Geni.com provides its users with appropriate privacy settings and policies. Here are multiple ways Geni has incorporated privacy settings within its website:

Each profile created is split into two categories: private profiles and public profiles. Private profiles consist of living relatives and minors, and can be viewed and edited by the family group, Geni curators or Geni employees. Public profiles consist of deceased relatives, presumed deceased relatives and public figures. They can be viewed by anyone but only edited by tree collaborators, relatives, Geni curators and employees. Geni curators are volunteer users that are granted special privileges to help maintain and improves the quality of the social network. To be granted this position, they are nominated through a voting process and must sign a Non Disclosure Agreement to guarantee that they will keep all information confidential. Curators are able to assist users in fixing their family trees (for examples: helping merge family tree). Geni employees are similar to curators, except they are granted full access to users profiles and information. This is so that they can provide customer support, check abuse complaints and resolve problems. …show more content…
This means to link Geni to outside applications such as your Facebook account. This cannot happen without attaining the users permission first. Granting Geni permission could also allow for release of personal information to advertisers, third party websites or subsidiaries. In their privacy statement, they write that the only reason they would disclose personal information of its users is if it is required by the law; for example: to respond to a court order, subpoena, a regulatory request or a search warrant. One reason this would occur is if a user would not comply to the terms of use or the privacy policy. Geni is fully allowed to protect the security of the website and its