Privacy Policy

Last Updated: July16, 2025

Legacy Family Tree Webinars is a webinar website for genealogy and DNA testing education, where you can enjoy a robust offering of live and recorded webinars (“Services“) owned by MyHeritage Ltd.

This Privacy Notice for Legacy Family Tree Webinars ( “we,” “us,” or “our“), describes how and why we collect, store, use, and/or share (“process“) your information when you use our Services, visits to our website familytreewebinars.com(“Website”), when you contact us directly, or engage with us in other related ways including marketing, or events.

Should you decide to attend one of our live webinars, you will need to sign-up via the platform through which it is provided (GoToWebinar), and for your use of their service, they will be the data controller. To find information about how they process your personal data, please see their privacy information (https://www.goto.com/company/legal/privacy/us.)

What personal data do we collect when you visit our Website or use our Services?

We collect personal data that you provide directly, such as your name, email address, country, billing information or content of your communications, when you register for webinars, create a membership, sign up for newsletters, contact us, respond to surveys, or participate in a webinar (including using polls, or Q&A during a webinar).

If you are a speaker or business partner, we may also collect your name, job title, photo, resume, employer, and other professional information you choose to share.

We also collect certain technical information about your use of our Website, including which pages and webinars you view, and which features you interact with. This may include data collected through cookies and similar technologies used strictly for website functionality and security.

How Do We Use Your Personal Data?

We use your personal data to:

Provide the webinar or service you requested.
Process your payments.
To communicate with you through our customer service or by sending you Newsletters to the email address you have provided to keep you updated with information about upcoming webinars. You can opt-out from the Newsletters emails at any time.
To market our Services, and to offer you complementary MyHeritage products or services. You can opt out from the marketing emails at any time.

Operate, analyze, improve our Website and Services or develop new webinars and services.

Our legal basis for processing your personal data

We only collect, process, use, share and store your personal data where we have a legal basis to do so. We will only process your personal data:

To perform a contractual obligation (i.e., to perform the Service, create membership, provide support).
To fulfill our legal and regulatory obligations.
Consent where required by law.
If we have a legitimate interest that will not put your rights and freedoms at risk.

Who has access to your personal data?

We may disclose your personal data in the following limited circumstances:

to service providers who perform various functions on our behalf, such as mailing services and customer support services. We do not authorize any of these service providers to make any other use of your personal data outside the context of these services;
when required by law or during legal proceedings, or to prevent fraud and cybercrime;
in connection with an acquisition of our business (note that this situation is not unique to us and applies to most companies).

Where is your personal data stored?

We may transfer and store personal information outside of the EU into countries that provide different levels of protection for personal information than in your country of residence. We take appropriate steps to ensure that transfers of personal information are done in accordance with applicable law and carefully managed to protect your privacy rights and interests. Accordingly, transfers are limited to countries which are recognized as providing an adequate level of legal protection or where we can be satisfied that alternative safeguards are in place to protect your privacy rights. In particular, we rely on the EU Commission standard contractual clauses. You have a right to contact us for more information about the safeguards we have put in place.

How long do we retain your personal data?

We will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and to comply with applicable laws, defend against legal claims, or exercise our legal rights. This means that we store your personal information for as long as it is required to deliver our services, except where we have a lawful basis for saving it for an extended period of time, in such case it will be retained for a legally mandatory period of time and (the processing of such information by us is limited.

How do we keep your personal data safe?

We take appropriate steps to implement and maintain reasonable security, appropriate to the nature of the personal data that we collect, use, retain, transfer or otherwise process, but no such program can be perfect; in other words, all risks cannot reasonably be eliminated. Data security incidents and breaches can occur due to vulnerabilities, criminal exploits or other factors that cannot reasonably be prevented.

You are responsible for keeping your password for the Service confidential. Do not share your password with anyone, and we recommend you to not use the same password that you use for our Services on any other service.

Personal data from minors

We do not offer our Service to users under the age 18, and do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at support@legacyfamilytree.com.

Your rights

Based on the applicable data protection laws in the state of your residence, you may have certain data subject rights. These rights vary, but they may include the following rights, which may be subject to certain exemptions:

Right to Know: the right to confirm whether or not we are processing your personal information and to know what personal information we process about you;
Right to Access and receive a copy: the right to a portable (where technically feasible) copy of the personal information we process about you;
Right to Delete: the right to request deletion of the personal information that we process about you and to have such information deleted or its processing restricted, subject to certain exceptions; and
Right to Correct: to ask that we correct inaccuracies in your personal information, taking into account the nature of personal data and purposes of processing such information.

We usually act on requests and provide information free of charge, but we may charge a reasonable fee to cover our administrative costs of providing the information in certain situations. In some cases, the law may allow us to refuse to act on certain requests. When this is the case, we will endeavor to provide you with an explanation as to why.

Any request should be in writing and addressed to Legacy Family Tree Webinars by email at support@legacyfamilytree.com. Legacy Family Tree Webinars will make every effort to resolve all requests that we receive. However, if you are dissatisfied with our response to a request, you may have the right to appeal or lodge a complaint.

Without limitation, in jurisdictions where the GDPR applies, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority.

Personal data from residents from California

Supplemental to the above, the following additional information pertains to California residents:

Categories of Personal Data collected and disclosed

Categories of personal data collected about California residents in the past twelve months include identifiers, payment information, commercial information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, professional information we collect from speakers and vendors. For more information, please see the “What personal data do we collect when you visit our Website or use our Services” section above.

Sale of Personal Data

We do not sell your personal data to third parties or share your personal data with third parties for cross context behavioral advertising, or targeted advertising, and we haven’t done so in the last 12 months.

Your California Privacy Rights

As a California resident, you have the rights mentioned under the “Your rights” section above. Additionally, you have the right to not be discriminated against as a result of exercising your privacy rights. Accordingly, unless permitted by law, we will not deny you goods or services, charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, provide you a different level or quality of goods or services, or suggest you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

How we update this Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Notice at any time in accordance with applicable law. If we do so, please look at the “Last Updated” legend to see when this Privacy Notice was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Notice will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Notice on the Website.

How to contact us

If you have any further questions regarding the personal data that we or any of our partners collect and process or if you have feedback regarding this Privacy Notice, you may contact us at support@legacyfamilytree.com.