Privacy Policy

Privacy and protection
Your account information, questionnaire responses, and genetic information will be kept in a secured protected database. Upon registering with TruGenetics™, you will be assigned a unique identifier. Any time your information is used, we will only refer to this unique identifier. The only way to trace this information to you is through the unique TruGenetics™ identifier number, which will only be accessible by the database managers at TruGenetics™.

All of your genetic information are encrypted and secured for your protection. We use the same encryption as Banks and other financial companies. So, the information will be maximally protected from unauthorized access.

Access to your information will be limited. Your contact and payment information will not be disclosed to anyone outside of TruGenetics™. However, there may be extremes circumstances under which we will be legally required to release this information. If this should occur, we will do our best to notify you before providing your information to outside parties, unless prohibited by law.

You may authorize the release of your genetic information. In the event that you are interested in releasing your genetic information to another party, such as your physician, we will require that you provide this authorization in writing to document your approval of release of genetic information. As part of this authorization, we will require you answer questions that only you will know the answers to. These questions and answers will be established at the time of your registration. Once this documentation is provided, we will facilitate the transfer of your information to the indicated party. A fee may be required for this transfer.

The Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). The President of the United States signed GINA into law on May 21, 2008. This Act prohibits discrimination on the basis of genetic information with respect to health insurance and employment. This law prohibits American insurance companies and health plans (including both group and individual insurers, as well as federally-regulated plans) from evaluating your genetic information before you are considered for healthcare coverage, request or require that you undergo genetic testing before being considered for healthcare coverage, deny healthcare coverage based upon genetic information, or use genetic information to determine the extent or cost of healthcare coverage. This bill also prevents any U.S. employer from using genetic information to determine who they hire or the salary, request or require that you undergo genetic testing before being hired, or disclose your genetic information except under specific and specially controlled circumstances.