has a wonderful page about FTDNA check it out here - http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/DK/DanishDemesDNA-FAQs.shtml#cost
DNA Finger Print
Test kit numbers are used for access at DNAFP. On your page you can opt to show your name or not, your email address is required (This e-mail address will not be public but is required. It will be used to send you your password if you lose it) All other fields of information are up to you. You can select to show your marker results (DNA alleles) or not. It is much better to share.
Hope this helps lay aside any misgivings on security..
Nelda
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