Terms and Licence Conditions

1. Provider and payment

Linus Ammer, trading as Abakos-Systeme, Schönrain 10, 84152 Mengkofen, Germany, email contactbasedongenes.com

The digital content is sold once through Paddle as merchant of record. The normal contracting party for purchase, payment, receipts, indirect transaction taxes and refunds is Paddle.com Market Limited; in the United States it is Paddle.com Inc., and in Canada Paddle.com (Canada) Ltd.. The entity shown in Checkout controls. Paddle's buyer terms are available at https://www.paddle.com/legal/checkout-buyer-terms.

2. Product

The full purchase covers local calculation of the complete personal population-genetic score catalogue available at the time. The permanent full-access licence for the same genetic person includes, without further payment, every subsequently supplied update to the Based on Genes score models, reference data and complete score catalogue. It also includes a contract confirmation and an importable local product package without raw genome data and without a result PDF. It is neither a subscription nor a recurring payment.

3. Free preview and licences

One confirmed email address may unlock exactly one freely chosen score. The first successfully confirmed choice is fixed. The signed preview licence applies permanently to that score and the same genetic person recognised locally; a recalculation uses the current signed score version. The full-access licence applies permanently to the current complete score catalogue for the same genetic person and takes priority over preview access. The purchase release recorded in a licence documents the contract date and does not restrict the update entitlement. GeoGens and Based on Genes licences are not interchangeable.

4. Scientific meaning

The scores are empirically calibrated population-genetic affinity and comparison values, not literal ancestry proportions. Percentiles describe position within the identified modern reference panel. The Hunter–Farmer score is a find-site-weighted rank probability. Displayed coverage and uncertainty notices must be considered. The product is scientific and informational, and is not medical advice or a diagnosis.

5. Immediate supply and withdrawal

In the EU, EEA, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, supply before the end of the fourteen-day withdrawal period starts only after the consumer expressly requests it, acknowledges the possible loss of the right and receives the contract confirmation on a durable medium. Australia, New Zealand and Canada do not provide a single general statutory return right for this one-off purchase merely because the customer changes their mind. Mandatory consumer and conformity rights remain unaffected everywhere.

6. Australia and New Zealand

No term excludes non-excludable consumer guarantees or remedies under the Australian Consumer Law or the New Zealand Consumer Guarantees Act and Fair Trading Act. The genome file and result remain on the device; only the order and payment data identified below is processed across borders.

7. Canada

Before a Canadian order, the provider identity and contact address, product and system requirements, price, tax, currency, payment terms, start of supply, cancellation and refund rules and other restrictions are displayed clearly and in a retainable form. The customer can correct entries and accept or decline the contract immediately before formation.

The purchaser name is collected only for Canadian orders and shown on the contract copy. The copy is supplied in a retainable form within fifteen days and in practice before paid analysis begins. All mandatory provincial cancellation and refund rights remain unaffected.

The genome file and genetic results are not disclosed to the provider. Local analysis begins only after separately recorded express consent.

8. Refunds

A buyer will receive a full refund if they request it within 14 calendar days of purchase. For consumers in the EU, EEA, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, the digital-content exception described in section 5 applies. Statutory refund rights remain unaffected. Full rescission revokes the online entitlement. Locally downloaded files cannot technically be erased remotely and may no longer be used after rescission.