Terms of service.

You must be at least 18 years old to create an account. You may upload only genome data that is your own — not a child’s, not a relative’s, not anyone else’s, even with their permission. By creating an account you confirm both of these things. If we learn an account belongs to a minor or holds another person’s genome, we will delete the data as described in our privacy policy.

Inherit provides informational and educational content about your genome. It is not a medical device, does not provide medical advice, and does not diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or condition. Reports describe published associations with stated evidence levels; they are not clinical results and have not been reviewed by a physician or validated in a clinical laboratory.

Do not make medical decisions — starting, stopping, or changing any treatment, medication, or screening — based on Inherit alone. Consult a physician, pharmacist, or licensed genetic counselor, who can order clinical-grade confirmation of any variant that matters for your care.

You own your data. Your uploaded files and everything derived from them (variants, reports, scores, chat history) belong to you. Inherit claims no ownership interest in any of it, ever.

So that we can operate the service, you grant Inherit only a limited, revocable processing license. That license is the right to store, parse, and analyze your data solely to provide the features you use, on your instructions. This license exists only to serve you. It does not permit us to sell, license, share, or use your data for research, advertising, or model training. It ends when you delete the data or your account.

We are contractually bound to both of the following:

• Free export, forever. You may export your uploaded files and all derived data at any time, in open formats, at no charge. We will never impose a data-transfer, egress, or export fee.
• Real deletion. When you delete a file or your account, we delete the database rows and the storage objects immediately. There is no grace-period recovery and no restoration from backups. The process is detailed in the privacy policy.

These clauses survive any change of control of Inherit. They bind any successor for data collected under these terms.

The Inherit software is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.0, and its source code is available at github.com/themariodiego/sequence. These terms govern your use of our hosted service; your rights to the software itself — to run, study, modify, and self-host it — come from the AGPL-3.0 and are not limited by anything here.

Don’t upload data that isn’t yours, don’t attempt to breach or probe other users’ data, don’t use the service to violate any law, and don’t resell access to the hosted service. That’s the whole list.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available”, without warranty of any kind, express or implied. That exclusion includes the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, and non-infringement. Genomic interpretation is probabilistic. It evolves as research evolves. We do not warrant that any report is complete, current, or correct for you. Coverage of your particular file may be partial. Some jurisdictions do not allow certain warranty exclusions, so parts of this section may not apply to you.

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Inherit and its contributors will not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from your use of the service. Nor will they be liable for lost profits or data arising from your use of the service. Our total aggregate liability for all claims relating to the service is capped. The cap is the greater of one hundred US dollars (US$100) or the amount you paid us for the service in the twelve months before the claim arose. Nothing in this section limits liability that cannot be limited by law. That includes liability for willful misconduct.

You can close your account at any time from Settings. We may terminate an account that violates section 6, with notice explaining why and — except where legally prohibited — a window to export first.

Either way, termination equals deletion. When an account closes, all of its data — rows and storage objects — is deleted. That deletion uses the same immediate, unrecoverable process as a user-initiated deletion. We do not retain “residual copies” of closed accounts.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, United States of America, without regard to its conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute that cannot be resolved informally will be brought in the state or federal courts located in Delaware. Both parties consent to the jurisdiction of those courts. If you are a consumer in a jurisdiction whose law grants you non-waivable protections or a home-court right, those protections remain yours.

If we materially change these terms, we will email account holders. That email will go out at least 30 days before the change takes effect. The protective commitments in sections 3 and 4 will never be weakened for existing data without your affirmative consent. Continuing to use the service after the effective date of other changes constitutes acceptance.

Questions about these terms: legal@inherit.bio.

The person who may be born from an embryo in an Inherit record is an intended beneficiary of rights one through six of the Future Person Charter. That person may enforce those rights against Inherit.

For England and Wales, the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 applies to this clause and is not excluded.