Agreement to Privacy Policy

Genie, ("Genie", "we" or "us") is committed to upholding the confidentiality of personal information and strives to collect, use and disclose personal information in a manner consistent with the laws and regulations of the countries in which it does business. Genie has established this Privacy Policy to inform you of the specific practices and guidelines that help ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal information. By using or accessing in any way the websites we control and operate, including www.url.com (our "Websites"), or by transmitting information to us by email or other electronic means, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Websites.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

In Short: We collect information that you provide to us. Some information — such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our website.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us, and the choices you make and the products and features you use.

• Contacting Us: You may also provide us with other information when interacting with us by email, phone call, or through other methods of communication. This may include feedback and customer support inquiries. This also includes your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications.
• Surveys: We also collect voluntary information through surveys. Basic information surveys may collect personal traits and characteristics such as sex, age, ethnicity, weight, and height. This may also include behavioural and social information such as your occupation, commute, diet, alcohol consumption and tobacco use, fitness and exercise and sleep behaviour. Health surveys may collect more detailed information about your present or past physical or mental health, medical conditions, diseases and symptoms and other medical information. This may also include information from third parties (i.e. information submitted by a physician or law enforcement agencies). We may also collect Personal Data that you manifestly choose to make public, including Social Media.
• Genetic Information: Through your use of the services, you may submit a saliva or blood sample. DNA is then extracted from the sample at one of our partner labs and is converted to a machine-readable code (“DNA Data”) which is used to provide our whole-genome sequencing & analysis. DNA test kit code, year of birth, and sex may also be collected for activation purposes.

Genie takes reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Data Processed by Genie is limited to the Personal Data reasonably required in connection with the purposes set out in this Policy.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the website. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of the website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

• Linked Websites: The Genie Website may contain links to external websites. Genie does not maintain these sites and is not responsible for the privacy practices of sites that it does not operate. Please refer to the specific privacy statements posted on these sites.
• Aggregate Data Collection: Genie tracks visits to our Websites and uses visitor logs to compile anonymous aggregate statistics. This aggregate information is collected sitewide, and includes anonymous website statistics. In addition, when you browse our Websites, our system automatically collects information such as your web request, Internet Protocol ("IP") address, browser type, browser language, domain names, referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, pages viewed and the order of these page views, the amount of time spent on particular pages, the date and time of your request and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the Websites, improve the design of our Websites, and otherwise enhance the services we provide.
• Cookies: Certain pages of the Websites and/or html email correspondence may use session cookies, persistent cookies, web beacons or pixels to anonymously track unique visitors, save website preferences and to allow us to recognize visits from the same computer and browser. You have the option to reject the Websites' cookies and still use the Website. However, your access to the Website may be limited.

2. WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?

In Short: We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations. Genie will not sell or rent your personal information to any other company or organization

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us, and the choices you make and the products and features you use.

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests, as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services (i.e. corporate restructuring, merger or consolidation with, or sale of substantially all of our assets to a third party.)
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the website. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of the website, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us. The information may be provided to third party service providers to perform functions on our behalf (i.e. analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer services)
• Business Partners: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

Nonetheless, the promises of this Privacy Policy will continue to apply to your personal data.

NOTE: We do not currently collect financial information, such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information); that information is collected and stored by our third party payment processing company (the “Payment Processor”), and use and storage of that information is governed by the Payment Processor’s applicable terms of service and privacy policy.

3. HOW WILL MY PERSONAL INFORMATION BE USED?

In Short: Genie may collect, store and use personally identifiable information for our general commercial purposes, such as to improve our Websites, and to offer you information which we believe may be of interest to you.

We may use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To contact you,
• To improve this website and expand our business,
• To provide you with information that you have requested,
• To respond to your inquiries,
• To provide you with technical support,
• To enforce our Terms of Use and other policies governing uses of our Website,
• To alert you to new features or services,
• To provide information about our Website, login information, and related clinical and research information,
• To administer your account,
• To ensure that our Website and Services function properly,
• To keep our website secure,
• To measure and understand the effectiveness of advertising and outreach,
• If you are a healthcare provider or patient ordering our Services, to contact you about research opportunities, clinical trials, or clinical treatments for you or your patients when appropriate.
• To communicate with you about your transactions or potential transactions with us,
• To communicate with you about your transactions or potential transactions with us,
• To communicate with you about your transactions or potential transactions with us,
• To communicate with you about your transactions or potential transactions with us,
• To communicate with you about your transactions or potential transactions with us,

4. WILL MY DATA BE DISCLOSED TO A THIRD PARTY, AND WHY?

In Short: Genie may disclose your Personal Data to other entities for legitimate business purposes (including providing services to you and operating our Websites) in accordance with applicable law.

Genie may disclose your Personal Data to:

• You, and, where appropriate, your family or authorized legal representative.
• Your Physician (where appropriate)
• Third-party Processors (e.g. payment services providers, shipping companies, etc).
• Web service providers: (e.g. cloud storage, data aggregation services, targeted marketing)
• Information Genie shares with commonly owned entities.
• Any relevant third-party acquirer(s), in the event that we sell or transfer all or any relevant portion of our business or assets (including in the event of a reorganization, dissolution, or liquidation).
• Disclosures required by law or for regulatory compliance.
• Any relevant party for the purposes of prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of illegal activity that may expose us to legal liability or costs, to enforce our policies governing our Websites.
• Our Websites may use third party plugins or content. If you choose to interact with any such plug-in or content, your Personal Data may be shared with the third-party provider of the relevant social media platform. We recommend that you review that third party’s privacy policy before interacting with its plugins or content.

4. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?

In Short: . If you are accessing our website, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and by those third parties with whom we may share your personal information (see WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE? above), in and other countries.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country. We will however take all necessary measures to protect your personal information in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable law.

5. HOW SECURE IS MY INFORMATION?

In Short: Your information is encrypted using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology processed and stored on controlled servers with restricted access. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information, and you do so at your own risk.
The information that you provide to Genie through these Websites is encrypted using industry standard Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, with the exception of information you send via email. Your information is processed and stored on controlled servers with restricted access.
Unfortunately, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to our Websites, and you do so at your own risk. As a consequence, Genie disclaims any warrantiesp or representations relating to maintenance or nondisclosure of private information.

6. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW OR UPDATE WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

In Short: You can update your information by contacting us via the contact form or by writing to us at contact@genie.website.

You may choose to provide information to Genie by completing the registration form, sending us an email or otherwise contacting us. Please follow the instructions in the emails to notify Genie of changes to your name, email address and preference information. Genie will take reasonable steps, such as confirmation emails, to verify your identity before granting access to your personal information. If you choose to unsubscribe from our email and/or postal mail services, you will no longer receive this correspondence. However, Genie may retain your information for a period of time to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems or for other valid business or legal reasons.

Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please submit a request form. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

Genie will retain copies of your Personal Data in a form that permits identification only for as long as:

1. i. Genie maintains an ongoing relationship with you; or
2. ii. Your Personal Data is necessary in connection with the lawful purposes set out in this Policy, for which Genie has a valid legal basis.

Additionally, Genie will retain copies for the duration of:

1. i. Any applicable limitation period under applicable law (i.e. any period during which any person could bring a legal claim against us in connection with your Personal Data, or to which your Personal Data may be relevant); and
2. ii. An additional 2 (two) month period following the end of any such applicable limitation period.

In addition, if any relevant legal claims are brought, Genie may continue to Process your Personal Data for such additional periods as are necessary in connection with that claim.
During the periods noted above, Genie will restrict our Processing of your Personal Data to storage of, and maintain the security of, that data, except to the extent that the data need to be reviewed in connection with any legal claim or obligation.

Once the applicable period has ended, Genie will either:

• Permanently Destroy or delete the relevant Personal Data;
• Achieve your Personal Data so that it is beyond use; or
• Anonymise the Relevant Personal Data.

8. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
The Genie Website is directed toward adults. We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. When registering, you represent that you are at least 18 years old or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to the use of such minor dependent’s information. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at contact@genie.website.

9. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time.

If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm. If you are resident in Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.

If you would at any time like to review or change the information in your account or terminate our services, you can do so. Upon your request to terminate services, we will delete your information from our active databases. However, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable legal requirements.

You can unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be removed from the marketing email list – however, we may still communicate with you, for example to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

10. DOES THE WEBSITE RESPOND TO DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES?

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy notice.

11. DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In Short: Yes, if you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with , you have the right to request removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the . To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the , but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all our systems (e.g. backups, etc.).

12. WHAT DO I DO IN THE CASE OF DISPUTES?

Our Websites are controlled and operated by Genie. By choosing to visit our Website or otherwise provide information, you agree that any dispute over privacy or the terms contained in this Privacy Policy will be governed by the laws of . If you are accessing our Websites from any location with regulations or laws governing personal data collection, use or disclosure that differ from laws or regulations, please note that through your continued use of our Website, which is governed by the laws of and this Privacy Statement, you are transferring personal information to and you consent to that transfer and to the collection and processing of such information in . You also consent to the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with our Website and Services in the federal and state courts of . You also agree to attempt to mediate any such disputes.

12. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy notice frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

13. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have any questions about these terms and conditions, please let us know by calling -------, emailing contact@genie.website, or sending us a message using the contact form.