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Privacy & securityYour DNA is not linked to your name.

We stand out from many other DNA test providers thanks to a strong focus on privacy. Your DNA data is processed and stored in encrypted form on well-secured European servers. And, more importantly, it isn’t linked to your personal details.

A woman opens a DNA test kit in her kitchen at homeLaboratory where DNA is analysed
Security is in the design

Not just well secured, but built so that there is nothing to steal.

No database in the world is completely safe from hackers. That’s why the core of our security lies not only in protocols, but in the architecture: the way the system is designed.

An anonymous tube codeIn the app you create a random code yourself: your tube code. You stick it on your tube. You don’t send your name or any other details. We only see that code.
Nobody knows whose tube it isYou use your tube code to log in to the iGene app and collect your results yourself. Only you know that code. That means nobody can find out who a tube came from. Not even us.
Anonymous even in a break-inIf someone does get access to our heavily secured database, they’ll only find DNA profiles with an anonymous tube code attached: no names or other personal details.
No extra data, no family linksWe don’t ask you for additional personal data through questionnaires, and we don’t link profiles to one another to work out family relationships.
Two separate systems

Your order details and your DNA are never linked to each other.

SYSTEM 1 · ORDERAddress and payment detailsIn separate systems, only to handle your order. Your address is deleted after delivery.
NO LINK
SYSTEM 2 · DNA PROFILEOnly an anonymous codeEncrypted, on European servers. Only you know the code.
A separate key if a link is needed

Sometimes your DNA profile has to be temporarily linked to someone, for example when you share your data with your healthcare provider. In that case, we use a separate key: our system only holds an ID, never your name or other personal details.

Your name only on your own report

Want to create a report to share with your healthcare provider? Then you enter your name yourself at that moment. It’s only used to create the report and isn’t stored afterwards. So your name only appears on that one report.

Good to know

Your saliva and your consent.

What happens to your saliva?
After the analysis in the laboratory, your DNA sample is destroyed.
Sharing with a professional?

A healthcare professional can only view your DNA data after you have given explicit permission. You can withdraw that permission at any time.

IN THE MEDIA

Chosen for privacy.

In VPRO Tegenlicht, documentary maker Roland Duong explains that he had his DNA tested at iGene precisely because of the privacy and anonymity.

VPRO Tegenlicht, episode ‘Mijn DNA’ (2020)Read about the broadcast
ISO 27001 certified

Our information security is assessed against the international ISO 27001 standard. Every year, an independent auditor checks again that we comply with it. So we don’t just say it ourselves: it’s checked from the outside.

Privacy statement

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