Our Privacy Commitment

We believe everyone should be able to access and explore their genome. We built Genome Computer to be the company we’d trust with our own.

Your genome is one of the most fundamental and personal sources of information about you. It is persistent, identifying and can reveal information about people related to you. Once it exists as a digital file, it can be copied, analyzed and reused indefinitely.

Making a genome useful requires sequencing, annotation and software. It should not require giving up control of the underlying data. Our privacy commitment is designed around that distinction.

1. Your sample is de-identified before sequencing

Our laboratory partners receive no personally identifiable information or protected health information with your sample. They receive what they need to perform the sequencing, without receiving your identity alongside it.

Separating identity from the physical sample reduces the amount of personal information available at the point where your DNA is processed.

2. Your genetic data cannot be sold or licensed

Neither Genome Computer nor our laboratory partners can sell, license or commercially distribute your genomic data, including de-identified or aggregated datasets.

We are not building a genomic database to monetize later. You pay us to sequence your genome, annotate it and give it back to you. There is no second transaction in which your genome becomes the product for somebody else.

3. Your genetic data is never used to train AI models

We do not use your identifiable genomic data for model training, and we do not license it to others for that purpose.

AI can make a genome more useful by helping you search, query and reinterpret it. That usefulness should come from bringing your genome to the tools you choose, not from turning your genome into training data for tools you do not control.

4. We do not use your genome for research

There is no hidden or optional research program. We do not share your data with researchers or pharmaceutical companies.

Ordering your genome is not a request to contribute to a study. It is a purchase of sequencing, annotation and a portable file that belongs to you.

5. Samples and sequencing data have defined deletion periods

Collection devices and residual samples are destroyed five days after your results are delivered. DNA samples and sequencing deliverables are deleted after 90 days. You can also request earlier deletion.

These limits exist so samples and sequencing files are retained only for a defined operational period rather than kept indefinitely.

6. These protections follow your data

Our subprocessors and our laboratory partners’ subprocessors are bound by contractual data-protection requirements. Using a specialist provider for part of the service does not remove the protections around your sample and genetic data.

Privacy should not depend on good intentions

Companies change. Leadership changes. Investors change. Markets change. Companies get acquired and business models evolve. A privacy policy can change too.

That is why we do not think protecting genomic data can depend solely on a promise made today. The product architecture, commercial model, contracts and corporate structure should reinforce the same principle, especially when there may be pressure to do something more profitable with the data later.

Why we are a Public Benefit Corporation

The Genome Computer Company is operated by Genetic Superintelligence Company, a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation.

A Public Benefit Corporation is a for-profit company, but its directors are required to consider more than shareholder value alone. They must also consider the company’s stated public benefit and the interests of people materially affected by its conduct.

For us, that public benefit includes advancing human understanding while keeping identifiable individual genomic data under individual control and off the market.

The PBC structure does not replace encryption, deletion, access controls, carefully selected laboratory partners or operational security. It reinforces the principle underneath all of them and makes the company’s public purpose part of how the business is governed.

Your genome belongs to you.

Read the Genome Computer Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.