ast updated: 17 September 2026
Find My Bloodline respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data when you visit our website or contact us.
Find My Bloodline is being developed as a service intended to help adopted people, biological parents and other relatives search for family connections. Some future services may involve sensitive personal and family information. Such services will not be activated until appropriate privacy, security and legal safeguards are in place.
Who we are
Our website address is:
The data controller responsible for personal data processed through this website is:
Name or legal entity: Find my bloodline
Postal address: [INSERT POSTAL ADDRESS]
Email address for privacy enquiries: [INSERT PRIVACY EMAIL ADDRESS]
In this Privacy Policy, “Find My Bloodline”, “we”, “us” and “our” refer to the data controller identified above.
2. Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to personal data collected through:
- our public website;
- contact forms;
- emails and other communications sent to us;
- comments, if commenting is enabled;
- user accounts and profiles, if these features are introduced;
- search profiles, family-search information and uploaded material, if these features are introduced;
- cookies and similar technologies.
Additional notices and consent information may be provided when new services are introduced, particularly services involving family-search profiles, private documents, photographs, health information, genetic information or other sensitive personal data.
3. Personal data we may collect
Depending on how you use the website, we may collect the following information.
Information you provide directly
This may include:
- your name;
- your email address;
- your telephone number, if you choose to provide it;
- the content of messages you send to us;
- information submitted through a contact form;
- account and profile information, if accounts are introduced;
- family-search information, if search profiles are introduced;
- photographs, documents or other files that you choose to upload, if uploading is introduced.
Please do not submit highly sensitive information, identity documents, genetic data or information about another person unless the website specifically requests that information and explains how it will be protected.
Technical information
When you visit the website, our systems or hosting provider may automatically process technical information such as:
- your IP address;
- browser type and version;
- device type;
- operating system;
- date and time of access;
- pages visited;
- referring website;
- security and error logs.
This information may be used to operate, protect and improve the website.
4. Family-search information and information about other people
A family search may involve information about people other than the person creating a profile. This may include names, relationships, approximate dates, locations, adoption circumstances and family history.
You must only submit information that you are legally entitled to provide. You should avoid publishing another person’s private contact details, identification numbers, medical information, genetic information or identity documents.
Find My Bloodline may limit, hide or remove information that could expose another person to privacy, safety or identity risks.
Information included in a possible match does not establish or confirm a biological relationship. Any future matching function will be intended to identify possible similarities that require further human review and, where appropriate, reliable supporting evidence.
5. Sensitive personal data
Information connected to adoption, family relationships or biological origins may reveal sensitive information. Genetic data, health information and information revealing racial or ethnic origin are specially protected under data-protection law.
The initial public website does not intentionally collect genetic data or other specially protected information.
Before any service involving sensitive personal data is introduced, Find My Bloodline will:
- determine an appropriate legal basis;
- provide additional privacy information;
- introduce appropriate access controls and security measures;
- limit access to authorised persons;
- carry out any legally required risk or impact assessment;
- obtain explicit consent where consent is the applicable legal basis.
6. Why we process personal data
We may process personal data for the following purposes:
- to provide and maintain the website;
- to respond to questions and contact requests;
- to administer user accounts, if introduced;
- to provide family-search functions, if introduced;
- to prevent spam, fraud, misuse and security incidents;
- to investigate technical problems;
- to comply with legal obligations;
- to establish, exercise or defend legal claims;
- to improve the accessibility and functionality of the website;
- to manage consent and privacy requests.
We will not use personal data for a purpose that is incompatible with the purpose for which it was collected without providing additional information or obtaining consent where required.
How long we retain your data
Suggested text: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
Suggested text: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Suggested text: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
